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Thank you, Pastor Craven, Jean, and all the staff who have opened your hearts and church to us,

and thank you for coming and it is a unbelievably

wonderful privilege just to make this connection again. I didn't realize this

was going to happen but our connection goes way back he showed me a picture that he has of me and my dad who went to be with Jesus in 2007 and him so lots of good memories and especially the one about Carson and

Shelley. Thanks for opening your place to them when they needed it. Before I

pray I'm I'm really excited about this message. I'm excited about all my messages.

That's a gift that God gives to preachers. They love what they're about to say, nobody else does.

But I'm unusually excited about this because I wrote a book in the spring about the authority of scripture and God opened windows to me of connections

that I'd never seen before between what I've given my whole life to regarding Christian

Hedonism and the authority of the Bible and how you can know it's true.

And so that's what I want to talk about.

You're the first person ever heard this message and I wrote it a week ago trying to pull everything together from the last six months or so or nine months and you need to know I'm excited. So let's go pray and ask God to do something with it

unusual. Father I know that my excitement is not going to make an eternal difference in anybody's life.

But you will.

And we have not because we ask not, like Jean Jean said and I ask you to come Holy Spirit in this room and

Rest as it were

dove-like, fire-like, roaring- sound-like, however you want to do it, rest upon this people

so that there's an unusual receptiveness to whatever is true.

I pray that you would help their minds, especially.

It's the evening, the day's been long, there's weariness,

and this is a demanding message intellectually.

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