The Cross Divides... and Unites

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Amen.
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If you'll remain standing and open your Bibles with me, we're going to turn to the first chapter of 1 Corinthians.
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We're going to be looking at verses 18-31.
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The title of today's message is, The Cross Divides and Unites.
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The Cross Divides and Unites.
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1 Corinthians 1, 18-31.
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For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.
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Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
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For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles.
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But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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For the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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For consider your calling, brethren, or brothers.
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Not many of you were wise according to worldly standards.
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Not many were powerful.
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Not many were of noble birth.
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But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise.
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God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.
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God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
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And because of him you are in Christ Jesus who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
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So that as it is written, let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.
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Father in heaven, I thank you for your word.
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I pray now that you would fill me with your Holy Spirit, keep me from error, and use me to preach to your people.
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Open their eyes, their hearts, their ears to hear the word of God.
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Father, for those who know you, I pray that this word would be a challenge to them to draw closer to Christ and those who do not know you, Father, that this to them would be the call of the gospel of salvation.
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And we know that if anyone is to be saved, they must be, Lord, given the gift of regeneration by you.
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For the hearing and the receiving and the believing must be preceded by the work of God.
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So we pray, Lord, that you would do that, which only you can do today.
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Apply the word to our hearts and save the unbelieving.
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And I pray it in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Have a seat.
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We live in a world that thrives...
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Excuse me, I'm going to turn my microphone on.
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Maybe you hear me better.
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We live in a world that thrives on division.
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Some have even gone as far as to say that we live in a moment of human history where our nation is more ideologically divided than ever before.
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Now that may be somewhat of an exaggeration.
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We did have a civil war that was based on an ideological divide.
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But we have great division that is all around us and we see it in the news, we see it on social media.
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According to the Pew Research Center, political parties are more divided now than they were even ten years ago on the subject of conservatism and liberalism.
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It seems like those two things have really, those two words, those two titles have really divided people very thoroughly in our nation.
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And in many people's mind, the political divide is the most important one.
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But we know there are others.
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There are racial divisions that create huge divides, not only in communities, but against even people, individuals.
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Economic situations can divide the very rich from the very poor and the many classes in between.
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Religious preference is a huge divider and we know that.
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Not only within Christendom are there divisions of denominations but outside in the world as a whole we see rising in different religions all around the world.
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But we know, and I was thinking about this week, that division of conservative versus liberal seems to be very, very much something that's always on the mind.
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It's happening, we hear it all the time in the news.
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And if you think about it, even in what we would say is Christianity, and I know that not everybody who calls themselves a Christian is a Christian, so what I'm about to say, keep in mind I'm not saying all these people are Christian, but within those who would call themselves Christian there are differences and there are people who are Roman Catholic who call themselves liberal and conservative.
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There are people who are within denominations, there's liberal Presbyterians, there's conservative Presbyterians, there's liberal Methodists, and there's conservative Methodists.
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And hey, there's even liberal Baptists, if you can believe that, there are Baptists who are liberal.
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I remember when Al Mohler first went to Southern Seminary in the early 90s, he was absolutely hated because he was bringing a conservative voice to what was at that time one of the more liberal of seminaries.
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Southern Seminary in the early 90s was so liberal that when Al Mohler went there with a conservative message, the graduating class stood up and turned around.
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These are people who are graduating from a quote-unquote seminary, and so ideological divides can run very deep.
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I remember someone saying one time, well, you know, conservatives, they're the Christians, they're the religious, but that's not true, really.
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Mike and Mike, we went down to the Trump rally and preached.
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Mike preached the gospel, we were handing out tracts.
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Didn't you go with us, Mike, to that? Okay, I'm sorry, but some of us went and handed out tracts, and that's a rather conservative group, right? And I remember a man standing there shouting me down for preaching the gospel or just talking to people.
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I wasn't even the one preaching.
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Collier was on the mic, but I was handing out gospel tracts, and he was shouting me down and saying, I'm a free thinker.
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I'm a, you know, you're just trying to oppress people with your religious nonsense.
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He's telling me this.
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And a lady behind me is dancing, going, we're all energy, and this is a conservative group.
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And I only tell that story because the greatest divide in the world right now is not conservative versus liberal, even though that is an important divide for many people.
