Class 1 from this series was used in GCT Episode 355.<\/p>\n
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\nCorinthians chapter 3, verses 1
\nto 16. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I’ll call a brother Phil
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\nthat for us.
\nSo that’s First Corinthians 3, <\/p>\n
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\nverses 1 to 16 reading together.
\nFirst Corinthians chapter 3, <\/p>\n
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\nverses 1 to 16.
\nAnd I, brethren, could not speak<\/p>\n
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\nunto you as unto spiritual, but
\nas unto carnal, even as unto <\/p>\n
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\nbabes in Christ.
\nI fed you with milk, and not <\/p>\n
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\nwith meat, for hitherto you were
\nnot able to bear it, neither yet<\/p>\n
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\nare you able for ye.
\nFor ye are yet carnal. <\/p>\n
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\nFor whereas there is among you
\nenvying and strife and <\/p>\n
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\ndivisions, are ye not carnal and
\nwalkers men. <\/p>\n
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\nFor while one says I am a pool,
\nand another I’m of Apollos, are <\/p>\n
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\nyou not carnal?
\nWho then is born? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd who is Apollos, but
\nministers by whom he believed, <\/p>\n
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\neven as the Lord gave to every
\nman? <\/p>\n
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\nI have planted, Apollos watered,
\nbut God gave the increase. <\/p>\n
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\nSo then neither is he that
\nplanteth anything, neither he <\/p>\n
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\nthat watereth, but God that
\ngiveth the increase. <\/p>\n
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\nNow he that planteth and he that
\nwatereth are one. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd every man shall receive his
\nown reward, according to his own<\/p>\n
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\nlabour.
\nFor we are labourers together <\/p>\n
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\nwith God, ye God’s husbandry,
\nand are ye are God’s building. <\/p>\n
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\nAccording to the grace which God
\nhath given unto me, as a wise <\/p>\n
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\nMaster Builder, I have laid the
\nfoundation, and another builder <\/p>\n
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\nthereon.
\nBut let every excuse me, let <\/p>\n
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\nevery man take heed how he
\nbuildeth thereupon. <\/p>\n
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\nFor other foundation can no man
\nlay than is laid which is Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist.
\nNow if any man build upon this <\/p>\n
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\nfoundation, gold, silver,
\nprecious stones, wood, hay, <\/p>\n
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\nstubble, every man’s work shall
\nbe made manifest, for the day <\/p>\n
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\nshall declare it, because it
\nshall be revealed by fire, and <\/p>\n
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\nthe fire shall try every man’s
\nwork of what sort it is. <\/p>\n
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\nIf any man’s work be able work
\nabide which he hath built, <\/p>\n
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\nthereupon he shall receive a
\nreward. <\/p>\n
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\nIf any man’s work shall be
\nburned, he shall suffer loss, <\/p>\n
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\nbut he himself shall be saved
\nyet by fire, yet so as by fire. <\/p>\n
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\nNo, you’re not that ye are the
\ntemple of God and that the <\/p>\n
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\nSpirit of God dwelleth in you.
\nNow call up on our brother Ben <\/p>\n
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\nto give us his second study in
\nthe series. <\/p>\n
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\nDo alter the glory of God
\nentitled laborers together with <\/p>\n
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\nGod study too.
\nSo good morning, my dear <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters and young
\npeople. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Corinthian ecclesia had
\nformed into groups on the basis <\/p>\n
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\nof personal pride.
\nI’m of Paul. <\/p>\n
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\nWow, you think that’s good?
\nI’m of Apollos. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, I’m actually of Cephas.
\nBut we found that any form of <\/p>\n
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\nhuman pride cannot dwell in the
\npresence of the Father. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Paul is dealing with some
\nvery tricky issues in the <\/p>\n
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\nCorinthian ecclesia, but right
\nfrom the start he gives us a <\/p>\n
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\nfantastic example of how to deal
\nwith issues both individually <\/p>\n
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\nand ecclesia.
\nThe first point, however, which <\/p>\n
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\nI want to note this morning, is
\nthat Paul does deal with the <\/p>\n
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\nissues, that they are not just
\nleft to fester until they have <\/p>\n
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\ndestroyed an individual or an
\necclesia. <\/p>\n
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\nPaul to that ecclesia demands
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\nworked through.
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\nIt’s a fundamental point because
\nit’s very easy to take the easy <\/p>\n
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\noption and it’s very natural,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nWhen matters arise, something’s
\ncome up, it should be dealt <\/p>\n
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\nwith, but it’s just a little too
\nhard to face. <\/p>\n
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\nBut Paul’s example is
\nencouraging us to face up wisely<\/p>\n
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\nto these issues in eclesial life
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\nbecome absolutely destructive
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\neclesial environment.
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\nhallmark, he deals with them by
\nfirst inspiring to the <\/p>\n
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\nfoundation of godly principle.
\nRather than enter into the <\/p>\n
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\nacademic cut and thrust of
\nclever human reasoning, he <\/p>\n
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\ngodly principle that is at <\/p>\n
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\nstake.
\nAnd the key principle, well the <\/p>\n
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\nThat flesh can never be allowed
\nto take the pre eminence in <\/p>\n
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\neclesial life or in in our own
\nlife, and never in the presence <\/p>\n
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\nof God.
\nAnd more particularly that our <\/p>\n
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\nsole objective is to learn to
\ndevelop together with each one <\/p>\n
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\nof us showing the glory of the
\nFather and in fact, as we shall <\/p>\n
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\nfind today, to be labourers
\ntogether with God. <\/p>\n
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\nCan you imagine the incredible
\nheights that our cliches are <\/p>\n
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\ncapable of if we could just
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\ncould just learn to put
\nourselves aside and to work <\/p>\n
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\ntogether, not just together, but
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\nbuilding the ecclesial
\nenvironment? <\/p>\n
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\nIn chapter 1, we found an
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\ntis T division.
\nBut rather than getting into <\/p>\n
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\nthat argument with individuals
\non it was right, which you can <\/p>\n
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\nnever win, Paul showed that
\ntheir attitude showed that none <\/p>\n
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\nof them had wisdom, that none of
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\nhumbled, he elevated them to the<\/p>\n
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\nSo this thing that flesh has no <\/p>\n
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\nglory that we are not even our
\nown in is is then picked up <\/p>\n
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\nthrough the rest of the section
\nhere and really becomes the <\/p>\n
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\ngrand theme of the book that
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\nthat in spite of that, God is
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\nhim is the grand theme of this
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\nI think the point from
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\nas we go right through our
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\nsure that I’m working, that both
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\necclesial life, then my
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\nBecause it’s not about ourselves
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\nworking together.
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\ntogether and of building with
\nGod is very strongly, which what<\/p>\n
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\ncomes through in these next few
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\nIt’s not a book to be used to
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\ndoing that we create division.
\nIt’s a book to be used for <\/p>\n
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\nchanging ourselves, but if we’re
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\nthe transformation of the
\necclesial environment will be <\/p>\n
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\nJust spend a moment looking at
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\nmessage of the book.
\nYou would have seen this on the <\/p>\n
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\nopening night, but had no chance
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\nforgotten it by now as well.
\nSo let’s just work through the, <\/p>\n
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\nthe, the themes that Paul goes
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\nreally this mirrors the
\nstructure we have for our talks <\/p>\n
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\nas we go through.
\nAnd what I’m attempting to do <\/p>\n
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\nthrough this series is to show
\nyou just the, the bites of the <\/p>\n
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\nthemes or the sections that Paul
\ndeals with. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m deliberately not going to go
\ninto them in, in detail in terms<\/p>\n
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\nof the actual chapter breakdowns
\nwithin that. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause I’m trying to show how
\nwithin those sections, Paul is <\/p>\n
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\nrunning a theme through that.
\nHe’s focused on a main theme or <\/p>\n
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\nidea that he’s focused on and
\nhow that’s working through <\/p>\n
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\nbroadly through the book to give
\nhis general message. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I’ve said that Chapter 1 to
\nChapter 4 is a section on <\/p>\n
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\novercoming division by by
\nputting down self and glorying <\/p>\n
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\nin God.
\nWe looked at chapter 1 yesterday<\/p>\n
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\nand we’re finishing off this
\nsection today. <\/p>\n
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\nI know that that’s connected
\nbecause Paul also gives us <\/p>\n
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\nlittle hints that he’s
\nconnecting sections by by little<\/p>\n
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\nideas that he pulls together.
\nAnd we’ll have a look slightly <\/p>\n
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\nlater in this talk at the
\nconcept of Paul and Apollos. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in this thing in this
\nsection, from chapter one <\/p>\n
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\nthrough to chapter 4, he links
\nthat section together by talking<\/p>\n
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\nabout Paul and Apollos and their
\ninteraction together. <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 5 to Chapter 7, Paul
\ndeals with these very difficult <\/p>\n
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\nmoral issues that have arisen in
\nthe ecclesial environment. <\/p>\n
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\nBut interestingly, rather than
\njust dealing or spending his <\/p>\n
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\nwhole time focusing on the issue
\nitself, he deals with them very <\/p>\n
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\nbriefly, but focuses on the
\necclesia and their response to <\/p>\n
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\nthose issues primarily.
\nAnd the principle that he brings<\/p>\n
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\nout is you are not your own.
\nYou’re bought with a price. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’re not there because of of
\nwhat we want to do. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re there to work together as
\nan ecclesia. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd again, he says the answer to
\nthese issues deal with the <\/p>\n
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\nissue.
\nHe deals with that very quickly,<\/p>\n
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\nbut then he shows how the
\necclesial environment is the <\/p>\n
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\nthing that has been impacted by
\nthat. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this theme of, of being
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\nFrom chapter 12 through to
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\nBut his answer to that is to
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\nincredible victory of
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\nAnd what we’ll find this morning
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\nthis morning.
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\nand then verse one.
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\nyou, came not with Excellency of
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\nAnd I was with you in weakness,
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\nYou would have been thinking, no
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\ncouldn’t even bring himself to
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\nAnd Yahweh said unto him, Who
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\nmaketh the dumb, or deaf, or the
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\nCan you see the parallels here
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\nthe wisdom of God in a mystery,
\neven the hidden wisdom which God<\/p>\n
336
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\nordained before the world unto
\nour glory. <\/p>\n
337
\n00:21:03,480 –> 00:21:05,680
\nSo God had a plan from the very
\nbeginning. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:21:06,440 –> 00:21:11,160
\nIt was a hidden mystery that God
\nhas specifically chosen to take <\/p>\n
339
\n00:21:11,160 –> 00:21:15,880
\nhis wisdom and to hide it.
