Greg Robinson – God Hath Made Foolish the Wisdom of this World – Class 5 – He that Judgeth me is the Lord

1
00:00:03,080 –> 00:00:06,000
This is Washan Lake Bible School
2022.

2
00:00:06,640 –> 00:00:10,200
This is our third class of the
evening by our brother Greg

3
00:00:10,200 –> 00:00:13,040
Robinson.
His overall theme is God hath

4
00:00:13,040 –> 00:00:15,400
made foolishness the wisdom of
this world.

5
00:00:16,200 –> 00:00:19,080
Our reading has been First
Corinthians chapter 4.

6
00:00:19,720 –> 00:00:23,720
This is class 5 entitled He that
judges me is the Lord.

7
00:00:24,160 –> 00:00:29,920
Brother Greg, please.
Brother Jason.

8
00:00:29,920 –> 00:00:31,400
Good morning my dear brothers
and sisters.

9
00:00:34,640 –> 00:00:36,600
What is that?
OK, good morning, my dear

10
00:00:36,600 –> 00:00:40,400
brothers and sisters.
OK, much, much better.

11
00:00:41,080 –> 00:00:43,800
All right.
Yesterday we looked at how

12
00:00:43,800 –> 00:00:47,880
important it was to work in the
ecclesia, and I think Paul made

13
00:00:47,880 –> 00:00:50,480
it very clear to us with a
couple of really important

14
00:00:50,480 –> 00:00:54,400
examples for us of that.
Paul used the example of the

15
00:00:54,400 –> 00:00:58,520
field to show us that we need to
be sure that we are actually

16
00:00:58,520 –> 00:01:02,960
doing the work that we needed to
each individually be making sure

17
00:01:02,960 –> 00:01:06,200
that we are, that we’re doing
our job of planting and

18
00:01:06,200 –> 00:01:09,360
watering.
He reminded us that God is

19
00:01:09,360 –> 00:01:11,400
working next to us in that
field.

20
00:01:11,920 –> 00:01:14,400
And he reminded us that God owns
the field.

21
00:01:14,400 –> 00:01:16,000
It’s his field that we’re
working in.

22
00:01:16,960 –> 00:01:20,240
And then Paul compared the
ecclesia to a building, and he

23
00:01:20,240 –> 00:01:23,240
said that we need to make sure
that when we’re building on the

24
00:01:23,240 –> 00:01:27,640
foundation of Christ, that what
we build has to be compatible

25
00:01:27,640 –> 00:01:30,760
with Christ, because Christ is
that foundation.

26
00:01:31,440 –> 00:01:33,320
And then he ended.
The chapter with with what I

27
00:01:33,320 –> 00:01:35,800
think is a really wonderful
verse for us to look at or a

28
00:01:35,800 –> 00:01:38,920
couple of verses.
He says for all things are

29
00:01:38,920 –> 00:01:42,320
yours.
So everything that God has done

30
00:01:42,320 –> 00:01:44,920
and God is doing from the
creation of the world, he says

31
00:01:45,360 –> 00:01:48,400
is ours.
It’s for the purpose of bringing

32
00:01:48,400 –> 00:01:53,200
people to be the sons of God.
He says whether Paul or a Paulus

33
00:01:53,200 –> 00:01:55,880
or Cephas.
So all teachers, as her brother

34
00:01:55,880 –> 00:01:57,760
Simon said this morning, they’re
all servants.

35
00:01:57,760 –> 00:02:02,920
They’re all working to do this
work or the world itself or life

36
00:02:02,920 –> 00:02:06,040
or death or things present or
things to come.

37
00:02:06,480 –> 00:02:10,960
All are yours and you’re
Christ’s and Christ is God’s.

38
00:02:11,640 –> 00:02:14,840
So showing us that important
role that we have brothers and

39
00:02:14,840 –> 00:02:19,160
sisters of helping each other to
do that work and to help each

40
00:02:19,200 –> 00:02:22,400
other because we’re also
servants in part of this

41
00:02:22,400 –> 00:02:24,560
equation that he’s that he’s
just described for us.

42
00:02:25,600 –> 00:02:28,840
So that kind of brings us to
today’s class and today’s class

43
00:02:29,360 –> 00:02:35,600
on chapter 4, Paul shows us the
role of an apostle and he does

44
00:02:35,600 –> 00:02:38,560
it several different ways and I
think you’ll find them all very

45
00:02:38,560 –> 00:02:41,520
helpful.
He shows us that apostles role,

46
00:02:41,520 –> 00:02:45,200
the role of an apostle, is not
one of prestige, it’s not one of

47
00:02:45,360 –> 00:02:48,680
power, but it is one of a
servant.

48
00:02:49,560 –> 00:02:52,680
And Paul works to show the
leaders of the ecclesia that

49
00:02:52,680 –> 00:02:56,160
they, at this point in time,
many of them were out of line

50
00:02:56,840 –> 00:02:59,680
because they were looking
instead to, to use their human

51
00:02:59,680 –> 00:03:02,640
wisdom and their eloquence to
become popular.

52
00:03:03,440 –> 00:03:07,800
They had followers that admired
them and they had become, they

53
00:03:07,800 –> 00:03:11,200
had formed factions in the
ecclesia, factions that these

54
00:03:11,200 –> 00:03:15,480
leaders were ruling over.
And Paul’s answer to them is a

55
00:03:15,480 –> 00:03:18,680
simple one.
If you would just become

56
00:03:18,680 –> 00:03:23,080
servants, like an apostle is
supposed to be, these problems

57
00:03:23,080 –> 00:03:26,560
would take care of themselves.
So Paul speaks to them about

58
00:03:26,560 –> 00:03:31,800
this, and he emphasizes the
point that we all need to be

59
00:03:31,800 –> 00:03:35,200
servants.
Now, Paul did have a special

60
00:03:35,200 –> 00:03:37,880
authority, was the other thing
that we noticed in yesterday’s

61
00:03:38,640 –> 00:03:41,160
study.
And Paul had been appointed

62
00:03:41,160 –> 00:03:43,840
directly by Christ to do what he
was doing.

63
00:03:44,560 –> 00:03:47,880
So we don’t have that kind of a
situation today where anybody is

64
00:03:47,880 –> 00:03:49,800
appointed specifically by
Christ.

65
00:03:50,600 –> 00:03:54,360
We’re all servants, and we’re
all servants to our brothers and

66
00:03:54,360 –> 00:03:58,000
sisters.
And in our ecclesias we have

67
00:03:58,000 –> 00:04:01,080
what are called serving
brethren, people that were

68
00:04:01,080 –> 00:04:04,360
chosen by the ecclesia to serve
the ecclesia.

69
00:04:05,080 –> 00:04:07,080
And I just like to read just a
little quote out of the

70
00:04:07,080 –> 00:04:09,920
ecclesial guide that I think
helps to keep things in

71
00:04:09,920 –> 00:04:13,880
perspective for all of us.
The ecclesial guide says that

72
00:04:14,120 –> 00:04:20,320
brethren holding offices among
us shall be described as serving

73
00:04:20,320 –> 00:04:23,800
brethren, and that the
denomination of each particular

74
00:04:23,800 –> 00:04:28,960
office shall have brother or
brethren associated with it for

75
00:04:28,960 –> 00:04:32,040
the sake of preserving the
family character of our assembly

76
00:04:32,680 –> 00:04:34,280
in harmony with the mind of
Christ.

77
00:04:34,280 –> 00:04:37,360
And I think, I think this comes
right from the study that we’re

78
00:04:37,360 –> 00:04:41,480
doing here, First Corinthians,
right from the ideas of Paul.

79
00:04:41,880 –> 00:04:44,680
And it is important for us in
the Ecclesia to make sure we

80
00:04:44,680 –> 00:04:45,680
keep.
This in mind because.

81
00:04:46,120 –> 00:04:48,440
We’re going to be looking at the
role that Paul had as an

82
00:04:48,440 –> 00:04:52,520
apostle, and it was a special
position that he was in.

83
00:04:53,720 –> 00:04:57,520
So we’re servants of each other.
So let’s jump in then to Chapter

84
00:04:57,520 –> 00:04:59,040
4.
With this in mind.

85
00:04:59,840 –> 00:05:05,040
So Paul starts out verse 1.
He says let a man sow account of

86
00:05:05,040 –> 00:05:07,880
us.
And when he says us, he’s

87
00:05:07,880 –> 00:05:11,640
talking here about apostles,
he’s talking about the apostles

88
00:05:11,640 –> 00:05:14,160
that were responsible for the
brothers and sisters in the

89
00:05:14,160 –> 00:05:17,480
different eccleses.
He says, Let a man so account of

90
00:05:17,480 –> 00:05:21,640
us, the apostles, as ministers
of Christ.

91
00:05:21,640 –> 00:05:23,960
And.
When you think about what an

92
00:05:23,960 –> 00:05:27,920
apostle is, he says, I want you
to think about them being

93
00:05:28,320 –> 00:05:30,720
ministers.
And the word that he uses here,

94
00:05:30,720 –> 00:05:35,360
I think is, is, is exceptionally
good for helping us to see where

95
00:05:35,360 –> 00:05:39,640
we ought to be and what kind of
a role an apostle has and, and

96
00:05:39,640 –> 00:05:43,000
also what kind of a role we have
by extension and doing the work

97
00:05:43,160 –> 00:05:46,400
of teaching.
So he says, I want you to be

98
00:05:46,440 –> 00:05:51,040
ministers of Christ.
This word minister means a

99
00:05:51,040 –> 00:05:55,560
servant, but it’s not just any
servant that he’s talking about

100
00:05:55,560 –> 00:05:58,240
here.
The word servant here actually

101
00:05:58,240 –> 00:06:04,720
means an under rower of a ship.
So someone who’s down in the

102
00:06:04,720 –> 00:06:08,160
bottom of the ship and that’s
what Paul says.

