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Series A – Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost – Sunday, August 27, 2023 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough

Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough:

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0:22	The holy Gospel
0:29	According to Saint Matthew the 16th chapter
0:38	now when Jesus came into the District of caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples who do people say that the son of man is
0:45	and they said well some say John the Baptist others say Elijah others Jeremiah or one of the prophets and he
0:52	said to them but who do you say that I am Simon Peter replied you are the Christ the son of the Living God and
0:57	Jesus answered him blessed are you Simon bar Jonah for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my father who
1:03	is in heaven and I tell you you are Peter and on this rock I will build my
1:08	church and the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail against it I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven and
1:15	whatever you bind on Earth shall be bound in heaven whatever you loose on Earth shall be loosed in heaven and then
1:20	he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ this is the gospel of the Lord in the name of
1:27	Jesus uh from our Old Testament text listen to me you who pursue righteousness and you
1:33	who seek Yahweh look to the Rock from which you were hewn and to the Quarry from which you were dug look to Abraham
1:40	your father and to Sarah Who Bore You boy there’s a lot going on here but one
1:45	of the things I love about scripture is that contrary to the claims of the Skeptics who claim that the Bible
1:51	doesn’t make any sense it’s clearly 66 books written by a thousand different authors with no particular central theme
1:57	to it whatsoever and full of contradictions is how they talk about it right the reality is is that I’m always
2:04	Blown Away by how absolutely consistent the Bible is in so many of its themes
2:11	let me kind of point this out this Rock theme that we see in our text today this
2:18	pans out in scripture in fact we’re going to do a little bit of a little bit of work and some of the cross references
2:24	and we’ll see if I can rock this sermon out all right so yeah thank thank you Mikey but here’s the idea when we look
2:33	at our at our Old Testament text it says look to the Rock from which you were hewn and the Quarry from which you were
2:39	dug but if you know the Book of Genesis then you know that we are not made out
2:44	of rocks now there may be times that when I was being raised my mother thought that I had rocks in my head
2:50	because I seem to be so stubborn when it came to doing the chores that she asked me to do I’m still I’m stubborn by the
2:56	way but you’ll get a note here that saying that I have rocks in my brains is not a good way of talking because
3:01	remember when Jesus on on that Palm Sunday came into Jerusalem and all the
3:07	children were crying Hosanna to the son of David you know and on all the and they were saying Alleluia and all this
3:12	kind of stuff in the Pharisees wall make them stop shut them up they shouldn’t be saying these things and Jesus said if
3:18	they don’t then the rocks will cry out and so you’ll note in scripture rocks
3:25	are held up as something that has virtue something that is strong something that
3:31	is lasting something that is wise but we are well in the Book of Genesis not made
3:37	from rocks we’re made from dust okay and man do I hate absolutely hate dust okay
3:45	have you ever had one of them out of control raging dust bunnies in your living room just under the sofa those
3:52	things are terrible and the thing I hate one of the most things I hate all together is when it comes time to dust
3:58	my office all right and this happens with regularity it doesn’t matter if I go out
4:04	and I buy those wonderful little those wipes and I wipe everything down and get it all sparkly within a few weeks it
4:11	looks like a corpse has been in my office and decomposed it’s kind of a mess and so you’ll know we’re not made
4:17	from rocks we’re made from dust so what’s all this talk about rocks being
4:23	human here from some particular Quarry and then you got this other thing look to Abraham your father and to Sarah Who
4:30	Bore you my parents are not named Abraham and Sarah they’re sitting right here okay this this what’s going on here
4:38	and you’ll note that when you’re reading the texts and you see themes like this
4:44	that are beginning to push the boundaries of reality in your own life they’re pushing you into a deeper
4:51	reality a reality that comes from Christ and that we as Christians must Embrace
4:58	in fact the world cannot see these things because it doesn’t read the text they do not pursue righteousness they do
5:06	not seek Yahweh and as a result of it they basically judge the World by what
