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Father, come please and grant us fullness of truth and fullness of the Holy Spirit and faithfulness to your word and a

prophetic anointing that penetrates to exactly what these folks need at this time.

Don't leave us to ourselves in our flesh or our preparation, unless the Lord build the house, those who build it labor in vain,

unless the Lord watch over the city, the Watchman stays awake in vain unless the Lord

preach the sermon, the preacher preaches in vain. So come I ask in the

name of Jesus, amen.

So for 33 years I was preaching regularly at Bethany

Church and I resisted with all my might any language that would

divide the service into one part worship and one part preaching.

It's absolutely would not allow that kind of talk.

In one part of the service we worshipped with song and prayer and confession and acclamation and in

aclamation. And in the other part we worshipped over the word in preaching and hearing preaching.

So no talk about we do worship in one part and we preach or teach in the other part.

No.

Okay, so that's that's the point of this seminar to persuade you that preaching if it's Christian, if it's biblical, is and awakens,

worship. Okay, that's where we're going, which meant that the aim of my

exposition of the

position of the book in the sermon for those 33 years was to fuel me

first and sat my heart a flame with the glories of God revealed in the text of this book

so that I, as I opened those glories through the text could draw other people in to my experience of God.

That's preaching in my understanding of what it is. The aim of preaching was only

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