046: John Martin – Exhortation: Spiritual Mindedness

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Today’s class is titled
spiritual mindedness and it’s an

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excitation by Brother.
John Martin.

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It is the third class in a
series that he gave at a study

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weekend on First Corinthians and
this class focuses somewhat on

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chapter 2.
I have been listening to a few

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John Martin series because just
to be totally honest had heard

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His Name a bunch of times but
have never seen him in person or

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actually even listen to a class
until Started the show and it’s

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been kind of a project we
started this podcast when we

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started this podcast.
I thought well, we’ll find a

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John Martin class and I’ve
listening to a bunch and this is

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a basically the best one I found
so far, but I really feel like I

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must be maybe I’m missing
something.

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So I’m kind of making a special
call if anyone has a John Martin

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series or class that they really
enjoy I’d love to hear it.

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But this class was very
interesting he He builds up to

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this first question, which I
think is a challenging question.

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How much of our Bible reading
and study is is revealed to us

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by God.
So obviously we read and have

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our own effort in our reading in
our study and in our prayers and

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you know, he says that nothing,
you know that God reveals

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information to us.
It’s different than you know,

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the accumulation of knowledge.
It’s a revelation in a way and

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So he uses a lot of different a
lot of different terms as you’ll

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see in that subject, but I find
that really interesting just

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it’s hard for us hard for me to
grasp.

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You know, this this relationship
that we get with our God through

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the reading of a Bible.
I don’t I don’t I don’t clumsy

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now with the words.
I don’t know how to define that

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and but I but I but I really
enjoyed brother John’s

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discussion around it found this
class.

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Just all in all very helpful to
to remember to think You know to

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control our thinking and have
spiritual mindful Thoughts with

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a what you know with a
recognition of who we are and in

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our relationship with our father
and his son.

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So this was a this was very good
class his tone is you know

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famous John essentially Chris
Delphine famous.

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He’s a he has he uses a lot of
volume up and down and a lot of

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essentially, you know yelling
and but I really Enjoy it.

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It was very easy to listen to
and I found this class very

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encouraging again.
Would love to hear specifically

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John Martin suggestions.
I want to go ahead and before we

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get to the class make another
plug for Sam’s podcast pause to

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consider as well as another
class or podcast Discerning

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daughters by sister Rachel
Cheatham that’s been a it’s been

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excellent and been encouraging
her to keep posting and would

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love to share that with Anyone
interested in kind of

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specifically studies for four
sisters, and now that Discerning

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daughters podcast so look both
of those up again, John Martin

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suggestions, but any class
suggestion Chris and I really

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really live off those.
It’s a this is what we imagined

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when we started the show that we
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everyone involved to share
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particularly encouraging and
good talks.

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So here it is. spiritual
mindedness by Brother John

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Martin today’s class is how did
you manage to exhort us this

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morning?
Why should we take it from 1st

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Corinthians chapter 2 on
spiritual mindedness Brother

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John. my beloved brothers and
sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ

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We may be continuing her studies
brothers and sisters this

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morning, but of course you are
all I suppose very acutely aware

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that the character of this
meeting is quite different than

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our normal study class has the
responsibility brothers and

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sisters for the successful
carrying through of this meeting

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devolves.
Not upon me particularly, but

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upon all of us together.
Because we all have two shortly

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partake of those emblems and to
examine ourselves in the light

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of the great example of our Lord
Jesus Christ. as our brother

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chairman reminded us that he
very theme of this the first

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four chapters of the Corinthians
is in verse 10 of chapter 1

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where the Apostle in the very
name of our Lord Jesus Christ

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whom had come to remember this
morning besiegers us that we all

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be perfectly joined together in
the same mind and in the same

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judgment, And then exhortation
brothers and sisters was

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necessary because they were not
joined in the same mind and in

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the same judgment.
And I wanted to reiterate a

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little what we said concerning
chapter 1 and to show you the

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beautiful theme that flows
through into chapter 2 and then

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of course on words from there.
The we might pick up the threads

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of this thinking because there
is a consecutive teaching here

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brothers and sisters, which if
we miss that we are the poorer

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for the wonders of which on
which the Apostle has to say

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concerning this matter of
spiritual mindedness as we saw

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this profess problem, which he
deals with in the epistle to the

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Corinthians arose because of the
party factions are developed.

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As the Ecclesia lined up behind
the various leaders of that

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Ecclesia.
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sisters because the character of
the Corinthians as we said was

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that not many mighty or many
noble had been called to the

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truth.
In the mind, these people had

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been dragged up out of the
gutters of humanity and elevated

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into a great and a wonderful
status in Christ.

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Jesus their Lord, but people who
come from that type of Life

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suddenly into the blaze of the
light of the Gospel truth and a

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higher things can all together
handle that situation and

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because they were now students
of the Bible they had an

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elevated form of thinking and
because they were so on Custom

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to that because they felt
themselves.

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So inexperienced and weak and
despised of this world.

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They began to admire wisdom for
its own sake and that is a

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tragic mistake.
They began to admire teachers

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for their sheer ability.
And they saw in those teachers

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all that.
They themselves felt they could

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never be and in their admiration
for men’s ability in their

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worship of intellect for its own
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It was inevitable that they
would line up behind those

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particular teachers whom they
admired Above All Else.

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And so the Caribbean Ecclesia
came divided not because of the

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teachers Paul.
Apollo’s cephas or of Christ.

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None of those men were
responsible for that division.

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The route these responsibilities
brothers and sisters for that

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division rested squarely upon
the shoulders of the foolish

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audience. because of the way in
which they had come to worship

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intellect for its own sake and
had not see the great necessity

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for the work of God to be
something very personal and

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individual for them.
Never mind about their party.

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And so there was their problem.
And so briefly running through

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chapter 1 Paul points out.
First of all in those first 10

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verses as he repeats the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ that their

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brothers and sisters was the
greatest of all names and that

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that was the one who is they all
had to become identified and

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even the Christ party was wrong
as we pointed out because their

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attitude was that because they
followed Christ and not other

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men.
They implied that nobody else

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followed Christ.
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in their head where they thought
that they were right above all

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others.
They had made it a vision in

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their thinking because we are of
Christ and you’re not and they

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immediately divided themselves
from others.

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So even the Christ party was
wrong in that matter.

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Paul goes on to tell them.
That they worshipped intellect

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for its own sake.
But the intellect of this world

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counted the gospel message,
which was preached to them

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foolishness.
For who could ever believe?

