00:00 Introduction and Thanksgiving Greetings
00:23 Black Friday Reflections
03:09 Transition to Daily Bible Reading
03:16 Overview of First Corinthians
05:44 Paul's Greeting and Thanksgiving
07:02 Addressing Divisions in the Church
09:00 The Power and Wisdom of the Gospel
10:52 Spiritual Wisdom and Maturity
13:15 Immaturity in the Corinthian Church
14:39 Paul's Metaphors for Growth
17:09 The Ministry of the Apostles
19:38 Conclusion and Prayer
Hey, everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the daily Bible podcast.
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:It's great to have you back.
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:I would say with us, except pastor,
Rod's not with us right now.
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:He is on a little vacation here
spending some time with his family.
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:For Thanksgiving, but then also a
few days afterwards, so grateful for
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:him to get some time away and to, to
hang out with Kristin and their kids.
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:Uh, but we're here and we're
still back in the text today.
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:It is black Friday, which
is whatever it is for you.
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:If that's the day that you do all your
Christmas shopping, or maybe that's the
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:day that you start doing your Christmas
shopping, uh, enjoy it for whatever it is.
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:And, uh, If you're taking advantage of
some of the online sales, then good.
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:Maybe you can let everybody else know
where you're getting the deals because.
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:It just, is it.
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:I do it on Amazon, for example, on
black Friday, it's just, it used to be
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:manageable because you'd go on there and
be like, okay, here's the black Friday.
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:Sale items.
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:And there was only a handful of
them now it's like everything.
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:And it's like, where do I even begin?
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:I don't even know where to start.
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:And then it just gets overwhelming and
annoying and a little bit convicting
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:because we're reminded of just our
materialism as a society that it's
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:like, Hey, let's, here's a day to
be thankful for, for what we have.
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:And then the very next day is like, And
here's everything that you really want.
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:And so, uh, we're going to mark it all
down and we're going to tell you, man.
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:You're you're really going to
be happy when you have this.
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:What a lie that is from the world.
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:Right.
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:I don't want to go all existential
and philosophical on us with
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:regards to black Friday, but I do
think there's just something there
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:for us as Christians to ponder.
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:Uh, for, for how our society has built
in, Hey, here's a day for gratitude
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:and then a day for covetousness
a day for gratitude, and then a
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:day for greed a day for gratitude.
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:And then a data grumble and complain
because we don't have what we
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:think we need to be satisfied.
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:How, how strange is that?
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:Right, right.
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:How crazy is that now?
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:Don't get me wrong.
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:It's not.
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:Wrong.
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:Or, or, uh, a sinful thing for you
to, to buy things on black Friday,
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:because they're marked down, they're
on sale, especially if you're Christmas
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:shopping for other people, that's fine.
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:Be wise stewards of your money.
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:I get that.
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:It's just.
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:It just, it's crazy.
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:It's crazy that, that this is,
we're not even trying to hide it.
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:We're not.
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:We're not covering anything up.
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:It's like, Hey.
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:Uh, yeah.
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:Okay.
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:On Thursday.
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:Yeah, go ahead and be thankful for,
for things on Thursday, but then on
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:Friday that now it's about when you're
going to get what you really want.
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:And it used to be that you used to
have to wait for stores to open up
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:on black Friday before you could
shift gears from gratitude to.
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:Uh, everything that you really want.
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:Nowadays, it's forget that.
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:Online shopping things are open 24 7.
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:So you can be eating your, your
Turkey, having just gone around
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:the table with your family,
saying, we're thankful for this.
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:And I'm thankful for this.
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:And I'm thankful for this and then
pull your phone out and be like, oh,
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:I would be really happy if I had this
thing instead of what I have right now.
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:And then, oh, look at that.
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:Add to my cart checkout.
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:It's just a unique thing.
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:So, um, hopefully you had a great
Thanksgiving, all that to say, I
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:really do hope that you enjoyed
your time with your family.
