Greg Robinson – God Hath Made Foolish the Wisdom of this World – Class 2 – The Wisdom of God

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This is Watt Chan Lake Bible
School 2022 Monday, our third

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session with Brother Greg
Robinson.

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His theme for the week is The
Wisdom of God from

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Thessalonians, from Corinthians
and his class today is The

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Wisdom of God.
OK, brother Greg.

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Thanks, brother Dan, you kind of
scared me there for a minute

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because I don’t have a All
right.

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Good morning, everyone.
OK, that’s a lot better.

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Thank you.
I know it’s hot, but good

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morning.
It’s nice to see everybody this

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morning.
Today’s class is entitled The

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Wisdom of God.
You’ll remember, I hope, from

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last night.
Since it was just last night, we

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looked at the wisdom of man.
That was our first class

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together.
And what we saw last night was

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how the the world of Corinth
really lived in a, in a, an

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environment and the brothers and
sisters lived in an environment

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that was shaped almost
completely by man’s thinking and

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by man’s principles.
It was a world that had replaced

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Yahweh.
If there ever was any any input

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from Yahweh in their world with
the many different gods that

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they worshipped, there was a
Pagan world that was a Pagan

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world of the 1st century.
And we talked last night about

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the fact that our world is
quickly getting to be just about

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the same as it was in Corinth,
and in many ways probably worse.

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Now we’ve tried to sum up what
the purpose of life would be in

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the next slide that I’m going to
show you, the purpose of life

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for people whose lives weren’t
centered around Yahweh.

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So this would be the purpose of
life for most of mankind.

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And this would be the kind of
things that would make what

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people would be thinking about,
what would get them to get up

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every morning of their day of
their life.

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And that is a couple of things
here.

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Mankind’s search for the purpose
in life.

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First of all, they would search
to satisfy their own desires.

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So that would be the purpose of
life for for most of mankind.

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Secondly, they would work to
elevate themselves, elevating

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themselves by their
accomplishment or by riches.

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Now, can you think of a Bible
verse that sums up these two and

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actually expands it out into
three things that really are the

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motivation for people in the
world, the different name that’s

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given for it.
How about the lust of the eyes,

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the lust of the flesh and the
pride of life?

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So this is what people are
living for that don’t know God.

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This is if we were to sum up
with the wisdom of.

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Of.
Man is this is what we would

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have and this is what is the
motivation in in most people’s

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lives.
This is what the world has has

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come up with, these things that
we have on the screen.

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Well, our second class gives us
an alternative, and Paul brings

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out the alternative to this, to
the brothers and sisters to

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solve the problems that the
ecclesia was facing.

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And so Paul brings out then the
wisdom of God as a much superior

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alternative, and he puts God’s
wisdom up against man’s wisdom.

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So Paul says, let’s turn
instead, brothers and sisters,

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to the wisdom of God.
And that’s really the answer to

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the question and the problems.
That were happening in Corinth.

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It’s, it’s really a masterful
strategy, I think as, as you’ll

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see, to compare the one with the
other, because the thinking of

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man was what was motivating
people in the city of Corinth

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and it was what was pushing into
the ecclesia of Corinth at the

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same time.
Let’s look at our summary slide

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that we had last night just for
a second to help bring this into

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perspective for us.
So what Paul did is he had first

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presented to them what the
ecclesia should look like, what

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the refuge of the ecclesia
should be like.

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Because the ecclesia does give
us the power to withstand the

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thinking of man.
It does give us the alternative.

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And so we had there we have
Jesus Christ as its Lord.

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But brother Simon really filled
that out for us this morning.

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We have the ecclesia set apart
for God’s work.

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We have the ecclesia being part
of Christ’s family, made rich by

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Christ’s word, made blameless at
Christ’s return, and in

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partnership with Christ.
That’s what it should have

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looked like for the brothers and
sisters of Corinth.

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However, we had something else
that was taking place in the

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ecclesia.
Instead of that, instead of

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having Christ as the Lord, there
were others that had set

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themselves up as leaders in the
ecclesia.

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And these leaders were really
following the traditions that

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the cults had in the city of
Corinth.

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They were following that same
process where there would be a

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leader of, of a cult.
I almost said a leader of a

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church because there’s a,
there’s a similarity to the

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churches in many cases that are
around us, isn’t there?

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And each of those factions that
had a leader would have

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followers that were a part of
that faction and that followed

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those leaders and actually took
pride in what those leaders were

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saying.
The result was divisions.

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The result was contentions that
came into the ecclesia.

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When that happened, all of a
sudden the ecclesia was wide

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open to all of the influences,
the direct influences of the

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world.
We had envying and strife and

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division.
We had pride and arrogance.

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We had fornication that was
permitted to continue in the

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ecclesia.
We had people suing each other

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in the ecclesia because they
couldn’t suffer themselves to be

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defrauded.
We have the questions about the

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resurrection and is there really
a resurrection that we expect?

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We have the turning of the
Lord’s Supper into feasting and

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to drinking.
We had the spirit gifts being

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misused for, for glorification
and not for for glorifying God.

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And then we had the questions
about head coverings and the and

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the people saying are head
coverings really necessary?

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So these are the issues that
they were facing and these

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attacks were were able to move
into the ecclesia because the

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the brothers and sisters in the
ecclesia couldn’t get together

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to agree on how to deal with the
issues.

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And so the problems of the world
took root in the ecclesia.

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Now I told you the first night
when we were talking that this

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was a great study for me because
all of a sudden problems that I

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was having at work, OK, not CHS
work, but work, work, right?

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All those problems that we’re
having at work all of a sudden

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were very, very visible to me.
And what I, I realized is that

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because of the factions that we
had at work, that we were unable

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to solve the problems that we
had.

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And people in our work would
disagree with each other, not

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because they disagreed, but just
for the sake of disagreeing and

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being opponents to what other
people thought.

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So let me give you an idea what
it was like.

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So the accounting department
would refuse to open accounts

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for the sales department because
they didn’t like the sales

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department.
IT would only build reports for

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certain departments because they
didn’t like all of the other

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departments in the company.
Operations would refuse to to

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live up to the rules of the
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And they’d extend credit without
permission from the accounting

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department.
And HR would only hire people

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for certain locations because
they didn’t like some of the

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managers.
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So it was crazy, but everybody
had what they thought was a

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legitimate reason for the
position that they had.

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But there was this animosity and
this unhealthy competition that

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was going on.
And so we couldn’t progress with

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the business.
It’s a same kind of thing that

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was happening in the Ecclesia of
Corinth.

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Now, you may have heard the term
silos.

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Has anybody heard that term
silos where different

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departments don’t communicate
with each other?

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They, they become almost a
business in themselves.

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That’s what was happening in
Corinth as well.

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One department would blame
another department for problems

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and you’d spend hours, we would
spend hours trying to figure out

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what was the real cause of the
problems.