103
00:06:08,160 –> 00:06:13,840
He says apostles then are under
rowers in a ship.

104
00:06:14,960 –> 00:06:17,520
Now that sounds great, but I’m
show you a picture here that

105
00:06:17,520 –> 00:06:20,520
really puts it in perspective,
at least it did for me to, to

106
00:06:20,520 –> 00:06:24,880
understand where we really are
in this hierarchy.

107
00:06:26,200 –> 00:06:28,040
So there’s a picture of where we
are now.

108
00:06:28,040 –> 00:06:30,280
Which, which people do you think
we are?

109
00:06:30,480 –> 00:06:33,480
Which people do you think the
apostles were on here?

110
00:06:34,440 –> 00:06:38,960
The other ones down underneath
the deck, they’re the ones that

111
00:06:38,960 –> 00:06:43,360
have these little holes where
their paddle sticks out and

112
00:06:43,360 –> 00:06:47,040
they’re able to then move their
paddle and to row the ship

113
00:06:47,040 –> 00:06:49,880
forward.
They’re following directions.

114
00:06:50,800 –> 00:06:52,920
They’re working all the time.
Working.

115
00:06:54,320 –> 00:06:58,120
It’s Christ’s ship, isn’t it?
He’s the one that determines the

116
00:06:58,120 –> 00:07:00,680
course.
Thank goodness for that.

117
00:07:00,720 –> 00:07:05,440
I think the apostles then are
responsible to Christ, and

118
00:07:05,440 –> 00:07:08,120
Christ is the captain.
Of the ship.

119
00:07:09,360 –> 00:07:12,080
So apostles then are under
rowers, and I think that gives

120
00:07:12,080 –> 00:07:16,400
us a lot of perspective.
It puts us in our place as well.

121
00:07:17,400 –> 00:07:20,520
For if the apostles are under
rowers, if Paul was an under

122
00:07:20,520 –> 00:07:24,120
rower like this, then we must be
under rowers as well.

123
00:07:24,120 –> 00:07:27,200
We must be still.
We must be like him under the

124
00:07:27,200 –> 00:07:30,640
deck, rowing in the direction
that Christ has shown us.

125
00:07:31,640 –> 00:07:34,560
So the leaders of Corinth that
were causing the problems in the

126
00:07:34,560 –> 00:07:38,280
Ecclesia, we’re acting as if
they were up on the deck, that

127
00:07:38,280 –> 00:07:40,480
maybe they were deck captains
themselves.

128
00:07:40,480 –> 00:07:44,280
And you can imagine the ship
with three or four or five or

129
00:07:44,280 –> 00:07:47,280
how many of her factions and and
leaders there were up on top of

130
00:07:47,280 –> 00:07:49,440
the deck.
And you can imagine them all

131
00:07:49,440 –> 00:07:52,280
trying to to lead the direction
of where the ship was going to

132
00:07:52,280 –> 00:07:53,320
go.
At any given.

133
00:07:53,320 –> 00:07:57,000
Time wouldn’t work, would it
Wouldn’t work.

134
00:07:57,000 –> 00:08:00,920
You have to have one master, and
we have a master and that

135
00:08:00,920 –> 00:08:02,320
masters.
The Lord Jesus Christ.

136
00:08:02,840 –> 00:08:04,840
So Paul’s hoping then that
they’ll get the point.

137
00:08:05,400 –> 00:08:08,480
It doesn’t matter how eloquent
your talk is, no matter how many

138
00:08:08,480 –> 00:08:13,600
friends you have, if you’re not
an under rower and you’re on the

139
00:08:13,600 –> 00:08:17,840
wrong deck, get back down to
being an under rower.

140
00:08:18,840 –> 00:08:21,280
It makes it clear to us, doesn’t
it, that the apostles were

141
00:08:21,280 –> 00:08:26,000
servants and so are we.
So he says they need to be under

142
00:08:26,000 –> 00:08:28,080
rowers.
He says they need to be

143
00:08:28,280 –> 00:08:36,320
stewards, and the word steward
here is one who rules a house is

144
00:08:36,320 –> 00:08:39,520
what that means.
So they’re untrusted.

145
00:08:39,520 –> 00:08:43,440
Then a steward was, as the word
means, is a person who’s

146
00:08:43,440 –> 00:08:48,680
entrusted to manage a house.
I want you to take special note

147
00:08:48,680 –> 00:08:52,120
of that.
They were managers of a house.

148
00:08:53,280 –> 00:08:55,360
Note that because it’s going to
be important in just a minute.

149
00:08:56,120 –> 00:09:00,200
So these apostles are servants
and they’re a part of Christ’s

150
00:09:00,280 –> 00:09:03,840
house, and they’re managing
something that’s very, very

151
00:09:03,840 –> 00:09:06,520
valuable for Christ.
And what is it that they’re

152
00:09:06,520 –> 00:09:10,000
managing?
They’re managing the mysteries

153
00:09:10,320 –> 00:09:12,680
of God.
We ran into this in first

154
00:09:12,680 –> 00:09:15,720
Corinthians 2, verse 7.
The mysteries of God are the

155
00:09:15,720 –> 00:09:20,080
truths that were once hidden but
have now been revealed.

156
00:09:20,080 –> 00:09:21,960
So the apostles have been given
something, they’ve been

157
00:09:21,960 –> 00:09:25,720
entrusted with something that
they have a responsibility to

158
00:09:25,720 –> 00:09:27,760
share and to preach to the whole
world.

159
00:09:29,400 –> 00:09:32,720
So the apostles here, and
especially Paul, had a

160
00:09:32,720 –> 00:09:38,680
responsibility to Christ because
they were servants in his house.

161
00:09:39,720 –> 00:09:42,840
They were servants who were
managing the mysteries of God.

162
00:09:44,960 –> 00:09:48,200
The point that Paul makes is
that the apostles were not

163
00:09:48,200 –> 00:09:52,680
working for status.
They’re under rowers and they’ve

164
00:09:52,680 –> 00:09:55,680
got a job to do, and that’s to
manage the mysteries of God.

165
00:09:57,760 –> 00:10:01,800
And then in verse 2, he throws
another word at us that gets us

166
00:10:01,800 –> 00:10:04,560
really thinking.
He says, moreover, it is

167
00:10:04,560 –> 00:10:07,800
required of these stewards,
these these servants of the

168
00:10:07,800 –> 00:10:13,800
house that they be found
faithful servants in the House

169
00:10:13,800 –> 00:10:18,440
of Christ have got to be
faithful with the mysteries of

170
00:10:18,440 –> 00:10:19,800
God.
So the message that they teach

171
00:10:19,800 –> 00:10:22,920
has got to be consistent with
the message that they received.

172
00:10:23,280 –> 00:10:25,800
They don’t get to change it.
They have to be faithfully

173
00:10:25,800 –> 00:10:28,600
communicating the message that
they’ve been given, and those

174
00:10:28,600 –> 00:10:31,920
messages have to be protected
and they have to be delivered.

175
00:10:33,120 –> 00:10:35,920
We put these two first 2 verses
and some of these words

176
00:10:35,920 –> 00:10:39,480
together.
And an echo, I think, comes to

177
00:10:39,480 –> 00:10:40,760
our minds when we think about
it.

178
00:10:41,560 –> 00:10:47,600
The apostles were servants who
were faithful in the House of

179
00:10:47,600 –> 00:10:51,200
Christ.
And what do we realize when we

180
00:10:51,200 –> 00:10:54,600
hear those words together?
Faithful servants.

181
00:10:55,480 –> 00:10:58,680
In the house.
Don’t we think about Moses?

182
00:10:59,560 –> 00:11:02,640
Isn’t that what’s said about
Moses?

183
00:11:04,040 –> 00:11:10,600
Numbers chapter 12 and verse 7.
It says that God’s servant Moses

184
00:11:11,240 –> 00:11:15,520
was faithful in all his house,
so that the message that God

185
00:11:15,520 –> 00:11:20,160
gave to Moses, Moses faithfully
communicated to Israel.

186
00:11:21,640 –> 00:11:23,680
Come over to Numbers chapter 12
and verse 1.

187
00:11:23,680 –> 00:11:28,240
So #7 verse 7 is where we have
Moses being faithful in all his

188
00:11:28,240 –> 00:11:32,640
houses as a servant.
Numbers chapter 12, verse one

189
00:11:32,640 –> 00:11:37,280
gives us some some context for
why that statement was made.

190
00:11:37,360 –> 00:11:41,840
And I think it gives us some
context about what Paul is

191
00:11:41,840 –> 00:11:46,840
trying to say here about the
relationship that Paul has with

192
00:11:46,840 –> 00:11:48,000
the Lord Jesus.
Christ.

193
00:11:48,480 –> 00:11:51,680
So Numbers chapter 12, verse
one, this is a chapter about

194
00:11:51,680 –> 00:11:55,640
Miriam and Aaron actually
speaking out against Moses.

