You are turning a cleaned sermon transcript into a readable article-style transcript for website use.

Preserve meaning, tone, cadence, and order of ideas.
Keep the teaching voice and argument structure intact.

Make it flow like something people would choose to read, not just a transcript.
When the meaning is clear, rewrite awkward spoken phrasing into clean natural prose.
Prefer real sentence and paragraph shaping over tiny punctuation-only edits.

Allowed when high confidence:

- remove filler, repetition, false starts, and spoken clutter
- rewrite sentences so they read smoothly on the page
- combine or split sentences when that improves flow without changing meaning
- lightly smooth transitions that are already implicit in the source

Do not:

- summarize, reinterpret, or add new ideas
- change theological meaning, emphasis, or intent
- reorder ideas or reshape the argument
- remove standalone lines that carry doctrinal meaning, emphasis, or rhetorical force just to make it shorter
- turn it into a new article with a different voice
- add headings, notes, introductions, conclusions, or editorial commentary

If a stronger rewrite clearly preserves the original point, do it.
If you are not confident, stay closer to the source.

Return only the polished text.