\nAnd if men come to it from their<\/p>\n
340
\n00:21:15,880 –> 00:21:20,760
\nown angle, from their own
\nwisdom, from their own ego, with<\/p>\n
341
\n00:21:20,760 –> 00:21:23,440
\ntheir own view of the world,
\nthen they’ll not comprehend it. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:21:23,560 –> 00:21:26,640
\nBut they can’t understand it.
\nThey will never see the glory <\/p>\n
343
\n00:21:26,640 –> 00:21:28,800
\nand the power of the wisdom of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:21:29,080 –> 00:21:30,920
\nIt’s, it’s this sort of picture,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n
345
\n00:21:32,080 –> 00:21:33,600
\nHopefully you can see that down
\nthe back. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:21:33,600 –> 00:21:37,120
\nYou’ve got the sense of Yahweh’s
\nglory, this overwhelming power <\/p>\n
347
\n00:21:37,120 –> 00:21:40,280
\nand glory of Yahweh and His and
\nHis wisdom. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:21:40,720 –> 00:21:43,800
\nAnd here down on this little
\ncorner, here we have an <\/p>\n
349
\n00:21:43,800 –> 00:21:46,720
\nindividual who’s there, but
\nthey’re there in their own <\/p>\n
350
\n00:21:46,720 –> 00:21:49,760
\nstrength, in their own wisdom.
\nThey’ve got this bubble, as it <\/p>\n
351
\n00:21:49,760 –> 00:21:51,880
\nwere, around them, of man’s
\nwisdom. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:21:52,720 –> 00:21:57,800
\nAnd that bubble, this little
\nbubble here means that they are <\/p>\n
353
\n00:21:57,800 –> 00:22:01,920
\nutterly unable to comprehend or
\nto see the power of God’s <\/p>\n
354
\n00:22:01,920 –> 00:22:06,240
\nwisdom.
\nIt’s such a brilliant framework <\/p>\n
355
\n00:22:06,240 –> 00:22:12,080
\nthat God has created to
\ndeliberately hide His wisdom so <\/p>\n
356
\n00:22:12,080 –> 00:22:15,800
\nthat those who believe, who, who
\nlive by their own cleverness, <\/p>\n
357
\n00:22:16,880 –> 00:22:21,360
\nare left without comprehension
\nof the surpassing glory and <\/p>\n
358
\n00:22:21,360 –> 00:22:24,080
\nwisdom that is around them, and
\nthey don’t even know it. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:22:25,480 –> 00:22:28,640
\nIt happens so often, doesn’t it?
\nIn a worldly sense of of those <\/p>\n
360
\n00:22:28,640 –> 00:22:31,200
\nwho are ambitious to achieve
\nthings and may achieve their <\/p>\n
361
\n00:22:31,200 –> 00:22:34,320
\nambitions, which in themselves
\nare hardly anything. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:22:35,120 –> 00:22:38,200
\nAnd they stand in their own
\nlittle bubble, luxuriating in <\/p>\n
363
\n00:22:38,200 –> 00:22:43,280
\ntheir own capability, and
\ncompletely miss the wonder and <\/p>\n
364
\n00:22:43,280 –> 00:22:47,400
\nthe power and the glory of the
\nFather that cries out from every<\/p>\n
365
\n00:22:47,400 –> 00:22:50,280
\nmolecule of the earth around
\nthem and every pattern of life, <\/p>\n
366
\n00:22:51,120 –> 00:22:56,520
\nlet alone from his word and from
\nhis Son and from his living <\/p>\n
367
\n00:22:56,520 –> 00:23:00,080
\npeople around them.
\nIt’s surpassing brilliance, <\/p>\n
368
\n00:23:00,080 –> 00:23:01,880
\nisn’t it, from a human
\nperspective, brothers and <\/p>\n
369
\n00:23:01,880 –> 00:23:06,000
\nsisters and young people,
\nbecause the Father knows that <\/p>\n
370
\n00:23:06,000 –> 00:23:10,080
\nthe only ones who are capable of
\nliving the fullness of his glory<\/p>\n
371
\n00:23:11,200 –> 00:23:15,160
\nare those who are able to empty
\nthe empty themselves and to turn<\/p>\n
372
\n00:23:15,160 –> 00:23:17,560
\nunto him.
\nIt’s an incredibly powerful <\/p>\n
373
\n00:23:17,560 –> 00:23:21,480
\nprinciple and it and it just
\ngives this fantastic insight <\/p>\n
374
\n00:23:21,480 –> 00:23:26,080
\ninto the intense wisdom of the
\nFather that so surpasses our <\/p>\n
375
\n00:23:26,080 –> 00:23:31,880
\nglory and our approach to life.
\nVerse 8 if we talk about <\/p>\n
376
\n00:23:31,880 –> 00:23:36,520
\nambition and the accomplishments
\nof of human men, which none of <\/p>\n
377
\n00:23:36,520 –> 00:23:40,080
\nthe Princess of this world knew,
\nfor had they known it, they <\/p>\n
378
\n00:23:40,080 –> 00:23:41,960
\nwould not have crucified the
\nLord of glory. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:23:42,200 –> 00:23:47,680
\nHere’s the Roman governor, the
\nRomans who were there, who had <\/p>\n
380
\n00:23:47,680 –> 00:23:51,480
\nachieved incredible things from
\nan ambitious point of view, had <\/p>\n
381
\n00:23:51,480 –> 00:23:54,520
\nscaled the world’s ladders to
\nsome of their greatest heights, <\/p>\n
382
\n00:23:55,680 –> 00:23:58,720
\nbut they didn’t perceive the
\nhidden wisdom of God. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:23:59,760 –> 00:24:03,360
\nAnd so they took, who did they
\ntake? <\/p>\n
384
\n00:24:03,760 –> 00:24:07,480
\nThey took the Lord of glory, one
\nwho was the encompass, the <\/p>\n
385
\n00:24:07,480 –> 00:24:09,240
\nencompassed all of Yahweh’s
\nglory. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:24:09,360 –> 00:24:13,760
\nThey took that man and they
\ncrucified him because they had <\/p>\n
387
\n00:24:13,760 –> 00:24:17,520
\nno idea that the wisdom of God
\nwas shining out from him. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:24:18,560 –> 00:24:21,720
\nIt’s, it’s an incredible insight
\ninto the fact that some of the <\/p>\n
389
\n00:24:21,720 –> 00:24:27,200
\nmost successful men could turn
\naround and so utterly fail to <\/p>\n
390
\n00:24:27,200 –> 00:24:31,480
\nsee the power and the wisdom of
\nGod’s work and God’s ways. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:24:34,520 –> 00:24:39,640
\nHe killed the greatest man who
\nhad ever lived upon the earth. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:24:41,480 –> 00:24:45,920
\nThat’s the principle, isn’t it?
\nIf we rely on the wisdom of this<\/p>\n
393
\n00:24:45,920 –> 00:24:53,480
\nworld, we will get nowhere.
\nWe will not even comprehend the <\/p>\n
394
\n00:24:53,480 –> 00:24:58,480
\nfullness or any part of the
\nwisdom of God that shines around<\/p>\n
395
\n00:24:58,480 –> 00:25:02,600
\nus.
\nBut in verse 9 He changes, <\/p>\n
396
\n00:25:02,600 –> 00:25:04,800
\ndoesn’t He?
\nAs it’s written, I hath not <\/p>\n
397
\n00:25:04,800 –> 00:25:08,080
\nseen, nor ear heard, neither
\nhath entered into the heart of <\/p>\n
398
\n00:25:08,080 –> 00:25:12,200
\nman the things which God hath
\nprepared for them that love Him.<\/p>\n
399
\n00:25:14,320 –> 00:25:18,200
\nSo God has prepared something
\nfor them that love Him. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:25:19,200 –> 00:25:22,000
\nBut it’s something which the
\nhuman eye cannot see. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:25:23,200 –> 00:25:26,720
\nIt’s something which the human
\near and the human heart cannot <\/p>\n
402
\n00:25:26,720 –> 00:25:31,880
\nhear or comprehend if we’re
\nthere in human focus or in a <\/p>\n
403
\n00:25:31,880 –> 00:25:37,840
\nhuman wisdom, but God has
\nprepared something for them that<\/p>\n
404
\n00:25:37,840 –> 00:25:40,200
\nlove him.
\nIt’s the hidden wisdom, isn’t it<\/p>\n
405
\n00:25:40,560 –> 00:25:43,240
\nthat the mystery of God from
\nverse 7, which God ordained <\/p>\n
406
\n00:25:43,240 –> 00:25:48,360
\nbefore the the world unto our
\nglory and no human can <\/p>\n
407
\n00:25:48,360 –> 00:25:50,240
\ncontemplate the fullness of what
\nthat means. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:25:50,240 –> 00:25:52,680
\nWe’re being told.
\nYet God has prepared it right <\/p>\n
409
\n00:25:52,680 –> 00:25:55,600
\nfrom the beginning for those
\nthat love him. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:25:58,800 –> 00:26:02,400
\nJust come across to Isaiah
\nchapter 64, which is actually <\/p>\n
411
\n00:26:02,400 –> 00:26:06,120
\nwhere Paul has quoted from out
\nof out of verse 9 and just see <\/p>\n
412
\n00:26:06,120 –> 00:26:08,000
\nhere again, young people
\nparticularly. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:26:08,000 –> 00:26:11,160
\nThis is a really key point in
\nterms of how to understand the <\/p>\n
414
\n00:26:11,160 –> 00:26:14,760
\nuse of of Scripture and to
\nunderstand how Scripture unlocks<\/p>\n
415
\n00:26:15,440 –> 00:26:19,520
\nbecause the key here is the
\nperfect context of how Paul has <\/p>\n
416
\n00:26:19,520 –> 00:26:24,280
\nused has used this quote.
\nPaul, remember, is talking of <\/p>\n
417
\n00:26:24,280 –> 00:26:28,120
\nthe theme of this idea of God
\ndeliberately hiding his wisdom <\/p>\n
418
\n00:26:28,400 –> 00:26:31,760
\nand keeping it for those who
\nrespond to him in humility and <\/p>\n
419
\n00:26:31,760 –> 00:26:36,640
\nto acknowledge God’s position.