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The greatest division that will be and is and has always been is the cross.
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The greatest division is Jesus Christ and the foot of the cross.
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That's what matters.
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It's the only division that's going to go into eternity.
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It's the only thing that really has value past this life and thus has any real, everything else is going to burn up.
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All the money that's invested in all of our castles and all of our great pomp and circumstance, it's all going to burn one day.
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But what really matters is that cross and what it meant and what happened on that cross.
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And that's what divides, that's the divide that matters.
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So while the world is divided in many areas, the Bible declares there's only one division that really matters, and that's the cross of Jesus Christ.
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And today we're going to continue our study of Paul's letter to the Corinthians, and we're going to look at where he talks about what the cross does and how it divides, but also how it unites.
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Last week, if you remember, if you were here, we looked at verses 10 through 16 or verses 10 through 17 of 1 Corinthians 1, and I showed in that passage how Paul's concern right now for the Corinthians as he's introducing this letter, is his concern is he's got a church that's divided against itself.
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He's got a church that's divided against itself, and the people within the church have assumed for themselves cliques and these cliques have assigned for themselves leaders.
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Some of them are saying I'm of Paul.
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Paul founded the church at Corinth.
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So some are saying I'm with the founder of the church, and some are saying I'm with Apollos.
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Apollos was the pastor.
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He was the one who brought a voice and growth in the church.
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Remember Paul said I planted, but Apollos watered.
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He brought the growth in the church, and some people are associating themselves with him.
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Some people are associating themselves with Peter, the great Jewish connection of the faith, the one who connected them to their ancient roots.
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And some are connecting themselves with Jesus and saying, oh, I'm of Jesus, and by extension saying you're not.
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So Paul sees this division.
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He sees this disunity in the church, and he calls them to repentance.
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He calls them to change.
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He says, I appeal to you, brothers, verse 10.
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He says, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree that there be no divisions among you.
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And then down in verse 17, he says, for Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
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In this verse, verse 17, he's launching into a new argument, but it's still tied to the last one.
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We can't forget that context remains in this passage.
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In the context of 1 Corinthians 1 through 4, actually the first four chapters, is disunity in the church, division in the church.
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That's the foundational context.
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And so verse 18, Paul says this.
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He says, for the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.
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Beloved, here's the thesis of the next section of the text.
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It's very simple.
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The cross divides us from the world, but the cross should unite us together as a church.
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The cross divides from the world, but it should unite the church.
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That's a simple thesis, but that's the whole focus of the next several verses.
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And really the issue is this.
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Paul is coming to a group of people who are divided by all kinds of things.
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And we're going to see through 1 Corinthians, we're going to find out people are divided by their financial situation.
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We're going to see that people are divided by how they view traditions of Judaism, and whether you should eat the meat, or whether you shouldn't eat the meat, all these things.
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There's all these divisions.
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And Paul is saying, look, you're finding all kinds of reasons to divide.
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You need to find the one reason that unites you together.
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That's Christ.
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And you need to work on your unity rather than your division.
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And where do you find your unity? You find it at the foot of the cross.
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So let's begin with verse 18 and we're going to walk our way down.
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And I'm going to say this.
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I know I often have long introductions and I often get caught up on the first few verses.
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If I don't make it all the way to verse 31, we'll pick it up next week.
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But the verse 18 is the heart of it.
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Verse 18 is the thesis verse for the next several lines.
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Because he says, for the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing.
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Now that's not even the whole verse.
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That's just half.
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But let's look at just that.
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What does he mean when he says the word of the cross? Well, beloved, I think that when he says the word of the cross, that that includes the entire message of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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And thus, I would argue that when he says the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, I think you could also say the gospel is folly to those who are perishing.
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When we go out to do our fishing hole, we have a big long sign and on that sign is etched, do you understand the gospel? The reason why we have that big sign that hangs up above our heads while we're talking to people when we go out to witness is because I have to tell you, most people don't understand the gospel.
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Even people who have been in church for years.
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I've gone to people who've been in church 10, 15, 20 years and I say, can you explain the gospel to me? No.
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The gospel includes man's predicament and sin.
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Most people don't understand the depths of that predicament.
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The gospel includes the wrath of God, which is aimed at the sinner.
