This week, on the Word of the Lord endures forever, we wrap up our adventure in Acts with shipwreck,

events on Malta, Paul arrives in Rome, and Paul preaches the Gospel in Rome,

and then we dive back into Genesis with genealogy of Seth.

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Christians, if you want to protect your children from this, you need to develop right now

a pretty healthy understanding of civil disobedience. You cannot be a soft presence here in Sodom

and expect your children to be okay. We have seen this huge increase in pet ownership

in our country, and I think some of it is this desire for women to continue to mother

someone or something, and pets have become really a surrogate to that, because of the fact that we've

decided that children are not the best way in which we ought to live our lives as women and

mothers anymore. We do the whole New Testament and all the explicit passages about baptism,

and if you just, I think, ask that pretty basic question of who's doing the work in this passage?

Is it man or is it God? Universally, it's God's doing the work. It's something that's happening

to you. Our defense is the strength of God's word, the testimony of God's spirit in our hearts

through that word, through His sacraments. In all these ways, God is preserving us in the faith

and defending us against all of these snares. Lutherans at the Old Latin School in Luthorstot,

Wittenberg, love issues, etc. The Prophet Elijah knows that his master Elijah is getting ready

to depart. Everyone they meet tells him this. He says, remain silent. Then he does not desire to be

parted from Elijah. He asks Elijah for a double portion of the spirit that inhabited him,

and when Elijah is taken up, separated from Elijah by fiery charrots and horsemen,

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