Book of 1 Corinthians - Ch. 1, Vs. 26-Ch. 2, Vs. 6 (10/15/2000)

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How many of you found Jesus in your picture last week found it all over the picture

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Did anybody one and I'm surprised how many look

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Yes That's not the point

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The whole point was this We get so enamored by things

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And we look at the beautiful mountains and the trees and the rocks and the beautiful church building

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And we look at things But within those things is

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Jesus and I Printed that picture especially with Jesus in it not a picture of him

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But he's there in word and that's what

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I was wanting you to find Was the word Jesus in that picture so work on it another week

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Is everyone understand now? Of course Pat doesn't have to she's already found it

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Does anyone not understand well good

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All right, first Corinthians 1 26 For ye see

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Your calling brethren How that not many wise men after the flesh

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Not many mighty or many noble are called Now that is just backwards to the world

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Dennis why do you think this is so? All right

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How does anyone in what state? Does all people come to Christ?

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I? Don't mean Texas When what state of condition

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Well sinful and lost Broken Great With nothing, thank you

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No matter how noble you are how rich you are how important how intelligent or how dumb

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Everybody comes with nothing that means

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That if you're an expertise on some Project or some particular talent you have

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Do not ever say that I'm going to take my talent now and use it for God Now Dennis, why can you not say that?

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All right, we come to him with nothing I I Want to be sure everyone understands so many times we hear that some singer perhaps has been converted and They make a statement

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Similar to the fact that they're now going to use their voice for Christ Well, that's a good sentiment and a good idea

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But it won't work You come to him with nothing You think you're going to improve him with your voice

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No now if He has ordained that your voice be used for him.

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It will be doesn't mean you won't quit singing But we have to come with the idea that we are bankrupt

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We're poor without anything We bring nothing to Christ any questions

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You yourself know that because you are among the called you see that there are not very many wise and noble and rich and Mighty as was stated in verse 26 27 but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise

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And God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty now

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Bill get your Minding gear for me It says here that God has chosen the foolish things of the world

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The foolish things in regard to what? Well Well, you've confused me a little bit

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Verse 27, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world. What makes them foolish in the world?

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No, you still haven't meshed gears yet In the world and I know it's difficult to think as a worldly person that's understandable

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But All right, but what

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I'm after is in the world we categorize things as brilliant wise sophisticated foolish

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What makes us think things are foolish in the world? and other things are wise

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Well, I guess I'm not in gear But oh

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You said you said pride. All right, David They're not wise

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By Well, that's all true and you're all getting closer

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But now pretend I hate to go into that field but just pretend you're not saved

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You're back in the world And you're working hard you're Either using your head or you're in real estate or something else and Some things in your field seem foolish to you.

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Why do they seem foolish to you? Why would you say?

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Well, that's foolish. I'm not gonna do that First of all

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All right, so you're what you're saying is that I can't make any money by doing that so I won't

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Everything is tied to money in the world. You're either foolish or wise depending on how much money you can make

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Now it is not so in the Christian world But I didn't want us to forget

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Verge from where we come we used to think the bottom line was profit money and The television is full of evangelists that are teaching that That God intends for you to be rich.

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If you're not sure you don't have enough faith All right God has chosen the foolish things of the world.

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So now we're tying the two together As the world looks at certain things

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Bill they consider to be foolish God has chosen those very things that seem foolish to the world and they would have nothing to do with it

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He's chosen those things to proclaim himself And it goes back to everything.

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You've said I'm not Not saying you were not answering right? He just wasn't Accentuating the worldly side

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That it is money that drives the world We say power but power equates to money

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So God has chosen these very foolish insignificant unwanted

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Objects or opportunities from the world's viewpoint To confound the wise of the world

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They cannot understand Take it back to the Apostles The Pharisees were amazed

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Because here's Peter speaking. So eloquently So distinctly so correctly and they know that he hasn't traveled any foreign country

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They know he has very very little education. How can he do that? Peter was a simple man

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So they're confounded They they just could not understand how that man never having been to the seminary

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Never having finished High school let alone college. How can he expound upon the

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Word of the Lord? So that'd be foolish to the world But God has chosen those very things

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To confound those people and does pretty good job It shows the weak things of the world to confound things which are mighty

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There's lots of power in the world God has ordained the things that seem foolish to the world those very things do confound the worldly wise and the strong mighty men of this world are confused by the things of God verse 28 and Base things of the world and things which are despised

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Hath God chosen? Yea, and things which are not to bring to naught things that are

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Let's think about this base things Greg first of all, what does it mean base?