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Most people deny that today, that that's even a reality.
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The gospel includes God's plan to send his son as a sin bearing substitute.
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People don't even understand the concept of substitutionary atonement.
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The gospel includes the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and faith in all of the truth of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
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And there are people who call themselves Christians that deny the resurrection.
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The word of the cross is the gospel and the gospel is folly to those who are perishing.
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In fact, the word here in the Greek, the underlying word for folly is Moria, not Maria like the name, but Moria.
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Moria is the tense of morose.
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Morose is the word that would later be used and transliterated into English as moron.
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It's the idea of something that's ridiculous, something that's ignorant, something that's stupid, something that's contemptible.
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You know what a moron is.
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And if you use the word moron, don't point fingers.
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That's not nice.
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But you know what moron means.
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Paul says here the word of the cross is moronic to those who are perishing.
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One of the earliest inscriptions of anything that we have to do with Christianity that's outside of scripture is found in Rome.
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And it's an inscription of a man bowing down to a cross and it's carved into stone.
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On the cross is a man with the head of a donkey.
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And underneath the inscription is written the words, Alexa Menos, that's the name of the worshiper, worships his God.
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Alexa Menos worships his God.
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The idea behind the inscription is that when in the first century the Romans saw those who bowed down to the cross, those who worshipped the one on the cross were tantamount to worshipping a donkey.
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That's how the world saw the cross in the first century.
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Beloved, it's no different today.
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To worship Christ in the eyes of many is to worship stupidity.
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The gospel message is foolish, folly, moronic, stupid, ignorant, ridiculous, to the one who is perishing.
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But, Paul says, to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.
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To us who are being saved.
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Now that's an interesting way of speaking because often times we talk about salvation in the past tense and it is true.
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There's nothing wrong with talking about salvation as something that happened in our lives and Paul talks about this like in Romans 5, 1, Therefore having been justified by faith we have peace with God.
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He talks about something that happened in the past.
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We have been justified by faith.
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So there's a past tense action and there is a reality when we talk about the fact that we have been saved.
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But we are also being saved and we will also will be saved.
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We are being saved right now.
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Christ is forever living to make intercession for us right now.
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Let me ask you a question.
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Since your salvation, if you are saved, have you lived absolutely perfect before the Lord? Aren't you glad you have a mediator every day? That's what Christ is.
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He is.
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He ever lives to make intercession for us every day.
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And so this, this, this passage reminds us, those of us who are being saved, the word of the cross or the gospel is the power of God.
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It's what we live on.
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It's what we live for.
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Paul says in Romans 1, 16, Brother Mike read it this morning.
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There's a lot of Mike's here.
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I'm sorry.
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The other Mike.
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For I am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes to the Jew first and also to the Greek for in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written, the just shall live by faith.
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That's the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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It is the power of God to the world.
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It's foolishness to the world.
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It's ignorance to the world.
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It's stupidity.
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But to you who are being saved, it is the power of God.
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And you know, that's why the world hates it so much.
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And that's why the world thinks it's so foolish.
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Because in the gospel message, there is a message of exclusivity.
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Because the gospel message says this, the gospel message says you are either in Christ or you're lost and dead in your sins.
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You're either in Christ or you are lost.
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And the world can't have that.
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See, in ancient Roman culture and ancient Greek culture, you could have several different gods, each one that's going to save you in a different way.
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If you were going out to sea, you'd worship Poseidon and ensure that Poseidon was going to save you.
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If you were experiencing some kind of lust or something, you'd go after Aphrodite would help you and encourage you in that.
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And there were all these different goddesses and gods who would be there for you.
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But in the Bible, in Christianity, there is one God and there is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.
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And the world cannot stand that type of exclusivity.
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In fact, Oprah Winfrey, who this week made a name for herself because apparently now there's some talk of running for president, a few years ago was on her television program with a group of women and they were discussing the subject of spirituality.
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In that discussion, Oprah said, there are millions of ways to reach God.
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There's millions of ways to reach what some people would call the light.
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And one of the ladies in the audience, God bless this woman, I have no idea who she is, but one of the ladies in the audience said, no, there is only one way and that way is Jesus Christ.
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And Oprah looked her right in the face and said, he can't be the only way.
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He can't be the only way.
