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Father, I pray that you would cause the magnitude of your greatness and the enlargement of our joy to free us from all provincialism.

Whether it's family provincialism or ethnic provincialism or church provincialism or

denominational provincialism or national provincialism that you would make your people the most globally oriented people in the world.

Use us, oh God, to gather your elect from all the peoples of the world and hasten the day of its completion.

I ask in Jesus name, amen. The title I was assigned is Gulping, gulping at the River of God's delights.

It's based on a combination of a quote from the Bible and a quote from Edwards.

If you add in the sub-topic of the conference about not restraining your appetites.

Here's the Bible text.

Psalm 36-7.

How precious is your steadfast love, oh God.

The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings, they feast on the

abundance of your house and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

The text from Edwards is from a sermon in 1743 on Song of Solomon, Chapter 5,

verse 1.

Here's what that verse is.

I came to my garden, my sister, my bride,

I gathered my mur, my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk, eat friends, drink, be drunk

with love.

That's where the word indulge. be drunk with love.

That's where the word indulge comes from.

Here's what Edward says.

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