195
00:11:55,640 –> 00:11:58,880
So I think you already see that
the similarities to what’s

196
00:11:58,880 –> 00:12:06,250
happening in Corinth.
So Numbers chapter 12, verse

197
00:12:06,250 –> 00:12:10,810
one, it says, and Miriam and
Aaron spake against Moses

198
00:12:11,610 –> 00:12:15,770
because of the Ethiopian woman
whom he had married, for he had

199
00:12:15,770 –> 00:12:20,040
married an Ethiopian woman.
So there’s different ideas as to

200
00:12:20,040 –> 00:12:22,240
what that means that he married
an Ethiopian woman.

201
00:12:22,240 –> 00:12:24,080
I don’t think that’s
particularly relevant to what

202
00:12:24,080 –> 00:12:27,440
we’re looking at right now.
Let’s just say that Miriam and

203
00:12:27,440 –> 00:12:32,120
Aaron had a problem with what
Moses had done in marrying this

204
00:12:32,120 –> 00:12:36,960
Ethiopian woman.
But the point is that Moses,

205
00:12:37,120 –> 00:12:42,000
sorry, Miriam and Aaron spoke
out against Moses because of

206
00:12:42,000 –> 00:12:48,600
this.
They spoke out against him, and

207
00:12:48,600 –> 00:12:53,880
they said, Hath Yahweh indeed
spoken only by Moses?

208
00:12:54,920 –> 00:13:01,640
Hath he not also spoken by us?
They said God spoken by us too.

209
00:13:02,600 –> 00:13:07,800
Miriam was a prophetess and
Aaron was a priest, so God had

210
00:13:07,800 –> 00:13:11,280
spoken by them.
That was true, and they said, so

211
00:13:11,480 –> 00:13:16,080
since God has spoken by us,
shouldn’t Moses listen to us and

212
00:13:16,080 –> 00:13:19,040
do what we think that he should
do, or do what we say that he

213
00:13:19,040 –> 00:13:22,880
should do here?
So Miriam and Aaron spoke out

214
00:13:22,880 –> 00:13:27,440
against what Moses was doing and
about his authority here.

215
00:13:27,440 –> 00:13:33,280
They said we’re just like Moses
and we know what happened, don’t

216
00:13:33,280 –> 00:13:34,080
we?
The Lord heard it.

217
00:13:42,380 –> 00:13:44,300
In verse three we get the
divine.

218
00:13:44,300 –> 00:13:47,220
Commentary What does God think
about what what their complaint?

219
00:13:47,220 –> 00:13:52,880
Was God says.
Now the man Moses was very meek

220
00:13:53,800 –> 00:13:56,280
above all the men which were
upon the face of the earth.

221
00:13:57,800 –> 00:14:01,160
That’s unexpected.
That’s not what we’d expect to

222
00:14:01,160 –> 00:14:05,880
to read there, but that’s God’s
comment about Moses.

223
00:14:09,200 –> 00:14:12,800
It’s like when you read that,
you think, how could they be

224
00:14:12,800 –> 00:14:16,200
saying something against Moses
if he is this, this meek man, as

225
00:14:16,200 –> 00:14:19,480
God says, the meekest man that
was on the the face of the earth

226
00:14:20,960 –> 00:14:24,160
and then caught God calls Moses
and Aaron and Miriam to the

227
00:14:24,160 –> 00:14:27,920
Tabernacle.
We come down to verse 6 and God

228
00:14:27,920 –> 00:14:34,240
says, hear now my words.
If there be a prophet among you,

229
00:14:35,400 –> 00:14:38,960
I, Yahweh will make myself known
unto him in a vision and I’ll

230
00:14:38,960 –> 00:14:41,680
speak to him in a dream.
So that’s how I communicate with

231
00:14:41,680 –> 00:14:43,560
people.
As we’re going through this, I

232
00:14:43,560 –> 00:14:45,360
want you to be thinking about
what, what might have been

233
00:14:45,360 –> 00:14:49,440
happening in Corinth, because
didn’t the brothers in Corinth,

234
00:14:49,440 –> 00:14:52,120
didn’t the brothers and some of
the sisters have the, the, the

235
00:14:52,160 –> 00:14:56,800
gifts of the Spirit in Corinth?
Wasn’t that also the case there?

236
00:14:57,760 –> 00:15:00,080
And it’s likely that some of
these teachers had those gifts

237
00:15:00,080 –> 00:15:03,760
as well.
And so that their charges

238
00:15:03,760 –> 00:15:06,520
against Paul might be the same
or very similar to what the

239
00:15:06,520 –> 00:15:13,960
charges were against Moses.
Verse 7, he says, but my servant

240
00:15:13,960 –> 00:15:19,760
Moses is not so who is faithful
in mine house?

241
00:15:21,280 –> 00:15:23,920
My servant who’s faithful in my
house.

242
00:15:24,600 –> 00:15:28,120
He says with him will I speak
mouth to mouth.

243
00:15:29,160 –> 00:15:33,720
I speak to Moses directly.
Even apparently he says here

244
00:15:33,720 –> 00:15:38,040
that means with clarity.
So when I talk to Moses I speak

245
00:15:38,320 –> 00:15:40,960
with clarity to him.
I speak directly to him, not in

246
00:15:41,120 –> 00:15:46,040
not in visions or in dreams and
not in dark speeches or in or in

247
00:15:46,040 –> 00:15:48,520
riddles.
He says, here are we catching

248
00:15:48,520 –> 00:15:50,200
the illusion that Paul’s making
here?

249
00:15:51,160 –> 00:15:54,400
So he’s telling us that God had
this direct channel of

250
00:15:54,400 –> 00:15:58,560
communication with Moses.
It wasn’t like the communication

251
00:15:58,560 –> 00:16:00,400
with, with with the other
prophets.

252
00:16:01,680 –> 00:16:05,440
And then he goes on, and he
says, and the similitude or the

253
00:16:05,440 –> 00:16:09,880
likeness of Yahweh, shall he or
shall Moses behold?

254
00:16:11,000 –> 00:16:12,760
So Moses saw the likeness of
God, didn’t he?

255
00:16:12,760 –> 00:16:16,600
He saw the glory of God.
And then the power of Paul’s

256
00:16:16,600 –> 00:16:19,440
illusion goes even further.
He says, Wherefore then were ye

257
00:16:19,440 –> 00:16:23,840
not afraid to speak against my
servant Moses?

258
00:16:26,200 –> 00:16:29,200
You feel the power if, if they’d
made the connection, the

259
00:16:29,200 –> 00:16:32,520
brothers and sisters that were
the problem in Corinth, Do you

260
00:16:32,520 –> 00:16:34,000
feel the power of what he’s
saying here?

261
00:16:34,720 –> 00:16:38,440
Miriam and Aaron were not afraid
to speak out against Moses.

262
00:16:39,840 –> 00:16:43,120
But they should have been.
And there were some in Corinth

263
00:16:43,120 –> 00:16:48,760
that spoke out against Paul, but
Paul had a special channel of

264
00:16:48,760 –> 00:16:52,600
communication with Christ to
communicate the message of

265
00:16:52,600 –> 00:16:55,120
Christ to the brothers and
sisters.

266
00:16:56,440 –> 00:16:57,680
Paul’s telling us that, isn’t
he?

267
00:16:58,440 –> 00:17:04,520
Paul’s explaining to them in a
meek way, I think that he had a

268
00:17:04,760 –> 00:17:06,560
message.
He was a messenger of the gospel

269
00:17:06,560 –> 00:17:09,119
of Christ and that he was a
direct messenger.

270
00:17:10,079 –> 00:17:15,040
To the Lord Jesus Christ, those
in Corinth and who are elevating

271
00:17:15,040 –> 00:17:17,960
their own importance and
questioning Paul’s relationship

272
00:17:17,960 –> 00:17:22,200
with Christ were just like
Miriam and like Aaron.

273
00:17:23,839 –> 00:17:25,400
Let’s put the pieces together of
this.

274
00:17:34,750 –> 00:17:36,630
So he says.
Moreover, it’s required and

275
00:17:36,630 –> 00:17:38,310
stewards that a man be found
faithful.

276
00:17:38,310 –> 00:17:41,390
We made the connection there.
Moses was a servant who was

277
00:17:41,390 –> 00:17:46,030
faithful in all God’s house and
we had those 3 keywords.

278
00:17:47,280 –> 00:17:49,720
We had servant, faithful, and
house.

279
00:17:50,440 –> 00:17:52,880
Moses has this special
relationship with God.

280
00:17:53,640 –> 00:17:57,920
God spoke directly to him and
Moses had seen God’s likeness.

281
00:17:59,280 –> 00:18:04,360
Paul had a special relationship
with Christ.

282
00:18:05,880 –> 00:18:10,360
He’d spoken directly with Christ
and he’d seen Christ likeness,

283
00:18:10,360 –> 00:18:13,960
hadn’t he?
So what were the implications?

284
00:18:14,880 –> 00:18:18,120
Moses was under attack from
Aaron and Miriam, who were

285
00:18:18,160 –> 00:18:22,040
asserting their authority.
And Paul, we believe, was under

286
00:18:22,040 –> 00:18:25,040
attack from the leaders of
Corinth, who were also asserting

287
00:18:25,040 –> 00:18:28,440
their authority.
And those who were criticizing

288
00:18:28,440 –> 00:18:35,120
Moses were actually criticizing
God in the same way those that

289
00:18:35,120 –> 00:18:40,440
were criticizing Paul were
actually criticizing Christ.

290
00:18:42,000 –> 00:18:44,320
The power there, I think is, is
remarkable for us.