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The word of the cross, the exclusivity of the gospel is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it's the power of God.
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Now at verse 19 and following, Paul's going to address a distinction between believers and unbelievers in the area of wisdom.
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And I want to move into this and I don't know how far we're going to get, but I want to show you something here because this follows the thought and process of verse 18.
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As he says in verse 19, he quotes Isaiah 29, 13 and 14.
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He quotes and he says, for it is written, anytime you see that in the New Testament, it is written, it's referring to a passage in the Old Testament, for it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the discernment of the discerning, I will thwart.
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This is God saying something very simple that we all need to realize.
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No one is saved and no one is brought to salvation by cleverness or by human wisdom.
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And then he asks this question, where is the one who is wise? Where's the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the wise? Paul's asking the question, where is the wise man? Where's the debater? Where's the scribe? The scribes were the intellectuals.
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They were the ones whose job it was to copy the scripture and they were very educated when it came to language and so they were the educated ones.
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Paul's saying, where's the educated ones among you? Where is the scribe? Where's the debater? Where's the philosopher? Look around you.
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The word of the cross is not something that is going to appeal to the intellectually elite.
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As R.C.
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Sproul said one time, that man yelled out at him when he was preaching, that's primitive and obscene.
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And R.C.
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said, you're right.
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It's primitive and obscene.
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To the world, it's foolishness.
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Very quickly, just look, we're looking at verse 20.
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Jump down to verse 26.
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He says, for consider your calling, brothers.
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Not many of you were wise according to worldly standards.
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Not many of you were powerful.
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Not many of you were of noble birth.
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But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise.
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Now I want to say this and I want to clarify this very quickly.
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Paul is not saying that everyone in the Corinthian church was an imbecile.
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Neither would I claim that everyone here is an imbecile.
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I wouldn't say anyone is an imbecile.
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He's not saying that we're all ignorant, that we're all imbecilic.
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But I want you to think about how the world sees the church and how the world sees believers.
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Isn't it true that it's almost as quick when you talk to an unbeliever, when you tell them that you're a believer, that they'll almost deduct 20 IQ points just for you saying that? Paul's not saying that the Corinthians were stupid.
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He's not saying that they were ignorant people.
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He was saying that not many of them were philosophers by trade.
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Not many of them were scribes by trade.
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Notice he didn't say not any.
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He said not many.
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Because I think there were those in the church.
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I think they had philosophers.
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We know when Paul went to Mars Hill, it said some believed among the philosophers.
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So it says not many.
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He didn't say not any.
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But his point is this.
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Even though there are those among the church, there are those within the church who are intellectually astute and intellectually very smart people, even though those people exist to the world, they are fools because they believe the gospel.
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Think about it like that.
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I sat and made a list this week.
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I was thinking about there are some people in the church that are brilliant.
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I mean just absolutely brilliant.
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They're men like scholars like Al Mohler and James White.
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Scientists like Jason Lyle and Jonathan Sarfatti.
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Theologians like Cornelius Van Til and R.C.
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Sproul.
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Preachers like John MacArthur and Vadi Bakum.
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Some of the greatest intellectuals in the history of the world have been Christians.
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Jonathan Edwards, John Calvin, Aurelius Augustine, Thomas Aquinas.
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The church has not been devoid of brilliance.
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But as brilliant as these men are, the world sees them as fools.
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You realize John Calvin wrote the Institutes of the Christian Religion before he was 26 years old.
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He wrote it with a quill pen, an ink he had probably distilled himself.
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He was a genius.
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But the world saw him as a fool because of the gospel.
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To this day, English classes read Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
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One of the greatest sermons ever preached in the history of America was used by God to spark the fire of the Great Awakening.
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And they read it in a mocking way to say, look how foolish our early American people actually believed in hell.
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And they believed in a God who was angry over sin.
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Oh, how primitive.
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One blogger wrote this about Jonathan Edwards.
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Quote, If Jonathan Edwards were to preach today, I feel like he would turn many people away with his harsh words and horrible images of God throwing everyone into hell.
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The blogger is probably not wrong.
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He would turn people away.
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He'd be thought a fool.
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When Paul says, where's the scribe? Where's the debater? Where's the philosopher? He's not saying that people like this don't exist.