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In the Greek philosophies in the
story hero worship, which they

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had all their great poets
philosophers and heroes who

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could ever believe in this world
that a man who would uphold the

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Dignity of man as Greek
philosophy always did could ever

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believe that the greatest of all
men would voluntarily submit to

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a criminal’s death that he might
be depict to all Humanity that

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there is no such thing as the
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Paul says it doesn’t it’s only
those people who perish who

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seeing that cross foolishness.
And as far as the Jew was

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concerned who of course was ever
looking for an exhibition of

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God’s power.
He saw nothing powerful in a mad

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submitting to death rather.
He saw the in that capitulation

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and weakness.
And so the intellect which they

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worshipped.
The Personalities in and out of

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the truth, which they saw as
being the sparkling thing in

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life.
That’s sort of intellect

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brothers and sisters didn’t see
the truth of the Gospel at all.

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And he pointed out it was only
those who are saved who saw in

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the atonement God’s Supreme
wisdom a marvelous wisdom and

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who saw him the crucifixion of
Flesh a power above flesh.

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A power enabling that man to
overcome all the Temptations of

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his body up our brothers and
sisters incomprehensible to the

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Jew.
And Paul went on to tell them.

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That they were thinking in
opposition to God.

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As well as they admired
intellect for its own sake and

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followed personalities God’s
attitude was quite different.

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And the proof of that was
themselves.

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Very where the living proof of
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Paul says poor look around.
You meeting did God choose the

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intelligence he of this world
because he felt that’s what he

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needed.
Did God choose the noble the

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Highborn people with status?
Because that would Elevate him

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on.
Oh, look at yourselves.

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God hath chosen three times.
He said God has chosen God hath

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chosen.
God has chosen you and you’re

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not many might or not many noble
but God has chosen the weak and

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the base things of the world
says the Apostle what for?

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To further his purpose that men
and women might come to believe

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and in believing might exhibit
to others that no flesh.

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Would glory in his presence and
he went on in a grand sweep

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residence sisters to point out
that God was the founder of all

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wisdom and power.
But that wisdom and power became

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manifested in Jesus Christ, and
it belonged to all those

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Corinthians who are in Christ
and the wisdom and power only

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belong to them as long as they
lost their own personal status

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and their identity and merged
into him who of God.

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What’s made those four things?
Which are beyond the power of

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humankind to achieve?
What if Jesus Christ was wise

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God made himself if he was
righteous and he was then it was

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God’s righteousness.
And if the man’s life was

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Sanctified and holy and above
others, it was because of the

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influence of God that created
that in him and if they couldn’t

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believe that Jesus Christ was of
God wisdom righteousness and

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sanctification.
Well, they had to believe that

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Jesus Christ was of God
Redemption because he was dead

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when God raised him out of that
tomb as though there were the

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things that were accomplished at
our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Clear your work of God and had
nothing whatever to do with his

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human intellect all his ability.
That’s Paul’s point.

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Now brothers and sisters that
begs the question.

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And I must be perhaps in a lot
of people’s minds already and if

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we went on explaining these
matters to you, it wouldn’t be

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long.
I don’t doubt for every brother

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and sister in this meeting would
think the same question?

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It’s a question with you always
comes up and the things we’ve

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got to say this morning when the
First Corinthians 2, you’re not

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going to believe immediately.
Because they are hard to be

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understood not so much in the
details of it but to grasp the

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significance of it because it is
against all human reason and the

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question that you want me to
answer that.

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I want Paul to answer is this
well if what you’re saying is

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true.
He’ll come.

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That I we who have no ability
who haven’t got the ability to

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grasp the truth.
If we can’t follow others if we

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got listen to lead as if we
can’t form an opinion on that

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basis.
Where does that leave us?

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Well, my beloved brothers and
sisters the answer of the

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Apostle Paul is this that there
is no man or woman in Christ who

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hasn’t got the ability to
understand that Bible.

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Because you see it’s got nothing
whatever to do.

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With your ability or your
intellect that’s got nothing

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whatever to do with it.
And Paul’s down only explain to

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them.
It’s not a question of what I

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can find out.
It’s a question of what God will

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reveal to me.
And that will depend brother and

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sisters very largely entirely
upon my attitude to that word

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and to God.
All repeat that because that’s

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the absolute essence of this
chapter.

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It is not a question as to how
brilliant we are as to what we

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can get out of that Bible.
It’s a question as to how much

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God is prepared to reveal to us.
And that will vary largely to

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pit.
Upon Our attitude of that book

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and to God that’s against all
human reason.

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It’s against all human logic,
but it’s absolutely true.

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And the proof of it is this
chapter?

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And this is how Paul puts it
before them?

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Did they think he had wisdom?
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Apostle and say yes, he’s got
wisdom.

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Did I think that he can set
forth the truth powerfully,

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which he could the answer those
questions was yes.

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Well, this is Paul have a look
at me.

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What have I done according to my
ability for when I came to you?

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I didn’t come with the
Excellency of speech or of

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wisdom declaring unto you the
testimony of God.

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I didn’t do it.
I didn’t come with flowery

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rhetoric.
So it wasn’t my ability to speak

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they said his speech was
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It wasn’t a good speaker at all.
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with the wisdom that was wrapped
around and around and around

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with philosophy.
It didn’t so the fact that a

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better laws, of course that Paul
was none of those things which I

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admired and yet they knew he was
an apostle of God.

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When he came he says everything
that I said.

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Was underscored what they
believe that Jesus Christ was a

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crucified man.
I determined to know nothing

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among you except Jesus Christ
and him crucified so that

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whenever Paul put forth the
truth rather than sisters.

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He was always very careful not
to project himself into the

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audience.
He kept himself under control

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and everything that he said was
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Jesus Christ crucified the flesh
if Paul’s should fall into the

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Trap of projecting himself into
the audience and elevating

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himself before them that Flying
in the face of the doctrine of

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the Cross and the very wild
putting out with the truth as

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well as it might have been done
was a very denial at the Spirit

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of it.
So Paul says I never ever

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displayed by personal
characteristics and abilities to

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you.
I crucified them.

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And was he confident as they
love confidence?

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Was he one of those men brothers
and sisters whose wisdom was so

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sure.
That he spoke with such elegance

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and determination and certainty
that they saw it him one who was

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so well educated.
That they being so

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poverty-stricken in knowledge.
He was able to talk down to

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everybody.
He says I came to you. in

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weakness I was frightened.
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That’s Paul talking to him.
What kind of witness he said?

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a scared Shaking All Over that’s
how he turned up in the

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equation.
That’s not what they had by

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Brethren and sisters and they
would have been those among them

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who hated him for saying it.
But they would have seen in

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that.
But Paul was degrading himself

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unnecessarily, but it wasn’t
right for such a great man as he

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to speak like that because he
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They should be very careful what
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Because carrying on like that he
could Rob people of their

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confidence I had in him, but he
couldn’t care less what

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confidence they had in here.
He told them very frankly and

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very openly about himself
because he was trying to

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illustrate the doctor that he
was teaching that has got

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nothing whatever to do with
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He went on to say that my speech
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Was not in the enticing words of
wisdom leave out the word man’s

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because it’s not in the
original.

