Class 5 from this series was used in GCT Episode 339.<\/p>\n
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\nsession with Brother Greg
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\nHis theme for the week is The
\nWisdom of God from <\/p>\n
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\nThessalonians, from Corinthians
\nand his class today is The <\/p>\n
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\nWisdom of God.
\nOK, brother Greg. <\/p>\n
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\nThanks, brother Dan, you kind of
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\nbecause I don’t have a All
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\nGood morning, everyone.
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\nThank you.
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\nmorning.
\nIt’s nice to see everybody this <\/p>\n
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\nmorning.
\nToday’s class is entitled The <\/p>\n
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\nWisdom of God.
\nYou’ll remember, I hope, from <\/p>\n
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\nlast night.
\nSince it was just last night, we<\/p>\n
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\nlooked at the wisdom of man.
\nThat was our first class <\/p>\n
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\ntogether.
\nAnd what we saw last night was <\/p>\n
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\nhow the the world of Corinth
\nreally lived in a, in a, an <\/p>\n
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\nenvironment and the brothers and
\nsisters lived in an environment <\/p>\n
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\nthat was shaped almost
\ncompletely by man’s thinking and<\/p>\n
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\nby man’s principles.
\nIt was a world that had replaced<\/p>\n
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\nYahweh.
\nIf there ever was any any input <\/p>\n
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\nfrom Yahweh in their world with
\nthe many different gods that <\/p>\n
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\nthey worshipped, there was a
\nPagan world that was a Pagan <\/p>\n
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\nworld of the 1st century.
\nAnd we talked last night about <\/p>\n
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\nthe fact that our world is
\nquickly getting to be just about<\/p>\n
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\nthe same as it was in Corinth,
\nand in many ways probably worse.<\/p>\n
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\nNow we’ve tried to sum up what
\nthe purpose of life would be in <\/p>\n
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\nthe next slide that I’m going to
\nshow you, the purpose of life <\/p>\n
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\nfor people whose lives weren’t
\ncentered around Yahweh. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this would be the purpose of
\nlife for most of mankind. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this would be the kind of
\nthings that would make what <\/p>\n
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\npeople would be thinking about,
\nwhat would get them to get up <\/p>\n
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\nevery morning of their day of
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\nAnd that is a couple of things
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\nMankind’s search for the purpose
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\nFirst of all, they would search
\nto satisfy their own desires. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that would be the purpose of
\nlife for for most of mankind. <\/p>\n
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\nSecondly, they would work to
\nelevate themselves, elevating <\/p>\n
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\nthemselves by their
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\nNow, can you think of a Bible
\nverse that sums up these two and<\/p>\n
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\nactually expands it out into
\nthree things that really are the<\/p>\n
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\nmotivation for people in the
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\ngiven for it.
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\nthe lust of the flesh and the
\npride of life? <\/p>\n
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\nSo this is what people are
\nliving for that don’t know God. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is if we were to sum up
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\nOf.
\nMan is this is what we would <\/p>\n
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\nhave and this is what is the
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\nlives.
\nThis is what the world has has <\/p>\n
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\ncome up with, these things that
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\nWell, our second class gives us
\nan alternative, and Paul brings <\/p>\n
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\nout the alternative to this, to
\nthe brothers and sisters to <\/p>\n
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\nsolve the problems that the
\necclesia was facing. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so Paul brings out then the
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\nalternative, and he puts God’s
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\nSo Paul says, let’s turn
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\nto the wisdom of God.
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\nthe question and the problems.
\nThat were happening in Corinth. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s, it’s really a masterful
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\nman was what was motivating
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\nand it was what was pushing into
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\nsame time.
\nLet’s look at our summary slide <\/p>\n
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\nperspective for us.
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\npresented to them what the
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\nthe refuge of the ecclesia
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\nBecause the ecclesia does give
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\nAnd so we had there we have
\nJesus Christ as its Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nBut brother Simon really filled
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\nWe have the ecclesia set apart
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\nWe have the ecclesia being part
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\nChrist’s word, made blameless at
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\npartnership with Christ.
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\nHowever, we had something else
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\nhaving Christ as the Lord, there
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\nThey were following that same
\nprocess where there would be a <\/p>\n
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\nSo it was crazy, but everybody
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\nIt’s a same kind of thing that <\/p>\n
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\nNow, you may have heard the term
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\nHas anybody heard that term
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\ndepartments don’t communicate
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\nThey, they become almost a
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\nThat’s what was happening in
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\nOne department would blame
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\nwhat was the real cause of the
\nproblems. <\/p>\n
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\nMaybe you’ve, maybe you’ve <\/p>\n
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\nworked in a place like this.
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\nof these things, but reading
\nthrough this, I began to <\/p>\n
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\na solution as to what can be
\ndone to solve that. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the lights went on for me
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\nlooking at this, I am of Paul, I
\nam of Apollos, and I am of <\/p>\n
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\nCephas, because the Ecclesia had
\nthose same kind of problems. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were competitive leaders.
\nThey were eloquent teachers, as <\/p>\n
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\nwe’ll see as we go through this
\nchapter today, and they were <\/p>\n
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\ncompetitive followers.
\nNow that’s an important <\/p>\n
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\ncomponent because you see how
\nPaul presents it here. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says that the problem was
\nthat some people were saying, <\/p>\n
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\nI’m of Paul, I’m of Apollos, I
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\nIt were people which actually <\/p>\n
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\ntook pride in belonging to a
\ncertain faction. <\/p>\n
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\nIn belonging to that.
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\nbecause of their ability to
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\nIn many cases, Paul talks about
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\nachievement that they had had,
\nand the followers then were <\/p>\n
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\nproud of the accomplishments of <\/p>\n
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\nbelonging to this faction or
\nthat factions. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, what’s the equivalent for
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\nBut sometimes we might say, I
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\nmight say it in a way that says.
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\nThis ecclesia or that ecclesia,
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\nSo verse 13, verse 13 says, is
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\nWas Christ sorry, was Paul
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\nbaptized in the name of Paul?
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\nHow’s he handling the problem?
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\nChrist is not divided.
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\nyou?
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\nDo they have the authority to be<\/p>\n
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\nYou see, our mission is to
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\nable to do that was the Lord
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\nThe one who gave his life to do
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\nAnd no one else has been able to
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\nSin like Christ did.
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\nwas given dominion, he was given
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\nOr were you baptized in the name
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\nWe’ve actually been baptized
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\ndenying our own will.
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\nSo back in verse 9, you’ll <\/p>\n
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\nthe same verses that Brother <\/p>\n
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\nSo Matthew Chapter 7, the words
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\nSo Matthew 7 verse 21 says not
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\nAnd he says, not everyone that
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\nVerse 22 Many will say to me in
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\nSo they call him Lord, and
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\nprophesied in thy name, and in
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\nand in thy name done many
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\nDepart from me.
\nYe that work in equity. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat do you think was the <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I say those people, but we <\/p>\n
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\ncan easily be those people,
\ncan’t we? <\/p>\n
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\nexample of Christ, not for the
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\nhappening in the Ecclesia
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\nAnd all of this happens at the
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\nwhat Jesus is telling us what <\/p>\n
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\nhere is that we’ve got to be a <\/p>\n
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\nIf Jesus is our Lord, then he
\nwill be. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus was the Lord.
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\niniquity, you were working for <\/p>\n
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\nyourself, you were working for
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\nfit with the mission of the Lord
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nIt must be putting God’s will
\nabove our own will. <\/p>\n
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\nChrist said nevertheless, not my
\nwill, but thine be done. <\/p>\n
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\non the cross. <\/p>\n
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\ndoing in the truth is for our <\/p>\n
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\nWe understand completely what <\/p>\n
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\nhe’s talking about, don’t we?
\nWe understand is, is our <\/p>\n
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\nmotivation, right?
\nThen we start to see a very <\/p>\n
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\nclear picture of what was
\nhappening in Corinth. <\/p>\n
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\nverses 14 and 15 about the fact
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\ninteresting for him to insert <\/p>\n
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\nWhy do you think he would then <\/p>\n
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\ninsert this conversation about
\nabout not baptizing here? <\/p>\n
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\nIn verse 17, he says for Christ
\nsent me not to baptize but to <\/p>\n
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\npreach the gospel.
\nNow, if I had been setting this <\/p>\n
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\nup in Greg’s wisdom, which is
\nnot particularly reliable, <\/p>\n
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\nIf I had been setting this up, I<\/p>\n
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\nwould have set it up and I would
\nhave had Paul go in, I would <\/p>\n
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\nBut here we have Christ saying
\nthat’s not how it was set up. <\/p>\n
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\nsomebody else would do the
\nbaptizing. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy do you think that was the
\ncase? <\/p>\n
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\nAnybody have an idea?
\nWhy would you do that? <\/p>\n
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\nI think that’s absolutely right.<\/p>\n
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\n00:19:55,080 –> 00:19:56,920
\nCan you think of another reason?
