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Series A – The Transfiguration of Our Lord – Sunday, February 22, 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 17th chapter foreign
0:37	after six days Jesus Took with him Peter and James and John his brother and led them up a high mountain by themselves
0:43	and he was transfigured before them and his face Shone like the sun and his
0:49	clothes became White as light and behold there appeared to them Moses and Elijah
0:54	talking with him and Peter said to Jesus Lord it is good that we are here if you wish I will make three tents here one
1:01	for you one for Moses one for Elijah he was still speaking when Behold a bright
1:07	Cloud overshadowed them and a voice from the cloud said this is my beloved Son
1:12	with whom I am well pleased listen to him when the disciples heard this they fell on their faces and they were
1:19	terrified but Jesus came and touched them saying rise and have no fear and when they lifted up their eyes they saw
1:25	no one but Jesus only and as they were coming down the mountain Jesus commanded them tell no one the vision until the
1:32	son of man is raised from the dead this is the gospel of the Lord in the name of Jesus
1:39	all right we live in a day it’s a treacherous day where people kind of lust after weird things and by lust
1:47	after I’m talking about lusting after spiritual signs spiritual wonders and uh
1:53	for miracles and things like this and as a result of that lusting after these
1:59	things they have opened themselves up to Great deception as we speak right now in
2:04	Kentucky there’s something that has been going on for a little more than a week called the Asbury Revival I’m hoping
2:11	that as people listen to the sermon in years to come they’ll say the Asbury what I hope the thing Fizzles out but
2:18	unfortunately it seems to be well becoming all the rage and all the headlines and it’s basically this idea
2:26	that the charismatics have that we have to deal with today and will be the subject of our texts oddly enough I
2:32	consider it to be fortuitous that I get to preach on these texts today but the charismatic churches in the Pentecostal
2:38	churches believe in something called Revival but when they talk about the concept of Revival they are not
2:45	referring to people returning to the word of God abandoning false Doctrine and apostate
2:52	practices and beliefs and heterodox practices and I in beliefs and flat out
2:57	idolatry instead what they believe that Revival is is a special visitation of
3:03	God the holy spirit it’s like almost as if God chooses a location opens up a
3:09	portal from heaven and shines down the presence of the Holy Spirit on a particular location where people then
3:16	can have quote an encounter with God right and this is supposed to change
3:22	them but it’s fascinating I’ve been paying really close attention to the Asbury Revival and I would note that
3:29	there is something supremely missing there and that is God’s word and most
3:34	importantly the preaching of the Gospel you have kids claiming that they’re repenting but why are they repenting
3:40	because well they had a liver shiver they had goosebumps they had they
3:46	claimed that they had an encounter and they’ve been basically singing Hillsong elevation and Bethel Music non-stop for
3:54	24 hours it has come also to my attention that one of the leaders in the praise band is openly homosexual
4:01	which begs the question why would God the Holy Spirit be giving liver Shivers uh in in under such circumstances things
4:09	like this have to be tested by the word of God and we’re going to note here Our Gospel texts and our epistle text
4:18	strongly advise us to pay attention to the word of God if you walk through our
4:25	gospel text you’ll note that Peter James and John they were privileged to see the
4:31	glory of Christ Jesus is after all God in human flesh and you’ll note their
4:38	first reaction Peter’s first reaction when Moses and Elijah show up is that he
4:44	wanted to make three tents let’s Tabernacle here for a while we’ll bake in the glory or something like that
4:50	right and you’ll note Moses and Elijah showing up is not a small detail Moses
4:56	and Elijah are showing up tells us a little bit of something that happens to the death of Christians and those who
5:01	believe in God they are still alive Moses and Elijah seem to be doing quite
5:06	well despite the fact that their Earthly bodies have decayed long ago well actually Elijah’s never did because he
5:13	was taken up to heaven directly right but Moses’s body is buried somewhere where only God knows but there they are
5:19	Moses and Elijah talking with Christ and you’ll note that Moses is the representative of the Torah and Elijah
5:26	is a representative of the prophets the two main sections of the Old Testament Who Bore witness to Christ are now
5:33	discussing with Jesus his Exodus that’s what the Gospel of Luke tells us and so
5:39	there’s Peter James and John and Peter says it’s good that we’re here if you wish I’ll make three tents here one for