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And then we’d have different
departments that were actually

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looking for problems so that
they could discredit other

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departments.
Maybe you’ve, maybe you’ve

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worked in a place like this.
Well, we were able to fix most

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of these things, but reading
through this, I began to

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understand what was happening
and the study actually gives us

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a solution as to what can be
done to solve that.

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So the lights went on for me
about this point in time is

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looking at this, I am of Paul, I
am of Apollos, and I am of

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Cephas, because the Ecclesia had
those same kind of problems.

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They were competitive leaders.
They were eloquent teachers, as

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we’ll see as we go through this
chapter today, and they were

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competitive followers.
Now that’s an important

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component because you see how
Paul presents it here.

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He says that the problem was
that some people were saying,

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I’m of Paul, I’m of Apollos, I
am of Cephas, and I am of

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Christ.
So it’s not only the leaders

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that were the problem.
It were people which actually

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took pride in belonging to a
certain faction.

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In belonging to that.
These leaders were popular

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because of their ability to
speak.

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In many cases, Paul talks about
that or, or some other

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achievement that they had had,
and the followers then were

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followers because they were
proud of the accomplishments of

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the leaders and they would go
around and they would brag about

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belonging to this faction or
that factions.

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Now, what’s the equivalent for
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I don’t think we have that that
goes on in the ecclesia.

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But sometimes we might say, I
belong to this ecclesia, and we

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might say it in a way that says.
Hey I belong to.

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This ecclesia or that ecclesia,
and we might have that same kind

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of what’s the right word, I
don’t know, that feeling that

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somehow that was a good thing,
or maybe even a better thing

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that I belong to this ecclesia
or that ecclesia.

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So that’s the kind of situation
that they had in the city of.

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Corinth.
And of course, Paul is going to

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deal with that.
He’s going to deal with this

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competitive spirit that the
leaders had with each other and

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the competitive spirit that the
followers had with each other.

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So verse 13, verse 13 says, is
Christ divided?

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Was Christ sorry, was Paul
crucified for you or were you

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baptized in the name of Paul?
So what’s he doing?

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How’s he handling the problem?
Because this is the answer that

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he now gets to.
He says, all right, I want

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everybody to go back and I want
everybody to recognize that

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Christ is not divided.
Christ is one, His ecclesia is.

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1.
There is one purpose.

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We cannot be divided in this
way.

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We cannot have these factions.
This is the fellowship of

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Christ.
This is the partnership of.

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Christ.
And then he says, and this

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really I think talks a lot about
what Brother Simon was talking

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about this morning.
He says, was Paul crucified for

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you?
So if you have another leader,

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if you have somebody else that
you you are following, were they

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crucified for you?
Do they have the authority to be

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the Lord in the ecclesia?
Do they actually have the same

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kind of authority that Christ
has?

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You see, our mission is to
glorify God, and the one who was

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able to do that was the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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The one who gave his life to do
that was the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And no one else has been able to
conquer.

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Sin like Christ did.
And so as Brother Simon said, he

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was given dominion, he was given
that position, Paul says.

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Or were you baptized in the name
of Paul?

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We’ve actually been baptized
into the mission of the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
We’re partakers with him in

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denying our own will.
We’ve committed to doing that,

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haven’t we?
We’re committed to following the

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will of God.
And that means US taking up our

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cross as well.
So back in verse 9, you’ll

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remember what Paul says.
Paul says we were called by God

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into a partnership of his Son,
and he says Jesus Christ.

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Our Lord.
We’re actually going to go to

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the same verse that that one of
the same verses that Brother

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Simon went to Matthew Chapter 7.
So open your Bibles to Matthew

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Chapter 7.
I’d like to just spend a minute

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on this and to, to, to help us
to see what was actually going

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on with these leaders.
Why were they setting themselves

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up in a position which Paul says
in chapter 4 was actually like

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ruling over their brothers and
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Because Paul is telling us
something here that’s really

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important.
It’s one of the keys to the

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solution of how we solve this
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It’s, it’s very easy for us to
call Jesus Christ our Lord and

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for that to be just a title, for
that to be just the way that we

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address him.
But he is our Lord, He is our

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Master.
He is the supreme authority and

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we are his servants because we
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So Matthew Chapter 7, the words
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And Jesus talks to the people
about the thought that they were

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sorry.
He talks to people that thought

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that they were working for him,
but actually they were not

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working for him.
He was not their Lord.

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So Matthew 7 verse 21 says not
everyone that Seth unto me.

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Lord, Lord.
It’s not enough to call.

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Jesus our Lord, he says.
He must actually be our Lord.

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And he says, not everyone that
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enter into the Kingdom of
heaven, but he that do with the

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will of my Father, which.
Is in heaven.

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So if Jesus is our Lord, if he
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authority, then we will do the
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And you’ll notice that the
distinction there, He is doing

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the will of God and he’s called
us to do the will of God as

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well.
So Jesus goes on to say that

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there will actually be many
people at the judgment seat who

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will be found to have not been
working for God.

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Verse 22 Many will say to me in
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So they call him Lord, and
they’ll say, have we not

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prophesied in thy name, and in
thy name have cast out devils,

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and in thy name done many
wonderful, wonderful works, Many

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people who will be convinced
that Jesus was their Lord, that

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they were doing this work for
Jesus, that they were working

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for God.
But Jesus says to them in verse

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23, I’ll profess unto them, I
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What does he mean?
He says you actually weren’t my

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servant.
You don’t know me, and I don’t

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know you because you weren’t my
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Depart from me.
Ye that work in equity.

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You weren’t working for me.
You were working for something

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completely different.
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For what would you think?
What do you think was the

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motivation for those people?
And I say those people, but we

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can easily be those people,
can’t we?

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Where we’re doing it for not to
serve God, not to follow the

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example of Christ, not for the
mission that he set out for us.

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They were doing it for their own
glory, weren’t they?

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That’s the problem.
That was that was that was

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happening in the Ecclesia
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That’s what Christ is talking
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They were doing it for their own
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And it’s possible for, from what
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possible for us to do that for a
whole lifetime, to spend a

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lifetime doing what we do in the
truth for our own recognition

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and not for the recognition of
our Lord Jesus Christ and our

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Heavenly Father.
So Jesus says to them, I never

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knew you.
You weren’t part of my team.

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And all of this happens at the
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And all along they thought that
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So what he’s telling us here,
what Jesus is telling us what

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was happening in in the ecclesia
here is that we’ve got to be a

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part of Christ’s team.
We’ve got to work for him and

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we’ve got to work towards his
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So a couple of points there that
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It’s not enough to call Jesus
our Lord.

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He’s actually, he actually must
be our Lord.

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If Jesus is our Lord, then he
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We will do the will of God.
Many people will think that

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Jesus was the Lord.
And then finally he’ll say I was

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not your Lord because you worked
iniquity, you were working for

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yourself, you were working for
your own glory.

