00:00There's a promise here that the king had to make, that the Christian said, we want every king
00:06throughout every generation to have to swear to preserve the gospel in this land, the Protestant
00:12Reformed religion in this land. And they did it, and they set it up, and they've been having to say
00:18words like this for hundreds of years. And it's meant something, at least it used to mean something,
00:25right? And does it mean something now is kind of the question. And then they present him with a
00:30Bible, they present him with a Bible at the coronation service, and they said when they
00:34presented him, sir, to keep you ever mindful of the rule and gospel of God as the rule for the whole of
00:40life and government of Christian princes, receive this book, the most valuable thing this world
00:45affords. Here is wisdom. This is the royal law. These are the lively oracles of God. And you see
00:54what's happening here. You've got all of these symbols of empire, of power, the crown jewels,
01:00and all this stuff. And they say, forget that. The most valuable thing is the word of God.
01:05The most valuable thing in the world. And this is the lively oracles of God.
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