5:45	you one for Moses one for Elijah how long are you planning on staying up there Peter right is he thinking this is
5:52	going to be another one of those 40 days things you know because Moses when he went into the glory of God on Mount
5:59	Sinai he was up there for 40 days so he’s thinking we’re going to be here for a little bit of time
6:05	well while he was still speaking and behold a bright Cloud overshadowed them
6:10	and a voice from the cloud said listen to the words this is my beloved Son with
6:16	whom I am well pleased listen to him
6:22	it’s almost as if God is correcting Peter and by extension correcting all of
6:28	us if we think that this that the church is all about somehow sitting in the
6:33	glory of God you don’t know what the glory of God is really all about it’s
6:39	about pardoning and forgiving sins see the book of Exodus from further details but you’ll know God the father says
6:46	listen to him listen that requires you to well
6:53	be quiet and hear words and we are also
6:58	admonished by God the Father to do the same because this has been shared with us through the gospel writers we are
7:05	also admonished to listen to Christ and when the disciples they heard this voice
7:10	of the father they fell on their faces and they were terrified you’ll note that
7:15	when God shows up in power in glory sinful human beings like you and like I
7:21	like Peter and like James and John we don’t do so well in the presence of
7:26	God’s glory and his power we are often terrified fall on our faces fall like
7:32	we’re dead men because well God’s glory in living kind of put it this way and
7:37	God’s power is all about destroying what’s evil and since you and I are all evil we
7:45	because we have a sinful nature and have rebelled against God God’s glory his
7:51	power could easily burn against us and bring us to nothing
7:57	if we were truly in the presence and the glory of God it would be a miracle if the next sentence was thus perished
8:04	Kong’s Winger Lutheran Church right because we each come today bringing with us our own sin and
8:11	Rebellion but the voice of the father terrifying them results with Jesus coming and touching
8:17	them and saying rise and have no fear because Jesus is the one who has gone to
8:22	the Cross born our iniquity in his body was pierced and bruised for our transgressions and iniquity and suffered
8:30	the wrath of God in our place thus perished Jesus by the mighty powerful
8:35	hand of God because God made him to be the sinner so that you and I can be declared righteous so Jesus comes and
8:42	gives words of comfort to his disciples and he comes and give words a comfort for us today and they lifted up their
8:49	eyes and they saw no one but Jesus only and neither should we and as they were
8:57	coming down the mountain Jesus commanded them till no one the vision until the son of man is raised from the dead
9:03	now if it weren’t for II Peter we might easily get lost in the weeds of this
9:09	beatific vision of the glory of Christ and somehow think it well if Peter James
9:15	and John got to experience the glory of Jesus why can’t we
9:20	well the reason why we can’t is why Peter wrote what he wrote Because
9:26	experiences like this are not for the purpose of being repeated or becoming normative in the life of a Christian in
9:34	fact Peter as he’s getting ready to finish his course his last epistle
9:40	before he will be crucified and be martyred for his confession and his
9:46	trust in Jesus Christ he tells us as he’s getting ready to die that we did
9:52	not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ but we
10:00	were eyewitnesses of his majesty it is sufficient for us to note that there
10:06	were eyewitnesses of the glory and the Majesty of Christ but in thinking back on this which had occurred by the time
10:12	he wrote the so many decades prior Peter is not convinced at all that this should
10:18	be the focus of Christians in in his day and in our day he says for when he
10:25	received honor and Glory from God the Father the voice was born to him by the Majestic Glory this is my beloved Son
10:31	with whom I am well pleased we ourselves heard this very voice born from heaven
10:37	for we were with him on the Holy Mountain and we now all of us Christians
10:43	today we have something more certain I like the way the Greek works here it’s a
10:49	little tough to translate here we have a comparative a comparative adjective and
10:54	so he’s basically saying we have something more sure we have something more certain when we talk about Surety
11:02	and certainty one has to ask the question what do we have more Surety and
11:08	certainty regarding and he’s referring back to the fact that that long-distant memory that he has of Jesus shining like
11:16	the sun well that was an interesting experience One That Shook him to his
11:22	core but even now decades later that is not something that he looks to for
11:28	Surety and certainty regarding his right standing before God nor does he look at that as something
11:35	that we can somehow build our faith on you cannot build your faith on your