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So there’s some non negotiable
requirements for servants of

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Christ.
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First is we work for our Lord
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And secondly, our mission is to.
Glorify God and not to glorify

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ourselves.
Whatever we’re doing, it must

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fit with the mission of the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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It must be putting God’s will
above our own will.

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Christ said nevertheless, not my
will, but thine be done.

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That was the message of Christ
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And if we’re doing what we’re
doing in the truth is for our

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own recognition, then really
we’re not the servants of

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Christ, because that was the
exact opposite.

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Of what Christ did.
That was the exact opposite or

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that would be the exact opposite
of the cross.

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So when Paul says, was Paul
crucified for you or were you

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baptized into the name of Paul?
We understand completely what

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he’s talking about, don’t we?
We understand is, is our

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motivation, right?
Then we start to see a very

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clear picture of what was
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The leaders in the factions were
looking for their own glory.

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They wanted followers, maybe not
even consciously did they want

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this, but they were looking for
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And Paul says Christ is not
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His mission is not divided.
His mission is to glorify God

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and not for us to glorify
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Now Paul talks about the fact in
the next couple of verses in

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verses 14 and 15 about the fact
that he rarely baptized anyone,

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which I think is really
interesting for him to insert

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here.
Why do you think he would then

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insert this conversation about
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In verse 17, he says for Christ
sent me not to baptize but to

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preach the gospel.
Now, if I had been setting this

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up in Greg’s wisdom, which is
not particularly reliable,

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right?
If I had been setting this up, I

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would have set it up and I would
have had Paul go in, I would

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have had him teach, and then I
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And the job would have been
done.

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But here we have Christ saying
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Christ set it up so that Paul
would do the preaching and

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somebody else would do the
baptizing.

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Why do you think that was the
case?

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Anybody have an idea?
Why would you do that?

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Yep.
OK, that OK, So that’s pretty

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efficient.
I think that’s absolutely right.

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Can you think of another reason?
What was the danger?

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So no one could say is.
Baptizing to call.

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Yeah, so Paul might get this
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He might get to a place where he
actually thought that that he

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was something special or the
people thought that he was

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special and that would all of a
sudden totally.

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Unwind the message of the cross,
wouldn’t it?

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Because it’s about glorifying
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It’s not about glorifying us.
That’s the problem.

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That that, that, that was was so
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We’re just also so prone to our
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And I think about it from from
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think about it from God’s
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We think about God having us as
the tools that he uses to spread

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his word.
And if we are successful in

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spreading his word, that means
people will come to listen to

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what we have to say.
And if they come to listen to

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what we say, all of a sudden
what happens to our ego?

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It starts to to expand, doesn’t
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And all of a sudden we become
completely, well, not completely

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useless, but we become less
useful to God in the work that

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we’re doing.
We have cases like that

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throughout the Scriptures where
people were given the

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opportunity to to teach, were
given the opportunity to lead,

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and they ended up becoming
egotistical about it and they

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lost the ability to do the work
successfully.

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So Paul takes this a step
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He says that his job was to
preach the gospel, but he was to

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preach the gospel, not with
wisdom of words.

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What does he mean by that?
Wisdom of words?

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This is becomes an important,
important part of what’s

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happening.
Yeah.

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Caleb.
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OK, excellent.
So.

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So.
Eloquence.

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So he was sent to preach the
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He was said to speak it, but he
wasn’t sent to speak it with

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eloquence.
He was spent to speak it in a

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simple, clear way.
It wasn’t something that was

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embellished by human arguments.
It was a very simple message.

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So Paul says my job was
preaching the gospel and, and we

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know Paul is not known for his
eloquence.

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Don’t we?
We know that wasn’t something

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that that was his strong suit.
We know that Apollos was was

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very good at that and Paul was
not.

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Why was that?
Why do all of us have different

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capabilities?
And all of those capabilities

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need to be put together to get
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It’s it’s to help counter this
feeling that we somehow might be

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part of the glory, that we
should deserve the glory.

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It’s to help us to stay away
from that thinking that God

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separates this out.
And so Paul, in dealing with the

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brothers and sisters in Corinth,
goes directly to these key

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points because those leaders in
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We, we.
We.

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Deduce.
I guess we’re very eloquent

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teachers and because of their
eloquence they were able to get

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followers.
To come behind them and to to

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listen to what they had to say.
Now we might think, well,

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wouldn’t it be great if we could
have it both ways?

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What if we could have the great
message of the cross and have an

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eloquent teacher at the same
time?

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Yeah, that’s the Lord Jesus
Christ, isn’t it?

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Right.
That’s the one that we follow.

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That’s the one that we serve.
And God in his wisdom, uses us

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in different ways to keep us
away from that problem.

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So Paul says, if I had had
spoken with this eloquence, with

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the gospel, with his eloquence,
or with his wisdom of words, he

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says that didn’t happen lest the
cross of Christ.

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Should be made of none effect.
So the cross here is the symbol

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of Christ’s submission to God.
It’s a symbol of the

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glorification of God.
And if Paul had been able to

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speak, or if Paul had gotten up
and spoken with eloquence, if

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he’d had human arguments and
he’d been able to really pour it

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on, then the message of the
cross would have been lost.

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It wouldn’t be about the glory
of God anymore.

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It would be about Paul’s
eloquence.

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Let’s take a second then to just
kind of recap some of the the

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pieces that we have here.
So in Corinth there were some

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that taught the wisdom of words.
There were some people that that

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because of their eloquence,
because of their reasoning, were

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able to teach and to get people
to stand up and to follow them

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appealed to many of the brothers
and sisters the things that they

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were teaching.
So they gained disciples of

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their own because of their
teaching.

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And these teachers became
popular teachers and their

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messages were popular.
Their followers said I am of

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Paul, I am of Apollos, I am of
the different leaders that were

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part of the ecclesia.
And by doing that, the people

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followed them and they had
pride.

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Being the followers of those
leaders, they felt pride in that

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and as a result they made the
cross of Christ of none effect.

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They were actually departing
from the mission that the Lord

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had given to them.
So in the next verse then Paul

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begins to make the connection
between the cross and the wisdom

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of God and he shows that that is
the basis of the wisdom of God.

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In verse 18.
He says for the preaching of the

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cross is to them that perish.
Foolishness following the will

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of God and not our own is what
the preaching of the cross is.

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And he says to them that perish,
this is foolishness.

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Then the perish.
You could probably just sum that

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up and say that those people are
the unbelievers.

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So unbelievers look at the
preaching of the cross and they

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think that it’s absolutely
foolish.

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We hear that all the time.
Don’t we have yet?

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Have you ever told somebody
about the cross of Christ, about

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the sacrifice of Christ,
explained it to them, Somebody

447
00:26:10,840 –> 00:26:14,560
who knows nothing about the
truth and explain to them about

448
00:26:14,560 –> 00:26:17,280
the Kingdom.
And you got that look from them

449
00:26:17,280 –> 00:26:21,520
like, wow, do you really buy
that?

