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First Corinthians chapter 3 let us pray the Lord God who reigns
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on high. Father God Almighty, we thank
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you. Lord Jesus, you are high lifted
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up above every single thing, person, entity.
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You are the one and only God. You are the most high God.
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You are the God supreme above everything.
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Yes, Lord Jesus Christ, be exalted in the highest.
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We lift you up over all of our own problems, issues, families,
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workplaces, finances, health. God, we lift you up higher than
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anything that is trying to drag us away today.
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Father, I pray that you will fill us with the Holy Spirit.
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I pray that your words, God Almighty, will never return
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void. I pray for the salvation of
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many, Lord, to come into the fold today, Father, that they'll
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hear your voice and they'll respond to your voice, God, as
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you draw them unto yourself. Father, I pray that you, Lord
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God, will be well pleased with the reading of your scriptures.
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Father, I pray that it'll be you who gets magnified and glorified
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in all of the reading of the text today.
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Lord, we get out of the way. It's all about you.
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It's all about your plans for the ages, God.
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And we say yes and Amen. The Spirit and the Bride says,
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come, Maranatha, come, Lord Jesus, come.
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In the midst of everything, God, we focus our eyes on you and not
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on this world. We focus our eyes on you who is
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the author and the perfecter of our faith.
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Lord, carry us home, carry us from glory to glory.
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Hallelujah. I pray, Lord, that you'll teach
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us your eternal paths. Lord, I pray that it'll be your
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words that are the very first thing that it is throughout our
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day and the very last thing on our minds.
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Lord, as we meditate upon your scriptures, I decrease as you
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increase. It's all about you, King Jesus,
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we love you. Heal our broken bodies and heal
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broken marriages. Bring the prodigals home.
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Break off addiction today in the name of Jesus Christ.
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I pray you'll bind the enemy and cast him into the judgment that
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you have a waiting for him. Cast out every unclean, foul
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spirit from this house. God, I pray for the church at
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large. God, I pray for the persecuted
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church. God, I pray for the women and
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the children and the men who are being persecuted all around this
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world. God, I pray against all of the
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evil demonic powers in this world.
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God, bind them and let revival break out in the name of Jesus
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Christ. Let heaven come to earth just as
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it is there. Lord, Your will be done.
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God, we just want what you want, Father, and we want to know that
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you are moving mightily in the midst and that you are taking
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back enemy territory. God, we take the Kingdom of
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heaven by force and violently gone.
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It's you, Father, who give us the sword today to do war.
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We lift up our shield of faith. We put on the helmet of
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salvation God. We run the race.
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We receive our peace with the gospel shoes, Father, We put on
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the belt of truth God. We put on the breastplate of
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righteousness God. We stand on love and joy and
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peace and patience, God. We stand on gentleness, God.
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We stand on kindness, God. We stand on self-control, God.
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We stand on all of the fruit, Father, that you have given us.
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And so, God, lead us home. We love you, King Jesus, we
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worship you, King Jesus, and it's in your powerful and
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precious name that we pray. Amen.
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Let's start in verse one. And I brothers, could not speak
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unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto
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babes in Christ. Paul is saying here, let's go
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deeper and these babes in Christ only want to go surface level.
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Have you ever found that in your life, friend?
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You feel like you're a fire hydrant trying to pour out
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spiritual truths to people who are still stuck on the spiritual
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candy and they're not yet able to digest all of the deep things
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that God has revealed to you? Don't be surprised if you've
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been following after the Lord for a long time and you go to
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share a word with somebody and it's not received because
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they're so steeped in the world, friends and they just want to be
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spoon fed and they're not in the Word of God.
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There are many people who have been following after the Lord
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God for a long time, and they have yet to finish the entirety
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of God's Word. And if we truly believe that it
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was God's Word, we would not be able to put it down.
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It would be the thing that our hand is on when we're waking up.
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It would be the thing that our hand is on when we have any free
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time. It would be the thing that our
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hand is upon as we're closing our eyes for the night.