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Not in the with enticing words
of wisdom, but in the

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demonstration of the spirit and
of power.

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So he didn’t wrap his Doctrine
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He spoke the word of God and he
displayed that residences as for

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what it was simple but profound
and tremendously powerful to

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change the lives of men and
women and so the apostle was

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able to put before them there
for those matters the very proof

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of his Doctrine was the way in
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And if they worship intellect or
intellect site that he was a

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failure.
If they worship the strength of

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personality and personal
ability, then he was a

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disappointment.
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displayed in his life.
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words of wisdom.
That is the wisdom that they

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wanted but now brother and
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He’s going to tell them that
there is a brand of wisdom which

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he did come with because you see
the gospel has its own brand of

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wisdom.
There’s A peculiar brand of

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wisdom about the gospel that
only you and I understand and

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the world out there they can’t
even understand it the

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professors are all over the
city.

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All of the teachers of science
president sisters all the

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Intelligencer of Melbourne the
commercial Centre of Australia

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can understand what you
understand.

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They haven’t got a clue about
it.

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And if you hadn’t told him it
would be over their heads

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because it’s a brand of wisdom
that has the brand about of its

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peculiarities that they don’t
know anything about.

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Because it’s not something that
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It’s something that God reveals.
And therein lies The Secret of

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it.
So taking up verse 4 again and

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reading through the verse 5,
you’ll see the play on words

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here that the Apostle is using.
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was not with enticing words of
wisdom, but in the demonstration

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of the spirit and of power that
your faith should not stand in

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the wisdom of men but in the
power of God howbeit, we do

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speak wisdom.
This is a different wisdom that

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so he didn’t come in the flowery
words of wisdom so cold but he

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said I want you to understand
this that there is a wisdom that

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we do speak but as the brand of
wisdom, which is absolutely

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opposed to that one.
And it’s a waste of his goes on

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to say brothers and sisters in
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He said that we can only speak
among them that are perfect.

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No good talking this sort of
wisdom to any other class of

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people then the mature.
Because they’ll just look at you

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with open mouth as if you’re a
lunatic.

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They won’t understand what
you’re talking about.

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The word perfect, of course
Kelly asked means mature people

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who have able to grasp the
things of God and he said I can

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only speak this wisdom to that
class of people.

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What about the intelligence of
the world huh?

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Useless he says which none of
the princes of this world you In

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verse 6.
He says we had the wisdom of

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this world which nor the prince
of this world which come to

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North so that those who
constituted the wisdom of this

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world.
That is the Greek philosopher

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and the princes of this world
the Jewish leaders because that

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is a title, you know, which
belongs to them in the 14th

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chapter of John.
Jesus said the prince of this

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world cometh, and he was
referring to those Jewish

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leaders who came to take him and
so the Jewish intelligencia the

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Gentile Inteligencia, none of
them understood.

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It says the Apostle it was way
over their head.

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And he went on to say in verse
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But we speak the wisdom of God
in a mystery.

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You know president sisters what
he said that.

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Of course, that would tickle the
Corinthian ear they love

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mysteries.
That’s what they were all

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hankering after they would love
it for brother got up there and

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he spoke in a philosophical way
and wrapped up the principles of

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the truth in ever so much
difficult language weaving his

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way through the Labyrinth of
human intellect, and that’ll be

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struggling to follow him and
wouldn’t probably understand a

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night to what he said, but they
turn to each other and say that

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was brilliant.
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I’m going to tell you another
mystery.

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But it wasn’t a mystery
president sisters, which was

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wrapped in those sort of
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It was a very simple mystery.
The answer to which was not the

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concentration of the human mind
upon the Devil he’s of eloquent

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speech.
It was just simply.

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Of coming the ear to the voice
of God and he would whisper the

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answer straight into your ear.
Nothing very difficult about

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that. all it took was a
childlike Simplicity a childlike

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simplicity. a deep love of God
and a burning desire to know

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what he said and when the Eddie
was cocked in that attitude.

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God said straight into the
exactly what he meant and it

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didn’t take any Einstein to
understand.

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And that’s Paul’s Doctrine.
It was that which was revealed.

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I thank thee father said the
Lord Jesus Christ, but that was

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hidden these things from the
wise and prudent and Hast

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revealed them unto babies.
And Paul went on to talk about

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this wisdom.
It was a hidden wisdom because

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it was hidden from the wise and
prudent and are we going to say

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three things about that wisdom
brothers and sisters?

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What about that wisdom that God
had hidden but now was revealed

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to them if they wanted it to be
revealed to them.

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There are three things that he
wanted to say about and that is

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this one.
It didn’t originate. from any

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philosophy of man that’s in the
seven. 2 and verse 8 the Jewish

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rulers whom they admired didn’t
understand it.

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And three from verses 9 to 14,
it can only be understood by a

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certain class of people.
I’ll take the first point.

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The hidden wisdom of God, which
have been revealed through the

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gospel didn’t originate with
man’s philosophy verse 7, but we

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speak the wisdom of God in a
mystery.

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Even the hidden wisdom which God
ordained before the Ice Age unto

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our Glory.
Now the reason he said that was

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because in Greek philosophy
brothers and sisters, they

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always went back and trace the
history of that philosophy to

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one of the founding fathers who
would come up with some are

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standing observation.
And in the words of rhetoric

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would put that in a phraseology
which would to them would

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capture the whole Spirit of that
truth so-called.

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And then from the foundation
statement of their Plato’s

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hypocrite, he Socrates and all
those wonderful philosophers who

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became the father of those
thoughts.

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So their students would we even
spin their theories?

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Stretching out that statement in
all the Wonder of human

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intellect.
Well said the Apostle this

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wisdom that I’m talking about to
you is traceable to none of

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those fathers.
It goes back before the Ice Age

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it goes back to God.
The origin of this wisdom

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resident sisters would be for
man himself.

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Beyond man before man, he knew
nothing about it was all

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invested in God so didn’t
originate with those

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philosophers.
And as for the Jewish rulers in

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verse 8 Which none of the
princes of this world knew?

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For had they known it.
They would not have crucified

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the Lord of Glory.
How logical is that?

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You know you want wisdom.
He said the cream that you are

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wisdom.
This is the logic of this.

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He said it’s a wisdom which the
Jewish rulers didn’t know proof.

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He won’t prove it never mind
about philosophy take the

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practical application of life,
you know brothers and sisters.