291
00:18:45,360 –> 00:18:47,560
All right, let’s go back to
First Corinthians chapter 4 with

292
00:18:47,560 –> 00:18:51,120
this idea in mind.
And we see this special

293
00:18:51,520 –> 00:18:55,600
relationship that Paul has with
Christ and the special

294
00:18:55,600 –> 00:18:59,840
responsibility that he has in
delivering the message as a

295
00:18:59,840 –> 00:19:05,360
steward because he is definitely
the faithful servant in Christ’s

296
00:19:05,360 –> 00:19:08,600
house.
And so he says in verse three,

297
00:19:09,240 –> 00:19:12,440
he says, but with me it’s a very
small thing that I should be

298
00:19:12,440 –> 00:19:18,360
judged of you.
Or of man’s judgment while

299
00:19:18,360 –> 00:19:22,400
saying, look, you’re saying
negative things about me, you’re

300
00:19:22,400 –> 00:19:26,720
trying to discredit me.
I’m being judged by the factions

301
00:19:26,720 –> 00:19:29,400
in Corinth.
But that’s that’s really a small

302
00:19:29,400 –> 00:19:32,400
thing.
It’s not important.

303
00:19:33,040 –> 00:19:37,280
It wasn’t important to Paul how
he was viewed by them because

304
00:19:37,280 –> 00:19:42,120
their judgment was based on
man’s wisdom, just like it

305
00:19:42,120 –> 00:19:46,400
wasn’t important to Moses.
It was really what his Lord

306
00:19:46,400 –> 00:19:49,280
thought That was what was
important.

307
00:19:49,880 –> 00:19:55,400
That’s what mattered.
So in verse four, he says, for I

308
00:19:55,400 –> 00:20:00,120
know nothing by myself.
He’s he’s, he’s explaining the

309
00:20:00,120 –> 00:20:03,600
truth here.
My judgement of myself is not

310
00:20:03,600 –> 00:20:07,360
reliable.
I I find that when I judge

311
00:20:07,360 –> 00:20:10,840
myself, I cut myself slack.
I could justify just about

312
00:20:10,840 –> 00:20:13,920
anything that I do.
You ever experienced that,

313
00:20:14,960 –> 00:20:16,800
right?
If we do, we do something wrong.

314
00:20:16,800 –> 00:20:18,720
We can.
We can justify it if someone

315
00:20:18,720 –> 00:20:21,320
else does the same thing.
Wow.

316
00:20:21,760 –> 00:20:25,360
Can’t believe that you did that,
Paul, saying, yeah, I find that

317
00:20:25,360 –> 00:20:28,600
I’m just just not reliable in
judging myself because I can do

318
00:20:28,600 –> 00:20:30,520
this, because I can justify
myself.

319
00:20:31,680 –> 00:20:34,760
So he says.
Yet I’m not hereby justified.

320
00:20:34,760 –> 00:20:37,440
So just because I justify
myself, he says, that doesn’t

321
00:20:37,440 –> 00:20:40,880
mean that I’m righteous.
That doesn’t mean that I’m

322
00:20:40,880 –> 00:20:46,760
justified, he says.
Because I do have a judge.

323
00:20:48,360 –> 00:20:53,520
He that judgeth me is my master.
He that judgeth me is the Lord,

324
00:20:53,520 –> 00:20:56,120
he says.
And it would be up to Christ if

325
00:20:56,120 –> 00:20:59,320
he was a faithful servant in his
house or not.

326
00:21:00,680 –> 00:21:03,120
And it would be up to Christ if
the others were faithful

327
00:21:03,120 –> 00:21:05,800
servants in Christ’s house or
not.

328
00:21:06,880 –> 00:21:08,440
So.
It’s a key point, I think, to

329
00:21:08,440 –> 00:21:12,440
understanding the relationship.
Paul also goes on to say, don’t

330
00:21:12,440 –> 00:21:15,480
try to judge other people’s
motives for us.

331
00:21:15,800 –> 00:21:19,720
Don’t try to think about what
someone else is thinking because

332
00:21:19,760 –> 00:21:23,000
you’ll most likely be wrong When
you when you try to put together

333
00:21:23,000 –> 00:21:26,160
all the motives for someone
else’s actions and you kind of

334
00:21:26,160 –> 00:21:28,840
stack them up and you work out
why they’ve done what they’ve

335
00:21:28,840 –> 00:21:31,120
done and you’re ready to go and
you’re ready to go have a

336
00:21:31,120 –> 00:21:34,600
conversation about them and to
and to tell them the mistakes

337
00:21:34,600 –> 00:21:37,960
that they’ve made based upon
your your judgment of their

338
00:21:37,960 –> 00:21:40,760
motives, you’re most likely
going to be wrong.

339
00:21:41,360 –> 00:21:43,160
I think we’ve probably all
experienced that, haven’t we?

340
00:21:44,320 –> 00:21:47,800
He says don’t let that become a
source of strife because it can

341
00:21:47,800 –> 00:21:51,680
be so damaging.
And he clarifies all that in in

342
00:21:51,680 –> 00:21:53,760
verse five.
He says, therefore judge nothing

343
00:21:54,360 –> 00:21:57,080
before the time until the Lord
come.

344
00:21:58,120 –> 00:22:01,600
So to the self appointed
leaders, Paul says since man’s

345
00:22:01,600 –> 00:22:07,760
judgment isn’t reliable, it’s
best if we let Christ judge and

346
00:22:07,760 –> 00:22:12,280
when Christ comes he will judge.
He says they both bring both to

347
00:22:12,280 –> 00:22:13,240
light.
Sorry.

348
00:22:13,240 –> 00:22:16,760
Both bring to light the hidden
things of darkness, so the

349
00:22:16,760 –> 00:22:19,720
things that no one knows about,
and to make manifest the

350
00:22:19,720 –> 00:22:23,360
counsels of the hearts.
And then she’ll every man have

351
00:22:23,360 –> 00:22:26,240
praise of God, so their motives
will will be exposed.

352
00:22:27,640 –> 00:22:31,160
He says let Christ be the one
who judges the motives of

353
00:22:31,160 –> 00:22:34,800
others.
That’s what Aaron and Miriam

354
00:22:34,800 –> 00:22:37,080
should have done.
And that’s what we should do

355
00:22:37,080 –> 00:22:40,560
also.
Well, then Paul shifts gears a

356
00:22:40,560 –> 00:22:44,080
little bit.
And we talked about this verse 6

357
00:22:44,080 –> 00:22:47,760
already.
Paul’s trying to to work with

358
00:22:47,760 –> 00:22:52,600
the people in the ecclesia that
had this issue with elevating

359
00:22:52,600 –> 00:22:55,880
themselves and maybe trying to
fill that void that they thought

360
00:22:55,880 –> 00:22:59,000
Paul had left in what the truth
was all about.

361
00:22:59,720 –> 00:23:03,040
And we talked about the fact in
in chapter 1 that that Paul was

362
00:23:03,040 –> 00:23:08,000
using the names of Paul,
Apollos, Cephas and of Christ in

363
00:23:08,000 –> 00:23:11,240
place of the people that he was
actually speaking about.

364
00:23:12,240 –> 00:23:17,920
You remember Paul saying that?
And so here he’s saying, just to

365
00:23:17,920 –> 00:23:21,360
make sure that, you know, just
to make sure that you’re clear

366
00:23:21,360 –> 00:23:25,240
on this, I, you need to know
that I’ve been using my name and

367
00:23:25,240 –> 00:23:27,720
Apollos’s name to show the
factions that were in the

368
00:23:27,720 –> 00:23:30,640
ecclesia.
I have in a figure, he says.

369
00:23:30,640 –> 00:23:34,080
Transferred to myself and to
Apollos those names.

370
00:23:34,760 –> 00:23:36,560
For your sake.
So I’ve used my name and

371
00:23:36,560 –> 00:23:38,800
Apollos’s name in place of the
others.

372
00:23:39,720 –> 00:23:42,400
He didn’t literally mean that it
was Paul, Apollos, Peter in

373
00:23:42,400 –> 00:23:46,120
Christ.
So why wouldn’t he want to

374
00:23:46,120 –> 00:23:50,240
mention their names?
I’ve had actually a few people

375
00:23:50,240 –> 00:23:52,560
come up and suggest that to me
that it would have been, it

376
00:23:52,560 –> 00:23:55,960
would have been more like Paul
to actually come up and say it

377
00:23:55,960 –> 00:23:59,040
was brother this, brother this,
brother this and brother this

378
00:23:59,640 –> 00:24:01,720
that were actually the issues
and to put that in the letter.

379
00:24:02,600 –> 00:24:05,040
Why might he have have?
Chosen not to do that and to do

380
00:24:05,040 –> 00:24:08,720
this instead and to use these
other names instead of referring

381
00:24:08,720 –> 00:24:13,040
to them directly.
It’s almost like the the idea

382
00:24:13,040 –> 00:24:16,040
behind Matthew 18, isn’t it?
Where you go to a brother

383
00:24:16,320 –> 00:24:18,840
personally and you speak to them
directly so that it doesn’t

384
00:24:18,840 –> 00:24:21,160
become an issue.
That’s then in front of

385
00:24:21,160 –> 00:24:23,840
everybody.
It increases the odds of them

386
00:24:23,840 –> 00:24:27,200
being able to solve the problem
if we don’t embarrass them in

387
00:24:27,200 –> 00:24:29,760
front of everybody.
Now, there’s times when that

388
00:24:29,760 –> 00:24:32,160
needs to happen and there needs
to be that correction that’s

389
00:24:32,160 –> 00:24:35,120
that’s very public.
But there’s also times when when

390
00:24:35,120 –> 00:24:36,600
correction needs to be done
privately.

391
00:24:37,160 –> 00:24:38,560
And I think that’s what Paul’s
doing here.