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Friends, the Word of God is alive and active, friends, and
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it is discerning you. It is reading you, but we have
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no appetite for the word of God because we have increased the
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appetite for the candy, friends, of all of the short videos and
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all of the sound bites and we just want to be spoon fed and
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we're not feeding ourselves. We're still stuck on the milk
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and we've yet to start digesting all of the meat.
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Friends. My advice to anyone who's caught
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up in that is to start in the book of Matthew.
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Read from Matthew to Revelation, and when you get to Revelation,
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start in Genesis. When you get into Genesis, go
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all the way to Malachi, and when you get done with Malachi, start
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back in Matthew and read that way for the rest of your life.
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Friends, don't just go cherry picking verses and take them out
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of context to fit whatever lifestyle you're trying to
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create for yourself and manufacture in the flesh,
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friends. And that is what Paul is wanting
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the Corinthians in this chapter to understand.
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And it is an oxymoron to call them carnal and Christians at
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the same time. But somehow, in some way, they
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are. And these are the ones that will
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escape the damn nation of hell, but only as if out of a fire.
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They will be naked friends. They will have nothing to take
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with them into eternity. And you can be saved.
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And you can be fruitful and unrewarding, but just remember
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that the tree that bears no fruit and the tree that bears
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bad fruit of both cut down and cast into the fire.
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So these men and women are barely scraping by, friends.
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They do not want to go deep with the Lord.
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They just want enough to get out of hell to I have fed you with
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milk and not with meat, for before you were not able to bear
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it neither, yet now are you able.
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It's so disappointing whenever you're trying to reveal things
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to people in a profound, deep way and they will not go there
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with you because they're too preoccupied with the things of
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this world. They're in love with this world,
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friends, and they are only robbing themselves of eternal
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rewards. We're not talking about salvific
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issues here, friends. This is going to pertain to
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those who have been marked by Him and have received the Holy
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Ghost, but not to the measure of the fullness that God desires.
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And that is what you need to know that salvation is a free
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gift from God, but rewards are what we receive for the work
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that we do after salvation. 3 For you are yet carnal, for
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whereas there is among you envying strife, divisions, are
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you not carnal and walk as men. He's calling them out friends.
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He's saying look at the fruit that you are producing.
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It is rotten fruit. He is saying you are stuck in
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all of the fleshly, repulsive addictions that unsaved men go
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after. And far be it from us to not
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look any different than the world around us, friends.
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And there will be people who come alongside of you, and
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they'll be measuring with the things that you say and do.
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And they'll see that there's no difference in you than their
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unsaved friend who is having a blast in his life because he's
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at the outset of sin and he hasn't yet understood that it is
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death. And they're going to look at
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that and they're going to weigh in the balance and they're going
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to see that you are miserable and there's going to be nothing
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to draw them to God because your life doesn't add up.
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Friends. That is hypocrisy at its core.
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And that is the duplicity that God does not desire in your
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life. We do not need to walk as the
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rest of the world. We are called to be light and
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salt to be filled with the Holy Ghost for for a while.
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One says I am of Paul and another I am of Apollo's.
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Are you not? Are you not carnal?
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He's saying give all the glory to Jesus Christ.
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Don't look at men. We spend way too much time
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trying to measure where we're at by other people's walk.
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What we ought to do is fix our eyes upon the Lord Jesus Christ
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and radiate His glory to this world.
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If we are living, looking around and looking down instead of up,
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we will find ourselves not looking any different than the
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unsaved man. 5 Who then is Paul? Who is Apollo's, but ministers
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by whom you believed? Even as the Lord gave to every
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man? He's going to show us this
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principle that God is the only one that can give the growth and
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all we do is plant in water. He's saying don't look at Paul,
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don't look at Apollo's, don't look at all of the wonderful men
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of faith who have come before us or even the ones that are in the
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world today or will come after us.
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Don't look at them. They are just conduits, friends.
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Anything good you see in those men is because of the goodness
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of God in Jesus Christ. There is nothing good in us and
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all of our righteousness is filthy rags.