5:12	they can see what they can smell what they can taste what they can touch what
5:17	they can experience but there is a deeper reality that the scriptures revealed to us that we Embrace by faith
5:23	and so it is absolutely appropriate to say that we Christians were hewn from a
5:30	quarry and that we were cut from a rock I know it sounds a little odd but let me
5:35	kind of bear this out so in this in this cross references that I want to take a
5:41	look at okay this Rock theme is really important in First Corinthians chapter
5:46	10 the Apostle Paul writes to the Church of Corinth and also to us because this
5:53	is in scripture I don’t want you to be unaware brothers that our fathers were
5:58	all under the cloud all past the sea all were baptized into Moses in the cloud
6:05	and in the sea ah did you note the Red Sea Crossing is a baptism indeed it is and all ate the same spiritual food and
6:13	all drank the same spiritual drink now a little bit of a note here you’re going to note Paul’s writing this to a New
6:19	Testament Church and he’s pointing out that whether you’re Jew or Gentile that
6:24	your fathers are the people of Israel and The Exodus is all about you you’re
6:30	going to know Corinth is not known for its Judaism the Corinth is known for its
6:36	kind of pagan Gentile history and there are a bunch of pagan Gentiles in the church at uh at Corinth at least former
6:43	ones and yet they are included in this Heritage and you’re going to note they
6:49	were all baptized well wait a second we’re all baptized all right they all ate the same
6:56	spiritual food we eat the same spiritual food
7:02	they all drank the same spiritual drink okay you’re starting to see the themes
7:07	here this this is pushing to a deeper reality and they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them and
7:13	here it is The Rock was Christ
7:18	say what The Rock was Christ okay let’s do a little more work well
7:26	this is referencing two places in scripture and because the reason why I say two places because the rock followed
7:34	them The Rock was not just in one place in the Old Testament so in Exodus 17 we
7:39	get the first appearance of The Rock that is Christ and that is Exodus 17 and here’s what it
7:46	says all the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the Wilderness of sin man I wish I could move on from
7:52	that Wilderness holy smokes that that’s not how it works in the Hebrew but I got to tell you it works really well in the
7:58	English you know Wilderness of sin seem to live there it’s I have a you know I get my mail there now and I don’t want
8:05	to anymore right Wilderness of sin by stages according to the Commandment of Yahweh and they camped at refugeem but
8:11	there was no water for the people to drink therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said give us water to
8:18	drink now it’s not you can’t go very long without water by the way uh you you
8:24	will expire very quickly without water I can go a long time without food longer than most of you but that’s a whole
8:31	other issue but most of us can actually go for some time without eating but
8:36	without drinking it’s certain death in fact you need to be saved if you are not
8:42	anywhere near why water and so rather than praying to The God Who just delivered
8:50	them out of slavery just delivered them from the armies of pharaoh caused the Red Sea to part they went across the Red
8:57	Sea as on dry ground they would at this point should be thinking you know this Yahweh God this deity seems to be for us
9:05	right he seems to be kind and merciful and strong and doing all these great things but no as soon as something comes
9:11	up like they ran out of water and they don’t have any water to drink at this point they’re ready to kill Moses give
9:18	us water to drink and Moses said to them why do you quarrel with me why do you test Yahweh but the people thirsted
9:24	there for water and the people grumbled against Moses and said why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us and our
9:31	children and our livestock with thirst uh
9:37	so they need to be saved yet again and so at the core here you’re going to
9:43	know there’s a grumbling Motif but this is still a story of salvation
9:48	because the Wilderness of sin that we live in is an arid place and we have all
9:54	been sentenced to death in that particular Wilderness and so despite all the grumbling and all the just terrible
10:01	bits of all of this God does something amazing Moses cried to Yahweh what shall
10:07	I do with this people they’re they’re almost ready to Stone me and Yahweh said to Moses you pass on before the people
10:14	taking with you some of the Elders of Israel and taking your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile and go
10:20	behold I will stand before you there on the Rock at Horeb
10:25	wow Christ is going to stand before Moses on the Rock at Horeb
10:32	he’s there right there it’s an amazing text and you shall strike the Rock and