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It means common Okay unimportant So they're unimportant to the world and things which are despised by who?

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By the world God has chosen Which is just repeating what he's already said, but the last statement and things which are not

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Joy, what does he mean by things which are not? You know, it means things which you can't see

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The world wants to see everything and understand it He shows them the things that are not visible

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And he used To make them see that they're going to be called foolish

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Okay In other words, there's an unseen force and power that stops a lot of wise wisdom of the world

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And they don't understand that But it isn't to the world

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All my life I've Heard in a scientific world of the missing link

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How many of you have heard of the missing link? That phrase, that statement You know the problem with that Verge?

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It's missing It is missing Just that simple

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God has decreed the common things of the world Things which are hated To be his choosing for his purpose

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God can and does have unseen power to bring to nothing the things that do exist

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Twenty -nine, that no flesh should glory in his presence No flesh

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Again Greg To what does flesh refer? Things of the world

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Sinful That no flesh We don't have to say sinful flesh because that's redundant

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That no flesh should glory in his presence Greg, his refers to who?

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To God I'm so glad you're sitting on the front That no flesh

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David, how much does that exempt? That no flesh should or would or could

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Glory Joy, the word glory here means what? Glory is

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Spiritual Righteous That's all we can see Well His glory

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Well it says that no flesh There's a flesh glory David, how can the flesh glory?

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It will have no glory Well they think it does Pride Goes back to what

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Dian said Pride Can be prideful in his presence

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There is no creature with life therein That can attain any degree of praise

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In the presence of the Father It's impossible Sure We will never go to God and say

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I did this That's right If we do we shouldn't 30

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But of him are ye in Christ Jesus Now Bill let's stop right there

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But of him are ye in Christ Jesus Explain it

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I think the him that he's talking about Is Christ Jesus The sacrifice that he made

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And that It is his sacrifice It is Jesus' sacrifice

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That put you In Jesus But We belong to who?

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Now or Before Either one We at one time were the property

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Of Satan Maybe we weren't the exact property But we were at least in his servitude

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And when And when Christ Sacrificed We gained the property

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Of the servant of God But how did we become How did we gain the status

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Of belonging to Christ In the crucifixion In the sacrifice of his life

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We were In him Placed in him

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At the cross Alright Just a minute Joy Say it again

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Alright Joy Who?

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Yes Right Say we belong to God the father

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And he made a gift of us to Jesus He gave us To Jesus Christ Now Bill we belong to Christ But simply because the father gave us to him

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So in this verse Of him Him as God the father Are you

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In Christ In other words It is by the father himself

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That has Resulted in your Being placed into Christ Well it was the

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The act The act of our being Placed was by the agent

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Holy Spirit We belong to the heavenly father And he decreed that his spirit

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Would place us into Jesus Christ A vacuum

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The vacuum The vacuum is where Of who

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Well we'll come back To that But not right now

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Alright But of him Of God the father By his spirit You are placed into Christ Jesus Romans 6 and 3

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Who of God Is made unto us wisdom Now the who refers to who

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Jesus Who Jesus Of God Jesus is of God And it is by the power of God That made

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Jesus wisdom to us That's how we got our wisdom Was being in Jesus And righteousness

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And sanctification And redemption It was God the father himself

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That placed us into Jesus It was God the father himself

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That made us righteous That gave us redemption That sanctified us

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It was God the father That did all of this In his son Jesus Christ Did it to us

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In Christ Because we're placed into Christ Therefore we're part of Christ What Yes Any comments

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Questions Do you see how it mechanically worked Not the right term perhaps

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Talking about spiritual God But the mechanics of salvation Is very important It was by the power of the

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Heavenly father that everything happened 31 That according as it is written

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He that glorieth Let him glory in the Lord Now Of all

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The rabble rousing we see on TV Today God Wants people to be

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Rich in money and things Is the same thinking Of the people of Paul's time

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Only they Had to do it without the privilege of television Only the wise

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And well to do Are to be saved And this goes back to what Bill said

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I think at the beginning This is their thinking It was wrong then

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And is it still wrong today Absolutely God is no

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Respecter of any man's Face David what's that mean That's exactly what it means