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The greatest exhibition of Truth
is in practicalities.

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And Paul told them in the in an
earlier words of his in Acts

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chapter 13 He says and the
Jewish rulers because they knew

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him not nor yet the voices of
the prophets, which I read every

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Sabbath day.
They have fulfilled them by

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condemning him.
And he’s painting the picture of

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the Jewish scribes and I’ve seen
them brothers and sisters even

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today.
They’re there with their glasses

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on the edge of their nose
pouring over the jumps and

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tittles of that law dissecting.
the Hebrew consonants in the

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points making certain it’s in
the right place interpreting

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exactly.
Checking it with us another

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Rabbi and another Rabbi over
here until a group of them.

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Check it all out numerically
valuing the words and they’re

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doing that every Sabbath day and
the brilliant Rabbi riding from

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the great Haze of his theory
stood up in the fullness of his

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glory and crucified the very one
that he was reading about.

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That’s where his wisdom got him.
Crucified the embodiment of the

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book.
Never mind about philosophies as

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the Apostle lookup
practicalities.

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For the rollers because they
knew him not nor yet the voice

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of the prophet of read every
Sabbath day. fulfilled them in

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crucifying the Lord That’s the
wisdom.

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He said which you admire.
incredible brother and sisters

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What about themselves?
Where does that leave them?

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They still feel helpless and
hopeless because they can’t

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00:31:58,200 –> 00:32:00,500
understand the Bible.
I can understand the Bible.

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But as it is written in verse 9
says the apostle.

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I have not seen.
Nor Ear heard neither has

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entered into the heart of man
the things which God has

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prepared for them that love him.
a quotation from the 64th

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00:32:21,500 –> 00:32:24,200
chapter of Isaiah brother and
sisters which on the surface

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00:32:24,200 –> 00:32:29,100
would seem to mean But all I
have not seen here at not heard

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the heart of man hasn’t
conceived the things which God

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has prepared.
It would seem to mean that when

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the kingdom comes it’ll beyond
their comprehension.

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It’s beyond their copy into the
wonders of the kingdom.

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Yes, I suppose that’s what it
does mean, but that’s not what

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Paul is quoting it for.
That’s not his point at all.

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He has his own use of that verse
and the key word is the one that

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I will emphasize.
And he says as it is written eye

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hath not seen.
Nor Ear heard neither has

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entered into the heart of man.
The things that God has prepared

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00:33:10,500 –> 00:33:15,500
for them that love him.
So we may have a piercing eye.

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A brother has come into the
truth.

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And he’s come from one of the
professions but perhaps it’s a

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professional man.
He has a lake long background of

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00:33:27,700 –> 00:33:31,200
University education.
He’s a Euro died individual

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whose shelves of his Lobby and
now filled with the works of the

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truth.
He speaks eloquently and uses

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big words and all the Brethren
stand back and they say this

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00:33:39,900 –> 00:33:42,700
brother is going to be a Marvel
he’s going to turn the world

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upside down with his background.
What do you think has been the

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00:33:46,600 –> 00:33:50,800
most brilliant guy in the world,
but he’ll say nothing if he

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doesn’t love God.
He may have an ear brothers and

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00:33:54,600 –> 00:33:58,800
sisters children to all the
diversity is of Ben’s words of

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00:33:58,800 –> 00:34:02,200
all the discernment of detail.
He may be able to hear things

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00:34:02,200 –> 00:34:06,200
that you and I can never hear,
but you’ll never ever hear God’s

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voice.
He doesn’t love me.

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And the wisdom of God went into
the heart of anyone whose heart

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is dominated by man.
Have you ever heard people talk

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about Pole?
You go to your lessons on the

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Apostle Paul.
And inevitably the teacher will

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talk teacher young that it was
Paul’s background that prepared

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him for the great work that he
had in Christ. brought over the

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feet of Gamaliel educated
amongst the great rabbis above

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00:34:41,600 –> 00:34:43,600
many of his equals cover the
class.

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And he’s Roman background.
His knowledge of Greek and all

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00:34:49,699 –> 00:34:52,100
the ways in which he picked up
things which swirled around

501
00:34:52,100 –> 00:34:54,600
about him fit in with a great
work of preaching.

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Do you know what Paul said about
that?

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00:34:57,300 –> 00:35:01,500
He classified all of that under
one category done.

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Is how he classified a lot of?
And he went around the world

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00:35:12,100 –> 00:35:16,400
teaching everybody.
That is so called brilliance.

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Was nothing more to him than a
hindrance. and that all he ever

507
00:35:23,200 –> 00:35:26,900
learned subsequent to his
baptism was because of the grace

508
00:35:26,900 –> 00:35:31,400
of God which revealed to him
that which he was absolutely

509
00:35:31,800 –> 00:35:36,800
ignorant of Show me a passage
contrary to that.

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It didn’t do him any good
brother and sisters it blinded

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him.
And if those were the things

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that were necessary to teach
pole the truth, then the light

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00:35:50,000 –> 00:35:53,100
out of Heaven that shot on the
ground and shown around him on

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00:35:53,100 –> 00:35:55,900
the way to Damascus was
superfluous.

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00:35:58,200 –> 00:35:59,900
But what that light did from
heaven?

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00:36:01,100 –> 00:36:06,300
was to Blind him and to
illustrate to him just how blind

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that he really was.
And as I said, he put all those

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things under one category, Dan.
You know, we want to read our

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00:36:17,000 –> 00:36:21,100
Bibles carefully.
The Apostle is wonderful as he

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00:36:21,100 –> 00:36:25,400
sets forth this Doctrine.
He pointed this out brother and

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00:36:25,400 –> 00:36:28,800
sisters as he sweeps on in his
Doctrine here.

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00:36:29,900 –> 00:36:34,700
In verse 10, but God hath
revealed them unto us by his

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spirit.
So it isn’t a question of human

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00:36:38,400 –> 00:36:40,200
intellect.
It’s a question of God’s

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00:36:40,200 –> 00:36:45,000
revelation.
A lot of people don’t comprehend

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00:36:45,000 –> 00:36:49,400
this in Isaiah’s gospel when
Isaiah pointed out that he would

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00:36:49,400 –> 00:36:53,000
send upon them to deep sleep and
close their eyes and in Isaiah 6

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00:36:53,000 –> 00:36:56,700
when he told them but they
wouldn’t understand the truth

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00:36:57,200 –> 00:36:59,500
either is not saying brother and
sisters.

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00:37:00,200 –> 00:37:03,300
He’s not saying in those
passages, but the Jew would

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00:37:03,300 –> 00:37:05,600
reach a point where he couldn’t
understand the word of God.

