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Let's pray together.

Father, we've been praying for a long time now about this moment and these hours together and the prayer has grown to a

crescendo in the last couple of hours and I just want to ask one more time that you would help me to be faithful to your word and

that you would do what I cannot do.

I planted Apollo

apollus watered, Paul said but God gave the growth and so it is.

I'll sow some seeds here, I'll scatter on the ground and oh I pray that the devil would not pluck it up and that

the cares of this world would not choke it out and that the heat of hard times would not

burn it up but that it would find good soil. You can make

the soil good. And so for those next door and for those in this room, I pray, make the soil good.

Would you open hearts to hear whatever's true and would you protect all of us from anything

I say that would be amiss or imbalanced.

We want you to be exalted as the ultimate and highest good of the gospel. So come and do that, not just intellectually

and the way we say it, but in our hearts. May we experience that and know it in our

affections and not just in our thinking. I ask this in Jesus'

name. Amen. So let me begin with a definition of this term, God is the Gospel.

The theme over the conference is God is the Gospel.

And I would like to take three hours with you to try to unpack it as well as I can. And I'll give you a definition. Comes from page 13 in the book, more or less, paraphrased.

And then we're going to go at this in a kind of autobiographical way tonight and then move into something more perhaps systematic and expository tomorrow.

God is the gospel, here's what I mean.

The highest, best, final, decisive good of the gospel, of the good news.

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