392
00:24:38,560 –> 00:24:42,320
He’s using these names because
he doesn’t want to, to, to burn

393
00:24:42,320 –> 00:24:45,160
the bridge of the opportunity of
trying to help them out.

394
00:24:46,280 –> 00:24:50,560
And I think that’s the mark
really of a true apostle working

395
00:24:50,560 –> 00:24:54,360
for what’s the best for the
people trying to to help them.

396
00:24:54,760 –> 00:24:57,360
To get to a place where they
would be able to, to make

397
00:24:57,360 –> 00:24:58,760
corrections to what they were
doing.

398
00:24:59,640 –> 00:25:02,120
And so that’s what he says next.
He says that you might learn in

399
00:25:02,120 –> 00:25:07,200
us not to think of men above
that which is written, that no

400
00:25:07,200 –> 00:25:11,160
one of you be puffed up for one
against another.

401
00:25:11,960 –> 00:25:15,760
He’s saying it’s all about
helping the leaders to learn

402
00:25:15,760 –> 00:25:17,960
that they are not higher than
others.

403
00:25:18,960 –> 00:25:21,480
And that’s why I think he goes
through that comparison with

404
00:25:21,480 –> 00:25:25,400
Moses to show them the position
that they really were in and and

405
00:25:25,400 –> 00:25:29,440
to show them how how problematic
that thinking was for for Miriam

406
00:25:29,440 –> 00:25:32,520
and Aaron and how they were
probably heading down the same

407
00:25:32,520 –> 00:25:36,560
Rd.
Verse 7.

408
00:25:36,560 –> 00:25:42,240
Then he says, for who maketh
thee to differ from another?

409
00:25:43,360 –> 00:25:45,720
And what has thou that thou
didst not receive?

410
00:25:47,240 –> 00:25:52,160
Now thou didst receive it.
Why does thou glory as if thou

411
00:25:52,200 –> 00:25:57,440
has not received it?
So what is he talking about

412
00:25:57,440 –> 00:26:00,920
here?
So maybe one of us has a

413
00:26:00,960 –> 00:26:05,560
photographic memory.
I wish that was me, but maybe

414
00:26:05,560 –> 00:26:07,400
someone does have a photographic
memory.

415
00:26:08,080 –> 00:26:11,200
Where did you get the skill?
Got it from God.

416
00:26:11,560 –> 00:26:14,480
So should you glory in the skill
of of having that that memory.

417
00:26:16,200 –> 00:26:18,720
What about a super logical
thinker, someone that could

418
00:26:18,720 –> 00:26:21,440
figure things out all really
quickly and really easily?

419
00:26:22,360 –> 00:26:25,840
Is that to your glory?
No, it’s, it’s, it’s to God’s

420
00:26:25,840 –> 00:26:27,480
glory, right?
Because God’s the one who gave

421
00:26:27,480 –> 00:26:29,680
it to you.
Maybe understanding, maybe a

422
00:26:29,680 –> 00:26:31,080
great writer, They’re all the
same.

423
00:26:32,040 –> 00:26:34,360
So in Corinth there were some
that were boasting about the

424
00:26:34,360 –> 00:26:36,760
spirit gifts that they had been
given, right?

425
00:26:38,080 –> 00:26:41,000
Where did they come from?
This is this is just a gift that

426
00:26:41,000 –> 00:26:42,120
God gave you.
Why should you?

427
00:26:42,360 –> 00:26:45,520
Why should you think that that
somehow has made you better?

428
00:26:46,320 –> 00:26:48,880
You’re just been given that in
order to teach the Word.

429
00:26:50,240 –> 00:26:54,000
And while we may have honed
those abilities, Paul’s telling

430
00:26:54,000 –> 00:26:55,840
us that those abilities came
from God.

431
00:26:55,840 –> 00:26:58,160
So there’s no room for anyone to
boast.

432
00:27:00,800 –> 00:27:05,080
It must be so difficult for our
God, who gives us these

433
00:27:05,080 –> 00:27:08,160
abilities to do His work.
And when we succeed, then we

434
00:27:08,160 –> 00:27:11,160
take the credit for the ability
that he gave us.

435
00:27:12,040 –> 00:27:15,720
And then God ends up not being
glorified, which is the whole

436
00:27:15,720 –> 00:27:20,200
purpose.
Paul changes what he’s talking

437
00:27:20,200 –> 00:27:24,920
about in the next few verses.
He almost lays out for us a

438
00:27:24,920 –> 00:27:29,520
checklist of what an apostles
life is like.

439
00:27:30,400 –> 00:27:32,520
And he says if you’re like this.
You’re not an.

440
00:27:32,520 –> 00:27:35,080
Apostle.
But if you’re like this, you.

441
00:27:35,120 –> 00:27:38,000
Are an apostle, and he actually
calls out those that they

442
00:27:38,000 –> 00:27:40,800
thought that they were rulers.
In the ecclesia, in these next

443
00:27:40,800 –> 00:27:43,520
few verses, he’s saying.
Everybody should look at

444
00:27:43,520 –> 00:27:47,360
themselves.
And tell me or tell themselves,

445
00:27:47,360 –> 00:27:50,600
I guess judge for themselves if
you’re living the life of an

446
00:27:50,600 –> 00:27:53,640
apostle.
So let’s see what he has to say.

447
00:27:53,800 –> 00:28:00,120
Verse 8, he says, now ye are
full, now ye are rich.

448
00:28:01,200 –> 00:28:03,400
You’ve reigned as kings without
us.

449
00:28:04,240 –> 00:28:08,360
So look at yourselves.
You have everything you want.

450
00:28:09,440 –> 00:28:11,880
You’re ruling.
Over your own subjects, you have

451
00:28:11,880 –> 00:28:15,440
these followers in the ecclesia.
You’re raining like kings, he

452
00:28:15,440 –> 00:28:21,480
says.
Are you ruling over your

453
00:28:21,480 –> 00:28:25,840
brothers and sisters?
Are you being honored, praised

454
00:28:26,000 –> 00:28:27,360
and glorified?
He says to them.

455
00:28:28,560 –> 00:28:32,360
And then he says, I would to God
that you did reign, that we

456
00:28:32,360 –> 00:28:36,400
might reign with you.
I think he’s saying here, it’d

457
00:28:36,400 –> 00:28:38,080
be nice if that’s really how it
was.

458
00:28:39,080 –> 00:28:42,360
It’d be nice because we’d like
to be raining there right next

459
00:28:42,360 –> 00:28:44,560
to you.
And maybe Paul’s thinking about

460
00:28:44,560 –> 00:28:46,040
if that was the case, what would
it be?

461
00:28:46,400 –> 00:28:49,240
Where would we be?
We’d be in the Kingdom, wouldn’t

462
00:28:49,240 –> 00:28:51,680
we, if that was actually how it
was because we would actually

463
00:28:51,680 –> 00:28:57,880
have that job of of ruling over
the nation’s verse 9, What does

464
00:28:57,880 –> 00:28:59,640
he say?
He says for?

465
00:28:59,640 –> 00:29:04,760
I think he says for or.
The reality is I think that God

466
00:29:04,760 –> 00:29:09,480
has set forth that setting forth
there is to display on a stage.

467
00:29:10,920 –> 00:29:18,040
So we set forth on a stage, all
of us, the apostles last, and he

468
00:29:18,040 –> 00:29:19,520
says last.
He doesn’t mean that the last

469
00:29:19,520 –> 00:29:22,560
ones to get up on the stage.
What he means there is that they

470
00:29:22,560 –> 00:29:25,560
are in the lowest of
circumstances.

471
00:29:26,440 –> 00:29:27,720
They are the lowest of the
group.

472
00:29:28,720 –> 00:29:31,640
And we know that’s right.
We know that’s exactly how an

473
00:29:31,640 –> 00:29:34,400
apostle should be because that’s
the cross of Christ.

474
00:29:35,880 –> 00:29:39,840
That’s the glory of God.
That’s what Christ did.

475
00:29:41,200 –> 00:29:46,920
He says as it were appointed to
death for were made a spectacle

476
00:29:46,920 –> 00:29:50,960
were made at a theater to the
world and to angels and to men.

477
00:29:52,240 –> 00:29:56,200
He says really how we should
feel is.

478
00:29:56,400 –> 00:29:58,960
Like we’re on a.
Stage humbled and condemned to

479
00:29:58,960 –> 00:30:01,760
death.
If we’re following the example

480
00:30:01,760 –> 00:30:07,440
of the Lord Jesus Christ who was
displayed for all to see in

481
00:30:07,440 –> 00:30:10,680
verse 10, he says we’re fools
for Christ’s sake.

482
00:30:10,680 –> 00:30:13,000
So people think we’re crazy.
People think we’re fools.

483
00:30:13,000 –> 00:30:16,600
They look at us if we’re that
way, if we’re if we’re living

484
00:30:16,600 –> 00:30:22,120
for Christ’s sake, he says, but
you are wise in Christ.

485
00:30:22,640 –> 00:30:24,760
The world looks at you as if
you’re you’re wise.

486
00:30:26,440 –> 00:30:28,720
Must not be right.
We’re weak.

487
00:30:29,960 –> 00:30:32,680
The world, in its wisdom, sees
us as weak.

488
00:30:35,400 –> 00:30:37,880
But you’re strong.
The world looks to you.