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00:37:05,700 –> 00:37:07,800
He’s telling them that they
would reach a point of history

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00:37:07,800 –> 00:37:10,700
when they wouldn’t be allowed to
understand the word of God.

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00:37:11,300 –> 00:37:18,100
Said Jesus lest they be healed.
List I be converted and I healed

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00:37:18,100 –> 00:37:22,700
them this baby.
And he deliberately spoke in

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00:37:22,700 –> 00:37:26,100
Parables knowing full.
Well, they wouldn’t comprehend

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00:37:26,100 –> 00:37:30,000
it because the prophecy of
Isaiah had reached that point of

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00:37:30,008 –> 00:37:33,400
their history when because of
their attitude towards God was

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00:37:33,400 –> 00:37:37,700
such that he refused to reveal
it to them and it wasn’t because

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00:37:37,700 –> 00:37:40,800
of their own lack of
understanding or their

541
00:37:40,800 –> 00:37:43,800
acquisition of their own
intellect that went one way or

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00:37:43,800 –> 00:37:47,000
the other was because God chose
not to tell them.

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00:37:48,000 –> 00:37:50,500
And these things which we know
brothers and sisters have been

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00:37:50,500 –> 00:37:54,800
revealed unto us.
And people say well, how is God

545
00:37:54,800 –> 00:37:58,400
revealed these things unto us?
They say well, I don’t

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00:37:58,400 –> 00:38:01,500
understand the truth.
I can’t do these things.

547
00:38:01,500 –> 00:38:03,800
I can’t pick up the Bible and
read it like other Brethren pick

548
00:38:03,800 –> 00:38:06,300
up the Bible.
I try and I can’t why?

549
00:38:08,000 –> 00:38:10,700
You know brother and sisters.
It’s all a question of attitude.

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00:38:12,300 –> 00:38:15,700
If what I’m saying is true, and
I don’t think anyone can gainsay

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00:38:15,700 –> 00:38:19,800
it if the Revelation comes from
God you tell me what difficulty

552
00:38:19,800 –> 00:38:22,900
there is.
I know this is difficult to

553
00:38:22,908 –> 00:38:26,000
accept your Human Experience is
all against it.

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00:38:26,300 –> 00:38:30,400
Your logic is against your own
life seems to be a denial of it,

555
00:38:30,400 –> 00:38:34,400
but then effects of scripture
whatever goal is to God to

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00:38:34,408 –> 00:38:37,900
reveal his truth to any of us.
The difficulty is are attitude.

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00:38:39,600 –> 00:38:42,000
You take for example.
He says he for them that love

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00:38:42,000 –> 00:38:44,800
him.
You stay in a group of brothers

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00:38:44,800 –> 00:38:48,700
and sisters.
You talk about the Bible and the

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00:38:48,700 –> 00:38:52,400
brother sets forth.
And he says well, I don’t know

561
00:38:52,400 –> 00:38:54,400
where you get all these things
from he says, you know when you

562
00:38:54,400 –> 00:38:56,900
open the Bible you talk about I
don’t see those things in it at

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00:38:56,900 –> 00:38:58,200
all.
He said I must be dense.

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00:38:58,300 –> 00:39:00,300
I don’t know I could never
understand those things.

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00:39:00,600 –> 00:39:03,400
I could never see that I would
never mind, but that sort of

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00:39:03,400 –> 00:39:07,100
data.
And the conversation Ebbs and

567
00:39:07,100 –> 00:39:09,800
flows.
And eventually it gets it off

568
00:39:09,800 –> 00:39:12,400
the Bible.
And it gets on to other

569
00:39:12,400 –> 00:39:22,200
subjects. motor cats and all of
a sudden that non compos mentis

570
00:39:22,200 –> 00:39:27,400
individual becomes a walking
encyclopedia on Motorcars.

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00:39:29,200 –> 00:39:36,300
And I’m out of my depth in NATO.
And he talks technicalities.

572
00:39:38,200 –> 00:39:41,300
Double Dutch to me I wouldn’t
have a clue what he’s talking

573
00:39:41,300 –> 00:39:47,400
about and he’s brilliant.
You listen to him change the

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00:39:47,400 –> 00:39:49,700
conversation.
Whatever takes your fancy.

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00:39:51,100 –> 00:39:55,300
Wherever a man’s Hardee’s.
And he’ll understand it Brethren

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00:39:55,300 –> 00:39:57,800
sisters.
Despite any disability.

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00:40:00,300 –> 00:40:06,900
Because he loves it.
And that’s an absolute truth of

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00:40:06,900 –> 00:40:09,700
a practical experience in I
think everyone’s life.

579
00:40:11,100 –> 00:40:17,500
We’re experts. in that which we
love and that’s very very true

580
00:40:17,500 –> 00:40:21,900
of the Bible.
This a difference that if we

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load the things of this world
and the wisdom of this world, we

582
00:40:25,200 –> 00:40:28,200
have to require it by our
ability.

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00:40:29,400 –> 00:40:33,800
But if we love the things of God
rather than sisters it is given

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By revelation of God’s word.
Look what he says. in verse 11

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For what man knoweth the things
of a man save the spirit of man,

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00:40:45,900 –> 00:40:51,000
which is in him.
Even so the things of God

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00:40:51,000 –> 00:40:56,500
knoweth no man, but the spirit
of God now we have received not

588
00:40:56,500 –> 00:41:00,600
the spirit of this world, but
the spirit which is of god that

589
00:41:00,600 –> 00:41:05,200
we might know the things that
are freely given us of God.

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00:41:06,000 –> 00:41:10,500
Now what he saying is this who
can ever know the things of a

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00:41:10,500 –> 00:41:14,200
man save the spirit of a man
that’s in him.

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00:41:14,200 –> 00:41:18,200
In other words.
I can understand perfectly

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00:41:19,500 –> 00:41:22,700
anything that is instinctive to
my nature to know.

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00:41:25,300 –> 00:41:30,700
If my buddy crave something.
If my ego craves something.

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00:41:31,900 –> 00:41:36,900
I know exactly what it is.
Because it’s in me.

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00:41:36,900 –> 00:41:41,400
It’s native to me.
I relate to it so easily and so

597
00:41:41,400 –> 00:41:46,400
well.
Well, the spirit which is of God

598
00:41:46,400 –> 00:41:51,600
is God.
God is Spirit Redmond sisters.