\nSo come to Isaiah 64 and in <\/p>\n
420
\n00:26:36,640 –> 00:26:41,680
\nverse, in verse 8, sorry, verse,
\nverse one. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:26:45,920 –> 00:26:49,160
\nSo the verse that Paul is
\nquoting out of is, is verse 4. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:26:49,160 –> 00:26:51,560
\nBut we’re just going to flow
\nthrough the chapter briefly to <\/p>\n
423
\n00:26:51,560 –> 00:26:53,960
\nsee what Paul’s saying.
\nSo verse one, oh, that thou <\/p>\n
424
\n00:26:54,000 –> 00:26:56,120
\nwould rend the heavens, that
\nthou would come down, that the <\/p>\n
425
\n00:26:56,120 –> 00:26:58,400
\nmountains might flow down at thy
\npresence. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:26:58,920 –> 00:27:01,960
\nVerse 3 when thou did terrible
\nthings which we looked not for, <\/p>\n
427
\n00:27:01,960 –> 00:27:04,600
\nthey came us down, and the
\nmountains flowed down at thy <\/p>\n
428
\n00:27:04,600 –> 00:27:06,720
\npresence.
\nSo this is sense of the prophet <\/p>\n
429
\n00:27:06,720 –> 00:27:09,400
\npleading that God would come
\ndown and reveal himself. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:27:09,640 –> 00:27:12,880
\nAnd verse three they that is
\nwhich when thou did terrible <\/p>\n
431
\n00:27:12,880 –> 00:27:16,800
\nthings which we looked not for.
\nSo from a human perspective, <\/p>\n
432
\n00:27:16,800 –> 00:27:19,400
\nthere was not the sense of the
\nfact that God was in control, <\/p>\n
433
\n00:27:19,400 –> 00:27:22,640
\nalways going to do His work.
\nThis was God’s work that He was <\/p>\n
434
\n00:27:22,640 –> 00:27:24,800
\ndoing.
\nVerse 4. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:27:26,000 –> 00:27:30,400
\nFor since the beginning of the
\nworld, men have not heard nor <\/p>\n
436
\n00:27:30,400 –> 00:27:33,920
\nperceived by the ear, neither
\nhath the eye seen, O God beside <\/p>\n
437
\n00:27:33,920 –> 00:27:38,720
\nthee, what He hath prepared for
\nhim, that waiteth for him. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:27:39,560 –> 00:27:41,920
\nSo there’s this sense in which
\nthe world is sitting there with <\/p>\n
439
\n00:27:41,920 –> 00:27:46,000
\nno awareness or appreciation of
\nthe incredible work that God has<\/p>\n
440
\n00:27:46,000 –> 00:27:49,000
\naccomplished, that He’s
\naccomplished in the past, that <\/p>\n
441
\n00:27:49,000 –> 00:27:52,520
\nHe’s accomplishing now in His
\ncreative work with us, and that <\/p>\n
442
\n00:27:52,520 –> 00:27:56,160
\nHe will continue to bring to
\npass until it is completely <\/p>\n
443
\n00:27:56,600 –> 00:28:00,120
\nfinished.
\nIn such a powerful work, human <\/p>\n
444
\n00:28:00,800 –> 00:28:03,440
\ncannot, human wisdom cannot
\nperceive that. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:28:04,840 –> 00:28:09,160
\nVerse 5 Thou meetest him that
\nrejoiceth and worketh <\/p>\n
446
\n00:28:09,160 –> 00:28:12,200
\nrighteousness, those that
\nremember thee in thy ways. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:28:12,880 –> 00:28:16,560
\nSo God is looking, isn’t he, for
\nthose who understand him in his <\/p>\n
448
\n00:28:16,560 –> 00:28:20,880
\nrighteousness, and rejoice in
\nhis ways, that remember thee in <\/p>\n
449
\n00:28:20,880 –> 00:28:23,520
\nthy ways.
\nBut behold, thou art wrath, for <\/p>\n
450
\n00:28:23,520 –> 00:28:27,000
\nwe have sinned, and those as
\ncontinuance, and we shall be <\/p>\n
451
\n00:28:27,000 –> 00:28:28,520
\nsaved.
\nThere’s continuance in going <\/p>\n
452
\n00:28:28,520 –> 00:28:31,680
\nback to the things of God.
\nThis way of salvation is on <\/p>\n
453
\n00:28:31,680 –> 00:28:35,160
\nGod’s basis, verse 6:00 and
\n7:00. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:28:35,160 –> 00:28:39,120
\nBut we are is all an unclean
\nthing, all our righteousness. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:28:39,120 –> 00:28:41,960
\nThere is filthy rags, and we do
\nfade as a leaf, and our <\/p>\n
456
\n00:28:41,960 –> 00:28:43,960
\niniquities, like the wind, have
\ntaken us away. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:28:44,240 –> 00:28:46,800
\nThere is none that calleth upon
\nthy name that stirreth up <\/p>\n
458
\n00:28:46,800 –> 00:28:50,280
\nhimself to take hold of Thee,
\nfor thou hast hid thy face from <\/p>\n
459
\n00:28:50,280 –> 00:28:53,440
\nus, and has consumed us because
\nof our iniquities. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:28:53,520 –> 00:28:56,000
\nIt’s the words of a man who is
\nbrought low. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:28:57,040 –> 00:29:00,440
\nIt’s the words of a man who
\nunderstands that flesh is <\/p>\n
462
\n00:29:00,440 –> 00:29:04,120
\nnothing, that no flesh will
\nglory in his presence. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:29:05,520 –> 00:29:09,320
\nSo what Paul’s showing out of
\nIsaiah is that Isaiah <\/p>\n
464
\n00:29:09,320 –> 00:29:14,440
\nunderstands the concept of us
\nbeing brought to nothing, but <\/p>\n
465
\n00:29:14,440 –> 00:29:18,040
\nthen that once we are brought to
\nnothing, that then God will look<\/p>\n
466
\n00:29:18,040 –> 00:29:22,840
\nfor those who work righteousness
\nand who meet him and rejoice in <\/p>\n
467
\n00:29:22,840 –> 00:29:25,600
\nhis ways.
\nThat remember God in his ways, <\/p>\n
468
\n00:29:25,880 –> 00:29:29,040
\nwe’re brought to nothing
\nourselves, but our focus goes <\/p>\n
469
\n00:29:29,040 –> 00:29:33,040
\nupon the work of God and of his
\nways and verse 8 But now, O <\/p>\n
470
\n00:29:33,040 –> 00:29:40,600
\nYahweh, thou art our Father.
\nWe are the clay and thou our <\/p>\n
471
\n00:29:40,600 –> 00:29:44,400
\nPotter, and we are all the work
\nof thy hand. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:29:44,400 –> 00:29:48,080
\nThat’s the picture, isn’t it?
\nThat we we’ve become a malleable<\/p>\n
473
\n00:29:48,080 –> 00:29:50,120
\nhunk of clay.
\nWho is able to say it’s not our <\/p>\n
474
\n00:29:50,120 –> 00:29:52,400
\nwork.
\nThis is the Father as a Potter <\/p>\n
475
\n00:29:52,560 –> 00:29:55,480
\nwho’s able to start to build us
\nup, to work us on the world as <\/p>\n
476
\n00:29:55,480 –> 00:29:59,520
\nit were, and to build us from a
\nlump, an ugly lump of clay, and <\/p>\n
477
\n00:29:59,520 –> 00:30:03,720
\nto make us into beautiful pots
\nthat can be used in His service.<\/p>\n
478
\n00:30:04,000 –> 00:30:07,320
\nIt’s nothing to do with us.
\nWe’ve found out that we’re <\/p>\n
479
\n00:30:07,320 –> 00:30:11,680
\nnothing, but we’ve opened
\nourselves up as a lump of clay <\/p>\n
480
\n00:30:12,640 –> 00:30:15,160
\nand asking the Father to work
\nwith us as a Potter. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:30:16,200 –> 00:30:21,640
\nAnd in that context, verse 4, we
\nsaw since the beginning of the <\/p>\n
482
\n00:30:21,640 –> 00:30:24,600
\nworld, men have not heard nor
\nperceived by the earth, neither <\/p>\n
483
\n00:30:24,600 –> 00:30:29,120
\nhath the I seen, O God beside
\nthee, what He hath prepared for <\/p>\n
484
\n00:30:29,120 –> 00:30:34,920
\nhim that waiteth for him.
\nIt’s God’s work, and He is going<\/p>\n
485
\n00:30:34,920 –> 00:30:40,160
\nto accomplish an incredible work
\nin US if we learn to wait for <\/p>\n
486
\n00:30:40,160 –> 00:30:44,920
\nHim.
\nGod has taken His master plan <\/p>\n
487
\n00:30:45,120 –> 00:30:50,400
\nfor the world, His ability to
\ndevelop His glory in US, and <\/p>\n
488
\n00:30:50,400 –> 00:30:53,960
\nhe’s deliberately hidden it.
\nAnd a man comes along in their <\/p>\n
489
\n00:30:53,960 –> 00:30:57,880
\nown wisdom and pride, and they
\nmiss this incredible glory, the <\/p>\n
490
\n00:30:57,880 –> 00:30:59,600
\npower of what God is
\naccomplishing. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:31:00,720 –> 00:31:04,400
\nBut if we’re able to humble
\nourselves and to be elevated to <\/p>\n
492
\n00:31:04,400 –> 00:31:08,240
\nthe wisdom of God, we’re able to
\nenter into the deepest and most <\/p>\n
493
\n00:31:08,240 –> 00:31:12,480
\npowerful wisdom of the eternal
\nmind itself. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:31:14,360 –> 00:31:17,920
\nSo Paul continues back in in
\nfirst of Corinthians and chapter<\/p>\n
495
\n00:31:17,920 –> 00:31:24,440
\n2 as he starts to talk of of the
\npower of his mind being opened <\/p>\n
496
\n00:31:24,440 –> 00:31:27,360
\nup to us.
\nFirst of Corinthians chapter 2 <\/p>\n
497
\n00:31:27,360 –> 00:31:32,360
\nand verse 10 But God hath
\nrevealed them unto us by his <\/p>\n
498
\n00:31:32,360 –> 00:31:34,360
\nspirit.
\nFor the spirit searcheth all <\/p>\n
499
\n00:31:34,360 –> 00:31:36,200
\nthese things, ye the deep things
\nof God. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:31:36,200 –> 00:31:39,240
\nFor what man knoweth the things
\nof a man save the spirit of man <\/p>\n
501
\n00:31:39,240 –> 00:31:41,640
\nwhich is in him.