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:And, and I'm also hopeful that, that.
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:That spirit, that mentality, that
attitude, as we've talked about before
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:already is going to carry over that.
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:You're going to be thankful
beyond just that one day.
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:Thankful for your walk with Christ,
thankful for the word of God,
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:thankful for your church, family.
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:Thankful for.
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:All of these things that we get to,
to have as, as part of our life.
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:And so what a great reality
that is that that is Christians.
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:We should be in, can be and have every
reason to be some of the most thankful
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:people on the face of the planet.
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:Let's let's let's practice that.
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:That's a good thing for us to do.
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:But yeah, black Friday.
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:Enjoy it.
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:Get your Christmas shopping done.
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:Get it behind you.
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:Let's move on and focus on what
we've got in front of us, including
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:today's daily Bible reading.
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:First Corinthians one through four.
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:First Corinthians.
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:Uh, this is a letter
written by the apostle Paul.
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:During his third missionary journey.
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:So we've been talking about
his missionary journeys.
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:This one is written during his
third missionary journey, which
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:was largely based in Ephesus.
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:And so we think this letter originated
from Ephesus or the region they're in.
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:And so Paul's writing to
this church in Corinth.
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:And now we just talked about Corinth
acts chapter 18 and 19, uh, that,
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:that Paul had been there during
his second missionary journey.
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:Um, he had been planting churches there.
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:And so this is another area, much like
vessel Annika that Paul was familiar with.
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:He knew the people there.
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:And so he's writing these letters to them.
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:And interestingly enough, In our
Bibles, we have first Corinthians and
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:second Corinthians, but it appears
that there was a third letter.
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:Cause Paul makes reference to that.
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:He says in second Corinthians, this is now
the third letter that I'm writing to you.
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:So somewhere between first
Corinthians and second Corinthians,
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:there was a third Corinthians.
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:Uh, we don't have it.
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:And we're not meant to have it.
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:Otherwise we would, it
would be in the Bible.
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:We would have it as part of our
Canon, but this one was not a letter
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:that was recognized by the church.
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:As something that should be circulated.
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:And so it wasn't, this was not a letter
that was intended by Paul to bear the
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:authority of scripture for everybody.
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:And so it was not put into broad
circulation from the Corinthian
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:church to the Ephesians church,
to the collation church.
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:The way that these
letters would have been.
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:So even though Galatians was written
to the church and glacier or first,
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:and second Thessalonians was written
to the church in thistle, Annika.
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:These letters would have made their
way around to all of the other
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:churches in this region of Asia minor.
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:And they would have been read
by all of these other churches.
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:And that's how these letters came to
be revered and held in authority and
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:held as, as scripture, um, compared to
this missing letter of the Corinthians,
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:that one was never intended to be.
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:And so whatever the markers
were that that told the church,
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:Hey, this is just for you guys.
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:Or this is not for everybody,
whatever it may be.
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:That letter was different from the others.
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:And we know that because we do have
the other ones, we do have first
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:Corinthians and second Corinthians.
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:Those were preserved as
authoritative for us.
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:So if you've ever wondered.
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:Uh, what gives there, w w what about
the, the missing letters and were
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:there other letters that Paul wrote
that we don't have the answers?
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:Yes, but we have the ones that God
wanted us to have that the early church
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:recognized as authoritative, that
Paul himself said, yes, this is good.
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:You should circulate these letters.
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:Because remember Paul's writing
these letters and then still
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:interacting with everybody.
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:So if there was a letter that that should
have been circulated, that wasn't being
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:circulated, Paul could have stopped
down and said, Hey guys, you need
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:to get this one in, in the rotation.
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:I met for this one to go out further.
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:So we can have trust all that to say
for many reasons, but this is part
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:of it in the Bible that we have.
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:First Corinthians though.
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:First letter written.
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:Again, during this third missionary
journey while he's an emphasis.