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00:41:53,600 –> 00:41:58,200
And we can only know the things
of God when we relate to God and

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00:41:58,200 –> 00:42:03,800
that is not native.
So whereas one Spirit of

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00:42:03,800 –> 00:42:09,400
understanding is native within
us the other has to be received

602
00:42:09,400 –> 00:42:14,900
of he who is freely giving it.
And I don’t relate naturally to

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00:42:14,900 –> 00:42:17,500
the things of God.
I’ve got to wait till it’s

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00:42:17,500 –> 00:42:21,600
given.
Does that mean therefore the God

605
00:42:21,600 –> 00:42:23,800
will reveal something to us
apart from the Bible?

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00:42:23,800 –> 00:42:28,600
He will not bring them sisters.
There’s no such thing as it got

607
00:42:28,600 –> 00:42:31,800
a spirit from God extraneous to
that book coming in our ear and

608
00:42:31,800 –> 00:42:34,200
saying that Bible means that
it’s not that what Paul is not

609
00:42:34,200 –> 00:42:38,500
talking about but you give your
you do this you make a practical

610
00:42:38,500 –> 00:42:41,400
example in your own life of this
and see whether this is not true

611
00:42:42,400 –> 00:42:45,300
what happens when we come to our
desks to study the Bible.

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00:42:47,000 –> 00:42:48,700
We haven’t got the ability
Brethren sisters.

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00:42:48,700 –> 00:42:52,300
I had absolutely no education in
this world couldn’t care less

614
00:42:52,300 –> 00:42:56,400
about that.
Well, I love that book, but I

615
00:42:56,400 –> 00:42:59,800
know this.
When I come home from work.

616
00:43:01,000 –> 00:43:03,800
And I find my way to my desk and
I sit down to that Bible.

617
00:43:04,600 –> 00:43:08,500
I expect in the first out of my
study to get absolutely nothing

618
00:43:08,500 –> 00:43:13,300
out of that ball.
Experience has taught me long

619
00:43:13,300 –> 00:43:16,500
ago never to be impatient about
that because I understand why.

620
00:43:18,300 –> 00:43:21,100
Because my mind has been taken
up all day with the mundane

621
00:43:21,100 –> 00:43:25,100
things of life.
Business, of course at work

622
00:43:26,100 –> 00:43:28,900
family worries and so on May
occupy your mind somewhat

623
00:43:30,000 –> 00:43:31,700
whatever.
It might be it’s not the things

624
00:43:31,700 –> 00:43:35,600
of God and you might have caused
is in the natural world and you

625
00:43:35,608 –> 00:43:38,500
relate ever so easily to that
because that’s part of you

626
00:43:38,500 –> 00:43:43,100
really We all understand that
when we come home.

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00:43:43,100 –> 00:43:45,700
That’s our frame of mind.
So we go and sit at the desk and

628
00:43:45,700 –> 00:43:49,500
we opened the Bible.
We fix our eyes upon that Bible.

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00:43:50,000 –> 00:43:52,900
They may be intelligent eyes.
We may have intelligent ears,

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00:43:53,300 –> 00:43:56,200
but that Bible Brethren and
sisters will be a foreign

631
00:43:56,200 –> 00:43:59,600
language to us for a
considerable time in that desk.

632
00:44:01,600 –> 00:44:03,500
And so we work our way around
that vibe.

633
00:44:04,900 –> 00:44:06,800
We do what we call mechanical
work.

634
00:44:08,000 –> 00:44:10,200
We look at Greek and Hebrew
words.

635
00:44:11,200 –> 00:44:15,800
We check this or we check that
which anybody can do and what we

636
00:44:15,800 –> 00:44:19,000
are doing is biding our time and
thinking about that Bible until

637
00:44:19,000 –> 00:44:24,200
gradually my thoughts are not
your thoughts as God, but

638
00:44:24,200 –> 00:44:28,700
gradually our thoughts Fade Away
into insignificance and pale

639
00:44:28,700 –> 00:44:33,000
into nothingness and gradually
the ideas of God come into that

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00:44:33,000 –> 00:44:37,000
vacuum.
And at last we can see what that

641
00:44:37,000 –> 00:44:40,200
Bible is.
Right because we have orientated

642
00:44:40,200 –> 00:44:44,800
to God away from ourselves and
Brethren sisters that happens

643
00:44:45,100 –> 00:44:50,100
with such repetition that is so
impressive to make that at the

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00:44:50,100 –> 00:44:53,100
end of that evening after having
spent several hours of that

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00:44:53,100 –> 00:44:57,100
Bible.
The last hour is absolutely

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00:44:57,100 –> 00:45:02,800
supre.
Because in the last hour the

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00:45:02,800 –> 00:45:07,200
productivity of our mind in that
book is enormous because we’ve

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00:45:07,200 –> 00:45:11,500
attached that mind to that
thinking to go to bed.

649
00:45:12,300 –> 00:45:17,000
We get up next day we go to work
the phone rings businesses on

650
00:45:17,000 –> 00:45:21,100
again the mundane things swirl
around us we go home have a cup

651
00:45:21,100 –> 00:45:25,400
of coffee we go into the den we
sit down and it’s a foreign

652
00:45:25,400 –> 00:45:30,100
language.
We got to sit there and work

653
00:45:30,100 –> 00:45:34,500
away at that quietly not
impatiently waiting and waiting

654
00:45:34,500 –> 00:45:38,400
checking out things gradually
sitting this out and that out

655
00:45:38,400 –> 00:45:41,000
until we find that our mind is
latching on the thoughts which

656
00:45:41,000 –> 00:45:46,600
are not natural to us in a way
we go again fact become the next

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00:45:46,600 –> 00:45:48,600
night.
It’s a foreign language.

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And that’s brothers and sisters
the rule of life and we are

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learning what Paul is telling us
who knows the things of a man

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save the spirit of man, which is
in him.

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He relates to it ever so
quickly.

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Well, there’s nobody ever going
to understand God’s words who

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will not give the time for God
to relate to them.

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Any brother or sister Whose
desire is to love God and to

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know him through his word will
give that time.

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And concentrate that attention
that finally that book will

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speak to them.
You know, it’s a wonderful thing

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brothers and sisters if we only
comprehended that now says the

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Apostle in verse 13 concerning
this wisdom, which things also

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we speak not in The Words, which
man’s Wisdom teacheth But which

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the Holy Spirit teacher?
comparing spiritual things with

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spiritual that is a key phrase.
You know, we’ve quote that verse

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and we say, oh that you know, we
study the Bible.

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We compare that verse with this
verse comparing spiritual things

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with spiritual.
That’s not what he’s saying at

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all.
It’s a good practice, but it’s

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not really what Paul’s saying
what he’s saying is this Which

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things also we speak not in The
Words which man’s Wisdom

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teacheth.
But which the Holy Spirit

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teacher teaching spiritual
things to spiritual people.

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You can only teach spiritual
things to spiritual people for

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he says the natural man
receiveth not the things of God

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and you take a witness president
Sisters.