\nWhat was the danger? <\/p>\n
341
\n00:19:56,920 –> 00:20:00,600
\nSo no one could say is.
\nBaptizing to call. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:20:00,960 –> 00:20:03,440
\nYeah, so Paul might get this
\nthis ego going. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:20:03,480 –> 00:20:05,920
\nHe might get to a place where he
\nactually thought that that he <\/p>\n
344
\n00:20:05,920 –> 00:20:08,280
\nwas something special or the
\npeople thought that he was <\/p>\n
345
\n00:20:08,280 –> 00:20:10,960
\nspecial and that would all of a
\nsudden totally. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:10,960 –> 00:20:12,800
\nUnwind the message of the cross,
\nwouldn’t it? <\/p>\n
347
\n00:20:13,360 –> 00:20:14,960
\nBecause it’s about glorifying
\nGod. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:20:14,960 –> 00:20:17,760
\nIt’s not about glorifying us.
\nThat’s the problem. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:20:17,760 –> 00:20:20,120
\nThat that, that, that was was so
\nprevalent. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:20:20,560 –> 00:20:24,000
\nWe’re just also so prone to our
\nown pride. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:20:24,800 –> 00:20:27,240
\nAnd I think about it from from
\nGod’s perspective, or I try to <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:27,240 –> 00:20:28,760
\nthink about it from God’s
\nperspective. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:29,240 –> 00:20:33,760
\nWe think about God having us as
\nthe tools that he uses to spread<\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:33,920 –> 00:20:38,560
\nhis word.
\nAnd if we are successful in <\/p>\n
355
\n00:20:38,560 –> 00:20:42,040
\nspreading his word, that means
\npeople will come to listen to <\/p>\n
356
\n00:20:42,040 –> 00:20:44,600
\nwhat we have to say.
\nAnd if they come to listen to <\/p>\n
357
\n00:20:44,600 –> 00:20:47,200
\nwhat we say, all of a sudden
\nwhat happens to our ego? <\/p>\n
358
\n00:20:48,200 –> 00:20:50,200
\nIt starts to to expand, doesn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
359
\n00:20:50,480 –> 00:20:54,720
\nAnd all of a sudden we become
\ncompletely, well, not completely<\/p>\n
360
\n00:20:54,720 –> 00:20:57,760
\nuseless, but we become less
\nuseful to God in the work that <\/p>\n
361
\n00:20:57,760 –> 00:20:59,840
\nwe’re doing.
\nWe have cases like that <\/p>\n
362
\n00:20:59,840 –> 00:21:02,040
\nthroughout the Scriptures where
\npeople were given the <\/p>\n
363
\n00:21:02,040 –> 00:21:05,200
\nopportunity to to teach, were
\ngiven the opportunity to lead, <\/p>\n
364
\n00:21:05,480 –> 00:21:09,760
\nand they ended up becoming
\negotistical about it and they <\/p>\n
365
\n00:21:09,760 –> 00:21:12,320
\nlost the ability to do the work
\nsuccessfully. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:13,000 –> 00:21:15,440
\nSo Paul takes this a step
\nfurther here. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:15,880 –> 00:21:19,120
\nHe says that his job was to
\npreach the gospel, but he was to<\/p>\n
368
\n00:21:19,120 –> 00:21:23,200
\npreach the gospel, not with
\nwisdom of words. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:25,200 –> 00:21:28,120
\nWhat does he mean by that?
\nWisdom of words? <\/p>\n
370
\n00:21:29,720 –> 00:21:31,920
\nThis is becomes an important,
\nimportant part of what’s <\/p>\n
371
\n00:21:31,920 –> 00:21:32,440
\nhappening.
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:21:32,440 –> 00:21:38,200
\nCaleb.
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:21:38,200 –> 00:21:39,080
\nOK, excellent.
\nSo. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:21:39,080 –> 00:21:40,200
\nSo.
\nEloquence. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:21:40,560 –> 00:21:43,200
\nSo he was sent to preach the
\ngospel. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:21:43,960 –> 00:21:46,360
\nHe was said to speak it, but he
\nwasn’t sent to speak it with <\/p>\n
377
\n00:21:46,400 –> 00:21:49,720
\neloquence.
\nHe was spent to speak it in a <\/p>\n
378
\n00:21:49,720 –> 00:21:53,080
\nsimple, clear way.
\nIt wasn’t something that was <\/p>\n
379
\n00:21:53,080 –> 00:21:57,440
\nembellished by human arguments.
\nIt was a very simple message. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:21:58,000 –> 00:22:01,920
\nSo Paul says my job was
\npreaching the gospel and, and we<\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:01,920 –> 00:22:04,560
\nknow Paul is not known for his
\neloquence. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:04,560 –> 00:22:06,680
\nDon’t we?
\nWe know that wasn’t something <\/p>\n
383
\n00:22:06,680 –> 00:22:09,880
\nthat that was his strong suit.
\nWe know that Apollos was was <\/p>\n
384
\n00:22:09,880 –> 00:22:11,920
\nvery good at that and Paul was
\nnot. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:22:12,520 –> 00:22:17,360
\nWhy was that?
\nWhy do all of us have different <\/p>\n
386
\n00:22:17,360 –> 00:22:20,200
\ncapabilities?
\nAnd all of those capabilities <\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:20,200 –> 00:22:25,280
\nneed to be put together to get
\nto get God’s work done well. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:22:25,280 –> 00:22:28,960
\nIt’s it’s to help counter this
\nfeeling that we somehow might be<\/p>\n
389
\n00:22:30,040 –> 00:22:32,840
\npart of the glory, that we
\nshould deserve the glory. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:22:33,120 –> 00:22:35,760
\nIt’s to help us to stay away
\nfrom that thinking that God <\/p>\n
391
\n00:22:36,000 –> 00:22:39,080
\nseparates this out.
\nAnd so Paul, in dealing with the<\/p>\n
392
\n00:22:39,080 –> 00:22:41,920
\nbrothers and sisters in Corinth,
\ngoes directly to these key <\/p>\n
393
\n00:22:41,920 –> 00:22:44,720
\npoints because those leaders in
\nCorinth. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:22:45,800 –> 00:22:47,000
\nWe, we.
\nWe. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:22:47,520 –> 00:22:50,840
\nDeduce.
\nI guess we’re very eloquent <\/p>\n
396
\n00:22:50,840 –> 00:22:54,040
\nteachers and because of their
\neloquence they were able to get <\/p>\n
397
\n00:22:54,040 –> 00:22:57,120
\nfollowers.
\nTo come behind them and to to <\/p>\n
398
\n00:22:57,120 –> 00:23:01,160
\nlisten to what they had to say.
\nNow we might think, well, <\/p>\n
399
\n00:23:01,160 –> 00:23:03,080
\nwouldn’t it be great if we could
\nhave it both ways? <\/p>\n
400
\n00:23:03,080 –> 00:23:06,720
\nWhat if we could have the great
\nmessage of the cross and have an<\/p>\n
401
\n00:23:06,720 –> 00:23:08,920
\neloquent teacher at the same
\ntime? <\/p>\n
402
\n00:23:10,880 –> 00:23:12,680
\nYeah, that’s the Lord Jesus
\nChrist, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
403
\n00:23:13,600 –> 00:23:14,800
\nRight.
\nThat’s the one that we follow. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:23:14,800 –> 00:23:19,480
\nThat’s the one that we serve.
\nAnd God in his wisdom, uses us <\/p>\n
405
\n00:23:19,480 –> 00:23:22,560
\nin different ways to keep us
\naway from that problem. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:23:23,520 –> 00:23:27,560
\nSo Paul says, if I had had
\nspoken with this eloquence, with<\/p>\n
407
\n00:23:29,120 –> 00:23:32,760
\nthe gospel, with his eloquence,
\nor with his wisdom of words, he <\/p>\n
408
\n00:23:32,760 –> 00:23:35,520
\nsays that didn’t happen lest the
\ncross of Christ. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:23:36,400 –> 00:23:41,000
\nShould be made of none effect.
\nSo the cross here is the symbol <\/p>\n
410
\n00:23:41,400 –> 00:23:47,080
\nof Christ’s submission to God.
\nIt’s a symbol of the <\/p>\n
411
\n00:23:47,080 –> 00:23:50,600
\nglorification of God.
\nAnd if Paul had been able to <\/p>\n
412
\n00:23:50,600 –> 00:23:54,080
\nspeak, or if Paul had gotten up
\nand spoken with eloquence, if <\/p>\n
413
\n00:23:54,080 –> 00:23:57,480
\nhe’d had human arguments and
\nhe’d been able to really pour it<\/p>\n
414
\n00:23:57,480 –> 00:24:00,880
\non, then the message of the
\ncross would have been lost. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:24:03,680 –> 00:24:05,680
\nIt wouldn’t be about the glory
\nof God anymore. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:24:06,200 –> 00:24:08,200
\nIt would be about Paul’s
\neloquence. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:24:09,720 –> 00:24:12,200
\nLet’s take a second then to just
\nkind of recap some of the the <\/p>\n
418
\n00:24:12,200 –> 00:24:18,120
\npieces that we have here.
