Father, one of the great gifts is the compass on the boat called the word of God. We could not find our way to heaven's shore without this compass.

And we are ready now to devote another half an hour or so

to watching it to getting our minds on the dial

to bringing our whole being into line

with this compass called the word of God.

And so I ask that you would open our eyes,

that you would set the now to understand what we see.

At the needle of this compass.

And that you would help us now to understand what we see. Seeing they do not see, Jesus indicted the leaders of

his day. Seeing they do not see, And I tremble that that could be spoken of any of us.

Hearing they do not hear and seeing they do not see. Oh God, everybody in this room is about to see and hear

something. And I pray for the second seeing and the second hearing.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Yesterday I marched with several thousand of you, downtown and with millions of people around the world marching for Jesus and at the corner of Nicollet and 6th Street, just as I turned the corner, we were singing the second verse of Crown

Him with many crowns.

And probably I was the only person in all of Minneapolis

thinking about this message at that moment.

Because it wasn't prepared yet for one reason, but mainly because the content of the second verse of that

him poses this morning's question. of that

him poses this morning's question.

Let me read it to you if you're not familiar with that second verse.

Crown him the Lord of Life, who triumphed or the grave who rose victorious in the strife for those he came to save.

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