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Jesus comes in conflict with the
brilliant Intelligentsia of the

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Jewish World My Parade up to
him.

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We be Abraham’s children.
If you were Abraham’s children,

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you do the works of Abraham.
We’ve been up for an account of

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born of fornication.
We’re Abraham’s sons.

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If you were Abraham’s sons you’d
believe me.

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And so the conversation went
backwards and forwards and they

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were on two different
wavelengths poles apart.

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They didn’t know what he was
talking about.

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And he said to them.
Why do you not understand my

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speech?
and he went on to tell him

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because you can’t it is
impossible.

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It they were brilliant men.
He says ye are of your father

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the devil anse and the lusts of
your father.

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Ye will do he was a murderer
from the beginning.

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He Abode not in the truth
because there was no truth in

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him.
See the explanation brother and

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sisters.
He Abode not in the truth.

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The reason there was never any
truth to abide in.

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And he was talking about a
snake.

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And that was the father of those
men and that snake at ground

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00:48:58,600 –> 00:49:01,900
level was reasoning according to
his animal intellect.

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God said if they touch that tree
they would sin against God.

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He didn’t know anything about
Sin.

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And all he could see was if they
did that and then they did that

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it would cancel out that so what
God Said really didn’t work out

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according to his logic.
But sin and morality ha it was

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way over his head.
It is the Lord Jesus Christ

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talking to a bunch of animals
reason.

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I know why you can’t understand
me visit I’m speaking as a man

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who understands God and you’re
at the level of a snake.

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And there’s no way that they
could understanding.

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They couldn’t abide in the truth
because I never ever knew it.

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And so the Apostle says I can
only speak spiritual things. to

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spiritual people And I am not
the intelligence hear of this

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world.
The natural thing man.

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He says in verse 14 receives not
the things of God.

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For they are foolishness unto
him neither can he know them

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because they are spiritually
discerned.

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But he that is spiritual
deserves all things.

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Yet he himself is discerned of
no man.

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Isn’t that true brothers and
sisters?

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We who are spiritual and we
claim to be spiritual do we not

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we’re here this morning to
partake of the emblems of we’re

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not spiritual.
What’s a good at doing that and

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if we claim to be spiritual we
know this that we deserve the

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things of God, but the people
out the world don’t understand

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is that we taught the truth to a
person at work later.

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Can you man We know he’s an
other worlds in the messages in

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we understand what’s in mean.
We understand our workmates, but

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they don’t understand us.
We look at them.

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We can understand perfectly why
they act like they do we make a

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study.
It was a years you’re acting

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characteristically.
God has told us what your life

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and you do exactly what God
says, but they haven’t got a

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00:51:05,500 –> 00:51:09,200
clue as to what you do.
They can’t understand and you in

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00:51:09,200 –> 00:51:12,600
any way shape or form they look
upon you and they say that kept

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00:51:12,600 –> 00:51:15,400
an enigma.
I can’t understand his way of

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00:51:15,400 –> 00:51:18,800
life and we look back at them.
We say, you know exactly what

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00:51:18,800 –> 00:51:22,400
you were doing.
Why do we know that because

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00:51:22,400 –> 00:51:25,900
God’s told us about that man.
He’s told us about ourselves.

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00:51:26,400 –> 00:51:29,600
He’s whispered an area that is
not in man that walketh to

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00:51:29,608 –> 00:51:32,400
direct his steps.
We’ve understood that.

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00:51:33,600 –> 00:51:36,900
We didn’t have to be Einstein to
know that God told us.

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00:51:38,600 –> 00:51:40,600
For who hath known the mind of
the Lord?

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00:51:41,700 –> 00:51:45,600
But he may instruct him.
But we have the mind of Christ.

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00:51:48,000 –> 00:51:50,300
You know brother and sister
that’s a wonderful finale to

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00:51:50,308 –> 00:51:54,600
that chapter.
Because he quotes Isaiah 40.

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00:51:56,800 –> 00:51:59,900
We won’t turn this up, but I’ll
illustrate it to you.

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00:52:01,400 –> 00:52:05,000
Isaiah 40 says who hath known
the mind of the law.

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Or who has been his counselor.
That’s the quotation that the

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00:52:09,200 –> 00:52:11,800
Paul brings forward.
Well who has known the mind of

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00:52:11,808 –> 00:52:14,600
the Lord?
Not natural man.

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00:52:14,600 –> 00:52:18,300
He’s completely missed it with
all his university education.

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00:52:19,100 –> 00:52:22,000
It’s only a hindrance to him who
has known the mind of the Lord.

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00:52:22,000 –> 00:52:23,800
Will Paul says we have the mind
of Christ.

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00:52:25,100 –> 00:52:28,100
There’s a new the mind of the
Lord the Apostle did because

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00:52:28,100 –> 00:52:31,900
Christ did and we’ve got Christ
mind we got God’s mind.

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00:52:33,500 –> 00:52:36,400
That’s what he’s saying.
But the Wonder of his quotation

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00:52:36,400 –> 00:52:39,600
brothers and sisters is this
even your leisure you look at

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00:52:39,600 –> 00:52:42,600
Isaiah 40, you will still say
that is dealing with a balance.

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The chapter sweeps on to talk
about God who has made the

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00:52:47,100 –> 00:52:49,600
height of the mountains
comparable to the depths of the

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ocean.
So there’s a balance of the

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00:52:51,900 –> 00:52:54,700
basin’s of the ocean contained
that water sufficiently to leave

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00:52:54,700 –> 00:52:57,500
the dry land air and is a
wonderful balance so that Land

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and Sea together combining
together man can live on the

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00:53:00,700 –> 00:53:04,200
land and the oceans can wash the
land as the sun picks up the

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00:53:04,200 –> 00:53:07,400
water pumps it back through the
Earth in the form of rain runs

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00:53:07,400 –> 00:53:10,200
down the rivers picking up all
the pollutions under the beaches

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00:53:10,200 –> 00:53:13,600
in comes the tides picks up.
The pollution takes out the sea.

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00:53:13,800 –> 00:53:17,100
They Sun causes the go streams
which intertwined one another as

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00:53:17,100 –> 00:53:20,600
water slides out of hot water
and turns it all up and cleans

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00:53:20,600 –> 00:53:23,300
it pick some water up again with
the Sun Pumps it back to the

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00:53:23,300 –> 00:53:24,900
Earth and down.
It runs to the Sea again.