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00:26:22,160 –> 00:26:23,640
Have you ever got that look from
somebody?

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00:26:25,200 –> 00:26:28,040
Yeah, I’ve got that quite a few
times when you we sit down with

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somebody and you, you explained
it all to them and you’ve got

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all this energy and enthusiasm
and they just kind of look at

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you with that blank look because
to them it’s foolishness.

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They think this is this is
ridiculous.

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There’s nothing behind us.
There’s nothing to this.

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You’d be crazy to give your
whole life, all of those Sundays

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to this work that you do.
But he says, But unto us, which

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are saved, it is the power of
God.

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So to us, it’s something
completely different.

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It’s God’s.
Power, it’s enlightening to us,

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it educates us, it changes our
character, doesn’t it, this

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power of the word and ultimately
God says if you, if you, if you

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follow.
That I’ll change your nature as

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well.
And we could literally feel the

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power.
Working in our.

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Lives.
And what about the wisdom of

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man?
He says.

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For, it is written, I’ll destroy
the wisdom.

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Of the wise and I’ll bring to
nothing the understanding of the

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prudent Paul’s quoting Isaiah
chapter 29 here he’s saying what

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he’s saying is it makes no sense
to pursue the wisdom of man

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because the wisdom of.
Man has proven to be exactly.

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Useless, and it’s going to
continue to be that way in verse

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20.
Paul says let’s look at the wise

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people of the world.
He says, where is the wise?

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Where is the scribe?
Where is the disputer?

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Of the world.
Where are all these people that

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have been like these leaders
that you have?

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Where of all these people, where
are all the they now?

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Well, they’ve come to absolutely
nothing.

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Hath not God made foolish the
wisdom of this world?

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How did God do that?
How did God go about making

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foolish the wisdom?
Of this world.

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He gave us an alternative,
didn’t he?

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He gave us something so much
better than what this world has

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to offer that he made.
Choosing the world absolutely

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foolish for us.
Where’s the wise?

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00:28:37,400 –> 00:28:39,480
Where’s the scribe?
Where’s the disputer of this

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00:28:39,480 –> 00:28:41,920
world?
Hath not God made foolish the

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wisdom of this world?
So here’s what the world has to

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offer us if we were to sum it
up.

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Man’s wisdom, the purpose of
life for most of mankind.

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Satisfy your desires.
Spend a lifetime doing that.

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And what do you find about the
desires that you have?

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As you, as you satisfy them,
what happens to them?

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Don’t they become unsatisfying?
Each, each time that you satisfy

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them, they become less and less
satisfying.

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The other thing is to elevate
ourselves.

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Right here’s our here’s the
list.

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00:29:17,240 –> 00:29:19,960
We started out with the lust of
the eyes, the lust of the flesh

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and the pride of life.
And what does the result?

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What is the result of choosing
this?

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The result is, is death.
That’s the only thing that’s out

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00:29:30,000 –> 00:29:33,760
there if we choose this path.
And So what Paul is saying here

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is there’s an alternative.
Now after the resurrection of

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Christ, there’s a alternative to
choosing this path because God

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00:29:44,720 –> 00:29:49,640
has made foolish this path.
It is no longer the choice.

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There’s another one, God’s
wisdom.

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The purpose of life for only a
few that find this way is to

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choose God’s will over our own.
Don’t satisfy the flesh.

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Don’t satisfy your your own
pleasures.

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Satisfy God’s desires.
Glorify God and God will give

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you.
Life simple, isn’t it?

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God has made foolish the wisdom
of this world.

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In a nutshell.
There it is.

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And Paul presents it just like
that to the brothers and

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sisters.
What are you going to choose?

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00:30:29,840 –> 00:30:32,320
He says.
If you’re actually trying to

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ride the the train of your own
glory to being leaders in the

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ecclesia, to having that
recognition in the ecclesia,

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00:30:41,200 –> 00:30:44,600
don’t bother because God has
made that foolish.

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00:30:44,640 –> 00:30:47,760
The the whole message of the
crisis is to is to go against

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that thinking.
But the message of the Christ,

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00:30:51,360 –> 00:30:55,480
the cross, the message of Christ
is eternal life, isn’t it?

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This is God’s wisdom.
There is a purpose to it.

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00:30:59,520 –> 00:31:02,640
There is value.
To what God has offered to us,

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He says in verse 20, Where is
the wise?

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So where’s the wise men?
Did any of the wise men of the

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world come up with this
understanding?

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Where’s the scribe?
The Jews, right?

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They’d look to the rabbi’s, the
teachers of the law.

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But they didn’t understand the
purpose of life either, did

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00:31:26,240 –> 00:31:28,400
they?
When Christ came, most of them

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00:31:28,400 –> 00:31:31,600
had completely lost that.
Where’s the disputer of this

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00:31:31,600 –> 00:31:32,360
world?
He says.

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00:31:33,160 –> 00:31:36,200
The Greeks with their
philosophers, they didn’t

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00:31:36,200 –> 00:31:39,920
understand the meaning of life
for the purpose of life, but God

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00:31:39,920 –> 00:31:43,360
had made all of that
foolishness, and people were

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00:31:43,360 –> 00:31:46,160
given the opportunity to choose
something that was far superior.

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Instead, verse 21 says.
For after that.

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In the wisdom of God.
The world by wisdom knew not

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00:32:00,120 –> 00:32:02,840
God.
It pleased God by the

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00:32:02,840 –> 00:32:05,640
foolishness of preaching to save
them that believe.

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It’s a bit of a confusing verse,
I think.

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00:32:07,880 –> 00:32:10,040
For us, so I’ve.
Paraphrased it here on the

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00:32:10,040 –> 00:32:16,760
screen for you for in God’s wise
plan, people in their wisdom did

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00:32:16,760 –> 00:32:21,760
not come to know God, So what
God had decided was that it

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00:32:21,760 –> 00:32:23,120
wouldn’t be through the wisdom
of.

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00:32:23,120 –> 00:32:25,560
Man, that people would come to
know him.

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00:32:26,320 –> 00:32:30,840
It wouldn’t be through man’s
intellectual prowess, man’s

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00:32:30,840 –> 00:32:34,440
eloquence, and those things.
It wasn’t going to be that way.

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Instead, it would be through the
preaching of the cross, which

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00:32:39,960 –> 00:32:43,880
people thought was foolishness,
that people were saved.

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00:32:44,560 –> 00:32:47,320
So it would be through this
thinking of the cross, which is

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00:32:47,320 –> 00:32:50,320
really the wisdom of God, that
people would be saved.

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00:32:51,040 –> 00:32:54,000
But most of the world doesn’t
understand that, and most of the

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00:32:54,000 –> 00:32:57,600
world gets that wrong.
They completely miss the point.