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And let every man be a liar, friends, God is the only one
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that is good. And that is what Jesus Christ
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showed the rich young ruler when he called him good.
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He said there's no one good but God, and that is what you need
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to understand. Don't look at Paul, don't look
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at Apollo's. Look at Jesus Christ. 6 I have
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planted, Apollo's watered, but God gave the increase.
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You cannot make somebody grow in Christ.
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All you can do is plant the seed and water the seed.
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But God has to be the one to draw Him to Himself.
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And it is the miracle that is inside of that seed that we did
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not create. God created it through the
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breath of His mouth when He created all of the things of the
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world, friends, and that is no different for you and for me.
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We cannot even come to God unless He draws us to himself. 8
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Now he that plants and he that waters are one, and every man
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shall receive his own reward according to his labor.
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So here is a very amazing passage of Scripture.
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Underline it, highlight it. It shows the judgment seat of
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Christ. And this is after we are
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raptured and the world is left here for seven years during the
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tribulation, and we go up to meet Him in the clouds.
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And for seven years we have to suffer at the judgment of
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Christ. But it is not for salvific
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issues, friends. It is not to say if we're saved
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or unsaved. It is to receive our rewards for
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all the things that we did in this little lifetime that He
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gave us. And most of everything we do is
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wood, hay, and stubble. But only some things we will
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receive to take with us into all of eternity to throw at the feet
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of Jesus Christ. 9 For we are laborers together with God.
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You are God's husbandry. You are God's building.
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So here we go friends. This is what you need to
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understand, that God calls us into the harvest, but he is
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there with us. Friends, we are not alone.
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He doesn't send us out fatherless as orphans.
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He is there with us in the field.
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Praise God that we can do the work that He's called us to with
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joy. No matter how hard it is, we do
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it with joy because He's there with us and He is all that we
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long for and want. He's saying that we are the
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temple of God. Do you not know that you house
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God Almighty inside of you friends, and we are the bride of
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Christ? Do you not know that we need to
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adorn ourselves for our groom and fill our lamps and trim our
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Wicks as we wait expectantly on our groom to come and get us?
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10 According to the grace of God, which is given unto me as a
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wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another
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builds on it. But let every man take heed how
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he builds upon it. Jesus Christ is the chief
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cornerstone, and we build everything on that chief
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cornerstone. But the materials that we build
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with differ in the fact that if we're doing things to be
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recognized, it will be burned up.
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It's wood, hay, and stubble. But if we do things in secret
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and God rewards them openly, those things are the precious
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stones. 12 Now if any man builds upon this foundation, Gold,
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silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble. 13 Every man's
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work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it,
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because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try
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every man's work of what sort it is.
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That is the judgment seat of Christ.
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The believers will have to go through friends.
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He takes everything that you did from the moment that you put
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your faith in Him, everything you did from that moment
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forward, and He sets it on this fire.
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And most everything is burned up, but only that which is
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unable to be burned up you get to take with you.
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And those are the times that we didn't make it about self, that
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we didn't make it about recognition and reputation and
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pride and vanity, Friends, whenever we did things honestly
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for the Lord Jesus Christ, and He knows our motives and He
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knows our hearts and He knows what we are doing even when no
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one else sees it. Friends, He knows your very
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thoughts, friends, And the things that you didn't think
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anybody knew about. He saw.
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Good or bad he saw and he sees. 14 If any man's work abides
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which he has built upon it, he shall receive a reward.
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Rewards are built into the Christian faith and walk,
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friends. This is not faith by this is not
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salvation by works, friends, so that you can boast about all the
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things that you've done for God. It does not work that way.
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What you need to understand is that by and large, what gets us
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into heaven is Jesus Christ's blood in his blood alone and
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nothing else. That is salvation, and we don't
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need to try to add anything to it.
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But when it comes to our rewards, friends, that is based
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upon what we do. And James talks about it in his
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epistle. Whenever we can show our faith
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by our works, and faith without works is dead. 15 If any man's
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work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself
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shall be saved yet so as by fire.
