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First Corinthians chapter one. Let us pray our Lord God
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Almighty, the Father of everything seen and unseen.
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Lord, you are the banner, you are the healer, You're the great
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Physician, you are the provider. Father, you see you are the Most
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High, God, you are our breath, you are our everything, You are
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life, and God, we love you. We love you with our whole
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heart. God, help us to love our
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neighbors as our self. Father, I pray in the name of
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Jesus for a supernatural filling today.
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God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will make us more like
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Christ today than we were yesterday.
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Father, I pray that you'll give us eyes to see this world all
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around us the way that you do. Everything that is moving in
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accordance to Your Holy Scriptures got all the
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prophecies that are unfolding before our very eyes.
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God, I pray that you'll give us the eyes to see, Lord, that you
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are moving mightily, and God, you are bringing everything
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under your lordship, under your command.
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Father, we pray for a hedge of protection around our families
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and houses. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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that you will help us, Lord, to be filled today, overflowing.
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I pray in the name of Jesus that we'll receive healing from on
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high for our mortal bodies. God, heal us, Jesus, heal our
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marriages. Bring the prodigals home.
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God, I pray for a peace that surpasses all understanding.
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Father, I pray, Lord Jesus, you'll be well pleased with the
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reading of your scripture. Father, I pray you'll bless us,
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God, as we bless your holy name. Father, we love you.
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King Jesus, it's all about you. King Jesus, it'll always be
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about you. King Jesus, Holy Spirit, you
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come and you teach and you guide.
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Hide me and hide my words and hide my thoughts.
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I decrease as you increase and it's all about you.
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King Jesus, we love you and it's in your holy and precious
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powerful name that I pray. Amen.
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Well, let's start in verse one. Paul called to be an apostle of
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Jesus Christ through the will of God and Sosthenes, our brother.
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So here we can see that Paul wanted to make sure that he laid
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out the credentials before he employed the correction that
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this early church desperately needed.
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They were in a very idolatrous Pagan city that was filled with
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sexual immorality, with idol worship.
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And Paul knew that this church needed to be disciplined and
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corrected. And we need to understand that
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correction does not equal rejection and that God
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disciplines those that He loves. It proves that He loves us
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whenever we are disciplined, friends, and we reject it and we
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don't like it and we run from it and we call it all kinds of ugly
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names. But in the end, friends, you
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will look back and you will see that it was producing in you the
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character that you desperately wanted.
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There is a wise saying that the job of a coach is to make men do
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what they don't want to do so that they can become what
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they've always wanted to be. And that is what God does with
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us by and by, when he disciplines us and makes us
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disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And if we are relying on our carnal feudal instincts, we will
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run from that discipline. But God knows that we
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desperately need it, and we need not run away from it.
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We need to take our stripes, and we need to grow harder and
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stronger and more resilient friends.
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And we will see the character of Christ exuding from us if we'll
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stay in the fight and not run from it.
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Charge the hill, put on the full armor of God, be clothed in the
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armor of light, friends, and dispel all darkness to unto the
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Church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are
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sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints.
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With all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus
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Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.
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So here very interesting. Lee Paul calls these carnal
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Christians who are backsliding into their flesh.
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He calls them Saints and you can see that the grace of God is
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something that we are in. It is not something that we grow
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into. We are in grace, not growing
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into grace. Friends, the moment that you
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place your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, He makes you holy.
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All of your sins are covered. And then beyond that is this
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process of sanctification, which is just being made more like
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Christ. And a lot of us are stuck in
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suspended animation because God has disciplined us.
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And instead of us acknowledging it as what it is, which is
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pulling out all of the impurities, we have ran away
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from it. We didn't want to stay in the
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church leadership. We wanted to do our own thing.
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And we rebelled against a holy God who was bringing about the
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character that He desires for all of eternity.
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And what did we do? We went and tried to become an
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island all on our own, friends. And that is not God's way.
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He desires for us to be in community.
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He desires for us to be submissive to the leadership
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that is above us, friends. And none of us are exempt from
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discipline. Even the pastor at the very top
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of the church, he will be disciplined.
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There is a another judging of him that is separate from the
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judging of those who are not in teaching positions.
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Friends, that is what you need to know.
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There is a heaviness when it comes to spirituality.
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It is not a thing to be taken lightly, Friends. 3 Grace be
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unto you, and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus
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Christ. You can see that grace always
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precedes peace. You cannot have peace unless you
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have experienced the grace. And grace is just a free gift.