11:40	experiences spiritual or otherwise to do so is to build them on shifting sand or
11:46	even worse the deceptions of the Devil Himself who always masquerades as an angel of Light
11:52	so you’ll note we have something that is more sure something that is more certain and what is that thing that is more sure
11:58	and more certain are you ready the prophetic word really the Bible that Dusty crusty thing
12:06	that I never opened that sits on my nightstand and I keep saying I’ll get around to reading it someday that thing
12:13	is the thing that we have that is more sure more certain than eyewitness to the
12:19	Transfiguration of Christ yep that’s right that prophetic word
12:25	that Bible That’s collecting dust in your house that is the thing that Peter points us to not to spiritual
12:32	experiences as he’s getting ready to die basically Peter is saying read your
12:38	Bible you need to know the word and I would note this those who regularly read
12:44	their Bibles who understand the scriptures who come to church to hear the word not to be entertained who come
12:51	to church to study to hear to understand how to rightly divide the word of Truth
12:57	they are ones that are hard to deceive those who are not in their bibles are
13:04	super easy to deceive it’s like shooting fish in a barrel
13:11	because if your mind is not transformed and renewed by God left to your own Tendencies our sinful
13:18	nature will steer us back into the ditch of deception that’s how it works so the
13:25	more you know the scripture the more protected you are against the deceptions and the schemes of the devil and against
13:32	those he sends into the church to deceive us and to mislead us and to take us away from a pure devotion to Christ
13:39	and lead us off into hell so we have something more sure the prophetic word to which you will do well
13:45	to pay attention and then note how he speaks up he talks up the scriptures and
13:51	points them out to us as something that should be viewed as precious as holy as
13:56	instructive as actual words from God he says pay attention to the Bible as a
14:03	lamp shining in a dark place until the day Dawns and The Morning Star rises in
14:09	your hearts knowing this that first of all no prophecy of scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation for no
14:17	prophecy was ever produced by the will of men but God himself spoke as they
14:22	were carried Along by the Holy Spirit wait God himself did what he spoke
14:29	always and again you know you’re dealing with somebody who’s been deceived when they condemn churches like ours by
14:35	saying words like this oh those confessional lutherans they don’t believe in the Holy Spirit their Trinity
14:42	is Father Son and Holy Bible right oh you don’t believe in the Holy Spirit at
14:47	all because you’re a dead church this is how they talk why are we dead well because we don’t bark like dogs and
14:54	cluck like chickens and flop around on the floor like fish on a on the bow of a
14:59	boat nor do we speak gibberish or anything like this supposedly we’re dead
15:05	right no we’re not God speaks to us every single Sunday that we gather to
15:14	hear the word of God and we hear it in large copious quantities and amounts if
15:21	you come to church hungry I feel like I’m like Isla Linda of old I will make sure that you leave full you can never
15:28	enter Island Lynn’s home without getting a ginormous meal and feeling like you
15:33	need to be carried out of her house in a wheelbarrow right that’s how it went same here I take Isla Lin’s approach to
15:41	feeding you the word of God come over here we’ve got comfort food Galore right and you’re going to note here that
15:47	Christ himself promises in the gospel of Matthew where two or more gathered Christ is present Among Us
15:54	how much more can you get of Christ being here than he is now and you’ll
16:00	note here it’s true that Christ isn’t visibly present but that doesn’t matter Jesus says where
16:06	two or more gathered he is truly present and you’ll note then he’s as present with us today right now this moment here
16:14	in this congregation as if Jesus had just appeared in the upper room with his disciples and what is he here to do he’s
16:22	not here to give you liver Shivers and ghost bumps or things like this he is here to forgive you of your sins to feed
16:30	you his word to sustain your faith to feed you with his body and blood given
16:35	and shed for the Forgiveness of your sins to make it so that your faith is strengthened in him and we continue then
16:42	to apply ourselves to the word and you’ll note that when you look at the
16:48	scriptures you look at the Old Testament every single example of Revival in the
16:54	Old Testament always and I mean without exception was driven by God’s word
17:04	not a feeling not a presence not at some kind of encounter in fact if you want to
17:11	talk about the encounters that people had in the Old Testament with God that led to Revival it was always an
17:16	encounter with the scriptures themselves because it is in the scriptures that God
17:22	is speaking now it’s fascinating earlier this week I made a video talking about this idea of