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These are the ones that enter into heaven as if they escaped
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out of a fire. Friends, they're just kicking
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the can down the road. They're there, they're in
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heaven. Praise God, they're not
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eternally separated from him, but they have no crown to lay it
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the master's feet. 16. Know you not that you are the
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temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
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Think about it, friends, all the prophets of long, they long to
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see this day. Jesus Christ Himself said that
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there was no greater prophet than John the Baptist, but the
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least in the Kingdom of God is greater than Him.
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You are indwelled with the Holy Ghost.
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You are indwelled with God. He lives inside of you.
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Far be it from us to allow things into the temple that are
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idol worship and that are grieving the Holy Spirit.
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Do you not know? 17 If any man defiles the temple
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of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy,
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which temple you are. He's called you to be holy
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because he is holy. We must take all of the things
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that we've allowed into the temple out into the streets and
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burn them. Friends, take all of the idol
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worship out. Friends, do not allow that into
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the temple. He says here that if we do, we
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will be destroyed. Do not defile the temple of God.
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18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be
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wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be
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wise. The way up is down, friends.
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The way to being exalted is humiliation, friends.
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We are fools for Christ. The only thing that we know is
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that we don't know anything. Christ and Christ crucified. 19
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is
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written, he takes the wise in their own craftiness.
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That's what happens, friends. If we're relying on our
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education, on the degrees that hang on the wall, the plaques,
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all the accolades, if we're relying on the praises of men,
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if we're relying on our stature, if we're relying upon our IQ and
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our wisdom, we will be dismayed 10 times out of 10 because there
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is nothing. There is no collective amount of
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wisdom. There is no collective amount of
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information. There is no collective amount of
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intelligence that ever could compare to God's wisdom and
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intelligence, friends, whether it is artificial or whether it
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is realistic, if it's a human level or if it is man made, that
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is only a fraction of all the wisdom of all time's sake, for
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all of creation, for all of man, woman, child that has ever come
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together, that was written down and books are programmed into
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computers. That is only a fraction of God's
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wisdom. You cannot outsmart and you
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cannot outpace Yahweh. Jesus is Yahweh, for the wisdom
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of this world is foolishness with God, and anybody who tries
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to explain God away will be caught in their own craftiness.
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20 And again the Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they
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are vain. Why do the nation's rage, the
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people's plot in vain? It is vanity, friends, the Lord
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laughs. God is in heaven, and he laughs
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when we try to explain Him away, when we try to get rid of him.
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You cannot get rid of God. God will have the last say, and
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that is a period. It's vanity if we try to get rid
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of God. The Lord knows our thoughts. 21
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Therefore let no man glory in men, for all things are yours.
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22 Whether Paul or Apollo's Cephas or the world or life or
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death or things present or things to come, all are yours.
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We'll end on 23 And you are Christ, and Christ is God.
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So this is what you need to understand is that when Christ
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suffered at the hands of Pilate and he suffered a criminal's
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death on the cross, and he snatched the keys to death and
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hell. What you need to understand is
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that your inheritance is the same as Christ and that you will
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inherit eternal life. And that is not just floating
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around on clouds singing hymns, friends, no eye has ever seen,
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nor ear heard, nor mind can conceive eternity and what God
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has planned for us. He said I went to prepare a
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place for you, and where He is. We will go, friends, we will be
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with Him, and it'll be far more glorious than what you could
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ever try to conceive in your finite mind.
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We even have power over death. Death has no hold on us.
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We make death our servant. Friends, do not fear the very
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chariot that God chooses to come and usher you away into His
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presence. Get rid of this fear of man.
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Get rid of this fear of death. Get rid of this fear of disease.
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Get rid of this fear of the world.
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Get rid of the fear, friends, Fear and faith cannot
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cohabitate. We increase our faith today over
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fear. It is all yours and He has given
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you eternal life and the greatest gift that you could
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have ever received is the forgiveness of sins.
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I hope that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter here in
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God's Word. I love you, so does God.
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I'm praying for you. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.