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But God had decided that those
are the kind of people that He

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00:33:02,920 –> 00:33:05,680
wanted.
He wanted those people that

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00:33:05,680 –> 00:33:10,280
would humble themselves to His
mission, rather than those

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00:33:10,280 –> 00:33:12,760
people that would try to raise
themselves up for their own

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00:33:12,760 –> 00:33:15,240
mission.
Now, you can imagine, I think,

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00:33:15,240 –> 00:33:17,360
what would the Kingdom be like
if He’d chosen it the other way

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00:33:17,360 –> 00:33:19,520
around?
What would the Kingdom be like

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00:33:19,520 –> 00:33:23,360
if it was all of these people
that had glorified themselves in

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00:33:23,360 –> 00:33:26,040
this life and had been
successful or felt they were

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00:33:26,040 –> 00:33:28,640
successful?
In this life, it would be, it

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00:33:28,640 –> 00:33:31,360
would be chaos, wouldn’t it?
It would not be the Kingdom that

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00:33:31,360 –> 00:33:36,480
we all look forward to.
Verse 22, he says for the Jews

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00:33:36,480 –> 00:33:41,880
require a sign and the Greeks
seek after wisdom, after wisdom.

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00:33:43,080 –> 00:33:47,600
Paul says of the Jews, the Jews
in their wisdom that they were

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00:33:47,600 –> 00:33:49,680
always looking for a sign,
weren’t they?

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00:33:50,560 –> 00:33:52,840
Christ says that they’re always
looking for a sign.

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00:33:53,600 –> 00:33:56,320
And the reason they were always
looking for a sign about Christ

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00:33:56,320 –> 00:33:58,440
was because they couldn’t accept
what Christ was.

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00:33:58,960 –> 00:34:01,560
They couldn’t accept that he was
not the Messiah that was going

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00:34:01,560 –> 00:34:05,080
to deliver them from Rome, that
was going to raise Israel.

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00:34:05,080 –> 00:34:07,960
Back to its its its original
glory right then and there.

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00:34:08,239 –> 00:34:10,800
They couldn’t accept that.
They couldn’t accept that he

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00:34:10,800 –> 00:34:12,760
wasn’t.
He wasn’t going to exert assert

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00:34:12,760 –> 00:34:15,960
himself as king.
They couldn’t accept that he was

583
00:34:15,960 –> 00:34:20,000
submitting himself to God, that
ultimately he would be

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00:34:20,000 –> 00:34:22,400
sacrificed.
They couldn’t get their minds

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00:34:22,400 –> 00:34:26,120
wrapped around that because they
didn’t understand that wisdom.

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00:34:26,440 –> 00:34:28,400
They didn’t understand that
concept.

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00:34:29,159 –> 00:34:32,440
And so Jesus said to them, no
sign will be given to you.

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00:34:33,760 –> 00:34:36,920
But what what did he say?
What was the sign, the sign of

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00:34:36,920 –> 00:34:40,679
the prophet Jonah, right.
What was the sign of the prophet

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00:34:40,679 –> 00:34:42,960
Jonah?
So Jonah was let’s go over to

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00:34:42,960 –> 00:34:54,320
Matthew chapter 12.
Jew says we don’t accept the

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00:34:54,320 –> 00:34:56,360
mission that you have of the
cross.

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00:34:57,120 –> 00:34:59,880
We don’t accept that part
because we’re expecting

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00:34:59,880 –> 00:35:03,040
something completely different.
And Jesus says, OK, well then

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00:35:03,040 –> 00:35:04,000
I’m going to give you a sign
you’re.

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00:35:04,240 –> 00:35:05,920
Going to have to go back and
you’re going to have to look at

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00:35:05,920 –> 00:35:10,760
Jonah for what that sign was.
He says Matthew chapter 12 verse

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00:35:10,760 –> 00:35:13,120
39.
But he answered and said unto

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00:35:13,120 –> 00:35:18,000
them, An evil and adulterous
generation seeketh after a sign,

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00:35:18,600 –> 00:35:21,520
and they’ll be no sign given to
it, but the sign of the prophet

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00:35:21,520 –> 00:35:24,040
Jonas.
For as Jonas was.

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00:35:24,040 –> 00:35:26,280
Three days and three nights in
the whales belly.

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00:35:26,280 –> 00:35:30,000
So shall the son of man be. 3
days and three nights in the

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00:35:30,000 –> 00:35:34,880
heart of the earth. 3 days and
three nights in the grave.

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00:35:36,440 –> 00:35:40,560
The sign.
Was the cross the sign?

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00:35:40,560 –> 00:35:43,360
Was the cross and the
resurrection?

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00:35:44,160 –> 00:35:47,040
So if the Jews had had thought
about that sign, they would

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00:35:47,040 –> 00:35:51,040
recognize that they were missing
the whole point and not

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00:35:51,040 –> 00:35:54,560
understanding the need for
Christ to be sacrificed, the

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00:35:54,560 –> 00:36:01,400
need for Christ to conquer sin.
He says the Jews seek after

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00:36:01,520 –> 00:36:04,960
wisdom.
So the Greeks were seeking after

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00:36:04,960 –> 00:36:06,560
wisdom.
They were, they were looking for

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00:36:06,560 –> 00:36:08,640
some high level of
understanding.

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00:36:09,160 –> 00:36:12,000
That’s what they were always
looking for us for some new

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00:36:12,000 –> 00:36:14,000
thing.
But Paul came to Athens.

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00:36:15,960 –> 00:36:20,680
He says you’ll never find the
glory of God in the glory of.

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00:36:20,680 –> 00:36:25,200
Man because the glory of God is
all about humbling ourselves.

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00:36:25,200 –> 00:36:35,160
Instead, verse 23 he says, but
we preach Christ crucified.

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That’s how Jesus glorified his
Father unto the Jews, a

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00:36:41,800 –> 00:36:47,640
stumbling block.
The Jews were looking for a

621
00:36:47,640 –> 00:36:53,680
Messiah to defeat Rome and unto
the Greeks foolishness.

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00:36:55,160 –> 00:36:58,880
The Greeks wondered how a
crucified man was of any use to

623
00:36:58,920 –> 00:37:02,520
anyone.
You see the the the wisdom of

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00:37:02,520 –> 00:37:06,640
man was completely incompatible
with the wisdom of God.

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00:37:08,280 –> 00:37:13,680
And so he says, But unto them
which are called both Jews.

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00:37:14,440 –> 00:37:17,200
And Greeks, so there are some.
Jews.

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00:37:18,080 –> 00:37:21,280
And there are some Greeks who’ve
been called out of the world.

628
00:37:22,840 –> 00:37:28,600
He says unto them, Christ is the
power of God and the wisdom of

629
00:37:28,600 –> 00:37:33,280
God, because Christ’s
resurrection showed without a

630
00:37:33,280 –> 00:37:38,120
doubt the power of God.
But it also.