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But we must open it, friends, and the gift cost him
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everything. And once you are covered in the
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blood of Jesus Christ, you will experience peace that comes from
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the knowledge that none of your sins will ever be counted
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against you. For I thank my God always on
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your behalf, for the grace of God, which is given you by Jesus
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Christ. Do we actually thank God for
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those that He's put in our life? Or do we just tongue in cheek
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say that we're going to pray for them and we don't?
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Friends, let's up our prayer life today.
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Pray in the spirit, Friends. Walk in the spirit.
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Friends, pray without ceasing. Friends five that in everything
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you are enriched by Him, in all utterance and in all knowledge.
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There is no riches available to us that could ever exceed the
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knowledge of knowing where we stand, that we are at one with
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God through his Son Jesus Christ.
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That is what you're going to find. 6 Even as the testimony of
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Christ was confirmed in you, 7 so that you come behind, and no
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gift, waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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He's going to call us up into the air to meet him there in the
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clouds, and there we will be with him forevermore.
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At the sound of a trumpet, the voice of an Archangel, in a
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moment's notice, we will be called up and raptured to be
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with him forevermore, this coming of the Lord, And then the
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whole world will see him as he comes back, and we will be with
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him. Eight who shall also confirm you
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unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord
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Jesus Christ. So that is what it looks like
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whenever we are ushered into the presence of God is in the only
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way that we got there was because of His innocent life
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that He lived, and then He imputed that righteousness unto
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us. And we can be made right and be
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made at one with God Almighty. Friends 9 God is faithful by
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whom you were called unto the fellowship of the Son, Jesus
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Christ our Lord. When you finally get the
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blinders taken off, and when your ears get unstopped,
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friends, and you get to view and to peek and to peer into the
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celestial realm, friends, it is your undoing.
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You will be undone, friends, and you will finally understand.
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But until that, the carnal mind cannot understand the celestial
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things, friends. And if you're trying to explain
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it to somebody, or if anyone who is listening to this doesn't
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understand what I'm saying, it is perhaps because you have not
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fully received the Holy Ghost and you are not walking in the
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spirit, friends. You're still in the carnal mind
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and the fleshyness of your life, these earthy Ness of your life,
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friends. And until you finally get the
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blinders taken off and you can peek and appear into the
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revelation of Jesus Christ, you will understand that everything
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on this earth pales in comparison with that reality
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that you get to see into. We get to have fellowship with
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Him. 10 Now I beg you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus
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Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no
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division among you, and that you'd be perfectly joined
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together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
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So that is what you need to understand is there needs not be
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division when it comes to salvific issues.
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If we have preferences, that is one thing.
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Some people enjoy one type of worship and some people enjoy
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another. Some people enjoy getting
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dressed up and some people enjoy coming to God as a father and
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you what you need to understand is those preferences are not
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salvific. They are not of the most utmost
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importance of how to be saved, but Jesus Christ said, I am the
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way, the truth and the life, and that no one comes unto the
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Father except through me. And we cannot divide over those
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issues, friends, you cannot divide if Jesus Christ is the
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only way. 11 Friend has been declared unto me of you, my
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brothers, by them which are of the House of Chloe, that there
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are contentions among you. This Chloe was going back and
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forth from Corinth to Ephesus, and perhaps there was some trade
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that this household was involved in that necessitated the travel.
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But they were able to bring news of what was going on in Corinth
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to Paul as he was pinning this letter.
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And he is going to admonish them that there should be no
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division, no discord, no contentions amongst them, that
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they need to be of 1 accord and one mind, the mind of Christ
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brands. 12 Now this I say that everyone of you says, I am of
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Paul and I am of Apollo's, and I have Cephas and I have Christ.
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13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or
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were you baptized in the name of Paul?
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Look at how there was such a division there.
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Some of them thought that they could stand on the rock of Peter
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where the church was being built in the gates of hell would not
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prevail. Some of them were trying to call
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upon Paul, this super apostle, this ambassador for him that was
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chosen on the road to Damascus and actually got to commune with
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Jesus Christ for three days as he unfolded all the plans for
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him as he traveled off into Arabia to get all of the
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doctrine that he had. And they're trying to say that
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they were attached to him some for Apollo's because he was a
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strongman of faith in their community.