17:29	what the Bible teaches regarding Revival and I gave two examples in that video but I’d left one of them out because it
17:36	was really long so I thought you know what Kong’s Winger loves to hear the word so I’ll just go long on my sermon
17:41	and give you an example of what this looks like if you remember in our study
17:47	of the book of Jeremiah which we recently concluded uh the the the judeans because you got to remember the
17:54	northern tribes of Israel the ten had already been scraped out for their idolatry and Scattered into the Nations
17:59	it was the Jews of Judah in Jerusalem and in Judea that also went headlong
18:06	into idolatry and God in his faithfulness sent profit after profit
18:12	after Prophet to call them to repentance but did they repent nope they did not and so by the time you
18:19	get to the Prophet Jeremiah God is sending his last prophet before he’s going to act in judgment and they didn’t
18:26	listen to him either so God as he threatened to do all the way back in the book of Deuteronomy if they would not
18:33	obey and they went after other gods he would send them into Exile out of the land and so he sent the armies of
18:40	Nebuchadnezzar and here if he wanted to survive the sack of Jerusalem and the
18:45	Conquering of Judea by the armies of Nebuchadnezzar you had to do one thing you had to trust the words of God and
18:52	the prophet in the mouth of the Prophet Jeremiah and God told Jeremiah said if you want to live you need to surrender
18:59	yourself personally personally to the troops from Babylon
19:05	and then you will live how many people did it roughly five thousand the rest were
19:12	killed the rest died in the campaign and so they were sent off to Babylon for 70
19:19	years and when they were finally set free from captivity in Babylon and were able to return let’s just say Judea was
19:28	well a shadow of its former self the temple had been wrecked the walls of Jerusalem destroyed and the people began
19:36	the job of rebuilding the walls and eventually rebuilding the temple but before they rebuilt the temple and after
19:42	they had finished the walls it says this in the book of Nehemiah now
19:47	I always have to take issue we we American English speakers don’t speak
19:52	good Hebrew right it’s not pronounced Nehemiah in Hebrew it’s Nehemiah and yes
19:58	you got to get that little flembic back in the back of your throats right but here’s what it says in Nehemiah chapter
20:05	eight and all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Watergate
20:11	and they told Ezra the Scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses that Yahweh
20:17	had commanded Israel so Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly both men and women
20:25	and all who could understand what they heard on the first day of the seventh
20:31	month and he read from it facing the square before the Watergate from early
20:36	morning until midday you think my sermons are long holy smokes right from
20:41	early morning all the way to midday what did they do they sat and they listened
20:48	they listened to Genesis to Exodus to Leviticus to you know to numbers and
20:54	Deuteronomy they listened to the entirety of the old of the Torah being
20:59	read out and it started early in the morning and continued on until midday and Ezra the Scribe stood on a wooden
21:06	platform that they had made for the purpose this is kind of a prototype of a Pulpit if you think about it right
21:13	and beside him stood
21:22	on his right
21:30	Zechariah and on his left Ezra opened the book in the sight of the people for
21:35	he was above all the people as he opened it to and the people they stood Ezra blessed Yahweh the great God and
21:43	all the people answered amen amen lifting up their hands they bowed their
21:50	heads and they worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground
21:55	so on hearing the word of God these Jews who had come from Exile in
22:03	Babylon they knew that God was speaking to them and they worshiped God amen amen
22:09	faces to the ground and Nehemiah who was the governor and Ezra the priest and the
22:15	Scribe and the Levites who taught the people said to the people this day is
22:21	Holy to Yahweh your God do not mourn do not weep and you’ll note that the
22:28	people they did weep because as they were hearing the word of God they were convicted of their sins and this is what
22:35	God’s word does when you hear the word of God rightly taught you will have your
22:42	soul pricked you will become conscience of your iniquity and all the ways in
22:47	which you have fallen short and not kept God’s law but that is not the end of the
22:52	matter because God is merciful and kind and pardoning iniquity including yours and is sent to us a savior to bleed and
23:00	die for us so although we must go through the lament of knowing what it
23:05	feels like to have a guilty conscience knowing that we have transgressed God’s holy law and that we have sinned against
23:11	God and we’ve sinned against each other we brightly do mourn but this