\nSo in Corinth there were some <\/p>\n
419
\n00:24:18,120 –> 00:24:22,960
\nthat taught the wisdom of words.
\nThere were some people that that<\/p>\n
420
\n00:24:23,080 –> 00:24:25,320
\nbecause of their eloquence,
\nbecause of their reasoning, were<\/p>\n
421
\n00:24:25,320 –> 00:24:29,120
\nable to teach and to get people
\nto stand up and to follow them <\/p>\n
422
\n00:24:29,960 –> 00:24:32,320
\nappealed to many of the brothers
\nand sisters the things that they<\/p>\n
423
\n00:24:32,320 –> 00:24:35,080
\nwere teaching.
\nSo they gained disciples of <\/p>\n
424
\n00:24:35,080 –> 00:24:37,600
\ntheir own because of their
\nteaching. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:24:38,400 –> 00:24:43,360
\nAnd these teachers became
\npopular teachers and their <\/p>\n
426
\n00:24:43,360 –> 00:24:47,520
\nmessages were popular.
\nTheir followers said I am of <\/p>\n
427
\n00:24:47,520 –> 00:24:51,000
\nPaul, I am of Apollos, I am of
\nthe different leaders that were <\/p>\n
428
\n00:24:51,000 –> 00:24:55,040
\npart of the ecclesia.
\nAnd by doing that, the people <\/p>\n
429
\n00:24:55,040 –> 00:24:57,240
\nfollowed them and they had
\npride. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:24:58,360 –> 00:25:02,040
\nBeing the followers of those
\nleaders, they felt pride in that<\/p>\n
431
\n00:25:04,800 –> 00:25:08,480
\nand as a result they made the
\ncross of Christ of none effect. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:25:09,240 –> 00:25:12,160
\nThey were actually departing
\nfrom the mission that the Lord <\/p>\n
433
\n00:25:12,160 –> 00:25:16,520
\nhad given to them.
\nSo in the next verse then Paul <\/p>\n
434
\n00:25:16,520 –> 00:25:21,120
\nbegins to make the connection
\nbetween the cross and the wisdom<\/p>\n
435
\n00:25:21,120 –> 00:25:25,680
\nof God and he shows that that is
\nthe basis of the wisdom of God. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:25:27,360 –> 00:25:34,520
\nIn verse 18.
\nHe says for the preaching of the<\/p>\n
437
\n00:25:34,520 –> 00:25:40,280
\ncross is to them that perish.
\nFoolishness following the will <\/p>\n
438
\n00:25:40,280 –> 00:25:43,680
\nof God and not our own is what
\nthe preaching of the cross is. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:25:44,280 –> 00:25:48,960
\nAnd he says to them that perish,
\nthis is foolishness. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:25:49,760 –> 00:25:51,840
\nThen the perish.
\nYou could probably just sum that<\/p>\n
441
\n00:25:51,840 –> 00:25:54,000
\nup and say that those people are
\nthe unbelievers. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:25:54,520 –> 00:25:58,880
\nSo unbelievers look at the
\npreaching of the cross and they <\/p>\n
443
\n00:25:58,880 –> 00:26:00,640
\nthink that it’s absolutely
\nfoolish. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:26:02,440 –> 00:26:03,920
\nWe hear that all the time.
\nDon’t we have yet? <\/p>\n
445
\n00:26:03,920 –> 00:26:07,840
\nHave you ever told somebody
\nabout the cross of Christ, about<\/p>\n
446
\n00:26:07,840 –> 00:26:10,840
\nthe sacrifice of Christ,
\nexplained it to them, Somebody <\/p>\n
447
\n00:26:10,840 –> 00:26:14,560
\nwho knows nothing about the
\ntruth and explain to them about <\/p>\n
448
\n00:26:14,560 –> 00:26:17,280
\nthe Kingdom.
\nAnd you got that look from them <\/p>\n
449
\n00:26:17,280 –> 00:26:21,520
\nlike, wow, do you really buy
\nthat? <\/p>\n
450
\n00:26:22,160 –> 00:26:23,640
\nHave you ever got that look from
\nsomebody? <\/p>\n
451
\n00:26:25,200 –> 00:26:28,040
\nYeah, I’ve got that quite a few
\ntimes when you we sit down with <\/p>\n
452
\n00:26:28,040 –> 00:26:30,160
\nsomebody and you, you explained
\nit all to them and you’ve got <\/p>\n
453
\n00:26:30,160 –> 00:26:33,000
\nall this energy and enthusiasm
\nand they just kind of look at <\/p>\n
454
\n00:26:33,000 –> 00:26:36,360
\nyou with that blank look because
\nto them it’s foolishness. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:26:36,360 –> 00:26:38,080
\nThey think this is this is
\nridiculous. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:26:38,080 –> 00:26:40,520
\nThere’s nothing behind us.
\nThere’s nothing to this. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:26:41,400 –> 00:26:44,720
\nYou’d be crazy to give your
\nwhole life, all of those Sundays<\/p>\n
458
\n00:26:44,720 –> 00:26:48,920
\nto this work that you do.
\nBut he says, But unto us, which <\/p>\n
459
\n00:26:48,920 –> 00:26:51,400
\nare saved, it is the power of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:26:51,400 –> 00:26:53,680
\nSo to us, it’s something
\ncompletely different. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:26:54,400 –> 00:26:58,160
\nIt’s God’s.
\nPower, it’s enlightening to us, <\/p>\n
462
\n00:26:58,320 –> 00:27:02,000
\nit educates us, it changes our
\ncharacter, doesn’t it, this <\/p>\n
463
\n00:27:02,000 –> 00:27:05,240
\npower of the word and ultimately
\nGod says if you, if you, if you <\/p>\n
464
\n00:27:05,240 –> 00:27:07,640
\nfollow.
\nThat I’ll change your nature as <\/p>\n
465
\n00:27:07,640 –> 00:27:10,320
\nwell.
\nAnd we could literally feel the <\/p>\n
466
\n00:27:10,320 –> 00:27:12,280
\npower.
\nWorking in our. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:27:12,280 –> 00:27:15,200
\nLives.
\nAnd what about the wisdom of <\/p>\n
468
\n00:27:15,200 –> 00:27:17,720
\nman?
\nHe says. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:27:17,760 –> 00:27:20,360
\nFor, it is written, I’ll destroy
\nthe wisdom. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:27:21,040 –> 00:27:25,520
\nOf the wise and I’ll bring to
\nnothing the understanding of the<\/p>\n
471
\n00:27:25,520 –> 00:27:30,440
\nprudent Paul’s quoting Isaiah
\nchapter 29 here he’s saying what<\/p>\n
472
\n00:27:30,440 –> 00:27:33,680
\nhe’s saying is it makes no sense
\nto pursue the wisdom of man <\/p>\n
473
\n00:27:34,520 –> 00:27:38,320
\nbecause the wisdom of.
\nMan has proven to be exactly. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:27:38,680 –> 00:27:44,000
\nUseless, and it’s going to
\ncontinue to be that way in verse<\/p>\n
475
\n00:27:44,000 –> 00:27:45,960
\n20.
\nPaul says let’s look at the wise<\/p>\n
476
\n00:27:45,960 –> 00:27:52,240
\npeople of the world.
\nHe says, where is the wise? <\/p>\n
477
\n00:27:53,120 –> 00:27:56,960
\nWhere is the scribe?
\nWhere is the disputer? <\/p>\n
478
\n00:27:56,960 –> 00:27:59,160
\nOf the world.
\nWhere are all these people that <\/p>\n
479
\n00:27:59,160 –> 00:28:01,200
\nhave been like these leaders
\nthat you have? <\/p>\n
480
\n00:28:01,720 –> 00:28:04,080
\nWhere of all these people, where
\nare all the they now? <\/p>\n
481
\n00:28:04,840 –> 00:28:06,320
\nWell, they’ve come to absolutely
\nnothing. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:28:08,480 –> 00:28:13,640
\nHath not God made foolish the
\nwisdom of this world? <\/p>\n
483
\n00:28:14,960 –> 00:28:19,080
\nHow did God do that?
\nHow did God go about making <\/p>\n
484
\n00:28:19,080 –> 00:28:21,640
\nfoolish the wisdom?
\nOf this world. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:28:23,400 –> 00:28:24,760
\nHe gave us an alternative,
\ndidn’t he? <\/p>\n
486
\n00:28:25,400 –> 00:28:28,680
\nHe gave us something so much
\nbetter than what this world has <\/p>\n
487
\n00:28:28,680 –> 00:28:32,560
\nto offer that he made.
\nChoosing the world absolutely <\/p>\n
488
\n00:28:32,560 –> 00:28:37,400
\nfoolish for us.
\nWhere’s the wise? <\/p>\n
489
\n00:28:37,400 –> 00:28:39,480
\nWhere’s the scribe?