631
00:37:38,120 –> 00:37:45,920
Shows the wisdom of God because
Christ chose God’s will and

632
00:37:45,920 –> 00:37:50,760
showed to us in his life, in his
death, the wisdom of God.

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00:37:53,360 –> 00:37:56,160
So, brothers and sisters, if if
we follow the example of Christ,

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00:37:56,160 –> 00:37:59,520
we’ll find that the Christ, the
example of Christ will be a

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00:37:59,520 –> 00:38:06,280
powerful force in our lives too.
But the most people, Christ on

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00:38:06,280 –> 00:38:11,680
the cross was foolishness,
because the cross represents

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00:38:11,680 –> 00:38:16,840
giving up our own will.
And using our lives to glorify

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00:38:16,840 –> 00:38:20,080
God.
And so he says in verse 25,

639
00:38:20,920 –> 00:38:26,240
because the foolishness of God,
and I bet it bit of a

640
00:38:26,560 –> 00:38:29,760
parentheses in here to help
identify what’s happening here,

641
00:38:29,760 –> 00:38:34,760
he says, but the foolishness of
God or what men consider to be

642
00:38:34,760 –> 00:38:41,920
foolish is wiser than men.
And the weakness of God, that is

643
00:38:41,920 –> 00:38:46,440
what men consider weakness is
stronger than men.

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00:38:49,640 –> 00:38:55,000
That’s the truth, isn’t it?
It’s stronger, it’s wiser than

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00:38:55,000 –> 00:38:56,680
anything else that we have to
offer.

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00:38:57,320 –> 00:38:59,760
And yet the world considers it
to be foolishness.

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00:39:02,040 –> 00:39:05,680
That’s what Paul is trying to
show them in verse 26.

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00:39:05,680 –> 00:39:11,560
He says, For ye see your
calling, brethren, how not many

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00:39:11,560 –> 00:39:16,520
wise after the flesh, not many
mighty, not many noble are

650
00:39:16,520 –> 00:39:20,320
called the wise.
Men, he’s talking here about the

651
00:39:20,320 –> 00:39:27,120
philosopher, the scribes, the
mighty, those people that that

652
00:39:27,120 –> 00:39:30,640
were in authority.
And the noble?

653
00:39:30,640 –> 00:39:35,120
Those that were highborn, those
people of high society, he says.

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00:39:35,320 –> 00:39:39,800
There aren’t many people in the
ecclesia who are wise or

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00:39:39,800 –> 00:39:44,720
powerful by the world standards.
Those aren’t the people that are

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called because that’s not what
God is looking.

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For it’d be hard for, for the
wise of the world to put aside

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man’s wisdom to humble
themselves.

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And if we do find these type of
people in the ecclesia, what

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have they done?
They have humbled themselves,

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haven’t they?
And they’ve put that, that

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00:40:07,480 –> 00:40:11,600
wisdom of the world aside and
they’ve accepted the far greater

663
00:40:11,600 –> 00:40:13,080
wisdom, which is the wisdom of
God.

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It’s it’s a wonderful situation
that God has set up for us, a

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00:40:16,760 –> 00:40:20,040
wonderful way.
That God has shown us what He’s

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looking for with the cross of
Christ.

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In verse 27 it says, But God
hath chosen the foolish things

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of the world.
So God has chosen.

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Hold it just one second here.
God has chosen the simple like

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us, to put to shame the wise and
the powerful.

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Can you think of a time in the
in the Bible when there was one

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that was simple and yet who was
able to amaze absolutely

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00:40:55,760 –> 00:41:00,840
everyone with his understanding?
Think of of Christ right when.

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He went to the temple when he
was 12 years old.

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His parents found him in the in
the midst of the teachers of

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00:41:06,840 –> 00:41:10,080
Israel, and the teachers of
Israel were astonished at his

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00:41:10,080 –> 00:41:13,520
understanding.
God does that.

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So that the world can see it’s
not about the glory of man, it’s

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about the glory of God, the
verse continues.

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It says, and God hath chosen the
weak things of the world.

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00:41:27,280 –> 00:41:31,080
God is purposely chosen people
that the world sees as weak.

682
00:41:31,880 –> 00:41:36,080
Another one is David, David, and
Goliath.

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David, the world saw him as
weak, but he wasn’t weak, was

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00:41:40,480 –> 00:41:42,800
he?
Why wasn’t he weak?

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00:41:45,440 –> 00:41:48,760
He wasn’t weak because he got
his strength from God, and he

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chose people like that to
confound or to put to shame the

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things which are mighty.
And he put to shame Goliath.

688
00:41:59,400 –> 00:42:04,360
God has chosen the simple like
us to put to shame the wise and

689
00:42:04,360 –> 00:42:06,840
the powerful.
It’s, I think, a really amazing

690
00:42:06,840 –> 00:42:11,320
principle that in God’s plan of
salvation, none of the credit

691
00:42:11,320 –> 00:42:14,680
goes to man.
Because the glory.

692
00:42:14,680 –> 00:42:19,800
Of man is what we’re trying to
get rid of and the glory of God

693
00:42:19,800 –> 00:42:32,740
is what we’re trying to reflect
down in verse 28 then it says in

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the base things of the world and
the things which are despised

695
00:42:37,660 –> 00:42:42,300
God hath chosen yeah and the
things which are not to bring to

696
00:42:42,300 –> 00:42:46,560
not the things which are so he
talks here about the base things

697
00:42:46,560 –> 00:42:51,440
of the world the word base means
those which are of no account or

698
00:42:51,440 –> 00:42:54,720
of no fame at all so the base
things of the world the things

699
00:42:54,720 –> 00:42:58,920
that are of no account to anyone
and those things are despised.

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00:42:59,680 –> 00:43:03,040
Those are the things that God
hath chosen, and the things

701
00:43:03,040 –> 00:43:06,560
which.
Are not to bring the not to not

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00:43:06,560 –> 00:43:09,720
the things that are so.
God has chosen the things that

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00:43:09,720 –> 00:43:13,640
the world counts as nothing.
And he’s going to use those to

704
00:43:13,640 –> 00:43:18,160
abolish the things that the
world counts as valuable.

705
00:43:19,720 –> 00:43:24,920
Christ and the Saints ultimately
are going to get rid of the

706
00:43:24,920 –> 00:43:28,800
world.
And the glory of man stands in

707
00:43:28,800 –> 00:43:33,920
the way of God’s purpose.
The glory of man stands directly

708
00:43:33,920 –> 00:43:41,320
in opposition to this purpose.
Verse 29 says that no flesh

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00:43:42,200 –> 00:43:47,320
should glory in His presence.
I think about the contradiction.