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The face Is The index To the rest of the person

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And it literally says He is no respecter of any man's face Meaning any person

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Alright Let's move along now to chapter 2 First of all

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I want you to know That it takes 3 items To make a good christian Let's see if we can figure out

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What they are Someone tell me What one of the items would be

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In order to make you a good christian And by good christian I mean God fearing, walking in the spirit

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Doing everything The very best you know how To be that kind of a christian

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What does it take Alright but now you're already called

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You're already placed into christ And now you want to improve Your condition

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Study Alright That's one Let's hold right there

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Joy How do you get that Alright Fellowship I just asked for one

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That's alright It takes study Would you agree

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Dennis that it takes study Would you take

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The fact that it takes Trials or testings And it takes

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Prayer You leave any one of them out You don't amount to much

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Study, trials And prayer Now the trials

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The trials is what we try to Avoid isn't it We don't want any problems

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We don't want anything Go wrong at all Why do we think like that Because it hurts

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Because it hurts It hurts What part of you

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Pride Self Ourself Ourself Okay it hurts the physical fleshly part

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Not spiritual Because it is a spiritual Trial Brother How many times have we heard

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It goes back to evangelist Preaching on TV If you send me money

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And stuff like that Your trials will go away You won't have trials

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If you're living The way you're supposed to That's completely harsh

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Over the spirit

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I'm not saying all of them are I mean most of you TV People or preachers

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They're more concerned with the world Things than they are the spiritual I've often thought

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That I could start that and maybe get rich All of you Send in your nickels and dimes

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And let's keep This ministry going But we believe in faith in God Could we have a minute

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Sure Sure Talk about it now if you want to I'd rather wait

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Okay Well we understand That there

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First of all we come with nothing And everything we have is given to us Even before we come

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But we must understand that And that he is no respecter Of any one person whatsoever

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In order to be The kind of Christian that you think you are It requires

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Study, trials and prayer Verse 1 And I, brethren

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When I came to you Came not with excellence Of speech Or of wisdom

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Declaring unto you the testimony of God In other words

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I spoke to you with simple words I did not Try to impress you with words

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For fear of detracting From the holy word of God This is what

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Spawned the picture Last week There is plenty of Preaching in today's world

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But not much of it Is done in demonstration Of spirit and power

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For I Determined not to know anything Among you save Jesus Christ And him crucified

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I didn't want to know all about The latest gossip I didn't want to know who married who

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And how many grandchildren they had He said I didn't want to talk about anything

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Except the heavenly father It's good

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Most of the time For a teacher or a lecturer To not know Very much about his audience

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Why You will be intimidated by Right Then whatever you say

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Has come straight from the holy spirit Not from your fear Of someone

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And I was With you in weakness and in fear And in much trembling Now this doesn't sound like the

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Paul that I know He says I was weak fearful And trembling

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Bill how could that be Paul I don't know

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That I totally That I totally understand that I Thought that what

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Paul was saying was There are Things About Christianity About religion

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That I chose not to go into That I chose not to Try to teach you

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Because The ultimate Message Is that Christ Step on the cross

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Is your salvation And that's the only thing And I didn't want to detract from that And so he wanted to put it

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In that lowest common denominator I don't think he was really afraid He didn't

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Want to Put himself out As somebody outside the group

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And say And tell him what to do Other than Christ has died for us

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Or died and resurrected Diane He came with a Great and awesome fear

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Of the seriousness Of what had been given to him And He came in trembling

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To tell them just that truth And nothing that he had Carried with him from the past Alright I remember

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The week that Ben and I was gone and I had Asked Bill and Greg To fill in for me

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And I had the privilege Of being around Bill some For a couple weeks before we left

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Bill You had weakness Fear And trembling But it was not

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Because you did not Think you could do it You were afraid you'd do something wrong He was afraid

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You'd say something wrong And I will say this Any time a teacher or preacher

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Gets up in front of a crowd Or even to one person And is expounding upon The word he better have some fear

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In the pit of his stomach If he's completely comfortable Then He needs to check things

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Because everybody Is susceptible to Saying something wrong

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And being misinterpreted Even though they said it correctly Someone's going to misunderstand

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And the very best That a teacher can do Is go over and over and over To help eliminate anybody

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From misunderstanding What is said So I think

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That the weakness here Was of that Area in Paul's life

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It was so serious That he felt inadequate Even though he knew he could do

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All things through Christ He trembled Internally He didn't shake outside But he was trembling

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Which is akin to The fearfulness And I think that he was

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Doing exactly what he was supposed To be doing And that he should have had some fear

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I think every teacher And preacher should have And Would that also be showing reverence to God?