\nWhere’s the disputer of this <\/p>\n
490
\n00:28:39,480 –> 00:28:41,920
\nworld?
\nHath not God made foolish the <\/p>\n
491
\n00:28:41,920 –> 00:28:49,040
\nwisdom of this world?
\nSo here’s what the world has to <\/p>\n
492
\n00:28:49,040 –> 00:28:50,680
\noffer us if we were to sum it
\nup. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:28:51,600 –> 00:28:54,960
\nMan’s wisdom, the purpose of
\nlife for most of mankind. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:28:55,720 –> 00:28:59,360
\nSatisfy your desires.
\nSpend a lifetime doing that. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:28:59,800 –> 00:29:01,880
\nAnd what do you find about the
\ndesires that you have? <\/p>\n
496
\n00:29:01,880 –> 00:29:04,800
\nAs you, as you satisfy them,
\nwhat happens to them? <\/p>\n
497
\n00:29:06,560 –> 00:29:10,880
\nDon’t they become unsatisfying?
\nEach, each time that you satisfy<\/p>\n
498
\n00:29:10,880 –> 00:29:12,680
\nthem, they become less and less
\nsatisfying. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:29:14,040 –> 00:29:15,800
\nThe other thing is to elevate
\nourselves. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:29:16,240 –> 00:29:17,240
\nRight here’s our here’s the
\nlist. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:29:17,240 –> 00:29:19,960
\nWe started out with the lust of
\nthe eyes, the lust of the flesh <\/p>\n
502
\n00:29:19,960 –> 00:29:22,480
\nand the pride of life.
\nAnd what does the result? <\/p>\n
503
\n00:29:23,120 –> 00:29:24,760
\nWhat is the result of choosing
\nthis? <\/p>\n
504
\n00:29:26,040 –> 00:29:30,000
\nThe result is, is death.
\nThat’s the only thing that’s out<\/p>\n
505
\n00:29:30,000 –> 00:29:33,760
\nthere if we choose this path.
\nAnd So what Paul is saying here <\/p>\n
506
\n00:29:33,760 –> 00:29:37,960
\nis there’s an alternative.
\nNow after the resurrection of <\/p>\n
507
\n00:29:37,960 –> 00:29:44,720
\nChrist, there’s a alternative to
\nchoosing this path because God <\/p>\n
508
\n00:29:44,720 –> 00:29:49,640
\nhas made foolish this path.
\nIt is no longer the choice. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:29:50,560 –> 00:29:53,320
\nThere’s another one, God’s
\nwisdom. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:29:54,280 –> 00:29:59,000
\nThe purpose of life for only a
\nfew that find this way is to <\/p>\n
511
\n00:29:59,000 –> 00:30:03,960
\nchoose God’s will over our own.
\nDon’t satisfy the flesh. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:04,000 –> 00:30:05,840
\nDon’t satisfy your your own
\npleasures. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:30:06,200 –> 00:30:13,120
\nSatisfy God’s desires.
\nGlorify God and God will give <\/p>\n
514
\n00:30:13,120 –> 00:30:17,840
\nyou.
\nLife simple, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
515
\n00:30:18,560 –> 00:30:22,040
\nGod has made foolish the wisdom
\nof this world. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:30:23,120 –> 00:30:25,640
\nIn a nutshell.
\nThere it is. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:30:25,640 –> 00:30:27,760
\nAnd Paul presents it just like
\nthat to the brothers and <\/p>\n
518
\n00:30:27,760 –> 00:30:29,840
\nsisters.
\nWhat are you going to choose? <\/p>\n
519
\n00:30:29,840 –> 00:30:32,320
\nHe says.
\nIf you’re actually trying to <\/p>\n
520
\n00:30:32,320 –> 00:30:37,240
\nride the the train of your own
\nglory to being leaders in the <\/p>\n
521
\n00:30:37,240 –> 00:30:40,200
\necclesia, to having that
\nrecognition in the ecclesia, <\/p>\n
522
\n00:30:41,200 –> 00:30:44,600
\ndon’t bother because God has
\nmade that foolish. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:30:44,640 –> 00:30:47,760
\nThe the whole message of the
\ncrisis is to is to go against <\/p>\n
524
\n00:30:48,000 –> 00:30:51,320
\nthat thinking.
\nBut the message of the Christ, <\/p>\n
525
\n00:30:51,360 –> 00:30:55,480
\nthe cross, the message of Christ
\nis eternal life, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
526
\n00:30:56,000 –> 00:30:59,040
\nThis is God’s wisdom.
\nThere is a purpose to it. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:30:59,520 –> 00:31:02,640
\nThere is value.
\nTo what God has offered to us, <\/p>\n
528
\n00:31:06,720 –> 00:31:10,120
\nHe says in verse 20, Where is
\nthe wise? <\/p>\n
529
\n00:31:11,040 –> 00:31:14,200
\nSo where’s the wise men?
\nDid any of the wise men of the <\/p>\n
530
\n00:31:14,200 –> 00:31:16,240
\nworld come up with this
\nunderstanding? <\/p>\n
531
\n00:31:17,120 –> 00:31:20,520
\nWhere’s the scribe?
\nThe Jews, right? <\/p>\n
532
\n00:31:21,080 –> 00:31:23,680
\nThey’d look to the rabbi’s, the
\nteachers of the law. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:31:24,160 –> 00:31:26,240
\nBut they didn’t understand the
\npurpose of life either, did <\/p>\n
534
\n00:31:26,240 –> 00:31:28,400
\nthey?
\nWhen Christ came, most of them <\/p>\n
535
\n00:31:28,400 –> 00:31:31,600
\nhad completely lost that.
\nWhere’s the disputer of this <\/p>\n
536
\n00:31:31,600 –> 00:31:32,360
\nworld?
\nHe says. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:31:33,160 –> 00:31:36,200
\nThe Greeks with their
\nphilosophers, they didn’t <\/p>\n
538
\n00:31:36,200 –> 00:31:39,920
\nunderstand the meaning of life
\nfor the purpose of life, but God<\/p>\n
539
\n00:31:39,920 –> 00:31:43,360
\nhad made all of that
\nfoolishness, and people were <\/p>\n
540
\n00:31:43,360 –> 00:31:46,160
\ngiven the opportunity to choose
\nsomething that was far superior.<\/p>\n
541
\n00:31:46,560 –> 00:31:55,040
\nInstead, verse 21 says.
\nFor after that. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:31:55,840 –> 00:32:00,120
\nIn the wisdom of God.
\nThe world by wisdom knew not <\/p>\n
543
\n00:32:00,120 –> 00:32:02,840
\nGod.
\nIt pleased God by the <\/p>\n
544
\n00:32:02,840 –> 00:32:05,640
\nfoolishness of preaching to save
\nthem that believe. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:32:06,160 –> 00:32:07,880
\nIt’s a bit of a confusing verse,
\nI think. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:32:07,880 –> 00:32:10,040
\nFor us, so I’ve.
\nParaphrased it here on the <\/p>\n
547
\n00:32:10,040 –> 00:32:16,760
\nscreen for you for in God’s wise
\nplan, people in their wisdom did<\/p>\n
548
\n00:32:16,760 –> 00:32:21,760
\nnot come to know God, So what
\nGod had decided was that it <\/p>\n
549
\n00:32:21,760 –> 00:32:23,120
\nwouldn’t be through the wisdom
\nof. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:32:23,120 –> 00:32:25,560
\nMan, that people would come to
\nknow him. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:32:26,320 –> 00:32:30,840
\nIt wouldn’t be through man’s
\nintellectual prowess, man’s <\/p>\n
552
\n00:32:30,840 –> 00:32:34,440
\neloquence, and those things.
\nIt wasn’t going to be that way. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:32:35,200 –> 00:32:39,960
\nInstead, it would be through the
\npreaching of the cross, which <\/p>\n
554
\n00:32:39,960 –> 00:32:43,880
\npeople thought was foolishness,
\nthat people were saved. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:32:44,560 –> 00:32:47,320
\nSo it would be through this
\nthinking of the cross, which is <\/p>\n
556
\n00:32:47,320 –> 00:32:50,320
\nreally the wisdom of God, that
\npeople would be saved. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:32:51,040 –> 00:32:54,000
\nBut most of the world doesn’t
\nunderstand that, and most of the<\/p>\n
558
\n00:32:54,000 –> 00:32:57,600
\nworld gets that wrong.
\nThey completely miss the point. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:32:59,120 –> 00:33:02,920
\nBut God had decided that those
\nare the kind of people that He <\/p>\n
560
\n00:33:02,920 –> 00:33:05,680
\nwanted.
\nHe wanted those people that <\/p>\n
561
\n00:33:05,680 –> 00:33:10,280
\nwould humble themselves to His
\nmission, rather than those <\/p>\n
562
\n00:33:10,280 –> 00:33:12,760
\npeople that would try to raise
\nthemselves up for their own <\/p>\n
563
\n00:33:12,760 –> 00:33:15,240
\nmission.
