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promise like the True God He is. And yet, though all the
same we're none of us alike, as we heard in today's
Epistle, ah, sorry, yes, um, here it is: 'For to one is given
by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word
of knowledge,' and it goes on and on, we might say, to
butcher and baker and Indian chief, or anything we like;
rich, poor, Christian or apostle, or rather apostate, male
or female, married or monosexual. To God these little
differences of opinion are nothing. Nothing. And so no
matter what we do, my friends, it's all to the glory of the
Lord. Which is my second point. And which is why,
isn't it, that when after that glorious moment when Peter
was enjoying a little picnic lunch up on a friend's roof
and he fell asleep from the heat and the dust of the day,
God came down to him in a great, huge, snowy white
sheet so big its corners were the ends of the world, and
God said to him something like, 'Peter. Why don't you
let the Gentiles come and join in as well as the Jews,
and don't hold a bit of surgery (that only half the
population was getting anyhow, now that I think of it)
against the whole rest of the world.' Which is why, after
that, on Pentecost the apostles began with no planning