10:38	the water shall come out of it and the people will drink
10:44	so Moses did so in the sight of the Elders of Israel and he called the name of the place Masa and meribah because of
10:52	the quarreling of the people of Israel because they tested the Lord by saying is the Lord among us or not so there
10:58	they are they’re in need of Salvation and deliverance they need something to drink and hear remember what Paul said
11:06	under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit the rock is Christ and in this salvation
11:12	story an unworthy grumbling people who are not worthy of God’s mercy or Grace
11:19	they receive salvation how Moses took his staff and he struck the Rock and
11:27	water came a flowing out of it I can think of another time when Christ
11:32	was struck and water flowed from his side after his death on the cross so that you
11:40	and I can be forgiven of all of our sins hmm now it’s all beginning to make sense
11:47	there’s a second time though when this rock that is following the people of Israel is struck and it doesn’t turn out
11:54	very well in the Book of Numbers Chapter 20 his reads starting at verse 2 there
12:00	was no water for the congregation ah a repeat a performance of something that happened before and you’re going to know
12:06	a lot of time has passed here children of Israel had their opportunity to go into the promised land immediately after
12:13	they left Mount Sinai but they didn’t have faith as you guys remember the the the 12 Spies they sent into the Canaan
12:20	we all remember the song You Know 12 Spence 12 Spies went to spy on Kane and ten were bad and two were good what did
12:25	they see when they spied on Kanan ten were bad and two were good some saw giants big and tall some saw grapes and
12:31	clusters fall some saw God rule overall ten were bad two were good right we all
12:37	know the Sunday School song but all that being said that’s ancient history by the time we get to numbers 20 and now God
12:43	has executed his judgment on their faithlessness and lack of faith and lack
12:49	of trust in him that he would do the very things that he promised to do and so he’s going to cause them to do a
12:56	40-year lap around the Saudi Arabian wilderness loads of fun if you think about it and
13:02	so now this is the context they’re already in their Wilderness wanderings for 40 years and again they have no
13:08	water and of course God is the one who is leading them if you remember the way the children of
13:15	Israel work things out is that the presence of the Lord goes before them as a pillar of smoke by day
13:22	Pillar of Fire by night and when it stay put you stay put when it moves you move
13:27	okay it doesn’t matter if it’s day or night when you know when it gets going you got to get going that’s how it
13:33	worked okay so God is the one leading in and so he’s LED them into another situation where they need Deliverance
13:40	where they need salvation there’s no water where they’re going so they assemble themselves together against
13:45	Moses and against Aaron and the people quarreled with Moses and said would that
13:50	we had perished when our brothers perish before Yahweh you know this gives me hope because man oh man it does take me
13:57	a long time sometimes to learn my lessons same with my kids holy smokes man when
14:04	raising them was a challenge right because you sit there and go you did that again why did and of course I
14:10	remember my mom said you did that again this is like a repeat of History here right so here they are the same kind of
14:18	thing why have you brought the Assembly of the Lord Into the Wilderness where we should die here both we and our cattle
14:23	why have you made us come out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place it’s no place for grain or figs or vines or
14:31	pomegranates there’s no water to drink and here’s the thing we know from the
14:37	New Testament that the Wilderness is a type and Shadow of the world that we now
14:42	live in these words that they have spoken are true have you noticed that we’re all passing through this world and
14:48	boy do we pass through quick right we’re passing through this world and this really isn’t a place that scripture
14:54	describes as a place for well Vines pomegranates and things like that
15:00	but when you read the biblical texts that’s how it describes the new Earth as
15:05	a place of vines and pomegranates and Lush Gardens and things like this the new Earth is the place where we get to
15:12	finally put some Roots down build foundations and have a place to stay
15:17	permanently I don’t think there’s going to be a lot of change of address cards on the new Earth kind of excited about
15:24	that right so then Moses and Aaron they went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting
15:29	and they fell on their faces and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them and Yahweh spoke to Moses saying take the