\nNow, you can imagine, I think, <\/p>\n
564
\n00:33:15,240 –> 00:33:17,360
\nwhat would the Kingdom be like
\nif He’d chosen it the other way <\/p>\n
565
\n00:33:17,360 –> 00:33:19,520
\naround?
\nWhat would the Kingdom be like <\/p>\n
566
\n00:33:19,520 –> 00:33:23,360
\nif it was all of these people
\nthat had glorified themselves in<\/p>\n
567
\n00:33:23,360 –> 00:33:26,040
\nthis life and had been
\nsuccessful or felt they were <\/p>\n
568
\n00:33:26,040 –> 00:33:28,640
\nsuccessful?
\nIn this life, it would be, it <\/p>\n
569
\n00:33:28,640 –> 00:33:31,360
\nwould be chaos, wouldn’t it?
\nIt would not be the Kingdom that<\/p>\n
570
\n00:33:31,360 –> 00:33:36,480
\nwe all look forward to.
\nVerse 22, he says for the Jews <\/p>\n
571
\n00:33:36,480 –> 00:33:41,880
\nrequire a sign and the Greeks
\nseek after wisdom, after wisdom.<\/p>\n
572
\n00:33:43,080 –> 00:33:47,600
\nPaul says of the Jews, the Jews
\nin their wisdom that they were <\/p>\n
573
\n00:33:47,600 –> 00:33:49,680
\nalways looking for a sign,
\nweren’t they? <\/p>\n
574
\n00:33:50,560 –> 00:33:52,840
\nChrist says that they’re always
\nlooking for a sign. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:33:53,600 –> 00:33:56,320
\nAnd the reason they were always
\nlooking for a sign about Christ <\/p>\n
576
\n00:33:56,320 –> 00:33:58,440
\nwas because they couldn’t accept
\nwhat Christ was. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:33:58,960 –> 00:34:01,560
\nThey couldn’t accept that he was
\nnot the Messiah that was going <\/p>\n
578
\n00:34:01,560 –> 00:34:05,080
\nto deliver them from Rome, that
\nwas going to raise Israel. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:34:05,080 –> 00:34:07,960
\nBack to its its its original
\nglory right then and there. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:34:08,239 –> 00:34:10,800
\nThey couldn’t accept that.
\nThey couldn’t accept that he <\/p>\n
581
\n00:34:10,800 –> 00:34:12,760
\nwasn’t.
\nHe wasn’t going to exert assert <\/p>\n
582
\n00:34:12,760 –> 00:34:15,960
\nhimself as king.
\nThey couldn’t accept that he was<\/p>\n
583
\n00:34:15,960 –> 00:34:20,000
\nsubmitting himself to God, that
\nultimately he would be <\/p>\n
584
\n00:34:20,000 –> 00:34:22,400
\nsacrificed.
\nThey couldn’t get their minds <\/p>\n
585
\n00:34:22,400 –> 00:34:26,120
\nwrapped around that because they
\ndidn’t understand that wisdom. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:34:26,440 –> 00:34:28,400
\nThey didn’t understand that
\nconcept. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:34:29,159 –> 00:34:32,440
\nAnd so Jesus said to them, no
\nsign will be given to you. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:34:33,760 –> 00:34:36,920
\nBut what what did he say?
\nWhat was the sign, the sign of <\/p>\n
589
\n00:34:36,920 –> 00:34:40,679
\nthe prophet Jonah, right.
\nWhat was the sign of the prophet<\/p>\n
590
\n00:34:40,679 –> 00:34:42,960
\nJonah?
\nSo Jonah was let’s go over to <\/p>\n
591
\n00:34:42,960 –> 00:34:54,320
\nMatthew chapter 12.
\nJew says we don’t accept the <\/p>\n
592
\n00:34:54,320 –> 00:34:56,360
\nmission that you have of the
\ncross. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:34:57,120 –> 00:34:59,880
\nWe don’t accept that part
\nbecause we’re expecting <\/p>\n
594
\n00:34:59,880 –> 00:35:03,040
\nsomething completely different.
\nAnd Jesus says, OK, well then <\/p>\n
595
\n00:35:03,040 –> 00:35:04,000
\nI’m going to give you a sign
\nyou’re. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:35:04,240 –> 00:35:05,920
\nGoing to have to go back and
\nyou’re going to have to look at <\/p>\n
597
\n00:35:05,920 –> 00:35:10,760
\nJonah for what that sign was.
\nHe says Matthew chapter 12 verse<\/p>\n
598
\n00:35:10,760 –> 00:35:13,120
\n39.
\nBut he answered and said unto <\/p>\n
599
\n00:35:13,120 –> 00:35:18,000
\nthem, An evil and adulterous
\ngeneration seeketh after a sign,<\/p>\n
600
\n00:35:18,600 –> 00:35:21,520
\nand they’ll be no sign given to
\nit, but the sign of the prophet <\/p>\n
601
\n00:35:21,520 –> 00:35:24,040
\nJonas.
\nFor as Jonas was. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:35:24,040 –> 00:35:26,280
\nThree days and three nights in
\nthe whales belly. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:35:26,280 –> 00:35:30,000
\nSo shall the son of man be. 3
\ndays and three nights in the <\/p>\n
604
\n00:35:30,000 –> 00:35:34,880
\nheart of the earth. 3 days and
\nthree nights in the grave. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:35:36,440 –> 00:35:40,560
\nThe sign.
\nWas the cross the sign? <\/p>\n
606
\n00:35:40,560 –> 00:35:43,360
\nWas the cross and the
\nresurrection? <\/p>\n
607
\n00:35:44,160 –> 00:35:47,040
\nSo if the Jews had had thought
\nabout that sign, they would <\/p>\n
608
\n00:35:47,040 –> 00:35:51,040
\nrecognize that they were missing
\nthe whole point and not <\/p>\n
609
\n00:35:51,040 –> 00:35:54,560
\nunderstanding the need for
\nChrist to be sacrificed, the <\/p>\n
610
\n00:35:54,560 –> 00:36:01,400
\nneed for Christ to conquer sin.
\nHe says the Jews seek after <\/p>\n
611
\n00:36:01,520 –> 00:36:04,960
\nwisdom.
\nSo the Greeks were seeking after<\/p>\n
612
\n00:36:04,960 –> 00:36:06,560
\nwisdom.
\nThey were, they were looking for<\/p>\n
613
\n00:36:06,560 –> 00:36:08,640
\nsome high level of
\nunderstanding. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:36:09,160 –> 00:36:12,000
\nThat’s what they were always
\nlooking for us for some new <\/p>\n
615
\n00:36:12,000 –> 00:36:14,000
\nthing.
\nBut Paul came to Athens. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:36:15,960 –> 00:36:20,680
\nHe says you’ll never find the
\nglory of God in the glory of. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:36:20,680 –> 00:36:25,200
\nMan because the glory of God is
\nall about humbling ourselves. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:36:25,200 –> 00:36:35,160
\nInstead, verse 23 he says, but
\nwe preach Christ crucified. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:36:37,560 –> 00:36:41,800
\nThat’s how Jesus glorified his
\nFather unto the Jews, a <\/p>\n
620
\n00:36:41,800 –> 00:36:47,640
\nstumbling block.
\nThe Jews were looking for a <\/p>\n
621
\n00:36:47,640 –> 00:36:53,680
\nMessiah to defeat Rome and unto
\nthe Greeks foolishness. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:36:55,160 –> 00:36:58,880
\nThe Greeks wondered how a
\ncrucified man was of any use to <\/p>\n
623
\n00:36:58,920 –> 00:37:02,520
\nanyone.
\nYou see the the the wisdom of <\/p>\n
624
\n00:37:02,520 –> 00:37:06,640
\nman was completely incompatible
\nwith the wisdom of God. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:37:08,280 –> 00:37:13,680
\nAnd so he says, But unto them
\nwhich are called both Jews. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:37:14,440 –> 00:37:17,200
\nAnd Greeks, so there are some.
\nJews. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:37:18,080 –> 00:37:21,280
\nAnd there are some Greeks who’ve
\nbeen called out of the world. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:37:22,840 –> 00:37:28,600
\nHe says unto them, Christ is the
\npower of God and the wisdom of <\/p>\n
629
\n00:37:28,600 –> 00:37:33,280
\nGod, because Christ’s
\nresurrection showed without a <\/p>\n
630
\n00:37:33,280 –> 00:37:38,120
\ndoubt the power of God.
\nBut it also. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:37:38,120 –> 00:37:45,920
\nShows the wisdom of God because
\nChrist chose God’s will and <\/p>\n
632
\n00:37:45,920 –> 00:37:50,760
\nshowed to us in his life, in his
\ndeath, the wisdom of God. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:37:53,360 –> 00:37:56,160
\nSo, brothers and sisters, if if
\nwe follow the example of Christ,<\/p>\n
634
\n00:37:56,160 –> 00:37:59,520
\nwe’ll find that the Christ, the
\nexample of Christ will be a <\/p>\n
635
\n00:37:59,520 –> 00:38:06,280
\npowerful force in our lives too.