489
00:30:38,880 –> 00:30:41,520
And sees you as strong, not
humbling himself yourselves

490
00:30:41,800 –> 00:30:48,240
instead promoting yourself.
It sees you as honorable, but

491
00:30:48,240 –> 00:30:51,680
we’re despised.
And so as Paul continues you,

492
00:30:51,800 –> 00:30:54,040
you could see the difference.
He says, if these things are the

493
00:30:54,040 –> 00:30:55,600
way that it is, then something’s
wrong.

494
00:30:56,640 –> 00:30:58,600
You’ve got it backwards.
You’re you’re you’re looking to

495
00:30:58,600 –> 00:31:01,400
rule over people.
If that’s the way that it

496
00:31:01,400 –> 00:31:06,720
actually is with you, he says in
in verse 11, this is how

497
00:31:06,720 –> 00:31:09,080
apostles live.
He says even to this present

498
00:31:09,080 –> 00:31:12,480
hour, we hunger and thirst and
are naked.

499
00:31:13,400 –> 00:31:16,280
It’s a struggle for us.
Our our existence is difficult.

500
00:31:16,880 –> 00:31:20,560
We go without a lot of things
and he says we’re buffeted.

501
00:31:20,600 –> 00:31:24,880
That’s literally we’re slapped
in the face, he says, and we

502
00:31:24,880 –> 00:31:28,160
have no certain dwelling place.
I think that’s a pretty accurate

503
00:31:28,160 –> 00:31:30,360
description of how the life of
the apostles were.

504
00:31:31,640 –> 00:31:34,680
We contrast that then to the to
the leaders in Corinth that

505
00:31:34,680 –> 00:31:38,440
we’re living.
As kings ruling over the people,

506
00:31:38,440 –> 00:31:41,000
if you will, they had these
people that would that would

507
00:31:41,000 –> 00:31:44,440
work for them and do things for
them and cover their expenses.

508
00:31:48,520 –> 00:31:51,800
Verse 12 says and we labor
working with our.

509
00:31:51,800 –> 00:31:52,720
Own.
Hands.

510
00:31:53,520 –> 00:31:57,320
What was Paul doing?
He’s making tense, wasn’t he?

511
00:31:58,000 –> 00:32:01,720
That’s what he was doing when he
got the Corinth, not living off

512
00:32:01,720 –> 00:32:03,800
the Ecclesia.
And it’s something we we read

513
00:32:03,800 –> 00:32:07,880
about that Paul did by choice
and we begin to see that that

514
00:32:07,880 –> 00:32:09,920
was the existence that he had
when he was in Corinth.

515
00:32:10,520 –> 00:32:15,600
He says being reviled, we bless.
So when when someone criticizes

516
00:32:15,840 –> 00:32:19,880
us in an abusive way, we speak
well of them being persecuted.

517
00:32:19,880 –> 00:32:23,000
He says we suffer it when people
are hostile to us.

518
00:32:23,000 –> 00:32:26,400
We just we just put up with it.
That’s what an apostle does, he

519
00:32:26,400 –> 00:32:29,640
says.
And finally, verse 13, he

520
00:32:29,640 –> 00:32:32,800
finishes his his his points.
He says being defamed.

521
00:32:33,600 –> 00:32:35,960
We entreat.
So when people speak poorly

522
00:32:35,960 –> 00:32:41,560
about us, slander us, we entreat
literally it means to to call to

523
00:32:41,560 –> 00:32:44,640
one side.
We appeal to them gently.

524
00:32:45,280 –> 00:32:49,080
We try to work with them to try
to help them were made as the

525
00:32:49,080 –> 00:32:53,800
filth or or the refuse of the
world and we’re the off scouring

526
00:32:53,920 –> 00:32:58,400
or The Dirty scrapings of all
things to this day.

527
00:32:59,560 –> 00:33:02,080
So the whole list then that that
Paul gives us here of what an

528
00:33:02,080 –> 00:33:05,160
apostle does.
Is is is pretty?

529
00:33:05,160 –> 00:33:08,600
Straightforward, isn’t it?
An apostle isn’t lifted up.

530
00:33:09,560 –> 00:33:12,520
Apostle is humbled apostle.
An apostle is a servant.

531
00:33:14,280 –> 00:33:16,360
And that’s what the the leaders
of Corinth should have, should

532
00:33:16,360 –> 00:33:18,440
have figured out for what he has
to say here.

533
00:33:23,040 –> 00:33:28,800
So then in verse. 14 Paul says,
I write not these things to

534
00:33:28,800 –> 00:33:33,840
shame you.
I’m not trying to discredit you.

535
00:33:33,840 –> 00:33:37,280
I’m not trying to embarrass you.
I’m trying to get you to to, to

536
00:33:37,280 –> 00:33:44,000
figure this out, he says, but as
my beloved sons, I warn you.

537
00:33:45,480 –> 00:33:49,720
So he begins the next section
with this idea of fathership and

538
00:33:49,720 –> 00:33:54,920
sonship, and he says, I’m
warning you as if you.

539
00:33:54,920 –> 00:33:58,800
Were.
My sons, because this is what an

540
00:33:58,800 –> 00:34:02,440
apostle does, and this is what
we all should be doing.

541
00:34:03,680 –> 00:34:08,679
We should be treating each other
as if each other is our son.

542
00:34:08,960 –> 00:34:12,480
Or our daughter.
He says for though you have

543
00:34:12,600 –> 00:34:18,360
10,000 instructors in Christ,
this word instructors is an

544
00:34:18,360 –> 00:34:21,560
important one to understand.
Here the word instructors is the

545
00:34:21,560 –> 00:34:27,159
word pedagogue.
It’s a servant whose job it was

546
00:34:27,159 –> 00:34:31,080
to take the children to school
to make sure that they got to

547
00:34:31,080 –> 00:34:34,159
school each day.
And the pedagogue would be paid

548
00:34:34,159 –> 00:34:37,159
to do this to, to drop the kids
off at school, to make sure that

549
00:34:37,159 –> 00:34:40,800
the kids did the homework and
they were in charge of their

550
00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:45,040
their general conduct.
Now the same word is used in in

551
00:34:45,040 –> 00:34:49,520
Galatians chapter 3.
It’s probably we won’t look it

552
00:34:49,520 –> 00:34:51,320
up.
Galatians chapter 3, verse 24,

553
00:34:51,320 –> 00:34:55,400
it says the law was our
schoolmaster to bring us to

554
00:34:55,400 –> 00:34:59,080
Christ.
So Paul uses this word there to

555
00:34:59,080 –> 00:35:03,480
show that the the the purpose of
the law was to bring them to

556
00:35:03,480 –> 00:35:07,920
Christ, but that it was Christ,
it was Christ who would who

557
00:35:07,920 –> 00:35:11,320
would save them.
So these pedagogues then they

558
00:35:11,320 –> 00:35:15,200
did their job, but they’re
concerned for the children was

559
00:35:15,200 –> 00:35:19,320
very limited.
They were like the hireling, if

560
00:35:19,320 –> 00:35:20,520
you will, because they were
paid.

561
00:35:21,440 –> 00:35:24,400
Their main concern, the main
motivation in working with the

562
00:35:24,400 –> 00:35:27,800
the children would be getting
the paycheck at the end of the

563
00:35:27,800 –> 00:35:30,280
month and being paid for what
they did.

564
00:35:31,040 –> 00:35:32,960
They were definitely not a
substitute.

565
00:35:32,960 –> 00:35:36,320
For a father.
And so Paul says, it didn’t

566
00:35:36,320 –> 00:35:38,040
matter if there were 10.
Thousand of these.

567
00:35:38,040 –> 00:35:41,280
That’s not what we’re looking
for. 10,000 hirelings or 10,000

568
00:35:41,280 –> 00:35:43,880
pedagogues.
What we need?

569
00:35:43,880 –> 00:35:49,960
Are fathers, he says, yet ye
have yet have ye not not many

570
00:35:49,960 –> 00:35:53,120
fathers?
For in Christ Jesus I have

571
00:35:53,120 –> 00:35:57,280
begotten you through the gospel.
So Paul’s telling them I’m not

572
00:35:57,280 –> 00:36:01,640
like the pedagogue.
Instead, I’m like your Father,

573
00:36:04,240 –> 00:36:08,000
you’re like my sons.
I’m not doing this to get paid.

574
00:36:09,160 –> 00:36:12,440
That’s important.
I’m doing this because I love

575
00:36:12,440 –> 00:36:14,800
you and because I want to save
you.

576
00:36:15,760 –> 00:36:20,720
That’s the difference here
between a pedagogue and Paul who

577
00:36:20,720 –> 00:36:23,880
was their father, between as it
says, you’re the instructor that

578
00:36:23,880 –> 00:36:27,880
they had to Paul.
The brothers and sisters were

579
00:36:27,880 –> 00:36:33,880
his children.
Let’s go over to first Peter

580
00:36:33,880 –> 00:36:35,520
chapter 1.
There’s a couple of couple of

581
00:36:35,520 –> 00:36:39,480
verses that I think helpful to
to point out this idea here of

582
00:36:39,760 –> 00:36:47,880
our sonship by the word of God
and how we’re born of God’s word

583
00:36:49,440 –> 00:36:54,400
and how Paul was in a way their
father because he had delivered

584
00:36:54,400 –> 00:36:58,440
to them that word.
So first Peter chapter one verse

585
00:36:58,440 –> 00:37:07,520
23 says being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of

586
00:37:07,520 –> 00:37:13,160
incorruptible by the word of
God, which liveth and abideth

587
00:37:13,160 –> 00:37:15,960
forever.
Come over to James chapter 1.