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00:53:25,000 –> 00:53:26,900
So the height of the mountains
and the depth of the sea a

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00:53:26,900 –> 00:53:30,100
comprable a wonderful balance
that man might live upon the

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00:53:30,100 –> 00:53:32,500
Earth.
He talks about the density of

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00:53:32,508 –> 00:53:35,500
the atmosphere the certain
gaseous elements in the

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00:53:35,500 –> 00:53:37,500
atmosphere.
So one of the combined that we

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00:53:37,500 –> 00:53:40,900
can breathe and live if there
was an imbalance in those

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00:53:40,900 –> 00:53:42,500
things, we would perish
immediately.

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00:53:43,100 –> 00:53:45,500
So the world is going to mail
this balance in it.

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00:53:46,300 –> 00:53:49,400
And the mind of God is balance
brothers and sisters putting one

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00:53:49,400 –> 00:53:52,000
thing against another that we
understand therefore all the

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00:53:52,000 –> 00:53:56,300
wonders of God’s ways.
And only simple people could see

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00:53:56,300 –> 00:53:59,800
that.
Solomon was a scientist.

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00:54:01,100 –> 00:54:02,900
And he thought that all the
rivers run into the sea and the

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00:54:02,900 –> 00:54:06,100
Sea of not fall and he got
absolutely frustrated because he

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00:54:06,108 –> 00:54:10,800
couldn’t understand why who has
known the mind of the lord.

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00:54:11,500 –> 00:54:14,200
It’s a simple man that accepts
the simple facts of nature

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00:54:15,200 –> 00:54:19,300
science delves into it and this
e will Pursuit God had given to

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00:54:19,300 –> 00:54:23,800
the hearts of the sons of men to
frustrate them. for the simple

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00:54:23,800 –> 00:54:29,300
accepted And then I pull quotes
that chapter in Romans 11.

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00:54:31,300 –> 00:54:35,000
The Jew was up here with the
Privileges of God and the

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00:54:35,000 –> 00:54:40,100
Gentile grovel down here into
the boys story of mankind and

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00:54:40,100 –> 00:54:42,300
there was an imbalance between
the two and I never could come

801
00:54:42,300 –> 00:54:46,500
together until God plunged the
Jew into the abyss of misery

802
00:54:47,100 –> 00:54:50,600
cinnamon of captivity preach the
gospel to the Gentiles that

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00:54:50,800 –> 00:54:53,300
elevated him up here in the
spiritual places in Christ

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00:54:53,300 –> 00:54:56,500
Jesus.
Until the Lord Jesus Christ

805
00:54:56,500 –> 00:55:00,800
comes back again.
Edward Eames Jacob from all his

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00:55:00,800 –> 00:55:08,100
sins and the two come together
both have experienced the depths

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00:55:08,100 –> 00:55:11,000
of despair.
Both having gone through the

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00:55:11,000 –> 00:55:14,300
experience of elevation at the
expense of each other.

809
00:55:15,900 –> 00:55:19,300
And now both brought together to
the same point of elevation

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00:55:20,000 –> 00:55:24,400
Isaiah 40 who has known the mind
of the Lord because there’s a

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balance in the world.
And we will know brothers and

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00:55:27,700 –> 00:55:32,700
sisters. when the Lord Jesus
Christ comes what brother or

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00:55:32,700 –> 00:55:36,100
sister sitting out there doesn’t
know this simple truth that when

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00:55:36,100 –> 00:55:38,100
Christ comes and elevates the
Jewish people.

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00:55:39,500 –> 00:55:41,700
That we will rejoice with them
as spiritual Israel.

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00:55:42,700 –> 00:55:46,000
Both rejoicing together in the
great hope which we share now as

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00:55:46,000 –> 00:55:50,400
never before and both filled
with the grace of God in our

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00:55:50,400 –> 00:55:54,500
lives that we Gentiles who had
nothing about something and the

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00:55:54,508 –> 00:55:57,800
Jews who are something of became
nothing and now something again

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00:55:58,700 –> 00:56:00,400
and together brothers and
sisters.

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We will rejoice and praise our
God every one of you understand

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00:56:04,700 –> 00:56:07,900
that You tell me you can’t
understand the Bible.

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And that’s one of the wonders of
God’s work Isaiah 40.

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00:56:13,000 –> 00:56:16,800
The world is built on that
principle and you understand it.

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00:56:16,900 –> 00:56:19,000
You’ll understand why this world
is built.

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00:56:19,100 –> 00:56:22,200
Hell it’s built and for the
purpose it’s built and out there

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00:56:22,200 –> 00:56:27,500
the scientists dissect this
world and live in Mysteries and

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00:56:27,500 –> 00:56:29,400
we understand these things
better than her sisters.

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00:56:29,400 –> 00:56:32,300
Why not?
Because we follow their course

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00:56:32,300 –> 00:56:35,200
of Education But we learn to
love God.

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And whereas implicit enroll and
lack of human intellect it

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00:56:41,800 –> 00:56:45,700
please God because of our
burning desire to know him to

833
00:56:45,700 –> 00:56:48,400
open our rear and tell us
exactly what he meant.

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00:56:50,400 –> 00:56:52,600
You know brother and sisters.
It’s a marvelous Heritage that

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00:56:52,600 –> 00:56:55,200
we have and as we therefore
participate this morning in the

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00:56:55,200 –> 00:56:59,200
bread of the wind of Our Lord
sacrifice never let us forget

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00:56:59,200 –> 00:57:03,700
this there on the table is the
Son of God and yet those very

838
00:57:03,700 –> 00:57:08,000
emblems speak of a carpenter.
You must despise District of

839
00:57:08,000 –> 00:57:14,600
Nazareth. born in a manger Who
never had the worldly education

840
00:57:15,400 –> 00:57:19,500
he had none of the conventions,
which this this world price and

841
00:57:19,500 –> 00:57:23,400
he brother and sisters because
he loved his God and morning by

842
00:57:23,400 –> 00:57:26,800
morning waking his hear that he
might hear the ton of alerted.

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00:57:27,600 –> 00:57:31,500
He was ultimately turned into
the word made flesh.

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And was a living manifestation
of the highest form of wisdom

845
00:57:37,700 –> 00:57:42,400
known in the universe and he
never ever had the education

846
00:57:42,900 –> 00:57:45,400
that the Corinthians aspired to
or admire.

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00:57:45,400 –> 00:57:49,600
Their Brethren and sisters is
the preeminent example of all

848
00:57:49,600 –> 00:57:53,700
that we’ve been saying it is not
a question of human intellect or

849
00:57:53,700 –> 00:57:57,500
of ability.
It is a question as to whether

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00:57:57,500 –> 00:57:59,900
God it is good pleasure.
According to attitude towards

851
00:57:59,900 –> 00:58:05,100
him reveals those things to us.
Which make us the Brethren of

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00:58:05,100 –> 00:58:16,400
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