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:Uh, written to the church in Corinth,
the first three verses chapter one, his
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:greeting, he opens up and greets them.
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:Uh, similar to a lot of the greetings that
we've read in the past to other churches,
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:but what is, what is of note in verse two
to the church of God that is in Corinth?
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:To those sanctified in Christ Jesus
called to be saints together with
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:those who in every place, call
upon the name of our Lord Jesus
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:Christ, both their load and ours.
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:Paul's writing to Christians is
what I want you to note there.
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:Th to those who are sanctified
in Christ called to be saints.
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:There's going to be some hard
things that he writes about here.
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:And not everybody in the Corinthian
church were believers, but he's
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:going to make some general statements
about the church in Corinth.
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:And it's important to remember
that he's writing to those that he.
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:Believes are truly Christians and
that's going to come into bear.
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:As we get into the letter itself
versus 49, he gives thanks for, uh,
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:this church in these believers, but
specifically for God's provision for them.
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:And so it's different than Desola
Nikah and the believers there were,
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:Paul was really grateful for them and
their faith and the fact that they were
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:loving so well and Excel still more.
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:Here.
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:This is Paul Moore saying,
Hey, you know what?
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:I'm thankful for what God has
done for you to this church.
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:I'm thankful for the way that
God has provided for you.
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:Verse five in every way
you were enriched in him.
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:In all speech and knowledge, even as
the testimony about Christ was confirmed
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:among you, you were not lacking any gift.
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:And so Paul is, is commending
more of God's provision for
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:them than he is saying anything.
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:Uh, about the believers there in Corinth
verses 10 through 17, we get the problem
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:introduced right off the bat here.
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:And the problem is that division had
crept into the church and the division
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:was taking the form of spiritual cliques.
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:There were some that were, uh, aligning
with Paul others with a policy, some
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:of CFUs, which is the name for Peter.
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:There.
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:And, and they were saying,
Hey, this is our guy.
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:We're following him.
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:We're following him.
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:We're following him.
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:And it may be in, and I think verses
14 through 17 may allude to this.
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:It may be that these factions
were based on who baptized them.
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:And so, because Paul's going to
argue in verse 14, he's going to say,
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:look, I thank God that I baptized.
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:None of you.
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:Except Crispus and Gaius so that
none of you were baptized in my name.
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:And so it may be again, that they're
lining up behind these, these
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:different figureheads saying, well,
this person baptized me, this person
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:baptized me, this person baptized me.
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:And Paul's point here is this is wrong.
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:You shouldn't be doing that.
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:By the way sidebar here for those that
believe in baptismal regeneration, that is
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:that baptism is necessary for salvation.
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:They're going to have a difficult
time with what Paul says in verse 14.
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:I thank God that I baptized
none of you except Crispus.
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:And Gaius now.
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:If baptism was necessary for salvation,
then Paul would have left out a
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:key factor in sharing the gospel
and seeing people come to faith.
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:And I don't think that Paul would
have been thankful for that.
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:Had that been something necessary
for us to be saved, baptism immensely
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:important, but we have to separate it.
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:It's not necessary.
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:For our salvation.
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:And I think Paul's words here at the end
of first Corinthians chapter one, or in
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:least this section of first Corinthians
chapter one verses 14 through 17.
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:Suggest that and imply that.
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:For well from here, he
goes on to talk about.
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:Uh, the power of the gospel and
really, uh, from here all the way down.
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:Into chapter three, he's going
to be talking about this.
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:He's going to be talking about
this idea of the sufficiency of
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:the gospel and the wisdom of God.
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:And he's going to be pointing away
from men in, remember those, this dev.
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:These divisions were forming and
formulating around personality.
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:He's going to be discouraging
that and pointing instead to
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:the power of the gospel itself.
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:And so in chapter one here verses 18
through 31, that's what he's talking
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:about is that the power they're in and.
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:There's so many famous sections in here
are well-known versus, uh, in here that,
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:that he talks about here, verse 23 or 22,
th the Jews demand signs, the Greeks seek
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:wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified.