\nBut the most people, Christ on <\/p>\n
636
\n00:38:06,280 –> 00:38:11,680
\nthe cross was foolishness,
\nbecause the cross represents <\/p>\n
637
\n00:38:11,680 –> 00:38:16,840
\ngiving up our own will.
\nAnd using our lives to glorify <\/p>\n
638
\n00:38:16,840 –> 00:38:20,080
\nGod.
\nAnd so he says in verse 25, <\/p>\n
639
\n00:38:20,920 –> 00:38:26,240
\nbecause the foolishness of God,
\nand I bet it bit of a <\/p>\n
640
\n00:38:26,560 –> 00:38:29,760
\nparentheses in here to help
\nidentify what’s happening here, <\/p>\n
641
\n00:38:29,760 –> 00:38:34,760
\nhe says, but the foolishness of
\nGod or what men consider to be <\/p>\n
642
\n00:38:34,760 –> 00:38:41,920
\nfoolish is wiser than men.
\nAnd the weakness of God, that is<\/p>\n
643
\n00:38:41,920 –> 00:38:46,440
\nwhat men consider weakness is
\nstronger than men. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:38:49,640 –> 00:38:55,000
\nThat’s the truth, isn’t it?
\nIt’s stronger, it’s wiser than <\/p>\n
645
\n00:38:55,000 –> 00:38:56,680
\nanything else that we have to
\noffer. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:38:57,320 –> 00:38:59,760
\nAnd yet the world considers it
\nto be foolishness. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:39:02,040 –> 00:39:05,680
\nThat’s what Paul is trying to
\nshow them in verse 26. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:39:05,680 –> 00:39:11,560
\nHe says, For ye see your
\ncalling, brethren, how not many <\/p>\n
649
\n00:39:11,560 –> 00:39:16,520
\nwise after the flesh, not many
\nmighty, not many noble are <\/p>\n
650
\n00:39:16,520 –> 00:39:20,320
\ncalled the wise.
\nMen, he’s talking here about the<\/p>\n
651
\n00:39:20,320 –> 00:39:27,120
\nphilosopher, the scribes, the
\nmighty, those people that that <\/p>\n
652
\n00:39:27,120 –> 00:39:30,640
\nwere in authority.
\nAnd the noble? <\/p>\n
653
\n00:39:30,640 –> 00:39:35,120
\nThose that were highborn, those
\npeople of high society, he says.<\/p>\n
654
\n00:39:35,320 –> 00:39:39,800
\nThere aren’t many people in the
\necclesia who are wise or <\/p>\n
655
\n00:39:39,800 –> 00:39:44,720
\npowerful by the world standards.
\nThose aren’t the people that are<\/p>\n
656
\n00:39:44,720 –> 00:39:48,760
\ncalled because that’s not what
\nGod is looking. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:39:48,760 –> 00:39:53,640
\nFor it’d be hard for, for the
\nwise of the world to put aside <\/p>\n
658
\n00:39:53,640 –> 00:39:56,320
\nman’s wisdom to humble
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:39:57,200 –> 00:40:01,320
\nAnd if we do find these type of
\npeople in the ecclesia, what <\/p>\n
660
\n00:40:01,320 –> 00:40:05,080
\nhave they done?
\nThey have humbled themselves, <\/p>\n
661
\n00:40:05,080 –> 00:40:07,280
\nhaven’t they?
\nAnd they’ve put that, that <\/p>\n
662
\n00:40:07,480 –> 00:40:11,600
\nwisdom of the world aside and
\nthey’ve accepted the far greater<\/p>\n
663
\n00:40:11,600 –> 00:40:13,080
\nwisdom, which is the wisdom of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:40:14,120 –> 00:40:16,760
\nIt’s it’s a wonderful situation
\nthat God has set up for us, a <\/p>\n
665
\n00:40:16,760 –> 00:40:20,040
\nwonderful way.
\nThat God has shown us what He’s <\/p>\n
666
\n00:40:20,040 –> 00:40:22,520
\nlooking for with the cross of
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:40:24,200 –> 00:40:28,280
\nIn verse 27 it says, But God
\nhath chosen the foolish things <\/p>\n
668
\n00:40:28,280 –> 00:40:31,920
\nof the world.
\nSo God has chosen. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:40:34,760 –> 00:40:42,520
\nHold it just one second here.
\nGod has chosen the simple like <\/p>\n
670
\n00:40:42,520 –> 00:40:46,400
\nus, to put to shame the wise and
\nthe powerful. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:40:47,800 –> 00:40:50,760
\nCan you think of a time in the
\nin the Bible when there was one <\/p>\n
672
\n00:40:50,760 –> 00:40:55,760
\nthat was simple and yet who was
\nable to amaze absolutely <\/p>\n
673
\n00:40:55,760 –> 00:41:00,840
\neveryone with his understanding?
\nThink of of Christ right when. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:41:00,840 –> 00:41:02,960
\nHe went to the temple when he
\nwas 12 years old. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:41:04,640 –> 00:41:06,840
\nHis parents found him in the in
\nthe midst of the teachers of <\/p>\n
676
\n00:41:06,840 –> 00:41:10,080
\nIsrael, and the teachers of
\nIsrael were astonished at his <\/p>\n
677
\n00:41:10,080 –> 00:41:13,520
\nunderstanding.
\nGod does that. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:41:14,400 –> 00:41:19,280
\nSo that the world can see it’s
\nnot about the glory of man, it’s<\/p>\n
679
\n00:41:19,280 –> 00:41:22,600
\nabout the glory of God, the
\nverse continues. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:41:22,600 –> 00:41:26,320
\nIt says, and God hath chosen the
\nweak things of the world. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:41:27,280 –> 00:41:31,080
\nGod is purposely chosen people
\nthat the world sees as weak. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:41:31,880 –> 00:41:36,080
\nAnother one is David, David, and
\nGoliath. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:41:36,320 –> 00:41:40,480
\nDavid, the world saw him as
\nweak, but he wasn’t weak, was <\/p>\n
684
\n00:41:40,480 –> 00:41:42,800
\nhe?
\nWhy wasn’t he weak? <\/p>\n
685
\n00:41:45,440 –> 00:41:48,760
\nHe wasn’t weak because he got
\nhis strength from God, and he <\/p>\n
686
\n00:41:48,760 –> 00:41:52,240
\nchose people like that to
\nconfound or to put to shame the <\/p>\n
687
\n00:41:52,240 –> 00:41:56,720
\nthings which are mighty.
\nAnd he put to shame Goliath. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:41:59,400 –> 00:42:04,360
\nGod has chosen the simple like
\nus to put to shame the wise and <\/p>\n
689
\n00:42:04,360 –> 00:42:06,840
\nthe powerful.
\nIt’s, I think, a really amazing <\/p>\n
690
\n00:42:06,840 –> 00:42:11,320
\nprinciple that in God’s plan of
\nsalvation, none of the credit <\/p>\n
691
\n00:42:11,320 –> 00:42:14,680
\ngoes to man.
\nBecause the glory. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:42:14,680 –> 00:42:19,800
\nOf man is what we’re trying to
\nget rid of and the glory of God <\/p>\n
693
\n00:42:19,800 –> 00:42:32,740
\nis what we’re trying to reflect
\ndown in verse 28 then it says in<\/p>\n
694
\n00:42:32,740 –> 00:42:36,980
\nthe base things of the world and
\nthe things which are despised <\/p>\n
695
\n00:42:37,660 –> 00:42:42,300
\nGod hath chosen yeah and the
\nthings which are not to bring to<\/p>\n
696
\n00:42:42,300 –> 00:42:46,560
\nnot the things which are so he
\ntalks here about the base things<\/p>\n
697
\n00:42:46,560 –> 00:42:51,440
\nof the world the word base means
\nthose which are of no account or<\/p>\n
698
\n00:42:51,440 –> 00:42:54,720
\nof no fame at all so the base
\nthings of the world the things <\/p>\n
699
\n00:42:54,720 –> 00:42:58,920
\nthat are of no account to anyone
\nand those things are despised. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:42:59,680 –> 00:43:03,040
\nThose are the things that God
\nhath chosen, and the things <\/p>\n
701
\n00:43:03,040 –> 00:43:06,560
\nwhich.
\nAre not to bring the not to not <\/p>\n
702
\n00:43:06,560 –> 00:43:09,720
\nthe things that are so.
\nGod has chosen the things that <\/p>\n
703
\n00:43:09,720 –> 00:43:13,640
\nthe world counts as nothing.
\nAnd he’s going to use those to <\/p>\n
704
\n00:43:13,640 –> 00:43:18,160
\nabolish the things that the
\nworld counts as valuable. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:43:19,720 –> 00:43:24,920
\nChrist and the Saints ultimately
\nare going to get rid of the <\/p>\n
706
\n00:43:24,920 –> 00:43:28,800
\nworld.
\nAnd the glory of man stands in <\/p>\n
707
\n00:43:28,800 –> 00:43:33,920
\nthe way of God’s purpose.
