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Father, we love your word. We love your word.

We would be utterly lost and undone without it.

It is our life.

It's our hope, it's our joy, it's our food, it's our joy, our food, it's our drink, because only by it do we have any sure access to you.

What you're like, what you've done,

and so may I be faithful to your word.

And I thank you for the promise in your word that what is possible,

what is impossible with man is possible with you.

There are impossible desires I have for this message.

And so I ask that you would bring them to pass. I asked this in Jesus

name, amen. Well this is one of those messages that I will give once every 10 or 20 years.

I even wonder if I should call it a sermon, and you'll see why in a moment. The reason for the rareness of the kind of message it is is because of the rareness of the kind of text we're dealing with here in this passage.

Most New Testament scholars don't think this text belongs in the Bible.

Let me give you a few examples and you need to know ahead of time I

agree with them and that raises really strange questions for us.

So you see how strange and rare a sermon would be

from a text that if they're right doesn't belong here. So what are you going to say?

Okay. Don Carson, who I think is one of the world's greatest and most faithful New Testament scholars,

says, despite the best efforts to prove that the narrative

was originally part of John's Gospel the evidence is against them and modern

English versions are right to rule it off or put it in a footnote and you'll notice

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