This is the last paragraph of the sermon and is a fitting prayer for all churches:
Let’s pray: Father, I ask that you would be for Bethlehem the absolute, unshakable existing one; that in Jesus Christ you would be fully reconciled to this flock and they to you, and they to each other in your blood-bought peace; that you would keep your covenant with them and fulfill every promise in your word; that you would sanctify them, wholly working in them all that is pleasing in your sight; and that your Son would be for them a great Shepherd; so that all their lives they would be satisfied in him above all things, and he would be glorified in them. In the name of Jesus, our risen, living, Great Shepherd. Amen.
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