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If he's in that situation Where he is willing inside That's also showing

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That he is reverent to God And God is in his life That's right

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If he feels absolutely 100 % Comfortable I doubt if he talks very much about God Sincerely And my speech

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And my preaching was not with Enticing words Of man's wisdom

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But in demonstration Of the spirit of power And this is

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Goes on with what he had just said He said I didn't come

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To impress you With my ability to speak So That would lead me to say this

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Be very careful Of methods and styles When proclaiming the holy word

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There's lots of methods There's lots of people Made a lot of money Selling methods of how to teach

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How to preach You don't need that Just pray

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Have Trials And study A very wonderful Pastor told me once He said

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Otis You don't need to go to seminary If you have access To a good library

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You have a good concordance And dictionary And at least one good

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Bible teacher Besides the holy spirit

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If human Wisdom is used to win a man Then that man's faith

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Stands upon what Human wisdom Absolutely That your faith should not

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Stand in the wisdom of men But in the power of God Too many times Christians Are so impressed

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By the oratory of a speaker That they cannot hear the words of God Bill said

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Actually what Bill said Is very important Because there's no smoother speaker Than Satan And when the antichrist comes

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He's going to sound so perfectly Reasonable And unless you know the word of God You will be swayed by it

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Yes A world person

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Will be won back By Satan Yes That's good

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That's it That's it I have lots of times thought about Instead of teaching as I do

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Of just reading the word Some morning Just read the word

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And say nothing But I'll have to be led by the holy spirit

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To do that How be it we speak wisdom

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Among them that are perfect Yet not the wisdom Of this world

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Nor of princes of this world That come to naught We speak wisdom

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Among them that are perfect This word perfect Causes lots of confusion

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Among them that are perfect Them that are Christians Perfect wisdom

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Is that which is revealed by God How many remember

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The definition of perfect Anyone Well slowly

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You're putting up hands Debbie tell us

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Mature Mature Alright, Dennis Complete David Something that's at the

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Proper state of maturity For it's time That is it A perfect peach

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Can be perfect at any time Through it's growth If it is

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Developed to the point it's supposed to be It cannot be A perfectly finished

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Peach When it is only half grown But it could be exactly where it's supposed to be

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So we would say That is a perfect peach Has nothing to do with The final product

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Means right now And all of you are right Where you're supposed to be

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This moment at this time In this day Both in your presence

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And in your thinking This is where you're supposed to be Trying to gain more knowledge

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And become More adult In the word

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So brother Odom If you time this back To Ephesians 2 and 3 Verses we was talking about I came to you

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In weakness and trembling Expressing just the various Of the

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Of the truths that Jesus died and was resurrected To save you

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Once you accepted That Then you were in this Perfect state

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Of where you were supposed to be At that time And then those greater mysteries

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Can be revealed That's right Absolutely Do you remember

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How many of you remember when you were saved It's not that you have to May not

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But can you remember Back to that time I know for some of you It would be a long trip

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But go back if you can And recall the joyful Feeling you had immediately

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After that Can you do that Do you ever think Why that was so Brother Odom No I memorize

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Songs And I remember A song And the base

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For If I can Take the time I can take you to the place

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Where the Lord saved me By his wonderful grace And You know

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I think that Anyone that can't remember That time Should go back

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Well That would be good if we could

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But There are several people that I know That There was no traumatic

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Uh Incident Even Even though they know they were saved

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I had a teacher A good teacher Once in my life

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Said well I was saved when I was gone Cause I don't remember Did I remember

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What a Let me get back

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To the point I was leading to If you can remember The wonderful feeling you had

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Immediately after you Realize you belong to him Is because you

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Hadn't had time to sin yet So You see what it would be like If we could get rid of all the sin in our life

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The more You can eliminate the happier You become And at that particular moment

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He just removed everything But we have to move on And I Guess we'll have to stop here

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We'll begin with the verse Seven of the second chapter Next week

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Anything Concerning the lesson I wish we could go to the next verse

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Well We will next week Then you didn't hear

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Anything that was said Yes just a moment

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Well you want it on tape Let the