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Let's pray.

Father, we just pause for a moment one more time here to say,

we need you, if any value that is lasting is going to come through my mouth, it will be owing to you.

And so we pause to say, we look away from ourselves,

you said, don't rely on your own insight,

don't rely on your own preparations rely upon the Lord and he'll make your path straight. So God

common help me I pray to be faithful to your word now and encouraging to these

folks and to Brian in particular in

Jesus name. Amen. So I want to say especially to Dr Arnold your new president how thankful I am for this invitation to be part of the installation.

I regard it as a great privilege because leadership in shaping shepherds of God's blood-bought flock will either experience, that leadership will either experience the joy of the crown of righteousness or a cry of anguish for failure.

Paul said to the Shepherds of Ephesus,

pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the Church of God which he obtained with his own blood.

So if shepherding is that serious and the shaping of shepherds is even more serious

than you should ask and I should ask why would you be eager to be here to consign a man to such danger?

Listen to Jeremiah.

Woe to you shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture,

declares the Lord, you have scattered my flock and have driven them away.

Woe to the Shepherds.

So... to the shepherds.

So, whoa to Brian Arnold if he shapes shepherds that mislead the flock.

That would be a tragic and terrible thing, right? Would be awful.

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