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I'm going to talk about preaching.

In my mind, at least as I see it in the Bible,

the act of preaching and the aim of preaching are humanly impossible.

They are only possible in the power of the Holy Spirit. So this message is about how you

preach in the power that is not your own, which is a very strange thing if you stop and think about it.

What I am doing right now, the Bible calls me to do in such a do that? What did I do to get ready for this? What should I be doing in my head or heart right now so that

that happens? That's what I'm going to talk about. I'm going to start with what I'm not going

to be doing.

My question is not, what are the natural things

that you can do or I could do as a preacher to increase natural knowledge and natural feelings.

That's not my goal and the reason is this.

This is 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14.

The natural person does not accept the things of the spirit of God

for they are foolishness to him.

And he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually

discerned. So I'm not interested in merely doing natural

things to increase natural knowledge with natural feelings.

Just not interested.

It's in the end you can do amazing things. I mean just think of the power of human rhetoric, human oratory. Think of

Churchill. Think of John Kennedy, President Kennedy. think of what can be done with the mouth for a nation or for a people.

You can grow a big church without the Holy Spirit. So I'm not just not interested in helping you do that.

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