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And what they needed to understand is that Christ is not
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divided. It is Christ and it is Christ
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alone. Friends, Christ and Christ
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crucified is what we uphold. 14 I thank God that I baptized none
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of you but Crispus and Gaius. 15 unless any should say that I had
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baptized in my own name. 16 And I baptize also the household of
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Stephanus. Besides, I know not whether I
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baptized any other. 17 For Christ sent me not baptized, but
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to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, unless the
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cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
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There it is, friends. That's the whole crux of the
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whole matter of the whole situation.
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It is Christ, and it is Christ crucified that we preach.
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And it is not by little silly jingles.
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It is not flash and show, friends.
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It is the simplicity of the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ
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that we could never be made right with God until Jesus
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Christ came and lived an innocent life and died a
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criminal's death and was crucified heinous criminal's
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death. He was beaten and stricken for
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us, but by his stripes we are healed, friends.
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And because of his bodily death and his placement in the tomb
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and on the third day being resurrected from death back to
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life, friends, as he went down into Abraham's bosom and
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unlocked that and LED a procession out of that place,
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friends. And you need to understand that
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He made a triumphant parade around all the evil demonic
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hosts to show them that he had the keys.
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And as he appeared to many after his resurrection and ascended to
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the right hand of God to go and make intercession for you and
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for me to go and prepare a place for us, friends.
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And this is ignorance to the carnal mind, friends, which
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we're going to see in the rest of this chapter, that they
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cannot receive such simplicity that they want to work their way
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into heaven. And they want to know why it is
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that we think that our way is the only way.
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And how come out of all the religions in the world, we think
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that we have some kind of corner on how to be made right with God
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and about the everlasting eternal life after this one,
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friends, and I need you to know, I need everyone who has ever
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been born, will be born or is born today.
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And who will ever hear this is that Jesus Christ is the only
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way. He is the only atonement for our
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sins. He is the only covering for our
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sins. There is no way unto the Father
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except through Jesus Christ. 18 For the preaching of the cross
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is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which
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are saved it is the power of God, that is the power of the
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cross of Christ, Golgotha and Calvary.
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Friends, what you need to understand is that during this
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time this would have been foolishness to them, because it
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was not even allowed to be spoke of amongst people of any kind of
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reputation. This was a heinous way to die.
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It would be the equivalent of trying to preach somebody who
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got shot at a firing squad. It would be the equivalent of
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trying to preach somebody who was drawn and quartered.
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It was the equivalent of somebody who had to suffer at
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the electric chair. Friends, this is foolishness to
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the carnal mind, but for us who are saved, we understand of what
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was happening on the cross whenever the sky turned black.
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Friends, in the earthquake ripped open everything, and the
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veil was torn from top to bottom.
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And we have access to the holiest of holy places because
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of what Jesus Christ did. 19 For it is written, I will destroy
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the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the
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understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise?
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Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this
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world? Has not God made foolish the
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wisdom of this world? That is what you need to
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understand. It is if you were to put all the
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intellect of all of the human race from the beginning of time
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until now, and even all of the generations after us, Friends,
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you will come to find that it is only a fraction of a percentage
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of the knowledge of God. He is orchestrating everything.
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The very fabric of your DNA. Friends, you need to understand
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that you have the mind the size of a soda can and even all of
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the knowledge of the world from the beginning of time until now.
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All of the knowledge that is encompassed in all of our
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computer programming can never outsmart and outwit and outpace
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God Almighty who put it all into existence.
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Friends think about it 21/4 after that in the wisdom of God,
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the world by wisdom knew not God.
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It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save
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them that believe. So that is what you need to
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understand is the more learned you get, the more desperate you
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become because you will try to explain God away.
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And he says unless you have faith like a child, you shall
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not enter the Kingdom of God. And that is what you need to
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understand. Those that are trapped in
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academia, those that are trapped by their degrees is what you
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need to understand, is that they marveled that these unlearned
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men understood more than they did when it came to the great
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magnitude of the knowledge of God.
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And we must empty ourselves of ourselves, this great
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impartation that God is well pleased to fill us with His
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knowledge when we will stiff arm all the things of the world and
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what the world is trying to sell us.
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Friends. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greek seek after
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wisdom. 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a
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stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness.
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Think about it. Here is this carpenter's son who
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came into the world as a peasant, who was born in a
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Manger in a feeding through friends, and you can see that
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the shepherds were the first to know, and then the magi.
