Welcome, Flock. Today’s sermon is titled "God and Man in the Wilderness" and it should go without saying, although, that said, I’ll say it here now, that the term "Man" in this case is non-gender-specific. But we digress.
There’s a lovely moment in Matthew where John the Baptist (no stranger to the Wilderness), whilst imprisoned for who knows what but which likely had something to do with stirring the metaphorical pot a bit too vigorously for the powers that be, sends a message to Jesus, asking "Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?" -- a question to which Jesus doesn’t offer a flat yes (although as an answer that would certainly do), but instead says "Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see", followed, in case John’s messengers hadn’t been paying much attention, by a litany of the things they should have heard and seen.
"Yes, well and good," you must be asking, dear friend, "but what does all this have to do with Sarah Palin?" Come with me now, flock. Jump with me. Close your eyes. Grasp tightly the tip of your nose so you won’t get water in it ... and jump. For what all this has to do with Sarah Palin is a truth so self-evident that even the blind, God willing, could see it.
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