\nEven so the things of God <\/p>\n
502
\n00:31:41,640 –> 00:31:43,840
\nknoweth no man but the Spirit of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:31:45,720 –> 00:31:48,400
\nIt’s saying that if, if we look
\nat someone, we don’t actually <\/p>\n
504
\n00:31:48,400 –> 00:31:49,680
\nknow what they’re thinking, do
\nwe? <\/p>\n
505
\n00:31:50,920 –> 00:31:52,560
\nWe don’t know what other people
\nare thinking. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:31:52,560 –> 00:31:54,800
\nI don’t know what you’re
\nthinking out there in the <\/p>\n
507
\n00:31:54,800 –> 00:31:56,880
\naudience, and you probably know
\nwhat I’m thinking because I’m <\/p>\n
508
\n00:31:56,880 –> 00:31:59,280
\ntelling you that, but not
\nnecessarily everything. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:32:00,080 –> 00:32:02,920
\nThe only person who knows a
\nperson’s mind is themself. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:32:04,800 –> 00:32:06,920
\nThe only person who knows God’s
\nmind is himself. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:32:06,960 –> 00:32:11,520
\nBut he’s telling us that God has
\nrevealed that to us. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:32:13,120 –> 00:32:16,240
\nSo God has taken his wisdom,
\nwhich has been hidden, but he’s <\/p>\n
513
\n00:32:16,240 –> 00:32:19,760
\nactually revealed it to us if we
\nare prepared to listen to it. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:32:20,280 –> 00:32:22,520
\nHe’s shown us completely what
\nhe’s thinking, what his <\/p>\n
515
\n00:32:22,520 –> 00:32:24,720
\nintentions are, what he is going
\nto accomplish. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:32:25,800 –> 00:32:28,720
\nAnd there’s this incredible
\nsense of the open relationship <\/p>\n
517
\n00:32:28,720 –> 00:32:30,240
\nthat we have with the Father
\nhere. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:32:30,400 –> 00:32:34,400
\nIt’s hidden, yes, from the wise
\nof this world, but humble <\/p>\n
519
\n00:32:34,400 –> 00:32:37,720
\nourselves as little children.
\nAnd He’s completely opened up to<\/p>\n
520
\n00:32:37,720 –> 00:32:41,920
\nus the full wisdom of that
\nhidden mystery that encompasses <\/p>\n
521
\n00:32:41,920 –> 00:32:48,280
\nHis mind and His thinking.
\nVerse 13 which things also we <\/p>\n
522
\n00:32:48,280 –> 00:32:51,440
\nspeak not in the words which
\nman’s wisdom teacheth, but which<\/p>\n
523
\n00:32:51,440 –> 00:32:54,960
\nthe Holy Spirit teacheth,
\ncomparing spiritual things with <\/p>\n
524
\n00:32:54,960 –> 00:32:58,560
\nspiritual.
\nIf we just had God there, we <\/p>\n
525
\n00:32:58,560 –> 00:33:02,480
\nwouldn’t know His mind, but He’s
\nrevealed it to us if we listen <\/p>\n
526
\n00:33:02,480 –> 00:33:04,840
\nto it.
\nHe’s He’s opened up to us if we <\/p>\n
527
\n00:33:04,840 –> 00:33:07,680
\ncome to God and are prepared to
\nlearn His ways. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:33:09,120 –> 00:33:10,720
\nBut it’s not in our own
\nstrength. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:33:11,840 –> 00:33:16,320
\nIt’s with humility and an
\nintense desire to understand the<\/p>\n
530
\n00:33:16,320 –> 00:33:22,520
\nmind of God.
\nSee, God had a purpose which he <\/p>\n
531
\n00:33:22,520 –> 00:33:27,640
\nordained before the beginning of
\nthe world, that focused upon his<\/p>\n
532
\n00:33:27,640 –> 00:33:31,840
\nwisdom.
\nThat wisdom was a mechanism by <\/p>\n
533
\n00:33:31,840 –> 00:33:34,520
\nwhich God would come to
\nunderstand, by which people, <\/p>\n
534
\n00:33:34,520 –> 00:33:37,840
\nsorry, would come to understand
\nGod’s glory and his purpose. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:33:38,920 –> 00:33:41,960
\nAnd he took that purpose and
\nthat wisdom and that glory, and <\/p>\n
536
\n00:33:41,960 –> 00:33:45,120
\nhe deliberately hid them in a
\nway that individual humans could<\/p>\n
537
\n00:33:45,120 –> 00:33:47,600
\nnever understand if they came in
\ntheir own glory. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:33:49,160 –> 00:33:51,440
\nBut he’s telling that although
\nhe has hidden it, he has <\/p>\n
539
\n00:33:51,440 –> 00:33:55,680
\nrevealed it to us.
\nIf we are prepared to become <\/p>\n
540
\n00:33:55,680 –> 00:33:59,360
\nspiritual in our thinking in a
\nway that discerns the thinking <\/p>\n
541
\n00:33:59,360 –> 00:34:04,360
\nof God, if if our purpose is
\nabout ourself, we’re not going <\/p>\n
542
\n00:34:04,360 –> 00:34:07,800
\nto accomplish it.
\nIf our if our thinking is about <\/p>\n
543
\n00:34:07,800 –> 00:34:09,920
\nhow big my own ego is, then
\nwe’ll not unlock it. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:34:10,800 –> 00:34:14,800
\nBut if we come with humility,
\nthen it will unfold and open to <\/p>\n
545
\n00:34:14,840 –> 00:34:16,760
\nus in all its magnificent
\nsplendor. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:34:19,480 –> 00:34:23,400
\nJust contemplate the sheer
\nbrilliance of Paul’s argument. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:34:24,120 –> 00:34:26,480
\nRemember the the issue he’s
\ndealing with here from the start<\/p>\n
548
\n00:34:26,480 –> 00:34:29,960
\nis I’m of Paul, I’m of Apollos.
\nThere’s Chisins and divisions <\/p>\n
549
\n00:34:29,960 –> 00:34:32,239
\neverywhere because people are
\nout for themselves, wanting to <\/p>\n
550
\n00:34:32,239 –> 00:34:34,719
\nbe the greatest and aligning
\nwith the different groups. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:34:35,040 –> 00:34:38,040
\nAnd Paul answers that by showing
\nthem the need to transform away <\/p>\n
552
\n00:34:38,040 –> 00:34:41,960
\nfrom that thinking to the
\nprinciple of life lived in <\/p>\n
553
\n00:34:41,960 –> 00:34:46,000
\nhumility and with a deep desire
\nto learn the wisdom of God. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:34:48,639 –> 00:34:53,280
\nNow come to chapter 3 and verse
\none, because Paul gives us the <\/p>\n
555
\n00:34:53,280 –> 00:34:58,840
\nnext little key as to how we can
\nget the mind of God. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:35:00,320 –> 00:35:02,080
\nChapter 3.
\nAnd the first thing I want you <\/p>\n
557
\n00:35:02,080 –> 00:35:04,680
\nto know is the intensity and
\nstrength of this language. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:35:04,680 –> 00:35:09,520
\nI brethren, could not speak unto
\nyou as unto spiritual, but as <\/p>\n
559
\n00:35:09,520 –> 00:35:13,360
\nunto carnal, even as babes in
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:35:14,360 –> 00:35:18,320
\nI’ve had to feed you with milk
\nand not with meat, for hitherto <\/p>\n
561
\n00:35:18,320 –> 00:35:21,160
\nyou were not able to bear it
\nneither yet now are ye able, for<\/p>\n
562
\n00:35:21,160 –> 00:35:25,040
\nye are yet carnal, whereas there
\nis a mungu envying and strife <\/p>\n
563
\n00:35:25,040 –> 00:35:27,320
\nand division.
\nAre ye not carnal and Walker’s <\/p>\n
564
\n00:35:27,320 –> 00:35:31,360
\nmen for wild one saith I’m of
\nPoland, another I’m of Apollos. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:35:31,720 –> 00:35:36,920
\nAre ye not carnal?
\nIt’s an incredibly strong <\/p>\n
566
\n00:35:36,920 –> 00:35:39,520
\nlanguage that Paul is using it.
\nCan you just contemplate what <\/p>\n
567
\n00:35:39,520 –> 00:35:41,240
\nhe’s saying here?
\nYou’re babies, he’s saying. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:35:41,600 –> 00:35:44,120
\nYou think you’re there in your
\nwisdom and and able to talk <\/p>\n
569
\n00:35:44,120 –> 00:35:47,360
\nabout your own power and and
\ngreatness and and ability to <\/p>\n
570
\n00:35:47,360 –> 00:35:49,240
\nreason.
\nBut you’re babies, he says. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:35:49,240 –> 00:35:52,360
\nI can’t even teach you anything
\nout of the truth that’s anything<\/p>\n
572
\n00:35:52,360 –> 00:35:56,480
\nmore than the milk of the word.
\nYou’re, you’re still down there <\/p>\n
573
\n00:35:56,480 –> 00:36:00,880
\nas young babes in the truth
\nbecause you are carnal, because <\/p>\n
574
\n00:36:00,880 –> 00:36:03,160
\nit’s the thinking of the flesh
\ngetting in the way. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:36:03,400 –> 00:36:07,040
\nAnd it’s not able therefore to,
\nto open up and to have the power<\/p>\n
576
\n00:36:07,040 –> 00:36:10,120
\nof God’s word revealed.
\nAnd he absolutely rips into <\/p>\n
577
\n00:36:10,120 –> 00:36:12,600
\nthem.
\nHe doesn’t hold back because <\/p>\n
578
\n00:36:12,760 –> 00:36:16,440
\nhe’s teaching them that it’s
\nthem they’re talking about. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:36:16,840 –> 00:36:19,480
\nHe’s raised the principles and
\nnow he’s making it blunt for <\/p>\n
580
\n00:36:19,480 –> 00:36:22,840
\nthem that they are carnal in not
\nunderstanding things from God’s <\/p>\n
581
\n00:36:22,840 –> 00:36:26,840
\nperspective.
\nHe’s laid the foundations and he<\/p>\n
582
\n00:36:26,840 –> 00:36:29,640
\nwants the Corinthians to know
\nthat they are exactly the people<\/p>\n
583
\n00:36:29,640 –> 00:36:31,280
\nthat God that Paul’s talking
\nabout. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:36:32,880 –> 00:36:35,040
\nHe knows they’re carnal, mind
\nyou. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:36:35,560 –> 00:36:38,520
\nHe knows they’re missing the
\nhidden wisdom of God for one <\/p>\n
586
\n00:36:38,600 –> 00:36:42,520
\nvery important reason.