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:A stumbling block to the Jews.
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:Because the Messiah wasn't supposed
to die and folly to the Gentiles
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:because the Gentiles would say,
who were ships, a dead savior.
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:But verse 24 to those who are called
both of the Jews and the Greeks Christ,
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:the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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:And so Paul is saying, look, yes,
we understand that the message
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:that we proclaim is going to appear
foolish to the lost, but to you.
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:Who are saved, it's going to be
the power of God for salvation.
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:And the reason being is found in
verse 29 so that no human being
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:might boast in the presence of God.
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:This is not a manmade gospel.
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:This is not something that's come from the
wisdom of men, similar to what Paul argued
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:in Galatians in the opening chapter.
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:There.
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:This is from God and it's his wisdom.
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:And his wisdom is designed to look
foolish to the world so that no,
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:one's going to be able to boast
and say, look at me, I'm so smart.
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:I thought my way into Christianity,
I learned my way into Christianity.
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:Now the gospel is meant to cause us to
say the only reason why anyone would
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:believe this is if God did a work in their
heart to cause them to believe in it.
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:Why?
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:So that no one might boast
in the presence of God.
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:Chapter two.
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:He goes on and continues to build
on this idea in the first five
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:verses of the power of the gospel.
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:Paul says, I decided to
know nothing among you.
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:Verse two, except Jesus
Christ and him crucified.
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:That's the message that
you needed to know.
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:You didn't need to know.
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:My learning background in Judaism,
you didn't need to know about.
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:All the intricacies of the Greek language
or the Hebrew language you needed to
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:know Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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:That's what I determined to
know among you, because that's,
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:what has the power to save?
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:Why verse five again?
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:So that your faith might not rest
in the wisdom of men, but in the
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:power of God, that's what God's
after with the gospel is to Rob us.
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:Of our boast in, in instead.
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:Remind us that it's all
about Christ from here.
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:Then in verses six down through 16, we
get an interesting section one that I'm
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:going to talk about on Sunday, actually,
as we get into our text in John's gospel.
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:Um, Here in basically Paul's argument
is this and the rest of chapter two,
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:he says, along with receiving the
gospel, you received the spirit and
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:the spirit then is the key to you.
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:Continuing to understand and
grow in wisdom and maturity.
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:He says, look, we're not saying
wisdom is, is bad and evil and wicked.
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:We just want the right kind of wisdom.
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:Verse six.
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:Among the mature.
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:We do impart wisdom though.
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:It is not a wisdom of this age, right?
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:So we saying, we're going
to impart wisdom to you.
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:Don't get us wrong.
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:Wisdom is important.
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:Just not the type of wisdom
you think is important.
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:Verse seven, we in party secret
and hidden wisdom of God.
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:Oh, hold on.
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:Backup.
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:That that starts to make us
feel a little uncomfortable.
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:What do you mean a secret wisdom of God?
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:Is this some sort of mysticism?
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:Is this some sort of, you know, hidden.
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:I have to, to reach a certain level
or certain, you know, you think of
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:Christian science and their Thetas are.
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:I in, in, in reaching
different levels and all that.
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:There's none of that here.
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:That's not what he's talking about.
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:It's secret and it's hidden
because it's only understandable
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:by those who have the spirit.
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:And so we understand them because
we have received the spirit.
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:He says in verse 11, who knows a
person's thoughts, except the spirit
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:of that person, which is in him.
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:So also no one comprehends the
thoughts of God, except the spirit
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:of God will guess who we have.
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:We have verse 12, the spirit of God.
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:So that we might freely understand
the things given to us by God.
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:We're going to understand the wisdom
of God, even after we're saved,
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:we're going to grow in the wisdom
of God is what he's saying here,
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:because we have the spirit of God.
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:And what is Paul's job.
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:And even today, what is a
pastor's job in some regards?