15:35	staff and assembled the congregation you and Aaron and your brother and
15:41	tell the Rock speak to the Rock before their eyes to
15:46	yield its water because can we crucify Christ twice no we can’t and that’s kind of the point
15:54	here this is why what Moses did is so bad the first time Christ was struck for
16:00	salvation but in this particular case now that Christ has been struck that we still need to be delivered from daily
16:06	from daily troubles and problems and things like this and so we pray to
16:12	Christ to Deliver Us from the evil one he we pray to him to give us daily bread and
16:19	even water that’s included in that prayer so take the staff tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water so
16:26	you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle so Moses
16:32	took the staff from before Yahweh as he commanded him and then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together
16:38	before the Rock and he said to them here now you rebels shall we bring water for
16:44	you out of this rock remember what Paul said the rock is Christ and then Moses lifted up his hands and
16:51	struck the rock with his staff not once
16:57	twice you can almost hear the internal
17:02	dialogue first time he strikes it nothing oh
17:09	strikes it again for good measure and God decides okay we’re going to deliver you this time but there’s going to be a
17:15	cost and so the water came out abundantly the congregation drank and their livestock and then Yahweh said to
17:22	Moses and Aaron because you did not believe in me to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel
17:28	therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them these are the Waters of meribah
17:34	where the people of Israel quarreled with Yahweh and through them he showed himself to be holy
17:40	Hmm this Rock theme is actually pretty strong it’s intense throughout the
17:46	scripture but consider then how this plays out in Our Gospel text we still
17:53	haven’t resolved this Quarry bit but we’ll talk about that in a minute in Our Gospel text it says when Jesus came to
18:00	the district of caesarea Philippi we’ve noted Jesus is outside of Judea he’s in
18:05	Pagan territory caesarea Philippi is legitimately a Roman city with Roman
18:11	deities false gods in fact the the the the gates of hell are actually in
18:17	caesarea Philippi the gates of Hades as it’s described here so it’s a fascinating place and it’s here where
18:23	Jesus decides he’s going to drop the big bomb and so he takes a look at his disciples and he
18:29	says all right you know what are the Gallup polls say about me who do the people say that I am all right and so
18:35	some say John the Baptist others Elijah others Jeremiah are one of the prophets all of these weird answers coming from
18:41	Jewish boys because Jewish boys don’t believe in reincarnation right so that’s weird so Jesus said to them all right
18:48	but who do you say that I am and it doesn’t talk about the length of time that it takes here
18:54	but I always wonder if that question kind of sat there over the heads of the disciples for a minute or two you know
19:01	that them wondering who’s going to speak up right so Peter always the one to to
19:07	jump into danger right he decides he’s going to offer up his answer you are the
19:12	Christ the son of the Living God um good answer that’s a really good
19:18	answer in in Jewish terms he would say you are the Messiah the Son of the Living God so not only you Messiah but
19:24	you’re the Son of God which makes you God in human flesh beautiful answer and then here we go Jesus answered him
19:31	blessed are you Simon Barr Jonah all right let me help you out here I always
19:36	do this because I think back to that one particular sermon I heard on this text from Pastor Ron Hotel may God continue
19:42	to bless his memory he’s now with Jesus but I remember Ron holdell preaching on this he’d say listen bar Jonah it’s
19:49	Hebrew right bar means Sun Jonah it tells us who’s who he is the son of if
19:55	he were Norwegian or Scandinavian he would be Simon Johnson okay John’s son
20:01	this is how this works okay so work it out we got Peter’s last name it’s Johnson and it says blessed are you
20:08	Simon Johnson for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my father who is in heaven indeed this is true and
20:15	I tell you you are Trust now he changes his name to Rocky Rocky Johnson right
20:21	and again steal us all from Pastor hodle it’s just a great thing okay his name is now Rocky because that’s what Petros
20:27	means Rock okay but then he says okay okay I tell you you are Petros and on
20:33	this Petra I will build my church now we got a problem
20:40	Petros referring to Peter that’s masculine Petra notice the alpha at the
20:46	end Petra is feminine did Jesus just misgender Peter what’s
20:51	going on here right Rome has to contend with this problem and I love how this
20:58	hits harder today than it did like 10 years ago right yeah Pete Jesus just misgendered Peter he just called him