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00:43:47,680 –> 00:43:53,400
If flesh could glory in the
presence of God, Can you imagine

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00:43:54,840 –> 00:43:59,280
it would be like Nebuchadnezzar?
Turn with me to Daniel chapter

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00:43:59,280 –> 00:44:08,670
4.
Here’s one of the great men of

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00:44:09,590 –> 00:44:12,470
human history.
With great, great

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00:44:12,470 –> 00:44:16,640
accomplishments.
Think of God if God had chosen

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00:44:16,640 –> 00:44:21,640
someone like him to be a part of
His Kingdom.

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00:44:24,120 –> 00:44:29,240
Daniel chapter 4 and we’re going
to go into verse 30, a little

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00:44:29,240 –> 00:44:31,200
ways into the verse.
Here’s the words of

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Nebuchadnezzar.
He says, is not this great

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00:44:36,640 –> 00:44:40,800
Babylon that I have built?
For the house.

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00:44:40,840 –> 00:44:44,320
Of the Kingdom, by the might of
my power.

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How many times did he pat
himself on the back in that

722
00:44:48,000 –> 00:44:52,480
sentence?
And for the honor of my majesty,

723
00:44:52,480 –> 00:44:55,680
he says.
And while the world word was in

724
00:44:55,680 –> 00:44:57,160
the King’s mouth.
There fell a voice.

725
00:44:57,160 –> 00:45:02,320
From heaven, saying, O King
Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is

726
00:45:02,320 –> 00:45:05,640
spoken, The Kingdom is departed
from thee.

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00:45:07,120 –> 00:45:11,920
Can you imagine Christ claiming
the glory for himself on the

728
00:45:11,920 –> 00:45:14,320
cross?
Can you imagine him instead of

729
00:45:14,320 –> 00:45:15,680
going through with the
crucifixion?

730
00:45:15,680 –> 00:45:18,680
Can you imagine him coming down
from the cross and saying, look,

731
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I have have decided to now be
your king to the people?

732
00:45:24,960 –> 00:45:28,680
Can you imagine David instead of
saying I come in the name of

733
00:45:28,680 –> 00:45:31,360
Yahweh of hosts?
Can you imagine saying to

734
00:45:31,360 –> 00:45:35,040
Goliath and everyone watching,
saying Goliath, I’m going to

735
00:45:35,040 –> 00:45:38,160
take you down with my strength
and my skill?

736
00:45:39,840 –> 00:45:42,000
You see, the cross is about
crucifying.

737
00:45:42,520 –> 00:45:44,680
The flesh, it’s about getting
rid of that.

738
00:45:44,680 –> 00:45:49,280
And that’s why God has chosen
people that crucify the cross

739
00:45:49,480 –> 00:45:54,640
that have chose that choose the
cross people that glorify him to

740
00:45:54,640 –> 00:45:58,520
be a part of his Kingdom.
Now, I think it’s a good place

741
00:45:58,520 –> 00:46:02,480
right here to to maybe stop for
just a second and and recap the

742
00:46:02,480 –> 00:46:05,560
problem that the brothers and
sisters in Corinth were having.

743
00:46:06,560 –> 00:46:09,520
So Paul goes into this, this
long dissertation here about

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00:46:09,640 –> 00:46:14,400
contrasting the wisdom of man
and the wisdom of God, and he’s

745
00:46:14,400 –> 00:46:18,720
shown to us how much superior
God’s wisdom is and how that in

746
00:46:18,720 –> 00:46:22,520
God’s wisdom, there’s no place
for the wisdom of man or for the

747
00:46:22,520 –> 00:46:27,200
accomplishments of man.
He showed that glorifying men is

748
00:46:27,200 –> 00:46:31,360
completely contrary to the
mission that God has given us.

749
00:46:32,240 –> 00:46:35,920
We’re here to glorify God and
ultimately earth, the earth is

750
00:46:35,920 –> 00:46:37,800
going to be filled with the
glory of God.

751
00:46:39,320 –> 00:46:43,680
He’s shown us all of this.
Christ has on the cross.

752
00:46:44,760 –> 00:46:48,560
But there were some in the
ecclesia who strayed from the

753
00:46:48,560 –> 00:46:53,200
mission of glorifying God.
And instead they found support

754
00:46:53,680 –> 00:46:57,680
in the ecclesia and they found
that support by their eloquence

755
00:46:58,440 –> 00:47:02,520
and by using man’s wisdom to to
teach people and to to gain that

756
00:47:02,520 –> 00:47:05,640
support.
What they were doing is they

757
00:47:05,640 –> 00:47:10,360
were no longer participating in
the cross of Christ, and instead

758
00:47:10,360 –> 00:47:12,680
they were looking for their own
glory.

759
00:47:13,880 –> 00:47:18,760
They were saying Lord, Lord, but
they didn’t know Christ.

760
00:47:19,520 –> 00:47:22,680
They didn’t know the cross and
Christ didn’t know them.

761
00:47:23,920 –> 00:47:27,120
And because of that, the
ecclesia was paralyzed and they

762
00:47:27,120 –> 00:47:29,120
couldn’t deal with the the.
Problems.

763
00:47:29,120 –> 00:47:32,600
That were facing the ecclesia
from the world around them.

764
00:47:35,280 –> 00:47:42,560
Verse 30 says, but of him are ye
in Christ Jesus, who of God is

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00:47:42,560 –> 00:47:47,160
made unto us wisdom,
righteousness and sanctification

766
00:47:47,920 –> 00:47:52,160
and redemption.
Here’s what God has done for us

767
00:47:52,160 –> 00:47:58,840
in verse 30, but of him but of
God are ye in Christ Jesus.

768
00:47:59,760 –> 00:48:04,600
God brought us into Christ to
follow his example, to

769
00:48:04,600 –> 00:48:09,840
participate in his sacrifice,
and we’re working with him to

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00:48:09,840 –> 00:48:14,440
replace man’s wisdom in our own
minds and in the world.

771
00:48:15,640 –> 00:48:22,120
So God brought us into Christ,
who of God is made unto us

772
00:48:22,120 –> 00:48:26,360
wisdom.
So we have God’s wisdom revealed

773
00:48:26,360 –> 00:48:30,360
to us in the Word, made flesh in
the life of the Lord Jesus

774
00:48:30,360 –> 00:48:33,600
Christ, and in Christ’s
sacrifice on the cross.

775
00:48:33,920 –> 00:48:38,800
We have God’s wisdom revealed to
us, and the cross gives God the

776
00:48:38,800 –> 00:48:45,520
glory.
He showed us wisdom in Christ

777
00:48:46,680 –> 00:48:52,920
and he showed us righteousness.
He says by being in Christ, by

778
00:48:52,920 –> 00:48:59,000
choosing God’s wisdom as Christ
did, God makes us righteous

779
00:48:59,440 –> 00:49:05,000
through faith in him and
sanctification.

