This always seems to happen

I often find stuff that fits with a sermon after it's been preached. I read this in the Treasury of Daily Prayer from Clement of Rome. He was a pastor in the 1st century of the church and a disciple of the apostle Peter. Here's Clement on the order of things as was the topic of last Sunday's sermon:

These things therefore being known to us, and since we look into the depths of the divine knowledge, it is necessary to do all things in [their proper] order, which the Lord has commanded us to perform at stated times...Let every one of you, brothers [all believers], give thanks to God in his own order, living in all good conscience, with becoming gravity, and not going beyond the rule of the ministry prescribed to him...The apostles have preached the Gospel to us from the Lord Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ has done so from God. Christ therefore was sent forth by God, and the aposltes by Christ. Both these appointments, then, were made in an orderly way, according to the will of God. Having received their orders, and being fully assured by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and established in the word of God, with full assurance of the Holy Spirit, they went forth proclaiming that the kingdom of God was at hand. And thus preaching through countries and cities, they appointed the first fruits of their labors, having first proved them by the Spirit, to be bishops and deacons of those who should afterward believe. (p. 336)

Again, God is a God of order, and for the sake of our salvation He establishes an order, that we might be assured that the message of salvation is from God and not from men.