Let's pray.

Father, I need your help in order to be faithful to your Word, in order to get under it,

in order to understand it, in order to feel affections that are appropriate to it, in order

to speak it with clarity and faithfulness.

And we together are dependent on you in order to be changed by it, so that Christ is magnified.

That's our desire.

So come, please, and help me, and help us.

And I think it will become obvious, Father, as we move forward, why the sermon you gave

me to speak some months ago doesn't need to be changed in view of Sam and Anne's trial.

And I pray for their sake that these things would be true in their lives, in Jesus' name, amen.

So how are in your shoes right now, and a guest preacher showed up to stand in this very sacred place,

where Sam has been so faithful for all these years, I would want to say, so who are you?

Who do you think you are to stand there where he has stood, and has proclaimed the Word of God

with such faithfulness, and you wouldn't mean what's your name, or where you from, or what's your

education, you would mean what are you committed to, what's your standard of truth, what's your authority?

What do you mean to do here?

What's your purpose here?

That's what you would mean.

So I hope that is what you're asking, and I'm going to give you three answers to those questions,

so that you'll have your bearings like, okay, this is who he is, this is what he stands for, this is where he's going.

So number one, three statements, number one, I come as one who is, as far as I know my own heart,

completely in allegiance to and submitted to the Bible as God's infallible Word.

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