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What he's saying is that they're disregarded by the world because the world wants wisdom apart from the gospel.
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The world wants wisdom apart from the word of God.
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The world wants wisdom that's in contradiction to the word of God.
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This is why in verse 21 it says, For since in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom.
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It pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
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I love that passage because I want to point something out to you.
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He's not saying that what we preach is foolish in the sense that it's not true.
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What he's saying is that even though the world hears a foolish message from a foolish man, God still uses that to save people.
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Even though the world hears folly from a foolish man, God uses that.
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Why did you get saved? I'm going to jump ahead of myself a little bit because in this passage he's going to talk about this.
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He talks about it later.
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He talks about the fact that God saves us by a calling.
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Look with me down a little further.
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He talks about the fact that for Jews demand signs, Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ is crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews, folly to the Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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Do you know why you believed in the gospel? Because God opened your heart to believe the gospel.
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The reason why you believe the gospel is not because you were smarter than someone else.
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It wasn't because you were better than someone else.
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It wasn't because your mind was more enlightened than someone else.
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It wasn't because you grew up in a Christian home.
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Let me tell you something, people grow up in Christian homes and go out and live like the devil and some people grow up in homes that aren't Christian like my wife who they never went to church, never loved Jesus, never loved anything and now she is one of the, I love my wife and she loves the Lord, but not because it was force fed into her as a child, but because God called her to be saved.
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And God opened her heart to be saved.
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This is why somebody can grow up in the Bible belt and bust hell wide open and somebody can grow up in Afghanistan and hear the gospel and be saved.
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Because the gospel is the power of God and salvation to everyone who believes and they believe because God opened their heart to believe.
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Beloved, that's the beauty of this.
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That's why it's not about wisdom.
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That's why it's not about intellect.
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That's why it's not about creating some sales pitch that gets people to believe, but all we have to do is proclaim the gospel and God will open the hearts and people will believe.
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Beloved, this section is so vital because this section reminds us, it reminds us that there is something that divides us from the world and that's the cross.
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But that same cross that divides us from the world unites us together in a reminder of one simple truth.
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You are here and God has saved you because he chose to.
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He loves you and he did it on his own accord and he did it on his own and he drew you in to salvation.
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John MacArthur talked about this in a message on the same passage.
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He talked about the fact, he says, you know what, it wasn't evidence that brought me to Jesus.
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It wasn't the weighing of the truth claims of the Bible versus the atheist truth claims or any of these other claims.
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It wasn't that that brought me to Jesus.
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It was God opened my heart to the truth.
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And now when I look at evidence, is those all back up? What I already know is true.
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And again, I want to start drawing to a close.
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Paul's concern again is for the disunity which has arisen in Corinth.
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The people are divided by self-righteous pride.
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They're aligning themselves with certain teachers.
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They're aligning themselves with cliques in the church and Paul's solution to them is very simple, to remind them of their unity in Christ and to remind them that if you are in Christ, you are divided from the world.
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If you are in Christ, you have been severed from the world.
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You will never be one that the world calls wise.
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You will never be one that the world calls strong.
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You will never be one that the world calls one of the elite.
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The closer you get to Christ, the further you will get from the world because to the world our message is unbelievable and our people are unremarkable.
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If you are in Christ, if you are being saved, you've got a message that can unite you as a body.
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In Christ, there is true unity.
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In Christ, there is true family.
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In Christ, there is true solidarity.
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In Christ, at the foot of the cross is where unity really matters.
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Let's pray.
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Father, I thank you for your word.
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I thank you for the unity that comes with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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I thank you for the message of this passage and I thank you as we continue to look at it in the weeks to come and we see the division that we have with the world, but the unity that we have in Christ, that we would see the blessing and the power of knowing that, Lord, we have in the cross something that binds all of our hearts together.
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We may have minor differences on secondary matters, but we have a cross that unites us.
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Lord, help us to cling ever more tightly to that cross.
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Help us to cling to the unity that comes in that cross.
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Help us to tighten ourselves together under the banner of that cross.
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And I pray, Lord, for those who are not in Christ, who are not under the banner of that cross, that today that they have heard the message that salvation comes and no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved than that of Jesus Christ.
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And it's in his name we pray.
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Amen.
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Let's stand and sing and prepare our hearts for communion.