780
00:49:06,080 –> 00:49:10,760
And God makes us holy.
He’s making us usable for his

781
00:49:10,760 –> 00:49:17,440
purpose and redemption.
And God redeems us.

782
00:49:18,560 –> 00:49:23,480
We’re all made usable for God’s
purpose and the sacrifice of

783
00:49:23,480 –> 00:49:27,240
Christ, and God has done all of
this for us.

784
00:49:31,560 –> 00:49:35,680
Why wouldn’t man’s wisdom play a
part in salvation?

785
00:49:37,160 –> 00:49:40,600
It becomes obvious, doesn’t it?
Man’s wisdom has got to be

786
00:49:40,600 –> 00:49:44,640
replaced, and it’s got to be
replaced with God’s wisdom.

787
00:49:46,320 –> 00:49:48,360
And then Paul quotes Jeremiah
Chapter 9.

788
00:49:49,360 –> 00:49:51,600
Let’s go over.
To Jeremiah Chapter 9 and just

789
00:49:51,600 –> 00:49:53,760
look at what he says here
because this sums up his

790
00:49:53,760 –> 00:49:56,120
argument.
This sums up the discussion here

791
00:49:56,120 –> 00:50:01,600
very, very well.
Jeremiah 9 and in verse 23 it

792
00:50:01,600 –> 00:50:16,520
says.
Jeremiah 923 Thus at Yahweh, let

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00:50:16,520 –> 00:50:23,320
not the wise man glory in his
wisdom, there’s no place for

794
00:50:23,320 –> 00:50:26,840
man’s glory.
Neither let the mighty man glory

795
00:50:26,840 –> 00:50:30,520
in his might, there’s no place
for man’s strength.

796
00:50:31,960 –> 00:50:34,720
Let not the rich man glory in
his riches.

797
00:50:36,000 –> 00:50:37,960
There’s no place for man’s
riches.

798
00:50:39,360 –> 00:50:43,600
All of these are completely
contrary to the glory of God.

799
00:50:44,840 –> 00:50:49,720
But he says, but let him glory
him, that glorieth glory in

800
00:50:49,720 –> 00:50:51,760
this.
So if we’re going to glory in

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00:50:51,760 –> 00:50:56,360
something he says, let him glory
in this that he understandeth,

802
00:50:57,280 –> 00:51:02,320
and he knoweth me.
Let him glory in the fact that

803
00:51:02,320 –> 00:51:06,720
he understands God.
And let him work towards that.

804
00:51:08,040 –> 00:51:12,440
Let him work to understanding
the wisdom of God, because it is

805
00:51:12,440 –> 00:51:15,800
this wisdom that God is looking
for in US.

806
00:51:16,560 –> 00:51:19,840
And if we can develop this
wisdom, if we can follow the

807
00:51:19,840 –> 00:51:23,720
example of Christ, then we will
be glorified through the Lord

808
00:51:23,720 –> 00:51:27,600
Jesus Christ.
And then he tells us what his

809
00:51:27,600 –> 00:51:31,760
character is like, doesn’t he?
He says that I am Yahweh, which

810
00:51:31,760 –> 00:51:38,280
exercised loving kindness,
judgment and righteousness and

811
00:51:38,280 –> 00:51:40,920
the earth.
It’s funny because that’s very

812
00:51:40,920 –> 00:51:43,480
similar to the list of the
things that we’re missing in the

813
00:51:43,480 –> 00:51:47,600
ecclesia at Corinth.
He says for these things I

814
00:51:47,600 –> 00:51:51,720
delight Seth, Yahweh.
This is what I’m looking for in

815
00:51:51,720 –> 00:51:54,560
my people.
This is what I’m looking for

816
00:51:54,560 –> 00:52:00,280
from my family.
You see, everything is done by

817
00:52:00,280 –> 00:52:05,840
God, everything through Christ,
by Christ submitting to the

818
00:52:05,840 –> 00:52:10,560
cross and glorifying God.
We’re called to have exactly the

819
00:52:10,560 –> 00:52:14,840
same reward, eternal life.
We’re called to the same thing,

820
00:52:14,840 –> 00:52:17,880
to the same mission as our Lord
Jesus Christ.

821
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He says that according as it is
written, he that glorieth let

822
00:52:24,520 –> 00:52:30,880
him glory in the Lord.
What an amazing conclusion in

823
00:52:30,880 –> 00:52:33,960
the ecclesia where the leaders
were leading groups of brothers

824
00:52:33,960 –> 00:52:37,640
and sisters and they were doing
it for their own recognition.

825
00:52:38,600 –> 00:52:41,960
They were doing it by their own
charisma, by their own

826
00:52:42,000 –> 00:52:46,560
eloquence, but in doing this
they were working directly

827
00:52:46,560 –> 00:52:49,400
against the message of the
cross.

828
00:52:50,520 –> 00:52:52,520
And they were looking to glorify
themselves.

829
00:52:54,120 –> 00:52:57,520
So Paul strikes right at the
core of the situation.

830
00:52:58,800 –> 00:53:03,040
He shows that there’s only one
Lord, that only Christ has been

831
00:53:03,040 –> 00:53:08,040
able to conquer the flesh, and
that only Christ is our leader.

832
00:53:09,040 –> 00:53:12,240
He shows us that we’re joining
Christ in his mission.

833
00:53:13,200 –> 00:53:16,320
That we’re following.
His example and that if we’re

834
00:53:16,320 –> 00:53:17,680
looking.
For our own.

835
00:53:17,680 –> 00:53:21,320
Recognition that that’s exactly
opposite to what God is looking

836
00:53:21,320 –> 00:53:25,600
for from us, because that’s
glorifying the flesh and not

837
00:53:25,600 –> 00:53:30,280
glorifying God.
And all of us need to put our

838
00:53:30,280 –> 00:53:33,080
focus on the mission, which is
the.

839
00:53:33,080 –> 00:53:36,040
Cross.
God’s will and not our own.

840
00:53:37,520 –> 00:53:39,240
You know, in a lot of ways,
brothers and sisters, we could

841
00:53:39,240 –> 00:53:42,320
stop right there and say there’s
the solution to the brothers and

842
00:53:42,320 –> 00:53:44,600
sisters problem in the city of
Corinth.

843
00:53:45,400 –> 00:53:48,960
There it is.
Focus on glorifying God instead

844
00:53:48,960 –> 00:53:51,880
of glorifying yourself.
And maybe that’s the solution to

845
00:53:51,880 –> 00:53:54,680
the problems of of our world, of
our.

846
00:53:54,680 –> 00:53:58,520
Ecclesiastes in 2022.
If we could just get our minds

847
00:53:58,520 –> 00:54:02,280
focused on glorifying God and
have that as our.

848
00:54:02,280 –> 00:54:05,800
Mission.
Then we can have a place in the

849
00:54:05,800 –> 00:54:08,040
Kingdom to come.
Thank you.