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:Verse 13, interpreting spiritual
truths to those who are spiritual.
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:So when we have the spirit of
God, we're able to understand
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:the hidden and secret things.
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:They don't appear to us as hidden and
secret things because we have the spirit.
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:He's going to say in second Corinthians
chapter four, that the God of the
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:world has blinded the eyes of the
laws to keep them from seeing the
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:light of the knowledge of Jesus.
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:Things that to us seem so plain are
only playing because of what he's saying
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:here in first Corinthians chapter two.
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:Because you have the spirit.
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:So interpreting spiritual truths
to those who are spiritual.
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:Look for.
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:Verse 14, the natural person that
is the person that's not saved.
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:That's not a Christian.
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:Does not accept the things of the spirit
of God for they are foolishness to him.
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:And he is not able to understand
them because why they are spiritually
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:discerned, meaning they're
discern, they are understood by.
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:The spirit.
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:And so chapter two, we're going
to grow in wisdom, but we're only
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:going to do so by the spirit.
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:And the spirit is going to impart.
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:Uh, spiritual, trues to us.
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:We're going to be able to understand
them because of his work in our lives.
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:Uh, we get into chapter three, then.
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:The chapter three, Paul
says, Hey, but you know what?
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:I wish I could have taken you deeper
into some of these spiritual things.
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:But Paul says I could not
address you as spiritual people.
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:But he says as people of the flesh,
or as he says, infants in Christ.
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:So it's important that he still
says that they are in Christ.
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:And that's why I stressed at the beginning
of this in first Corinthians chapter
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:one that he's writing to Christians.
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:Uh, because he says in verse
three, you are still of the flesh.
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:You're not a spiritual people, verse
one, but people of the flesh, verse
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:three, you are still of the flesh,
but yet you are infants in Christ.
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:He's indictment here.
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:He's not that they're unbelievers,
at least not all of them.
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:There are some there that
are unbelievers, undoubtedly.
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:And not that they're, they're
all unbelievers though.
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:It, but rather that they
are immature in their faith.
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:And in that that's a problem that they
should have been further along, similar
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:to what the writer of Hebrews says when
he says by now you ought to be teachers,
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:but I have to go back and give you milk.
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:That's what Paul says in verse two.
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:First Corinthians three, two.
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:I, I fed you with milk, not solid food.
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:And so here, he's saying, you know what?
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:I'm, I'm, I'm disappointed.
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:I wanted to teach you more, but I
couldn't because you're still fleshly.
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:You're still trying to live in the world.
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:We're going to get to that in John 17.
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:Um, where Jesus is getting a call us to
be in the world, but not of the world.
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:He Paul here's basically saying you're,
you're blurring those lines too much.
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:You need to separate yourself in grow.
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:A maturity and leave the flesh,
the old man that the nature.
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:Of of our, our corruption behind and
into to grow spiritually speaking.
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:Well, he goes on and talks about that
growth after this, he says, look, let's,
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:let's get back to the what's causing
all the divisions here again with you.
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:And that is a policy or Paul
or Peter, or who, who are you
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:going to line that line up with?
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:Uh, Paul says, who are any of us?
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:Nothing.
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:We're just servants.
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:God is the one verse six.
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:I planted a Pollis water.
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:God gave the growth.
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:So that neither he knew
plants nor he knew why.
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:Neither he knew.
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:Why can I not say that?
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:I see.
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:The pastor is not here to bail me out.
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:So neither he who plants nor there it is.
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:He who waters is anything but
only God who gives the growth.
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:So you want to grow.
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:God is going to be the one that's going to
cause the growth, but we have to be able
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:to, to grow by exposing ourselves to the
things, the spirit, the word of God and
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:let the word of God by the spirit of God.
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:Produced change in our lives.
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:What's that going to do, then
that's going to produce in us a
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:life of obedience, a life of growth,
and he uses two metaphors here.
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:He uses the field metaphor that
that's what we've been talking about.