588
00:37:19,120 –> 00:37:21,480
James says the same thing.
He tells us we’ve been begotten

589
00:37:21,800 –> 00:37:29,560
with the word of truth.
James chapter 1 and in verse 18

590
00:37:30,960 –> 00:37:38,880
says of his own will begat he us
with the word of truth that we

591
00:37:38,880 –> 00:37:41,520
should be a kind of firstfruits
of his creatures.

592
00:37:42,960 –> 00:37:45,960
So he’s talking here about the
fact that we’re his children

593
00:37:47,040 –> 00:37:51,960
that were born through the
spirit seed that’s planted in

594
00:37:51,960 –> 00:37:58,320
us, that word of God that
develops in us that leads to a

595
00:37:58,320 –> 00:38:02,480
new birth as it it begins to
change our mind, as it creates

596
00:38:02,480 –> 00:38:06,320
in us this new creature, this
new way of thinking and leads

597
00:38:06,320 –> 00:38:09,280
ultimately to a new birth in
immortality.

598
00:38:10,600 –> 00:38:15,040
And Paul’s telling them that I’m
the one that’s planted that seed

599
00:38:15,040 –> 00:38:18,200
in you and I’m the one who loves
you and has made it my

600
00:38:18,200 –> 00:38:22,080
responsibility to help that
process continue in you.

601
00:38:23,600 –> 00:38:25,440
Think about what Jesus told
Nicodemus.

602
00:38:26,560 –> 00:38:30,520
He says we have to be born of
the water and of the Spirit.

603
00:38:30,520 –> 00:38:32,360
We have to be born of the word
of God.

604
00:38:33,720 –> 00:38:37,840
So this spiritual birth is what
Paul’s talking about here that

605
00:38:37,840 –> 00:38:39,360
he wanted to have take.
Place in all.

606
00:38:39,360 –> 00:38:42,320
Of them as the seed that grows
inside them.

607
00:38:43,200 –> 00:38:48,120
And Paul was concerned with the
development of that new life in

608
00:38:48,120 –> 00:38:49,440
each of his brothers and
sisters.

609
00:38:50,800 –> 00:38:54,880
At the same time, the pedagogues
would not be thinking about this

610
00:38:54,880 –> 00:38:57,880
development.
Instead they were thinking about

611
00:38:58,520 –> 00:39:03,360
their paycheck or their
prestige, their status in the

612
00:39:03,360 –> 00:39:05,960
ecclesia.
You think about the kings of

613
00:39:05,960 –> 00:39:07,720
Israel, at least most of the
kings of Israel.

614
00:39:07,720 –> 00:39:10,560
They they were, they were given
a position of authority over the

615
00:39:10,560 –> 00:39:15,440
people of Israel.
And if they’d focused on helping

616
00:39:15,440 –> 00:39:19,720
the people, saving the people,
they would have been a great

617
00:39:19,720 –> 00:39:21,320
success.
And, and the whole nation would

618
00:39:21,320 –> 00:39:24,720
have been converted and many
more would have been saved, but

619
00:39:24,720 –> 00:39:29,200
they focused instead on their
position and on their power and

620
00:39:29,200 –> 00:39:33,360
didn’t spend much time at all,
and some spent none at all on

621
00:39:33,360 –> 00:39:37,000
spiritual development.
All right, back to First

622
00:39:37,000 –> 00:39:46,800
Corinthians chapter 4.
Paul says, Wherefore I beseech

623
00:39:46,800 –> 00:39:52,640
you, be followers of me.
That word followers there means

624
00:39:52,640 –> 00:39:57,160
imitators of me.
In other words, I want you all

625
00:39:57,160 –> 00:40:01,360
to be followers of fathers, I
should say, of me.

626
00:40:02,600 –> 00:40:05,040
And if we understand how Paul
cared for the spiritual

627
00:40:05,040 –> 00:40:08,280
development of his brothers and
sisters, we’d understand exactly

628
00:40:08,280 –> 00:40:11,960
what Paul is talking about here,
instead of looking for ways to

629
00:40:11,960 –> 00:40:15,160
to to be popular.
Look for ways to help the

630
00:40:15,160 –> 00:40:19,120
spiritual development of your
brothers and sisters, he says.

631
00:40:20,120 –> 00:40:28,080
You too can change your ways and
become like fathers if you will

632
00:40:28,080 –> 00:40:31,560
become the servants of your
brothers and sisters, and if you

633
00:40:31,560 –> 00:40:34,040
will put the salvation of your
brothers and sisters first,

634
00:40:35,400 –> 00:40:38,960
that’s the solution.
Become a servant.

635
00:40:40,440 –> 00:40:42,080
That’s what Moses was, wasn’t
he?

636
00:40:42,960 –> 00:40:46,440
He was a servant that was
faithful in God’s house.

637
00:40:47,920 –> 00:40:50,520
We have to keep in mind the
point that that was being made

638
00:40:50,520 –> 00:40:55,600
at the beginning of the chapter.
Moses was different from his

639
00:40:55,600 –> 00:40:58,360
brethren.
Come back with me to to Numbers

640
00:40:58,360 –> 00:41:02,320
chapter 12 for just one, a
couple of verses here and we’ll

641
00:41:02,320 –> 00:41:21,800
look at that just one more time.
So Numbers chapter 12 verse 6,

642
00:41:22,720 –> 00:41:26,880
we see how Moses was different.
He says, God says, and he said,

643
00:41:26,880 –> 00:41:30,480
Hear now my words, if there be a
prophet among you, I, Yahweh,

644
00:41:30,480 –> 00:41:34,520
will make myself known unto him
in a vision, and will speak to

645
00:41:34,520 –> 00:41:39,760
him in a dream.
My servant Moses is not so who

646
00:41:39,800 –> 00:41:44,120
is faithful in all my house With
him will I speak mouth to mouth,

647
00:41:44,920 –> 00:41:48,840
even apparently, and not in dark
speeches and similitudes?

648
00:41:49,760 –> 00:41:52,120
Sorry.
And the similitudes of Yahweh

649
00:41:52,120 –> 00:41:55,080
shall he behold.
Wherefore then were you not

650
00:41:55,080 –> 00:41:57,360
afraid to speak against my
servant Moses?

651
00:41:58,440 –> 00:42:00,560
So Moses.
So Paul was telling us that he

652
00:42:00,560 –> 00:42:05,120
was different from his brethren,
that Christ had spoken directly

653
00:42:05,120 –> 00:42:10,240
to him, that he had seen Christ.
And so Paul had this greater

654
00:42:10,240 –> 00:42:13,440
responsibility.
He had this greater

655
00:42:13,440 –> 00:42:17,240
responsibility to deliver
faithfully the words of God to

656
00:42:17,240 –> 00:42:21,200
his brothers and sisters.
And so Paul calls on us to be

657
00:42:21,200 –> 00:42:25,200
followers of that, to be
faithful with the word of God

658
00:42:25,600 –> 00:42:28,120
and working to save our brothers
and sisters.

659
00:42:30,240 –> 00:42:35,000
Verse 17 if we come back to
First Corinthians chapter 4, So

660
00:42:35,000 –> 00:42:39,480
Paul says with this in mind,
with this idea of saving our

661
00:42:39,480 –> 00:42:42,000
brothers and sisters, with this
idea of showing you what it’s

662
00:42:42,000 –> 00:42:47,040
like to be a father, sharing the
word and helping to plant the

663
00:42:47,040 –> 00:42:50,520
word into into each other.
He says, for this cause I’ve

664
00:42:50,520 –> 00:42:54,680
sent unto you Timotheus.
And what does he call Timotheus?

665
00:42:55,720 –> 00:43:01,840
Verse 17, my beloved son, Why
does he use that term, my

666
00:43:01,840 –> 00:43:04,640
beloved son?
Because Paul had also planted

667
00:43:04,640 –> 00:43:10,480
the word in Timotheus and
Timotheus was Paul was a father,

668
00:43:10,480 –> 00:43:14,760
like a father to Timotheus.
And then he says, and he is

669
00:43:15,320 –> 00:43:20,000
faithful in the Lord.
And where does he get that idea?

670
00:43:20,640 –> 00:43:23,400
Again, he follows the pattern of
Moses, doesn’t he?

671
00:43:23,400 –> 00:43:26,960
One that’s, that’s faithful.
You’ve got this beloved son

672
00:43:26,960 –> 00:43:30,040
who’s faithful.
And Paul sent Timothy then to be

673
00:43:30,040 –> 00:43:33,680
a faithful servant in Christ’s
house in Corinth.

674
00:43:34,840 –> 00:43:36,120
And what would he do when he got
there?

675
00:43:36,120 –> 00:43:39,960
It says, Who shall bring you
into remembrance of my ways,

676
00:43:39,960 –> 00:43:44,920
which be in Christ, as I teach
everywhere in every ecclesia.

677
00:43:47,240 –> 00:43:52,440
And so Timothy was in Corinth.
And Timothy would remind them of

678
00:43:52,440 –> 00:43:54,840
how it had been when Paul was
there, when the preaching got

679
00:43:54,840 –> 00:43:57,520
into gear.
And Timothy would be able to

680
00:43:57,520 –> 00:44:00,880
show them the cooperation that
he had with Paul and to show

681
00:44:00,880 –> 00:44:03,320
them that there was no rivalry
between he and Paul.

682
00:44:04,280 –> 00:44:08,760
And hopefully they would be able
to see that both he and Paul

683
00:44:09,440 –> 00:44:12,800
were servants working for the
salvation of the brothers and

684
00:44:12,800 –> 00:44:22,200
sisters in Corinth.
Verse 18, he says, but some are

685
00:44:22,200 –> 00:44:25,880
puffed up as though I would not
come to you.

