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pastor, author, and teacher David Platt.

I want us to pick up where we left off last week.

I mentioned to you last week that I was pretty ambitious and what I thought I could get

through last week, and I'll be honest, I'm not sure if this is not going to become a part three next week.

But we'll see.

Let me encourage you to pull out your celebration guide notes that are in there.

We're looking at five reasons why the Word of God must be central in our worship.

And last week, we began looking at Peter's sermon in Acts chapter 2, using that as an example

of how the word was central.

We began to talk about the word's magnitude.

You've got those notes filled in there on those pages because of the words magnitude.

We talked about the significance of God's revelation, the fact that he has revealed himself

as the word and he has revealed himself through the Word and he has revealed himself through the

Word.

And then we talked about the seriousness of man's proclamation of the Word because the preacher

has the responsibility to expose the voice of God, not his own voice, in order to exalt

the greatness of God.

We magnify God by magnifying His voice. So I want us to pick up where we

left off last week and look at the second reason why the Word of God must be central in our

worship. And that reason is because of the words authority. Because of the words authority.

What I want you to do is I want you to start with me in verse 14. And I want us to begin to look over this sermon again.

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