\nThe glory of man stands directly<\/p>\n
708
\n00:43:33,920 –> 00:43:41,320
\nin opposition to this purpose.
\nVerse 29 says that no flesh <\/p>\n
709
\n00:43:42,200 –> 00:43:47,320
\nshould glory in His presence.
\nI think about the contradiction.<\/p>\n
710
\n00:43:47,680 –> 00:43:53,400
\nIf flesh could glory in the
\npresence of God, Can you imagine<\/p>\n
711
\n00:43:54,840 –> 00:43:59,280
\nit would be like Nebuchadnezzar?
\nTurn with me to Daniel chapter <\/p>\n
712
\n00:43:59,280 –> 00:44:08,670
\n4.
\nHere’s one of the great men of <\/p>\n
713
\n00:44:09,590 –> 00:44:12,470
\nhuman history.
\nWith great, great <\/p>\n
714
\n00:44:12,470 –> 00:44:16,640
\naccomplishments.
\nThink of God if God had chosen <\/p>\n
715
\n00:44:16,640 –> 00:44:21,640
\nsomeone like him to be a part of
\nHis Kingdom. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:44:24,120 –> 00:44:29,240
\nDaniel chapter 4 and we’re going
\nto go into verse 30, a little <\/p>\n
717
\n00:44:29,240 –> 00:44:31,200
\nways into the verse.
\nHere’s the words of <\/p>\n
718
\n00:44:31,200 –> 00:44:36,400
\nNebuchadnezzar.
\nHe says, is not this great <\/p>\n
719
\n00:44:36,640 –> 00:44:40,800
\nBabylon that I have built?
\nFor the house. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:44:40,840 –> 00:44:44,320
\nOf the Kingdom, by the might of
\nmy power. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:44:44,960 –> 00:44:48,000
\nHow many times did he pat
\nhimself on the back in that <\/p>\n
722
\n00:44:48,000 –> 00:44:52,480
\nsentence?
\nAnd for the honor of my majesty,<\/p>\n
723
\n00:44:52,480 –> 00:44:55,680
\nhe says.
\nAnd while the world word was in <\/p>\n
724
\n00:44:55,680 –> 00:44:57,160
\nthe King’s mouth.
\nThere fell a voice. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:44:57,160 –> 00:45:02,320
\nFrom heaven, saying, O King
\nNebuchadnezzar, to thee it is <\/p>\n
726
\n00:45:02,320 –> 00:45:05,640
\nspoken, The Kingdom is departed
\nfrom thee. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:45:07,120 –> 00:45:11,920
\nCan you imagine Christ claiming
\nthe glory for himself on the <\/p>\n
728
\n00:45:11,920 –> 00:45:14,320
\ncross?
\nCan you imagine him instead of <\/p>\n
729
\n00:45:14,320 –> 00:45:15,680
\ngoing through with the
\ncrucifixion? <\/p>\n
730
\n00:45:15,680 –> 00:45:18,680
\nCan you imagine him coming down
\nfrom the cross and saying, look,<\/p>\n
731
\n00:45:18,760 –> 00:45:23,560
\nI have have decided to now be
\nyour king to the people? <\/p>\n
732
\n00:45:24,960 –> 00:45:28,680
\nCan you imagine David instead of
\nsaying I come in the name of <\/p>\n
733
\n00:45:28,680 –> 00:45:31,360
\nYahweh of hosts?
\nCan you imagine saying to <\/p>\n
734
\n00:45:31,360 –> 00:45:35,040
\nGoliath and everyone watching,
\nsaying Goliath, I’m going to <\/p>\n
735
\n00:45:35,040 –> 00:45:38,160
\ntake you down with my strength
\nand my skill? <\/p>\n
736
\n00:45:39,840 –> 00:45:42,000
\nYou see, the cross is about
\ncrucifying. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:45:42,520 –> 00:45:44,680
\nThe flesh, it’s about getting
\nrid of that. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:45:44,680 –> 00:45:49,280
\nAnd that’s why God has chosen
\npeople that crucify the cross <\/p>\n
739
\n00:45:49,480 –> 00:45:54,640
\nthat have chose that choose the
\ncross people that glorify him to<\/p>\n
740
\n00:45:54,640 –> 00:45:58,520
\nbe a part of his Kingdom.
\nNow, I think it’s a good place <\/p>\n
741
\n00:45:58,520 –> 00:46:02,480
\nright here to to maybe stop for
\njust a second and and recap the <\/p>\n
742
\n00:46:02,480 –> 00:46:05,560
\nproblem that the brothers and
\nsisters in Corinth were having. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:46:06,560 –> 00:46:09,520
\nSo Paul goes into this, this
\nlong dissertation here about <\/p>\n
744
\n00:46:09,640 –> 00:46:14,400
\ncontrasting the wisdom of man
\nand the wisdom of God, and he’s <\/p>\n
745
\n00:46:14,400 –> 00:46:18,720
\nshown to us how much superior
\nGod’s wisdom is and how that in <\/p>\n
746
\n00:46:18,720 –> 00:46:22,520
\nGod’s wisdom, there’s no place
\nfor the wisdom of man or for the<\/p>\n
747
\n00:46:22,520 –> 00:46:27,200
\naccomplishments of man.
\nHe showed that glorifying men is<\/p>\n
748
\n00:46:27,200 –> 00:46:31,360
\ncompletely contrary to the
\nmission that God has given us. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:46:32,240 –> 00:46:35,920
\nWe’re here to glorify God and
\nultimately earth, the earth is <\/p>\n
750
\n00:46:35,920 –> 00:46:37,800
\ngoing to be filled with the
\nglory of God. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:46:39,320 –> 00:46:43,680
\nHe’s shown us all of this.
\nChrist has on the cross. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:46:44,760 –> 00:46:48,560
\nBut there were some in the
\necclesia who strayed from the <\/p>\n
753
\n00:46:48,560 –> 00:46:53,200
\nmission of glorifying God.
\nAnd instead they found support <\/p>\n
754
\n00:46:53,680 –> 00:46:57,680
\nin the ecclesia and they found
\nthat support by their eloquence <\/p>\n
755
\n00:46:58,440 –> 00:47:02,520
\nand by using man’s wisdom to to
\nteach people and to to gain that<\/p>\n
756
\n00:47:02,520 –> 00:47:05,640
\nsupport.
\nWhat they were doing is they <\/p>\n
757
\n00:47:05,640 –> 00:47:10,360
\nwere no longer participating in
\nthe cross of Christ, and instead<\/p>\n
758
\n00:47:10,360 –> 00:47:12,680
\nthey were looking for their own
\nglory. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:47:13,880 –> 00:47:18,760
\nThey were saying Lord, Lord, but
\nthey didn’t know Christ. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:47:19,520 –> 00:47:22,680
\nThey didn’t know the cross and
\nChrist didn’t know them. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:47:23,920 –> 00:47:27,120
\nAnd because of that, the
\necclesia was paralyzed and they <\/p>\n
762
\n00:47:27,120 –> 00:47:29,120
\ncouldn’t deal with the the.
\nProblems. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:47:29,120 –> 00:47:32,600
\nThat were facing the ecclesia
\nfrom the world around them. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:47:35,280 –> 00:47:42,560
\nVerse 30 says, but of him are ye
\nin Christ Jesus, who of God is <\/p>\n
765
\n00:47:42,560 –> 00:47:47,160
\nmade unto us wisdom,
\nrighteousness and sanctification<\/p>\n
766
\n00:47:47,920 –> 00:47:52,160
\nand redemption.
\nHere’s what God has done for us <\/p>\n
767
\n00:47:52,160 –> 00:47:58,840
\nin verse 30, but of him but of
\nGod are ye in Christ Jesus. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:47:59,760 –> 00:48:04,600
\nGod brought us into Christ to
\nfollow his example, to <\/p>\n
769
\n00:48:04,600 –> 00:48:09,840
\nparticipate in his sacrifice,
\nand we’re working with him to <\/p>\n
770
\n00:48:09,840 –> 00:48:14,440
\nreplace man’s wisdom in our own
\nminds and in the world. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:48:15,640 –> 00:48:22,120
\nSo God brought us into Christ,
\nwho of God is made unto us <\/p>\n
772
\n00:48:22,120 –> 00:48:26,360
\nwisdom.
\nSo we have God’s wisdom revealed<\/p>\n
773
\n00:48:26,360 –> 00:48:30,360
\nto us in the Word, made flesh in
\nthe life of the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
774
\n00:48:30,360 –> 00:48:33,600
\nChrist, and in Christ’s
\nsacrifice on the cross. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:48:33,920 –> 00:48:38,800
\nWe have God’s wisdom revealed to
\nus, and the cross gives God the <\/p>\n
776
\n00:48:38,800 –> 00:48:45,520
\nglory.
\nHe showed us wisdom in Christ <\/p>\n
777
\n00:48:46,680 –> 00:48:52,920
\nand he showed us righteousness.
