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Let me pray.

Father come and help me be faithful to your word,

help me to be clear. Grant us communion of understanding and heart. Teach us

from your word about the nature of preaching, I pray.

And how glorious the calling is, in Jesus' name, amen. So our focus is on preaching, and specifically preaching understood as expository exultation.

So that's what I call preaching.

And so my point for these next 45 minutes or so is to just explain what I mean by that phrase.

Expository exultation.

And we were talking in the car on the way down

that there's a translation problem with the word exultation.

Because in English it's a problem.

There are two words in English.

Exaltation spelled with an A exaltation.

And exultation spelled with a U.

Exaltation. Those are not the same words in English. And I am using the word

exaltation, and here's the difference. When you exalt someone you praise them

you make them great you build them up,

exalt, you exalt somebody by saying good things about them.

That's not the word I'm using, though it's a great word, especially in relation to God.

When you exult with the U, you don't do it to anybody, you do it over something. I exult over this singing.

I'm exulting over your singing. I'm exulting over God's grace. I'm exulting over my wife. So I do the exulting

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