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Praise the Lord.

If you have a Bible, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to Acts

Chapter 2.

As we bring a conclusion to the never-ending sermon that started a few weeks ago that I thought would last us one week,

and then I thought might last us two weeks, but now will last us three weeks.

But we will finish today, I promise.

Acts chapter 2, I want you to pull out the notes that you have for your celebration guide.

We're going to pick up right where we left off last week talking about the purpose of the word.

We've talked last week about how the agenda of the Bible is to make us look more like Jesus.

That all of scripture is aimed at recreating us into the

image of Christ. And that is the ultimate purpose of the Bible, which means the ultimate purpose of the

Bible is not to answer every question we may have in life or provide specific direction for every

situation we may face. We talked, finished up talking last week about the difference between

good stuff and God's stuff. And God's stuff being the scripture that's intended to bring us

into the image of Christ, good stuff being good principles that really aren't maybe specifically

addressed in scripture. And I want to clarify something. I want to clarify many, we talked about

different examples, like

managing your money or how to lead your family, how to raise your kids, how to raise your

teenagers, how to walk through the grief process. I don't want to communicate that those things

are unimportant or those shouldn't be addressed when we look at the word. Certainly, these things

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