21:04	Petra what’s going on here right the the answer is actually quite simple
21:10	when Rome says that CR that Christ intends to build his church on Petros
21:16	Peter the answer is no the feminine and masculine nouns totally
21:22	forbid that interpretation so what’s this Petra that Jesus says he’s going to
21:29	build his church on he says I tell you or Petros on this Petra I will build my church and the Gates of Hell will not
21:34	Prevail against it against it what is this Petra it’s his confession
21:40	confession that Jesus is the Christ the son of the Living God now that makes sense in other words to
21:48	confess something is to say the same thing to say the truth what Christ is saying is is that by
21:55	building his church on the confession of Peter that Christ is building the church on himself
22:01	he is The Rock he is the foundation he is the Cornerstone he is the builder of
22:09	the stone the builders have rejected he is the one that the church is built on and because Peter recognizes who Christ
22:17	is he is blessed like Israel was blessed remember Jacob had his name changed to
22:22	Israel remember Abram had his name changed to Abraham Simon has his name changed to Petros
22:29	Rocky Johnson it all works all right here now
22:35	all of that being said no then what he says next I will give you the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven whatever you’re bind on Earth will be bound in heaven
22:41	whatever you loose on Earth shall be loosed in heaven and so we hear this Authority for the first time that Christ
22:47	is giving to not just Peter but to the entire church because this is then repeated in Matthew 18 and in John
22:53	chapter 20. the thing that we call the office of the keys that the church has the authority to forgive sins to forgive
23:02	the sins of the penitent and withhold forgiveness from the impenitent to declare to them forgiveness or damnation
23:09	whether they are penitent or impenitent you get the idea that’s what the office of the keys is all about and all of this
23:15	because Christ is going to the cross he is going to lay down his life and
23:21	Jesus our rock is going to have his body struck after he bleeds and dies for your
23:28	sins and mine and water and blood will indeed come flowing out of him to save
23:34	us from this arid Wilderness of sin this place where we cannot even get a good
23:39	drink of water and that we are doomed to perish in Christ by being struck for us
23:45	has given us salvation but note here it doesn’t resolve there
23:50	because listen again to our Old Testament texts listen to me you who pursue
23:56	righteousness and you who seek Yahweh doesn’t the scripture say that no one seeks for God
24:02	no one but here it says you who seek for God and you’re going to note then each and every one of us baptized into
24:08	Christ’s death into his resurrection we have been regenerated we have been brought back from Death to life and that
24:16	we are made of Sterner stuff spiritually then we are physically it’s hard to
24:22	believe but kind of work with me here your physical body is made from dust
24:28	the new person you are in Christ was hewn from Christ himself from the rock of Christ
24:35	your soul will Outlast your body and so to refer to the regenerate person
24:44	that you are in Christ as being hewn from a rock is perfectly appropriate and
24:50	it is only apprehended by Faith by listening to the voice of God in the
24:55	scripture so listen to me you who pursue righteousness and all of you do because you’ve been baptized into Christ and you
25:02	are here seeking his righteousness in his word seeking his righteousness in his forgiveness his grace his body and
25:09	blood given and shed for the Forgiveness of your sins seeking his righteousness in sanctifying you and I you who seek
25:18	the Lord look then to the Rock from which you were hewn Christ you were hewn from Christ to the Quarry
25:25	from which you were dug look to Abraham your father to Sarah Who Bore you and
25:30	you’ll note here now we recognize this because we just heard this from the past couple of weeks everyone who believes
25:37	and has the same Faith as Abraham is counted as children of Abraham and
25:42	indeed we are so note the scriptures are consistent here and it’s actually miraculous how
25:49	consistent they are although we have 40 something different human authors of scripture yet there is one common author
25:55	among all of the 66 books of scripture and that is God the Holy Spirit and he doesn’t stutter and he’s not a
26:02	dunderhead who contradicts himself and doesn’t make any sense right so look to
26:08	Abraham your father Sarah Who Bore you he but he was Abraham was but one when I
26:13	called him that I might bless him and multiply him for Yahweh Comforts Zion so brothers and sisters take comfort
26:21	I know that you are buffeted by your own sin and like the children of Israel you