\nIt’s because of the schisms and <\/p>\n
587
\n00:36:42,520 –> 00:36:44,680
\ndivisions that are racking their
\nmidst. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:36:46,640 –> 00:36:49,320
\nIt’s, it’s these problems, isn’t
\nit, which are there because <\/p>\n
589
\n00:36:49,320 –> 00:36:52,920
\nthere’s such a clear symptom of
\nthe underlying problem that’s <\/p>\n
590
\n00:36:52,920 –> 00:36:54,480
\nthere.
\nAnd he’s trying to get them to <\/p>\n
591
\n00:36:54,480 –> 00:36:57,120
\nunderstand that those schisms
\nand divisions which they were <\/p>\n
592
\n00:36:57,120 –> 00:37:00,880
\ncaught up in was an evidence of
\nthe fact that they were still <\/p>\n
593
\n00:37:00,880 –> 00:37:02,880
\nthinking after the way of the
\nflesh. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:37:04,360 –> 00:37:06,960
\nThis is brothers and sisters,
\nmind you, he’s talking to this <\/p>\n
595
\n00:37:06,960 –> 00:37:10,120
\nis in an ecclesial environment
\nand he’s saying you are carnal. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:37:10,120 –> 00:37:13,280
\nYou’re thinking after the flesh.
\nYou are just babes in Christ not<\/p>\n
597
\n00:37:13,280 –> 00:37:15,760
\nunderstanding the principles of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:37:17,200 –> 00:37:20,720
\nAnd it’s the same for us,
\nbecause whenever our eclesial <\/p>\n
599
\n00:37:20,720 –> 00:37:24,880
\nenvironment has decayed into
\ndivision and schism and strife, <\/p>\n
600
\n00:37:25,560 –> 00:37:30,320
\nit is always, always because the
\nwisdom of God has been lost. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:37:30,480 –> 00:37:33,400
\nAnd instead of coming into
\nhumility, we’re coming in our <\/p>\n
602
\n00:37:33,400 –> 00:37:37,280
\nglory.
\nJust think about our own <\/p>\n
603
\n00:37:37,280 –> 00:37:40,760
\ncontribution to a collegial
\nlife, thinking about our our <\/p>\n
604
\n00:37:40,760 –> 00:37:43,840
\nfeelings towards or against
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:37:45,280 –> 00:37:48,120
\nJust stop for a moment and think
\nabout whether you have a problem<\/p>\n
606
\n00:37:48,320 –> 00:37:55,720
\nyourself with anyone.
\nIf so, even if it’s just one <\/p>\n
607
\n00:37:55,720 –> 00:37:59,160
\nperson.
\nAnd we have to think about our <\/p>\n
608
\n00:37:59,160 –> 00:38:04,840
\nattitude because it’s a symptom
\nthat cries out to us that <\/p>\n
609
\n00:38:04,840 –> 00:38:10,440
\nsomething inside is wrong is a
\nwarning for us today, a very <\/p>\n
610
\n00:38:10,440 –> 00:38:14,800
\nstrong warning.
\nAnd we lose a focus on God. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:38:15,800 –> 00:38:19,640
\nAnd when we start to look at
\nourselves, we begin to cause <\/p>\n
612
\n00:38:19,640 –> 00:38:24,360
\nissues and divisions that create
\ngaping holes in our eclesias. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:38:25,760 –> 00:38:29,920
\nAnd if we are party to this, if
\nwe are the ones who are causing <\/p>\n
614
\n00:38:29,920 –> 00:38:32,960
\ndivision and schisms in our
\necclesial environment, if our <\/p>\n
615
\n00:38:32,960 –> 00:38:36,480
\nactions are causing divisions,
\nthen we are carnal. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:38:36,600 –> 00:38:40,880
\nWe are thinking after the flesh.
\nWe are not understanding God’s <\/p>\n
617
\n00:38:40,880 –> 00:38:44,560
\nwisdom or His glory because we
\nare glorying in ourselves. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:38:45,200 –> 00:38:49,560
\nIt’s man’s wisdom, isn’t it?
\nWe can’t understand the things <\/p>\n
619
\n00:38:49,560 –> 00:38:53,120
\nof God.
\nHave a look in verse 5. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:38:55,120 –> 00:38:59,520
\nWho then is Paul?
\nAnd who is Apollos? <\/p>\n
621
\n00:39:00,560 –> 00:39:04,120
\nBut ministers by whom you
\nbelieved even as the Lord gave <\/p>\n
622
\n00:39:04,120 –> 00:39:07,640
\nto everyone.
\nAnd so he expands the concept <\/p>\n
623
\n00:39:07,640 –> 00:39:10,120
\nagain to answer this issue of
\nthe Paul and the Apollos <\/p>\n
624
\n00:39:10,120 –> 00:39:12,280
\nquestion.
\nWhat’s his answer? <\/p>\n
625
\n00:39:13,760 –> 00:39:18,720
\nOK, I’m Paul, and this is
\nApollos, who you two groups are <\/p>\n
626
\n00:39:18,720 –> 00:39:20,840
\nfollowing.
\nAnd what is our role? <\/p>\n
627
\n00:39:21,200 –> 00:39:26,920
\nWell, we are just slaves.
\nWe’re just servants. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:39:28,520 –> 00:39:32,840
\nAnd Apollos, he happens to just
\nbe a slave as well. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:39:33,720 –> 00:39:35,920
\nHe’s nothing great.
\nI’m nothing great. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:39:35,920 –> 00:39:39,040
\nIt’s just Paul and Apollos.
\nAnd our role was to be <\/p>\n
631
\n00:39:39,040 –> 00:39:42,880
\nministers, to be slaves by whom
\nyou believe, as the Lord gave to<\/p>\n
632
\n00:39:42,880 –> 00:39:46,760
\nevery man the glories not of
\nourselves, we are to be slaves <\/p>\n
633
\n00:39:46,960 –> 00:39:51,400
\nalong with Paul and Apollos.
\nAnd so Paul adds the next little<\/p>\n
634
\n00:39:51,400 –> 00:39:54,520
\nblock on his reasoning, doesn’t
\nit his, his answer to this <\/p>\n
635
\n00:39:54,520 –> 00:39:57,600
\necclesia?
\nIt’s not just that we learn we <\/p>\n
636
\n00:39:57,600 –> 00:40:00,880
\nare nothing.
\nIt’s not just that we learn it’s<\/p>\n
637
\n00:40:00,880 –> 00:40:05,280
\nabout God’s glory.
\nIt’s that once we understand <\/p>\n
638
\n00:40:05,280 –> 00:40:11,120
\nthese things, we learn to become
\nthe slaves of God. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:40:12,200 –> 00:40:15,880
\nTo devote our lives in service
\nto the God of heaven because we <\/p>\n
640
\n00:40:15,880 –> 00:40:19,200
\nare owned by him.
\nIf I take this picture we had <\/p>\n
641
\n00:40:19,200 –> 00:40:22,960
\nearlier, here’s man’s wisdom.
\nAnd essentially we come out of <\/p>\n
642
\n00:40:22,960 –> 00:40:26,560
\nman’s wisdom and man’s bubble
\nrecognizing that that is nothing<\/p>\n
643
\n00:40:26,680 –> 00:40:32,200
\nand we become slaves to God.
\nBut in becoming slaves to God, <\/p>\n
644
\n00:40:32,400 –> 00:40:35,440
\nwe actually enter into the
\nfullness and the power of his <\/p>\n
645
\n00:40:35,440 –> 00:40:35,960
\nwisdom.
\nOops. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:40:42,600 –> 00:40:44,680
\nI won’t play with it.
\nThe man’s wisdom is meant to <\/p>\n
647
\n00:40:44,680 –> 00:40:47,200
\ndisappear off the top.
\nLet’s just pretend that’s gone. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:40:47,640 –> 00:40:50,520
\nBut can you see the sense of,
\nof, of the picture that’s drawn?<\/p>\n
649
\n00:40:50,720 –> 00:40:53,760
\nWe’re there in our own little
\nbubble in man’s wisdom, and we <\/p>\n
650
\n00:40:53,760 –> 00:40:55,600
\nstart to learn that man’s wisdom
\nis nothing. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:40:56,240 –> 00:40:59,480
\nBut it’s not until we learn that
\nwe are slaves to be working in <\/p>\n
652
\n00:40:59,480 –> 00:41:03,000
\nGod’s service that we can
\nactually start to comprehend the<\/p>\n
653
\n00:41:03,000 –> 00:41:06,600
\nenormity of God’s glory, and
\nparticularly the contribution <\/p>\n
654
\n00:41:06,600 –> 00:41:10,760
\nthat we can make to God’s glory,
\nthat we become his slaves who <\/p>\n
655
\n00:41:10,760 –> 00:41:14,960
\nare working as part of his work
\nto build and to grow his glory. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:41:16,200 –> 00:41:18,600
\nIt’s so much more in that
\nmessage, isn’t it, than just <\/p>\n
657
\n00:41:18,600 –> 00:41:21,720
\nstopping us following Paul and
\nApollos as some super people to <\/p>\n
658
\n00:41:21,720 –> 00:41:25,360
\nMarch behind with a banner.
\nHe’s actually showing us that <\/p>\n
659
\n00:41:25,360 –> 00:41:27,680
\nPaul and Apollos were not like
\nthemselves at all. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:41:27,800 –> 00:41:32,160
\nThey didn’t want that, that they
\nwanted us to learn from their <\/p>\n
661
\n00:41:32,160 –> 00:41:35,320
\nexample of being servants, of
\nbeing ministers in the ecclesial<\/p>\n
662
\n00:41:35,320 –> 00:41:38,200
\nenvironment, being having taught
\nthem. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:41:38,200 –> 00:41:40,760
\nIt’s not about their own ego.
\nHe’s saying you need to learn <\/p>\n
664
\n00:41:40,760 –> 00:41:43,840
\nthe principles of service, of
\nworking and labouring in the <\/p>\n
665
\n00:41:43,840 –> 00:41:46,640
\necclesial environment.
\nIt’s a brilliant answer to the <\/p>\n
666
\n00:41:46,640 –> 00:41:49,200
\ndivisions in in Corinth.