23:17	encouragement to not mourn has to do with the fact that God is merciful and that he does not leave us to wallow in
23:23	our guilt but as instead dead provided the once for all sacrifice of the only begotten Son of God who takes away your
23:31	sin and mine and the sin of the whole world by his death on the cross so they encourage the people go your way
23:39	eat the fat drink sweet wine send portions to anyone who has nothing ready
23:44	for this day is Holy to our Lord and do not be grieved for the joy of the Lord
23:50	is your strength so the Levites calmed the people saying be quiet for this day
23:55	is Holy do not be grieved and all the people went their way to eat and to drink and descend portions and to make
24:02	great rejoicing because they had understood the words that were declared
24:07	to them listen again to that sentence they had great rejoicing because they
24:14	understood the words of the Bible and isn’t that a great joy for all of us
24:20	when we can finally say oh that’s what that text means and then having heard the words of the
24:28	Torah and the scriptures they became aware of the fact that they had failed
24:33	to keep one of the required feast days in fact they had not even known about it and so with this renewed interest in
24:41	Vigor in God’s word these Jews decided that they were going to celebrate the
24:47	Feast of booths it says on the second day the heads of the father’s houses and all the people with the priests and the
24:52	Levites they came together to Ezra the Scribe in order to study the words of
24:58	the law can we hear more Bible please right and they found written in the law
25:05	that Yahweh had commanded Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths tents if you would during the Feast of
25:12	the seventh month that they should Proclaim it and publish it in all their towns and in Jerusalem to go out into
25:19	the hills and to bring branches of all of them wild all of Myrtle and palm and other leafy trees to make booths as it
25:26	is written ah Revival has broken out in Jerusalem they have read the scriptures
25:31	recognize what’s missing in their own practice in their own in their own beliefs and they are excited
25:39	to obey the word of God and this breaks out with people saying I got a great
25:45	idea let’s live in booths just the way the Bible tells us to right and so they
25:50	did so the people went out and brought them and made booze for themselves each on his roof in their courts in the courts
25:57	of the house of God in the Square at the Watergate in the Square at the Gate of Ephraim and all the Assembly of those
26:04	who had returned from captivity made booze and they lived in booths for from the days of jeshua the son of none to
26:11	the day that the people of Israel had not had not done so and there was very great rejoicing and I would note this
26:18	it’s kind of a fascinating thing here Feast of booths it’s a remembrance of
26:23	their Wilderness wanderings right because the children of Israel spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness living
26:30	in booths and Tents while they were headed to the promised land and do you know this that in the eschaton in the
26:37	new Earth it legitimately says that all the inhabitants of the new Earth will
26:44	celebrate the Feast of booths every single year cool huh kind of nice get ready for this
26:51	one because this one’s coming for all of us if you read the Bible you know that this is true so all the Assembly of
26:57	those who returned from captivity they made booze and they lived in booze from the days of Joshua the son of none all
27:03	the people had not done so there was great rejoicing Day by Day from the first day to the last day he read from
27:09	the book of The Law of God they kept the Feast for seven days and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly
27:16	according to the rule and then note this what follows then is
27:24	a great confession of sin you want to know what a good confession of sin looks
27:29	like read this one in chapter 9 of and you can see here that this prayer is
27:35	deeply informed by what they’ve been hearing what they have been reading what
27:41	they have been applying themselves to the word of God and so here’s their great confession on the 24th day of this
27:48	month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and sackcloth and with Earth on their heads ah this sounds
27:56	like something coming up here this week right Ash Wednesday and the Israelites they separated themselves from all
28:02	foreigners and they stood and they confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers and what was it that
28:09	was driving this great confession of sins and repentance it wasn’t liver
28:14	Shivers again it was the word of God they stood up in their place to read
28:19	from the book of The Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day for another quarter of it they made
28:25	confession and they worshiped the Lord their God on the stairs of the Levites
28:31	dead stood Yeshua bani cadmiel shebanaya