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:God causes the growth, like the
growth in a plant, a seedling.
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:And then he uses a building metaphor
and he says, you know what, Paul?
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:He says, I'm not the one
that laid the foundation.
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:And now you church are going
to build upon that foundation.
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:And he says on the day of judgment,
when you stand before Christ,
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:the, that what you built upon.
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:Uh, the foundation is going to be
Jesus, but, but the things that you
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:built upon that foundation, those
are going to be judged at that point.
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:And some of you are going to receive
reward for, for building strong
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:upon that foundation, growing in
your depth and your, your spiritual
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:understanding and your maturity.
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:Others.
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:He said, are there.
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:Materials are just going to burn up and
yes, they're still going to be saved
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:in the end, but only as through fire
that's first Corinthians three 15.
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:If any is one's work is burned up.
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:He will suffer loss though.
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:He himself will be saved,
but only as through fire.
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:And then he gets out in any, he uses
another analogy here and that is
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:of the temple, the temple metaphor.
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:And it's a, you plural in verse 16.
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:So he says, do you not know
that you are God's temple now?
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:That is y'all.
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:Do y'all not know that y'all
are God's temple and that
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:God's spirit dwells in you.
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:And so here.
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:Uh, when we're talking about
my body's a temple of the Lord.
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:Okay.
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:We'll get to first Corinthians
six, I think tomorrow.
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:But here, he's talking specifically
about the church and he's saying quit
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:Fashioning separating, clicking.
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:Uh, off into your groups in the
church because you are God's temple
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body of believers, don't do
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God's not going to look kindly upon that.
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through 23, this is the bookend
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and divisiveness in lining up.
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himself, or think that he's wise
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fool that he might become wise.
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argument with a lot of the same thing.
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is the title here in the ESV.
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Paul is saying here is, Hey, you know
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be careful of criticizing the servants
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:of the Lord in a spirit of pride, rather
than receiving the good things given to
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:Paul saying why you want to criticize me
or Pollis or Timothy or Silas or anything?
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those that are there to impart
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:Uh, this is different when he sinned not
to judge, this is not the same as, as
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:He's going to get there.
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:And in tomorrow's reading that
we should do those things.
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we need to be careful not to be overly
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spiritual truths to us and our, we need to
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the Lord is doing through the servants
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:who he's putting in our lives that are
conveying these spiritual truths to us.
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the apostles had endured for
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:Uh, including the one there in court is
what he's talking about in these things.
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we are fools for Christ's sake.
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this so that you might be built up.
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to pat himself on the back.
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of this, these realities.
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them here, but rather to remind them
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fact that he's their spiritual father.
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verse 15 for though you have
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because I'm your spiritual father.
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:He's reminding the Corinthians in
a hard letter for them to read.
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look, I love you as a father.
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Timothy that's back in acts chapter 19.
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a couple of days ago.
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urges them to respond to the letter in
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he doesn't want to have to come to
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come with a spirit of gentleness.
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end here at the end of chapter four.
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Corinthians one, one through four, he's
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division in the church, he's saying, Hey,
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:quit, fractionalizing quit, splitting up.
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that's causing the growth.
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:We're all here to pursue him to be more
like him as a result of all of this.
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:He's the one that causes the growth.
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everybody behind that main idea.
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:The wisdom of men is foolishness to God.
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the wisdom that saves us.
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reminded of these things.
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:Uh, keep us grateful people like we
talked about at the beginning of this
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good things that you've done in our life.
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for your kindness to us.
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:We just pray that we would
have a great weekend as we
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:I'm trying to think off the top of
my head as I'm praying about this.
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:I, um, this is what happens when
we, yeah, I think today is Friday.
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as we roll into two this weekend and
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we prepare well for worship on Sunday.
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:Again, we pray for pastor Ron and
his family to have a great time.
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:All right.
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:Y'all keep her in your Bibles
tune in again tomorrow for another
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