\nCut it out. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:41:49,640 –> 00:41:53,160
\nStop being carnal and fleshly
\nfocused on your own glory. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:41:53,160 –> 00:41:56,520
\nNow turn around and start to
\nwork in the ecclesial <\/p>\n
669
\n00:41:56,520 –> 00:41:59,280
\nenvironment.
\nContribute to the growth, be <\/p>\n
670
\n00:41:59,280 –> 00:42:02,960
\nprepared to labour, and we’ll
\nfix the problems and the issues <\/p>\n
671
\n00:42:02,960 –> 00:42:05,920
\nin ecclesial life.
\nIf we forget about ourselves and<\/p>\n
672
\n00:42:05,920 –> 00:42:11,240
\nwe focus on God’s glory, every
\none of us, it’s made powerful <\/p>\n
673
\n00:42:11,520 –> 00:42:13,880
\nwhen we are all working together
\nin tandem. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:42:15,160 –> 00:42:21,240
\nHow dare we as slaves of God use
\nour energy to pull down and to <\/p>\n
675
\n00:42:21,240 –> 00:42:26,600
\ndestroy.
\nGod wants us as His slaves to <\/p>\n
676
\n00:42:26,600 –> 00:42:30,640
\nuse that energy in the ecclesial
\nlife to work and to labor and to<\/p>\n
677
\n00:42:30,640 –> 00:42:34,800
\ncontribute.
\nAnd that’s Paul’s answer to the <\/p>\n
678
\n00:42:34,800 –> 00:42:37,800
\nproblem that had caused such
\npain and strife and division. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:42:38,160 –> 00:42:40,400
\nVerse 7.
\nSo then neither is he that <\/p>\n
680
\n00:42:40,400 –> 00:42:44,160
\nplanteth anything, neither he
\nthat watereth, but God that <\/p>\n
681
\n00:42:44,160 –> 00:42:47,080
\ngiveth the increase.
\nIt’s not about me, Paul, who <\/p>\n
682
\n00:42:47,080 –> 00:42:49,520
\nplanted.
\nIt’s not about him Apollos who <\/p>\n
683
\n00:42:49,520 –> 00:42:51,760
\nwatered, or anyone else who took
\nthe weeds away. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:42:52,440 –> 00:42:56,200
\nIt’s all God’s work.
\nWe’re just ministers and slaves <\/p>\n
685
\n00:42:56,200 –> 00:42:59,560
\nof God.
\nWhat a what a beautiful focus <\/p>\n
686
\n00:42:59,560 –> 00:43:03,720
\nand such a beautiful perspective
\nthat can give to our ecclesial <\/p>\n
687
\n00:43:03,720 –> 00:43:08,280
\nlife together.
\nI just want to show you, I’ve <\/p>\n
688
\n00:43:08,280 –> 00:43:10,680
\nsaid that this theme is one
\nthat’s bound by the concepts of <\/p>\n
689
\n00:43:10,680 –> 00:43:14,840
\nPaul and Apollos.
\nHere they are at the start, <\/p>\n
690
\n00:43:15,080 –> 00:43:18,560
\neveryone of you saith I’m of
\nPaul and I have Apollos, while <\/p>\n
691
\n00:43:18,560 –> 00:43:20,680
\none saith I’m of Paul and
\nanother of Apollos. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:43:20,760 –> 00:43:24,520
\nAre ye not carnal?
\nSo that was the issue, wasn’t <\/p>\n
693
\n00:43:24,520 –> 00:43:25,640
\nit?
\nThey were following Paul and <\/p>\n
694
\n00:43:25,640 –> 00:43:29,200
\nApollos as men who they could
\nstand behind and, and and look <\/p>\n
695
\n00:43:29,200 –> 00:43:33,240
\nup to in human ego.
\nBut he makes the point to you in<\/p>\n
696
\n00:43:33,240 –> 00:43:37,360
\nchapter 3, who, who are Paul and
\nApollos but ministers by whom <\/p>\n
697
\n00:43:37,360 –> 00:43:40,200
\nyou believed?
\nAnd his point is actually Paul <\/p>\n
698
\n00:43:40,480 –> 00:43:44,160
\nand Apollos had none of the sort
\nof issues that the the ecclesia <\/p>\n
699
\n00:43:44,160 –> 00:43:46,880
\nwere talking about.
\nPaul and Apollos did not want to<\/p>\n
700
\n00:43:46,880 –> 00:43:50,560
\nbe followed as, as sort of the
\nhead banner of, of a, of a Paul <\/p>\n
701
\n00:43:50,560 –> 00:43:54,960
\nor an Apollos brigade.
\nThey were there as ministers or <\/p>\n
702
\n00:43:54,960 –> 00:43:57,360
\nas slaves working together.
\nAnd he gives such a beautiful <\/p>\n
703
\n00:43:57,360 –> 00:44:01,720
\nview of that, doesn’t he, when
\nhe says he, that watereth so, so<\/p>\n
704
\n00:44:01,720 –> 00:44:03,800
\nhe says I’ve planted but, but
\nApollos watered. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:44:04,680 –> 00:44:07,560
\nSo I’ve gone out there to do 1
\nwork and I deliberately left <\/p>\n
706
\n00:44:07,560 –> 00:44:09,560
\nthat work there.
\nI’d, I’d planted, I’d done the <\/p>\n
707
\n00:44:09,560 –> 00:44:12,600
\nbit I needed to and I handed the
\nwork over to Apollos who came in<\/p>\n
708
\n00:44:12,600 –> 00:44:15,160
\nand he watered.
\nWe are working in tandem as the <\/p>\n
709
\n00:44:15,160 –> 00:44:17,800
\nslaves of God, he said.
\nIt’s not about me or him. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:44:18,000 –> 00:44:21,200
\nIt’s about our working together
\nas the slaves of God and our <\/p>\n
711
\n00:44:21,200 –> 00:44:24,680
\nwork can only be accomplished.
\nOur work will only bear fruit if<\/p>\n
712
\n00:44:24,680 –> 00:44:28,160
\nGod is working with us to to, to
\ngive us the increase. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:44:29,520 –> 00:44:32,720
\nI have watered, sorry, I have
\nplanted, Apollos watered. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:44:32,720 –> 00:44:39,520
\nBut God gave the increase later
\non in this chapter, he says, he <\/p>\n
715
\n00:44:39,520 –> 00:44:42,600
\nsays that all things are ours.
\nEverything we have in this <\/p>\n
716
\n00:44:42,600 –> 00:44:45,120
\nworld, everything that exists in
\nthis world, he says is ours. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:44:45,120 –> 00:44:48,280
\nAnd whether it’s Paul or Apollos
\nor Cephas or the world or life <\/p>\n
718
\n00:44:48,280 –> 00:44:50,480
\nor death or things present or
\nthings to come, everything’s <\/p>\n
719
\n00:44:50,480 –> 00:44:53,400
\nours.
\nHow ridiculous to be focused on <\/p>\n
720
\n00:44:53,400 –> 00:44:57,880
\nPaul or Apollos when actually as
\nthe the slaves of God, as the <\/p>\n
721
\n00:44:57,880 –> 00:45:01,240
\npeople of God, we have the
\naccess to everything that exists<\/p>\n
722
\n00:45:01,240 –> 00:45:05,640
\nin the world.
\nWe’re ears of all things and <\/p>\n
723
\n00:45:05,640 –> 00:45:08,520
\nthen he concludes that sort of
\nsection or that idea on Apollos <\/p>\n
724
\n00:45:08,520 –> 00:45:12,520
\nso that this combination of
\nApollos and Paul in chapter 4 <\/p>\n
725
\n00:45:12,520 –> 00:45:16,600
\nverse six with a with a comment.
\nThese things, brethren, I have <\/p>\n
726
\n00:45:16,600 –> 00:45:20,160
\nenough figure transferred to
\nmyself in Apollos for your sakes<\/p>\n
727
\n00:45:21,040 –> 00:45:23,560
\nthat you might learn enough not
\nto think of men above that which<\/p>\n
728
\n00:45:23,560 –> 00:45:26,800
\nis written that no one of you be
\npuffed up for one against <\/p>\n
729
\n00:45:26,800 –> 00:45:27,640
\nanother.
\nWhat’s he saying? <\/p>\n
730
\n00:45:28,200 –> 00:45:32,640
\nHe’s saying that he deliberately
\ntook the concepts of slavery and<\/p>\n
731
\n00:45:32,640 –> 00:45:36,320
\nof service of us being
\nabsolutely nothing and learning <\/p>\n
732
\n00:45:36,320 –> 00:45:40,520
\nthat we are nothing, but then
\nlearning to work as a slave of <\/p>\n
733
\n00:45:40,520 –> 00:45:43,160
\nGod for his glory.
\nAnd he’s saying he’s proven that<\/p>\n
734
\n00:45:43,160 –> 00:45:45,360
\nPaul and Apollos were both doing
\nthat. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:45:46,200 –> 00:45:48,960
\nAnd by showing the picture of
\nPaul and Apollos doing that, <\/p>\n
736
\n00:45:49,240 –> 00:45:52,480
\nhe’s he’s transferring the
\nexample of what he wants the <\/p>\n
737
\n00:45:52,480 –> 00:45:55,920
\nentire teacher to do to say now
\nyou need to follow in exactly <\/p>\n
738
\n00:45:55,920 –> 00:45:58,520
\nthe same way.
\nHe’s used the Paul and Apollos <\/p>\n
739
\n00:45:58,520 –> 00:46:03,480
\nsituation to show actually that
\nPaul and Apollos were living <\/p>\n
740
\n00:46:04,040 –> 00:46:08,800
\nwith flesh as nothing, as slaves
\nof God to the glory of God. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:46:12,200 –> 00:46:16,440
\nSuch a contrast to holding on to
\nsome issue that that someone’s <\/p>\n
742
\n00:46:16,440 –> 00:46:20,480
\ndone to us or to create issues
\nin ourselves because it’s not <\/p>\n
743
\n00:46:20,480 –> 00:46:24,200
\nabout us.
\nInstead to turn around and to <\/p>\n
744
\n00:46:24,200 –> 00:46:29,640
\nlabour and contribute is Paul’s
\nantidote to the problem here. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:46:31,560 –> 00:46:34,280
\nBut if that’s not enough, let’s
\nhave a look in verse 8. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:46:38,000 –> 00:46:43,920
\nNow he that planteth and he that
\nwatereth are one, and every man <\/p>\n
747
\n00:46:43,920 –> 00:46:47,080
\nshall receive his own reward
\naccording to his own labor. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:46:49,440 –> 00:46:53,760
\nWhat do you mean we’re one?