26:26	oftentimes blame God rather than ask God for the things that you need you blame
26:31	him for the discomforts for the suffering for the pain for the persecution the difficulties you have
26:37	but understand this that despite all of your grumbling’s Christ has forgiven you
26:42	he’s bled and died for you he’s been pierced and struck and bled so that you can be forgiven and pardoned and he now
26:49	offers words of comfort and peace to you today he Comforts all Zion’s waste
26:56	places and makes her Wilderness like Eden her desert like the garden of Yahweh joy and gladness will be found in
27:02	her Thanksgiving and the voice of song this is all coming upon Christ’s return so give attention to me my people give
27:09	ear to me my nation and we are God’s Nation for a law will go out for me and I will set my Justice for a light to the
27:16	peoples gosh that sounds a lot like the nut dimitis doesn’t it the song of Simeon uh yeah in fact that’s the reason
27:24	why is because there’s Echoes here of that so my righteousness draws near God says
27:29	my salvation has gone out my arms will judge the people the coastlands they hope for me and for my arm they wait so
27:37	lift up your eyes to the heavens and look at the Earth beneath for the heavens they vanish like smoke
27:44	the Earth will wear out like a garment and they who dwell in it will die in
27:50	like manner but my salvation will be forever my righteousness will never be
27:57	dismayed and that is the truth you have been hewn from The Rock from the Quarry
28:02	that is Christ and as a result of it even though you wear out like a garment and we put you over in our Cemetery
28:09	right by the way I just I was today years old when I figured out what the
28:15	word Cemetery means okay it comes from a Greek word which means to rest or a
28:20	sleeping place so a cemeteryon is the resting place of the Saints they’re out
28:26	there sleeping it’s kind of an interesting thing I didn’t even know that until just like recently recently
28:31	right but here again this Rock theme play out for us Christians words of
28:37	comfort for us from first Peter chapter 2 it says you you Christians you
28:45	are a chosen race you are a royal priesthood you are a
28:50	holy nation and a people for God’s Own possession so that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out
28:57	of Darkness Into His Marvelous Light once you were not a people but now you
29:02	are God’s people once you had not received Mercy but now you have received
29:07	mercy so beloved I urge you then as sojourners in Exiles to abstain from the
29:12	passions of the flesh which waged war against your soul keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable so that
29:18	when they speak against you as evildoers they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation and so
29:26	you’ll note here that we are God’s treasured possession and Peter even
29:32	describes this describes Us in this way as you have come to him Jesus a living
29:38	Stone who was rejected by men but in the sight of God was chosen and precious you
29:46	yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual
29:53	sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ for it stands in scripture behold I am laying in Zion a
30:00	stone a Cornerstone Chosen and precious and whoever believes in him will not be
30:06	put to shame listen again to those words whoever believes in him to not will not
30:12	be put to shame it doesn’t matter how red and with blood and filth your sin is
30:18	and how much you’ve mucked up your own life I don’t know a single person who hasn’t
30:23	it doesn’t matter what regardless of the sin that you have committed whoever believes in him will not be put to shame
30:30	Christ Our Rock has brought us back from Death To Life pardoned us forgiven us
30:38	and hewn us out of his own Quarry which is of himself we are made of the stuff
30:43	of Jesus now it’s spiritually and He is building us up as a spiritual Temple and
30:50	therefore take comfort in these words whoever believes in Jesus will not be put to shame for the honor is for you
30:56	who believe but for those who do not believe the stone that the builders rejected has become the Cornerstone a
31:03	stone of stumbling and a rock of offense and they stumble because they disobey the word as they
31:10	were destined to do so brothers and sisters take comfort the scripture is
31:15	true what it says of you and I that we are hewn from the rock that we are hewn
31:21	from a quarry that we are not made merely of dust that spiritually we are made of Sterner stuff which will afar
31:29	Outlast our human nature and eventually in the resurrection our new bodies will
31:35	reflect that Stony Eternal character given to us as a gift take heart though you wear out like a
31:42	garment you like the Earth will be reborn and live forever as one of the
31:48	stones of Christ in his holy Temple forever in the name of Jesus amen

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