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It was the fisherman first, and then Paul, the Pharisee of the
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Pharisees. God always introduces the most
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profound things to the unlearned because that is His way and that
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is what you need to understand. To the Jews, Christ crucified
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was a stumbling block because they did not want to admit that
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they murdered their Messiah, but it pleased God to crush him.
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And to the Greeks, who were so steeped in all of their Stoic
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thought processes that these Greeks and their philosophy, it
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was foolishness to preach a Jew who was killed and murdered at
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the hands of the Roman officials, it was foolishness.
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24 But unto them, which are called both Jews and Greeks,
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Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
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So that is what you need to know, those that are chosen and
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predestined before the foundations of the earth, as God
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calls them unto himself. He is well pleased to reveal the
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mysteries that are shrouded and clouded from the carnal mind,
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friends, And what you'll need to know that it is the power of God
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and the wisdom of God is all encompassed in Christ Jesus. 25
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because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the
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weakness of God is stronger than men.
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Think about it, friends. He is the only uncreated, and
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you're going to try to tell him how to behave and that he needs
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to be moral in all of his ways, or else you cannot believe in
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him. You think by railing and raging
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that you're going to somehow throw off the chains of
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conviction. It doesn't work that way. 26 For
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you see your calling, brothers, how that not many wise men after
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the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. 27 But
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God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
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the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to
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confound the things which are mighty.
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God can use a college dropout to school all the universities and
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all of the agendas of the doctrine of demons.
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He can use a college dropout who just goes and places himself in
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the middle of it all, and he can use that weak vessel to confound
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all of the demonic host. And because of this confounding,
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it will make the demonic so angry that all they can do, just
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like Jesus Christ, is try to silence them through death.
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But the blood of the martyr is the seed of the gospel.
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And you will see that God's plans for all the ages are only
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brought about by this being pushed down into the earth,
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friends. And what you are going to find
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is a harvest. And we need workers to go out
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into that harvest. Friends, I pray that that is
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your story. You cannot outpace God.
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And what you need to know is the devil is getting played. 28 In
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the base things of the world, and the things which are
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despised, has God chosen. Yeah, and the things which are
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not to bring nothing, things that are. 29 that no flesh
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should glory in His presence. The only glory that we have is
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the glory given to us by God when we put on this armor of
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light, friends, we're not going to be able to glory in our own
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strength. We're not going to be able to
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glory in our own wisdom. Friends, you can know the Bible
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front to back, you could read every page, but if you are not
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indwelled with the Holy Spirit, there is no glory.
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And all of that head knowledge, friends, and there will be many.
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We stand and say, Lord, Lord, we cast out demons in your name and
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perform miracles in your name. And he's going to say, depart
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from me. There will be many who are left
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behind when the church gets raptured, and they will have to
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come to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and not
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just in their own wisdom and academia.
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We will not be able to glory in our flesh. 30 But of him are you
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in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us, Wisdom,
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righteousness, sanctification, redemption will end on 31 That
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according as it is written, he that glories, let him glory in
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the Lord. That's it.
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Friends, if we'll come to the Lord Jesus Christ, honestly, He
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will be well pleased to show us that all the scriptures from
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Genesis to Malachi and all the Scriptures from Acts to
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Revelation point back to Him. In all of His words, from
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Matthew all the way to John, you can see that everything points
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to the Gospels and the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And that is where you're going to find sanctification and
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atonement and justification. That is what you're going to
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find. Redemption.
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When you were bought with a high price.
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It cost him his very life. It cost him the communion with
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God that He had shared from the beginning of time His only
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begotten and God turned friends. And that is what grieved Jesus
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Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane more than any of the
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brutal torturing that many martyrs have gone to their
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death. Happily.
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It was not that Jesus was afraid to die, it was that He had
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shared this beautiful communion with Father God and He was going
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to have it taken away as He took on all the sins of the world.
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But if you'll come to him honestly, every single one of
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your sins that you have ever committed, all the sins you are
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committing, and all the sins you will ever commit are forgiven by
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the blood of Jesus Christ alone. There is no at one meant with
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God without the blood of Christ. I pray that you have been bathed
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in the water, not just dunked in water, that you've been bathed
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in the blood of Christ and not just dunked in water.
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Friends, I pray that over you today.
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Are you covered in water or in the blood of Christ?
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If you are covered in the blood of Christ, then you can stand
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before holy God one day. I pray that you've been blessed
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by this amazing book here in God's Word as we get started off
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here in Corinthians. I know I sure have.
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I'm praying for you. I love you.
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See you back here tomorrow. God bless you.