\nIt’s Paul or Apollos or <\/p>\n
749
\n00:46:53,760 –> 00:46:58,480
\nindividuals, isn’t it?
\nPaul is saying it’s actually one<\/p>\n
750
\n00:46:58,480 –> 00:47:02,040
\nwork that’s being account.
\nIt’s Paul Apollos who are <\/p>\n
751
\n00:47:02,040 –> 00:47:05,960
\nlabouring together, working,
\nplanting and watering. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:47:08,840 –> 00:47:11,760
\nYou imagine how transforming
\nthat could be from for the <\/p>\n
753
\n00:47:11,760 –> 00:47:15,720
\nCorinthian ecclesia to know that
\nit’s one ecclesial body bound <\/p>\n
754
\n00:47:15,720 –> 00:47:19,760
\ntogether, working together, no
\nroom for division and schism. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:47:19,760 –> 00:47:24,400
\nWho are there as slaves?
\nIt’s saying that this is about <\/p>\n
756
\n00:47:24,400 –> 00:47:28,720
\nGod and his glory and our desire
\nto unlock that wisdom, the <\/p>\n
757
\n00:47:28,720 –> 00:47:31,440
\nwisdom of God, the hidden
\nmystery of God, to to understand<\/p>\n
758
\n00:47:31,440 –> 00:47:34,680
\nhis power and glory and then to
\nlabour in the Eclesial context <\/p>\n
759
\n00:47:35,520 –> 00:47:39,760
\nso that the entire eclesial
\nenvironment can be uplifted by <\/p>\n
760
\n00:47:39,760 –> 00:47:42,840
\nit.
\nIt’s powerful for the Corinthian<\/p>\n
761
\n00:47:42,840 –> 00:47:47,320
\nEcleses and it’s powerful for us
\nalso in our Eclesial life if we <\/p>\n
762
\n00:47:47,320 –> 00:47:49,040
\ncome to understand these
\nprinciples. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:47:51,080 –> 00:47:53,640
\nVerse 8 at the end of that
\nsection. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:47:53,640 –> 00:47:57,400
\nAnd every man shall receive his
\nown reward according to his own <\/p>\n
765
\n00:47:57,400 –> 00:48:02,960
\nlabour.
\nThe reality is that God will <\/p>\n
766
\n00:48:02,960 –> 00:48:08,040
\ngive us a reward according to
\nthe contribution that we have <\/p>\n
767
\n00:48:08,040 –> 00:48:11,400
\nmade to His ecclesial
\nenvironment, that the reward we <\/p>\n
768
\n00:48:11,400 –> 00:48:16,360
\nreceive is in accordance with
\nthe contribution that we have <\/p>\n
769
\n00:48:16,360 –> 00:48:18,560
\nmade within the ecclesial
\nenvironment. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:48:19,400 –> 00:48:21,640
\nNow that can be a bit of a
\ntricky concept for us to get our<\/p>\n
771
\n00:48:21,640 –> 00:48:24,080
\nheads around, isn’t it?
\nWe, we sort of tend to think <\/p>\n
772
\n00:48:24,080 –> 00:48:26,320
\nthat we’re not worthy.
\nSo this concept of a reward is <\/p>\n
773
\n00:48:26,320 –> 00:48:28,800
\nsomething that gets a little
\ntricky, but actually keep that <\/p>\n
774
\n00:48:28,800 –> 00:48:30,880
\nin the back of your mind because
\nas we go through this next <\/p>\n
775
\n00:48:30,880 –> 00:48:34,120
\nsection, you’ll find this idea
\nof the reward just continues to <\/p>\n
776
\n00:48:34,120 –> 00:48:42,560
\nbuild and to grow.
\nWe are nothing but we labour for<\/p>\n
777
\n00:48:42,560 –> 00:48:47,520
\nGod’s sake and God sees our work
\nand rewards us as individuals. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:48:47,960 –> 00:48:51,920
\nVerse 9 For ye are labourers
\ntogether with God, Ye are God’s <\/p>\n
779
\n00:48:51,920 –> 00:48:53,880
\nhusband, you’re in ye are God’s
\nbuilding. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:48:54,600 –> 00:49:01,680
\nHold on.
\nYe are labourers together with <\/p>\n
781
\n00:49:01,680 –> 00:49:05,280
\nGod.
\nThat idea is a work of a Co <\/p>\n
782
\n00:49:05,280 –> 00:49:10,440
\nlabourer with God.
\nI’ll just read you out of out of<\/p>\n
783
\n00:49:10,440 –> 00:49:14,080
\nRomans 16, just a couple of
\nchapter pages back. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:49:14,080 –> 00:49:17,040
\nRomans 16 and verse 3, greet
\nPaul. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:49:17,040 –> 00:49:19,040
\nThis is Paul talking of his
\nhelpers in the truth. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:49:19,040 –> 00:49:22,120
\nGreet Priscilla and Aquila.
\nMy help was in Christ Jesus. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:49:22,120 –> 00:49:25,760
\nIt’s the same word, my Co
\nlabourers in Christ Jesus. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:49:26,760 –> 00:49:30,280
\nVerse 9, salute urbane, our
\nhelper in Christ, our Co <\/p>\n
789
\n00:49:30,400 –> 00:49:35,720
\nlabourer in Christ.
\nVerse 21, Timotheus, my work <\/p>\n
790
\n00:49:35,720 –> 00:49:41,080
\nfellow, my Co labourer.
\nSee, Paul was working as a Co <\/p>\n
791
\n00:49:41,080 –> 00:49:43,760
\nlabourer with so many people in
\nthe ecclesial environment. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:49:44,760 –> 00:49:47,760
\nIt’s all the same fellow
\nlabourers who are working <\/p>\n
793
\n00:49:47,760 –> 00:49:50,760
\ntogether with Paul.
\nBut the point that Paul makes <\/p>\n
794
\n00:49:50,760 –> 00:49:54,360
\nhere in First Corinthians 3 is
\nit’s so much more than that. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:49:54,440 –> 00:49:57,040
\nIt’s not just working together
\nwith our brothers and sisters as<\/p>\n
796
\n00:49:57,040 –> 00:50:00,360
\nslaves.
\nWe are actually Co labouring <\/p>\n
797
\n00:50:00,360 –> 00:50:03,840
\nwith God.
\nAnd when we are working as <\/p>\n
798
\n00:50:03,840 –> 00:50:07,560
\nslaves in God’s environment, we
\nactually are working next to him<\/p>\n
799
\n00:50:07,680 –> 00:50:11,320
\nhand in hand with God, as it
\nwere with him labouring next to <\/p>\n
800
\n00:50:11,360 –> 00:50:16,440
\nus.
\nWhen we see that God is working <\/p>\n
801
\n00:50:16,440 –> 00:50:21,640
\nwith us, he’s labouring with us
\nand we become Co labourers <\/p>\n
802
\n00:50:21,640 –> 00:50:25,400
\ntogether with God.
\nSo what’s that about being of <\/p>\n
803
\n00:50:25,400 –> 00:50:27,720
\nPaul’s group or of a policies to
\ngroup group? <\/p>\n
804
\n00:50:28,280 –> 00:50:30,880
\nOK, you might be in a policies
\ngroup over there. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:50:30,880 –> 00:50:32,840
\nThat’s an interesting nice group
\nto be in. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:50:33,760 –> 00:50:36,720
\nBut actually this group over
\nhere who have put aside the <\/p>\n
807
\n00:50:36,720 –> 00:50:39,400
\nwisdom of the world are in God’s
\ngroup. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:50:39,760 –> 00:50:44,000
\nThey are Co labourers together
\nwith God and can you see how <\/p>\n
809
\n00:50:44,000 –> 00:50:47,560
\nthat completely overwhelms from
\na human perspective any <\/p>\n
810
\n00:50:47,560 –> 00:50:49,640
\naccomplishments that we can we
\ncan accomplish. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:50:49,880 –> 00:50:53,080
\nWe are called brothers and
\nsisters and young people to the <\/p>\n
812
\n00:50:53,080 –> 00:50:57,480
\nincredible power and privilege
\nof working as a Co labourer with<\/p>\n
813
\n00:50:57,480 –> 00:51:00,480
\nGod himself.
\nThere cannot be any greater work<\/p>\n
814
\n00:51:00,480 –> 00:51:04,000
\nwe can be called to accomplish.
\nWant the wisdom of of man’s <\/p>\n
815
\n00:51:04,000 –> 00:51:06,800
\nworld.
\nIt just is nothing compared to <\/p>\n
816
\n00:51:06,800 –> 00:51:09,880
\nthe glory of the fact that we
\ncan be Co labouring or working <\/p>\n
817
\n00:51:11,080 –> 00:51:14,600
\nwith God.
\nThat’s the work we are called to<\/p>\n
818
\n00:51:14,600 –> 00:51:20,400
\ndo in an ecclesial context.
\nStep in step, hand in hand with <\/p>\n
819
\n00:51:20,400 –> 00:51:24,120
\nthe Father himself.
\nWe become labourers with God. <\/p>\n
820
\n00:51:26,720 –> 00:51:30,520
\nVerse nine.
\nYeah, yeah, halfway through the <\/p>\n
821
\n00:51:30,520 –> 00:51:30,960
\nverse.
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:51:30,960 –> 00:51:33,920
\nGod’s husbandry, ye are God’s
\nbuilding. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:51:33,920 –> 00:51:36,760
\nSo we are both Co labourers with
\nGod, but we are also his <\/p>\n
824
\n00:51:36,880 –> 00:51:39,040
\nhusband, or as the margin says,
\nhis tillage. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:51:39,200 –> 00:51:42,200
\nIt’s agricultural language for
\nfor plowing up the the land <\/p>\n
826
\n00:51:42,200 –> 00:51:45,600
\nready for for planting.
\nSo we labour with God, but we <\/p>\n
827
\n00:51:45,600 –> 00:51:49,080
\nare also his tillage.
\nHe is working on us and we are <\/p>\n
828
\n00:51:49,080 –> 00:51:51,200
\nhis building.
