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Music in their work at LHFMissions.org. Welcome to the Word of the Lord endures forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

The best that this world can offer is what Lady Folly promises to deliver to you,

and only at the small cost of forsaking the

worship of the true God and bowing down to his arch-inemy to Satan.

And this lady is nothing if not persistent.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church,

past and present. Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study with the church, past and present.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Proverbs, chapters 1 through 10.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Amen.

Greetings, people, loved by God.

So you no doubt remember that we had just begun Proverbs 9 in our previous study. Wisdom builds herself a house. Remember how the church fathers took

that in the first sense as the incarnation of God's eternal wisdom in the womb of the Blessed

Virgin Mary. And secondarily, as the church, which is the household

wisdom, came into the flesh in order to establish. And we noted how at the center of the church's

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