686
00:44:27,760 –> 00:44:31,760
So Paul says there’s still a
problem, is there are some in

687
00:44:31,760 –> 00:44:36,800
the ecclesia that have pride.
There are some in the ecclesia

688
00:44:36,800 –> 00:44:42,240
who are working against what
Paul is doing and they’re doing

689
00:44:42,240 –> 00:44:46,600
things because they don’t think
that Paul is ever going to come

690
00:44:46,600 –> 00:44:50,680
back to Corinth.
He says, as though I would not

691
00:44:50,680 –> 00:44:53,360
come to you.
They thought that Paul was

692
00:44:53,360 –> 00:44:56,120
timid.
They thought that Paul was, was,

693
00:44:56,320 –> 00:44:58,760
was weak, that his message was
weak.

694
00:44:59,640 –> 00:45:02,920
And they said there’s no way
that Paul is going to come back

695
00:45:03,080 –> 00:45:06,440
and, and, and step up and, and,
and change things that are

696
00:45:06,440 –> 00:45:09,600
happening here in the ecclesia.
His ways are are

697
00:45:09,600 –> 00:45:12,560
unsophisticated.
And so they grew more and more

698
00:45:12,560 –> 00:45:15,280
bold about opposing the
teachings of Paul.

699
00:45:16,520 –> 00:45:20,440
And by sending Timothy first,
Paul hoped that they might

700
00:45:20,560 –> 00:45:25,920
realize that Paul was going to
come and that he was going to

701
00:45:25,920 –> 00:45:28,600
work to try to correct things in
the ecclesia.

702
00:45:29,680 –> 00:45:34,160
And so Paul says, but I will
come to you shortly if the Lord

703
00:45:34,160 –> 00:45:37,240
will.
So Paul says, make no mistake,

704
00:45:39,240 –> 00:45:40,880
don’t think that I’m not going
to come.

705
00:45:41,600 –> 00:45:44,880
Because if the Lord will, I am
going to come and when I come,

706
00:45:44,880 –> 00:45:49,520
he says and will know not the
speech of them, which are puffed

707
00:45:49,520 –> 00:45:52,960
up.
When I come to to to investigate

708
00:45:52,960 –> 00:45:55,720
what’s happening there.
When I come to check into the

709
00:45:55,720 –> 00:46:00,920
problems, I’m not going to look
at the words of eloquence that

710
00:46:00,920 –> 00:46:03,400
they’re speaking.
I’ll be looking for a lot more

711
00:46:03,400 –> 00:46:09,560
than just words, but the powers.
I’ll be looking for the actions.

712
00:46:09,560 –> 00:46:11,960
I’ll be looking for the results.
I’ll be looking for what’s

713
00:46:12,160 –> 00:46:13,720
being.
Brought forth by this.

714
00:46:14,320 –> 00:46:17,680
I’ll be looking for spiritual
development in the ecclesia that

715
00:46:17,680 –> 00:46:22,520
only comes when the Word of God
is faithfully taught to the

716
00:46:22,520 –> 00:46:26,040
brothers and sisters, he says in
verse 20.

717
00:46:26,040 –> 00:46:31,520
For the Kingdom of God is not in
Word, but it’s in power.

718
00:46:32,880 –> 00:46:35,800
The Kingdom of God is about
actions and about taking up the

719
00:46:35,800 –> 00:46:39,720
cross.
Back just a couple of pages to

720
00:46:39,720 –> 00:46:44,880
1st Corinthians chapter one
verse 18 back to what we talked

721
00:46:44,880 –> 00:46:51,240
about a couple of days ago back
to the power of the word back to

722
00:46:51,240 –> 00:46:56,080
the power that it has to save.
First Corinthians one verse 18.

723
00:46:56,080 –> 00:46:59,640
He says for the preaching of the
cross is to them that are that

724
00:46:59,640 –> 00:47:04,920
perish foolishness, but unto us
which are saved it is the power

725
00:47:05,680 –> 00:47:16,480
of God.
In verse 21 he says, What will

726
00:47:16,480 –> 00:47:19,520
ye?
What do you choose?

727
00:47:21,160 –> 00:47:27,480
Should I come to you with a rod?
What does he mean by rod?

728
00:47:30,040 –> 00:47:33,520
What does he mean?
Shall I come to you with a rod?

729
00:47:35,120 –> 00:47:38,800
Obviously he’s not going to come
and beat those leaders of the

730
00:47:38,800 –> 00:47:41,480
Ecclesia into submission.
That’s not what he’s saying

731
00:47:41,480 –> 00:47:44,920
here.
So what does he mean by shall I

732
00:47:44,920 –> 00:47:50,040
come to you with a rod?
Here’s what Vines has to say the

733
00:47:50,040 –> 00:47:52,600
word means or the applications
of what the word is, and I think

734
00:47:52,600 –> 00:47:57,080
they’re helpful to look at.
Vine says that a rod is a staff,

735
00:47:57,080 –> 00:48:01,760
a rod or a scepter.
It’s used of Aaron’s rod.

736
00:48:01,760 –> 00:48:05,480
And what do we think about when
we think about Aaron’s rod?

737
00:48:06,400 –> 00:48:08,520
We think of Aaron’s rod that
butted, right?

738
00:48:09,280 –> 00:48:13,640
We think about God acknowledging
the responsibility that he had

739
00:48:13,640 –> 00:48:19,800
given to Aaron.
It’s used as a staff that’s used

740
00:48:19,800 –> 00:48:22,240
on a journey, so something to
help us on our way.

741
00:48:23,480 –> 00:48:26,840
It’s used of a ruler staff or as
a scepter.

742
00:48:27,920 –> 00:48:31,400
It’s used of authority.
Then it’s used as a rod for

743
00:48:31,400 –> 00:48:35,640
chastisement.
So for correction, it’s also

744
00:48:35,640 –> 00:48:39,920
used as a as a measuring rod.
So something that’s used for

745
00:48:39,920 –> 00:48:43,680
judgment to determine if
something is, is, is faithful.

746
00:48:44,960 –> 00:48:49,040
We get the idea then of this
being direction and correction.

747
00:48:50,320 –> 00:48:56,360
So Paul’s asking them to get
things corrected so that he does

748
00:48:56,360 –> 00:49:00,400
not have to bring the correction
of Christ.

749
00:49:01,840 –> 00:49:06,320
But what did Paul want?
What was Paul looking for from

750
00:49:06,320 –> 00:49:09,240
them?
What did Paul hope to be able to

751
00:49:09,240 –> 00:49:15,120
come to them with?
In love and in the spirit of

752
00:49:15,120 –> 00:49:21,760
meekness.
He says in love and in the

753
00:49:21,760 –> 00:49:28,560
spirit of meekness.
And I think again, we can’t help

754
00:49:28,600 –> 00:49:32,520
but miss the connection with
Moses, who is faithful.

755
00:49:33,320 –> 00:49:38,480
It was a faithful servant for
God’s ecclesia, and who was very

756
00:49:38,560 –> 00:49:45,560
meek above all the men which
were on the face of the earth.

757
00:49:47,080 –> 00:49:48,840
What a great.
Comparison, that is, for us

758
00:49:48,840 –> 00:49:53,080
brothers and sisters to look at.
When we think about Paul, we

759
00:49:53,080 –> 00:49:55,520
think about him after the
pattern of Moses.

760
00:49:56,280 –> 00:50:02,200
We think about the importance of
us being faithful, taking God’s

761
00:50:02,200 –> 00:50:06,080
message and not changing it, but
delivering it as it’s been given

762
00:50:06,080 –> 00:50:11,840
to us, to our brothers and
sisters, and looking not for our

763
00:50:11,840 –> 00:50:14,520
own advantage, not for our own
status.

764
00:50:14,800 –> 00:50:19,040
Or or or feeling good but do
looking for the well-being of

765
00:50:19,040 –> 00:50:22,520
our brothers and sisters because
we love our brothers and sisters

766
00:50:23,080 –> 00:50:24,880
and we want to be their
servants.

767
00:50:25,960 –> 00:50:29,520
That’s what an apostle is, and
that’s what we are called to be

768
00:50:29,720 –> 00:50:33,000
as well.
And sisters, and that’s what

769
00:50:33,000 –> 00:50:37,200
would take, that’s what it would
take to solve the problems that

770
00:50:37,200 –> 00:50:41,360
the ecclesia in Corinth faced.
And that’s what we’re going to

771
00:50:41,360 –> 00:50:44,120
do tomorrow’s tomorrow.
We’re going to look and take

772
00:50:44,120 –> 00:50:47,480
what we’ve learned in
Corinthians so far in these

773
00:50:47,480 –> 00:50:51,080
first four chapters.
And we’re going to look at how

774
00:50:51,320 –> 00:50:55,560
what we’ve learned would
actually reverse the process

775
00:50:55,560 –> 00:50:59,520
that we looked at in our first
class of the Ecclesia being

776
00:50:59,520 –> 00:51:01,280
infiltrated by the ways of the
world.

777
00:51:02,200 –> 00:51:04,360
And we’ll see how.
What Paul’s?

778
00:51:04,360 –> 00:51:08,320
Taught us here the relationships
and the service that we can give

779
00:51:08,320 –> 00:51:12,040
to each other can reverse those
things and bring the ecclesia

780
00:51:12,040 –> 00:51:17,120
back to a place which is focused
on saving its members and upon

781
00:51:17,120 –> 00:51:18,520
the cross of Christ.