28:36	buniabani and they have cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God
28:44	and then the Levites said stand up and bless Yahweh your God from Everlasting to Everlasting Blessed Be Your glorious
28:52	name which is exalted above all blessing and praise you are Yahweh you alone you
28:59	have made Heaven the heaven of Heavens with their inner with their host the Earth and all that it’s in it the Seas
29:05	and all that is in them and you preserve all of them and the host of Heaven worships you you are Yahweh the God who
29:12	chose Abram and brought him out of UR the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham you found his heart faithful
29:19	before you and made with him the Covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite the hittite the
29:26	Amorite the parasite the jebusite the gurga site and you have kept your
29:31	promise for you are righteous
29:37	you saw the Affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea
29:44	you perform the signs and wonders against pharaoh and his servants and all the people of his land for you knew that
29:51	they acted arrogantly against our fathers and you made a name for yourself as it is to this day you divided the sea
29:59	before them that they went through in the midst of the sea on dry land you cast their pursuers Into the Depths as a
30:06	stone into mighty Waters by a pillar of clouds you led them in the day and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for
30:13	them the way in which they should go you came down on Mount Sinai spoke to them
30:19	from Heaven gave them right rules and true laws good statutes and Commandments
30:24	and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them Commandments
30:29	and statutes and a law by Moses your servant you gave them bread from heaven
30:35	for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst and you told them to go in to possess
30:42	the land that you had sworn to given them but they and our fathers acted
30:49	presumptuously and they stiffened their neck and they did not obey your Commandments they refused to obey and
30:56	were not mindful of the Wonders that you performed among them but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to
31:02	return to their slavery in Egypt but you are a God who is ready to forgive you
31:07	are gracious and you are merciful you are slow to anger and abounding and steadfast love and you did not forsake
31:17	them even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said this is your god
31:24	who brought you out of Egypt and had committed great blasphemies you and your great mercies you did not forsake them
31:34	law and gospel the word of God in all of its
31:40	context and its Glory you can see here that these people’s lives were changed
31:45	turned upside down they went from having no hope to having all hope they went to
31:51	being ignorant to now being informed by the word of God as to what truth is and
31:57	what their own history is and is it any Wonder then that Peter as he is
32:02	finishing his course does not point us to the slippery and hard to Define and
32:09	nebulous and difficult to discern things such as liver Shivers and so-called
32:15	outpourings of the Holy Spirit and vague well vague visitations of the holy
32:22	spirit that are supposed to transform Our Lives instead he compares the Mount
32:27	of transfiguration to the Bible and the Bible comes out on top
32:33	isn’t that interesting but that is the consistent record that is the consistent
32:39	witness of the scriptures themselves the greatest encounter that you can have
32:44	with God is Not by having you having goosebumps in an atmosphere filled with
32:51	worship and Glory the greatest encounter you can have with God is when he speaks to you face to face from his word and
32:58	convicts you of your sin and comforts you with the assurance that
33:04	you are forgiven in Christ and then through the power of the Holy Spirit promised in the word of God gives you
33:10	the strength to daily rise and mortify your sinful flesh and take off your old
33:15	self and put on the new self that you are in Christ and without God’s word you wouldn’t even know that you were
33:22	supposed to do that so let us listen again to what Peter
33:28	says although he heard the voice of the father say this is my beloved Son with
33:34	whom I am well pleased he heard the last part and said listen to him and that is
33:40	exactly what Peter is telling us to do because we can hear the voice of Christ in no other place than in the word of
33:48	God and if you think you’re hearing the voice of Christ outside of the word of God get yourself checked you’re not or
33:56	come see me and we’ll walk you through it that’s a deceiving voice that is speaking to you but God’s word can be
34:01	trusted no prophecy of scripture was ever produced by the will of men
34:08	but men spoke from God as they were carried Along by the Holy Spirit and those men now speak to us the very words
34:15	of God listen to Christ the one who hears the scriptures hears him in the
34:22	name of Jesus Amen

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