\nHe says by being in Christ, by <\/p>\n
778
\n00:48:52,920 –> 00:48:59,000
\nchoosing God’s wisdom as Christ
\ndid, God makes us righteous <\/p>\n
779
\n00:48:59,440 –> 00:49:05,000
\nthrough faith in him and
\nsanctification. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:49:06,080 –> 00:49:10,760
\nAnd God makes us holy.
\nHe’s making us usable for his <\/p>\n
781
\n00:49:10,760 –> 00:49:17,440
\npurpose and redemption.
\nAnd God redeems us. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:49:18,560 –> 00:49:23,480
\nWe’re all made usable for God’s
\npurpose and the sacrifice of <\/p>\n
783
\n00:49:23,480 –> 00:49:27,240
\nChrist, and God has done all of
\nthis for us. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:49:31,560 –> 00:49:35,680
\nWhy wouldn’t man’s wisdom play a
\npart in salvation? <\/p>\n
785
\n00:49:37,160 –> 00:49:40,600
\nIt becomes obvious, doesn’t it?
\nMan’s wisdom has got to be <\/p>\n
786
\n00:49:40,600 –> 00:49:44,640
\nreplaced, and it’s got to be
\nreplaced with God’s wisdom. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:49:46,320 –> 00:49:48,360
\nAnd then Paul quotes Jeremiah
\nChapter 9. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:49:49,360 –> 00:49:51,600
\nLet’s go over.
\nTo Jeremiah Chapter 9 and just <\/p>\n
789
\n00:49:51,600 –> 00:49:53,760
\nlook at what he says here
\nbecause this sums up his <\/p>\n
790
\n00:49:53,760 –> 00:49:56,120
\nargument.
\nThis sums up the discussion here<\/p>\n
791
\n00:49:56,120 –> 00:50:01,600
\nvery, very well.
\nJeremiah 9 and in verse 23 it <\/p>\n
792
\n00:50:01,600 –> 00:50:16,520
\nsays.
\nJeremiah 923 Thus at Yahweh, let<\/p>\n
793
\n00:50:16,520 –> 00:50:23,320
\nnot the wise man glory in his
\nwisdom, there’s no place for <\/p>\n
794
\n00:50:23,320 –> 00:50:26,840
\nman’s glory.
\nNeither let the mighty man glory<\/p>\n
795
\n00:50:26,840 –> 00:50:30,520
\nin his might, there’s no place
\nfor man’s strength. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:50:31,960 –> 00:50:34,720
\nLet not the rich man glory in
\nhis riches. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:50:36,000 –> 00:50:37,960
\nThere’s no place for man’s
\nriches. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:50:39,360 –> 00:50:43,600
\nAll of these are completely
\ncontrary to the glory of God. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:50:44,840 –> 00:50:49,720
\nBut he says, but let him glory
\nhim, that glorieth glory in <\/p>\n
800
\n00:50:49,720 –> 00:50:51,760
\nthis.
\nSo if we’re going to glory in <\/p>\n
801
\n00:50:51,760 –> 00:50:56,360
\nsomething he says, let him glory
\nin this that he understandeth, <\/p>\n
802
\n00:50:57,280 –> 00:51:02,320
\nand he knoweth me.
\nLet him glory in the fact that <\/p>\n
803
\n00:51:02,320 –> 00:51:06,720
\nhe understands God.
\nAnd let him work towards that. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:51:08,040 –> 00:51:12,440
\nLet him work to understanding
\nthe wisdom of God, because it is<\/p>\n
805
\n00:51:12,440 –> 00:51:15,800
\nthis wisdom that God is looking
\nfor in US. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:51:16,560 –> 00:51:19,840
\nAnd if we can develop this
\nwisdom, if we can follow the <\/p>\n
807
\n00:51:19,840 –> 00:51:23,720
\nexample of Christ, then we will
\nbe glorified through the Lord <\/p>\n
808
\n00:51:23,720 –> 00:51:27,600
\nJesus Christ.
\nAnd then he tells us what his <\/p>\n
809
\n00:51:27,600 –> 00:51:31,760
\ncharacter is like, doesn’t he?
\nHe says that I am Yahweh, which <\/p>\n
810
\n00:51:31,760 –> 00:51:38,280
\nexercised loving kindness,
\njudgment and righteousness and <\/p>\n
811
\n00:51:38,280 –> 00:51:40,920
\nthe earth.
\nIt’s funny because that’s very <\/p>\n
812
\n00:51:40,920 –> 00:51:43,480
\nsimilar to the list of the
\nthings that we’re missing in the<\/p>\n
813
\n00:51:43,480 –> 00:51:47,600
\necclesia at Corinth.
\nHe says for these things I <\/p>\n
814
\n00:51:47,600 –> 00:51:51,720
\ndelight Seth, Yahweh.
\nThis is what I’m looking for in <\/p>\n
815
\n00:51:51,720 –> 00:51:54,560
\nmy people.
\nThis is what I’m looking for <\/p>\n
816
\n00:51:54,560 –> 00:52:00,280
\nfrom my family.
\nYou see, everything is done by <\/p>\n
817
\n00:52:00,280 –> 00:52:05,840
\nGod, everything through Christ,
\nby Christ submitting to the <\/p>\n
818
\n00:52:05,840 –> 00:52:10,560
\ncross and glorifying God.
\nWe’re called to have exactly the<\/p>\n
819
\n00:52:10,560 –> 00:52:14,840
\nsame reward, eternal life.
\nWe’re called to the same thing, <\/p>\n
820
\n00:52:14,840 –> 00:52:17,880
\nto the same mission as our Lord
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:52:19,840 –> 00:52:24,520
\nHe says that according as it is
\nwritten, he that glorieth let <\/p>\n
822
\n00:52:24,520 –> 00:52:30,880
\nhim glory in the Lord.
\nWhat an amazing conclusion in <\/p>\n
823
\n00:52:30,880 –> 00:52:33,960
\nthe ecclesia where the leaders
\nwere leading groups of brothers <\/p>\n
824
\n00:52:33,960 –> 00:52:37,640
\nand sisters and they were doing
\nit for their own recognition. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:52:38,600 –> 00:52:41,960
\nThey were doing it by their own
\ncharisma, by their own <\/p>\n
826
\n00:52:42,000 –> 00:52:46,560
\neloquence, but in doing this
\nthey were working directly <\/p>\n
827
\n00:52:46,560 –> 00:52:49,400
\nagainst the message of the
\ncross. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:52:50,520 –> 00:52:52,520
\nAnd they were looking to glorify
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:52:54,120 –> 00:52:57,520
\nSo Paul strikes right at the
\ncore of the situation. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:52:58,800 –> 00:53:03,040
\nHe shows that there’s only one
\nLord, that only Christ has been <\/p>\n
831
\n00:53:03,040 –> 00:53:08,040
\nable to conquer the flesh, and
\nthat only Christ is our leader. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:53:09,040 –> 00:53:12,240
\nHe shows us that we’re joining
\nChrist in his mission. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:53:13,200 –> 00:53:16,320
\nThat we’re following.
\nHis example and that if we’re <\/p>\n
834
\n00:53:16,320 –> 00:53:17,680
\nlooking.
\nFor our own. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:53:17,680 –> 00:53:21,320
\nRecognition that that’s exactly
\nopposite to what God is looking <\/p>\n
836
\n00:53:21,320 –> 00:53:25,600
\nfor from us, because that’s
\nglorifying the flesh and not <\/p>\n
837
\n00:53:25,600 –> 00:53:30,280
\nglorifying God.
\nAnd all of us need to put our <\/p>\n
838
\n00:53:30,280 –> 00:53:33,080
\nfocus on the mission, which is
\nthe. <\/p>\n
839
\n00:53:33,080 –> 00:53:36,040
\nCross.
\nGod’s will and not our own. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:53:37,520 –> 00:53:39,240
\nYou know, in a lot of ways,
\nbrothers and sisters, we could <\/p>\n
841
\n00:53:39,240 –> 00:53:42,320
\nstop right there and say there’s
\nthe solution to the brothers and<\/p>\n
842
\n00:53:42,320 –> 00:53:44,600
\nsisters problem in the city of
\nCorinth. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:53:45,400 –> 00:53:48,960
\nThere it is.
\nFocus on glorifying God instead <\/p>\n
844
\n00:53:48,960 –> 00:53:51,880
\nof glorifying yourself.
\nAnd maybe that’s the solution to<\/p>\n
845
\n00:53:51,880 –> 00:53:54,680
\nthe problems of of our world, of
\nour. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:53:54,680 –> 00:53:58,520
\nEcclesiastes in 2022.
\nIf we could just get our minds <\/p>\n
847
\n00:53:58,520 –> 00:54:02,280
\nfocused on glorifying God and
\nhave that as our. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:54:02,280 –> 00:54:05,800
\nMission.
\nThen we can have a place in the <\/p>\n
849
\n00:54:05,800 –> 00:54:08,040
\nKingdom to come.
\nThank you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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