\nWe are labourers together with <\/p>\n
829
\n00:51:51,200 –> 00:51:54,840
\nGod, but he is building us up as
\npart of God’s building. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:51:55,160 –> 00:51:58,080
\nAnd it’s this, this beautiful
\njuxtaposition of ideas where we <\/p>\n
831
\n00:51:58,080 –> 00:52:00,040
\nare labouring with God in a on a
\nbuilding. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:52:00,200 –> 00:52:02,200
\nAnd then we realise as the
\nbuilding is going up that <\/p>\n
833
\n00:52:02,200 –> 00:52:04,080
\nactually that building is us,
\nourselves. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:52:04,720 –> 00:52:08,160
\nAnd we contemplate that it’s
\nalso our brothers and sisters <\/p>\n
835
\n00:52:08,520 –> 00:52:10,400
\nwho are becoming part of that
\nbuilding. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:52:12,520 –> 00:52:16,440
\nThis concept of building with
\nGod is something that binds us <\/p>\n
837
\n00:52:16,440 –> 00:52:19,640
\ntogether into the ecclesia, into
\nGod’s building, and it <\/p>\n
838
\n00:52:19,640 –> 00:52:22,400
\ntransforms our view of ecclesial
\nlife because we’re not just <\/p>\n
839
\n00:52:22,680 –> 00:52:25,720
\nlabouring together with God
\nourselves, but in a way that <\/p>\n
840
\n00:52:25,720 –> 00:52:29,240
\npicks up the ecclesial members
\nand binds us together, locked <\/p>\n
841
\n00:52:29,440 –> 00:52:31,600
\nand mortared into the building
\nof God himself. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:52:36,280 –> 00:52:40,680
\nIn faith in the last days we
\nread a wise master builder never<\/p>\n
843
\n00:52:40,680 –> 00:52:44,040
\nbegins to to build without a
\ndesign that that phrase of the <\/p>\n
844
\n00:52:44,040 –> 00:52:47,240
\nmaster builder has come out of
\nout of Corinthians there in <\/p>\n
845
\n00:52:47,240 –> 00:52:49,880
\nverse 10.
\nAs a wise master builder I have <\/p>\n
846
\n00:52:49,880 –> 00:52:51,600
\nbuilt.
\nA wise master builder never <\/p>\n
847
\n00:52:51,600 –> 00:52:53,160
\nbegins to build without a
\ndesign. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:52:53,560 –> 00:52:57,000
\nThat is, he draws after a scale
\nof so much to the foot. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:52:57,160 –> 00:52:59,680
\nThis is the extension or time,
\nso to speak, of the building to <\/p>\n
850
\n00:52:59,680 –> 00:53:01,880
\nbe erected.
\nHaving well considered the <\/p>\n
851
\n00:53:01,880 –> 00:53:04,920
\nwhole, he concludes that it’s
\nthe best possible plan that can <\/p>\n
852
\n00:53:04,920 –> 00:53:07,680
\nbe devised in harmony with the
\nprinciples of architecture. <\/p>\n
853
\n00:53:08,400 –> 00:53:11,600
\nIt then becomes his purpose, his
\nforeordination, <\/p>\n
854
\n00:53:11,680 –> 00:53:14,760
\npredeterminational design.
\nAll subsequent arrangements are <\/p>\n
855
\n00:53:14,760 –> 00:53:18,360
\nmade to conform to this recorded
\npurpose because it’s the very <\/p>\n
856
\n00:53:18,360 –> 00:53:21,960
\nbest His most deliberate wisdom
\nand ingenuity can devise. <\/p>\n
857
\n00:53:22,400 –> 00:53:25,320
\nIt’s not a hard concept, is it?
\nBefore building a building, we <\/p>\n
858
\n00:53:25,320 –> 00:53:29,120
\nhave a master plan that we work
\nto, and God has created that <\/p>\n
859
\n00:53:29,120 –> 00:53:32,520
\nmaster plan.
\nWe are called upon to build <\/p>\n
860
\n00:53:32,560 –> 00:53:35,880
\nafter that master plan, and in
\nfact, we’ll find shortly to <\/p>\n
861
\n00:53:35,880 –> 00:53:38,200
\nbuild upon the foundation.
\nActually, let’s have a look at <\/p>\n
862
\n00:53:38,200 –> 00:53:40,640
\nthat, that verse, verse 11 for
\nother foundation. <\/p>\n
863
\n00:53:40,640 –> 00:53:44,120
\nCan no man lay in that which is
\nlay, which is Jesus Christ? <\/p>\n
864
\n00:53:44,920 –> 00:53:49,240
\nGod’s Master plan is in place
\nand we are called to build <\/p>\n
865
\n00:53:49,280 –> 00:53:53,320
\naccording to that master plan on
\nthe foundation of Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
866
\n00:53:54,240 –> 00:53:56,520
\nThe next thing this Master
\nBuilder does is to collect <\/p>\n
867
\n00:53:56,520 –> 00:53:58,920
\ntogether all the necessary
\nmaterials, whether of brick, <\/p>\n
868
\n00:53:58,920 –> 00:54:02,200
\nstone, limes, sand, wood, or
\nwhat else that may be needed. <\/p>\n
869
\n00:54:02,960 –> 00:54:05,160
\nAnd if a spectator desire to
\nknow what all these crude <\/p>\n
870
\n00:54:05,160 –> 00:54:08,600
\nmatters were heaped up together
\nin one place, the architect <\/p>\n
871
\n00:54:08,600 –> 00:54:12,160
\nwould reveal to him his purpose
\nby submitting the draft of his <\/p>\n
872
\n00:54:12,160 –> 00:54:14,960
\nplan in all its lines, circles,
\nangles, etcetera. <\/p>\n
873
\n00:54:15,600 –> 00:54:18,000
\nAnd he would describe to him
\nsuch an arrangement of the <\/p>\n
874
\n00:54:18,000 –> 00:54:21,440
\nmaterials as would impress the
\nspectators mind with an image of<\/p>\n
875
\n00:54:21,440 –> 00:54:25,240
\nthe edifice, though it would
\nfall infinitely short of the <\/p>\n
876
\n00:54:25,240 –> 00:54:31,560
\nreality when perfected.
\nIt’s the idea isn’t it, that God<\/p>\n
877
\n00:54:31,560 –> 00:54:35,880
\nis in control, He’s got His
\nmaster plan He’s working towards<\/p>\n
878
\n00:54:36,560 –> 00:54:40,560
\nand He has called us to become
\nCo labourers together with Him, <\/p>\n
879
\n00:54:41,320 –> 00:54:46,240
\nto build according to His master
\nplan, the evidence of which is <\/p>\n
880
\n00:54:46,240 –> 00:54:48,160
\nalready here for us in the
\nScriptures. <\/p>\n
881
\n00:54:48,800 –> 00:54:51,840
\nAnd not to try and lay another
\nfoundation upon that already <\/p>\n
882
\n00:54:51,840 –> 00:54:56,200
\nlaid which is Jesus Christ, but
\nto follow with meticulous detail<\/p>\n
883
\n00:54:57,120 –> 00:54:59,880
\nthe principles of building that
\nHe has laid down for us in the <\/p>\n
884
\n00:54:59,880 –> 00:55:03,920
\nscriptures.
\nWe’re called to be builders <\/p>\n
885
\n00:55:03,920 –> 00:55:08,880
\ntogether with God, and therefore
\nwe need to understand the plan <\/p>\n
886
\n00:55:08,880 –> 00:55:18,720
\nthat God is working too.
\nThere can be no divisions when <\/p>\n
887
\n00:55:18,720 –> 00:55:23,000
\nwe relay or when we attempt to
\nrelay a foundation that is <\/p>\n
888
\n00:55:23,000 –> 00:55:25,960
\nalready laid.
\nWe cannot change the foundations<\/p>\n
889
\n00:55:25,960 –> 00:55:29,600
\nof ecclesial life because that
\nfoundation has already been <\/p>\n
890
\n00:55:29,600 –> 00:55:33,600
\nlaid.
\nPaul has shown the Corinthian <\/p>\n
891
\n00:55:33,600 –> 00:55:37,960
\necclesia that if they were
\ntrying to change the <\/p>\n
892
\n00:55:37,960 –> 00:55:42,040
\nfoundations, if they were
\ndeciding no longer to build upon<\/p>\n
893
\n00:55:42,040 –> 00:55:45,800
\nthe old foundation, then they
\ncould not be Co labourers. <\/p>\n
894
\n00:55:45,800 –> 00:55:48,480
\nTogether with God.
\nWe were no longer master <\/p>\n
895
\n00:55:48,480 –> 00:55:52,600
\nbuilders working hand in hand
\nwith the Father, but we were <\/p>\n
896
\n00:55:52,600 –> 00:55:58,640
\nbuilding our own human edifice.
\nHe’s asking us to contribute our<\/p>\n
897
\n00:55:58,640 –> 00:56:02,040
\nour energy to build upon the
\nfoundation that has already been<\/p>\n
898
\n00:56:02,040 –> 00:56:04,560
\nlaid.
\nIt’s our responsibility to <\/p>\n
899
\n00:56:04,560 –> 00:56:07,480
\nbuild, we’re being told, but to
\nbuild upon that foundation that <\/p>\n
900
\n00:56:07,480 –> 00:56:11,560
\nhas been laid down for us.
\nAnd in order for us to do that, <\/p>\n
901
\n00:56:11,560 –> 00:56:15,600
\nwe need to understand God’s his
\nplan and his details. <\/p>\n
902
\n00:56:18,200 –> 00:56:20,880
\nSo let’s come now to verse 12
\nand what is quite a tricky <\/p>\n
903
\n00:56:20,880 –> 00:56:23,880
\nlittle section.
\nI’ve entitled it the the testing<\/p>\n
904
\n00:56:24,440 –> 00:56:28,520
\nof our work by fire.
\nIt’s a it’s a section I’ve <\/p>\n
905
\n00:56:28,520 –> 00:56:31,240
\nstruggled with previously
\nbecause it the the word pictures<\/p>\n
906
\n00:56:31,240 –> 00:56:33,480
\ndon’t seem to quite tie up verse
\n12. <\/p>\n
907
\n00:56:33,480 –> 00:56:36,240
\nNow if any man build upon this
\nfoundation, gold, silver, <\/p>\n
908
\n00:56:36,240 –> 00:56:39,720
\nprecious stones, wood, hay and
\nstubble, every man’s work shall <\/p>\n
909
\n00:56:39,720 –> 00:56:41,920
\nbe made manifest for the day
\nshall declare it because it <\/p>\n
910
\n00:56:41,920 –> 00:56:44,840
\nshall be revealed by fire.
\nAnd you look at it in verse 12 <\/p>\n
911
\n00:56:44,840 –> 00:56:47,280
\nand you think, hang on.
\nSo we’re coming along as <\/p>\n
912
\n00:56:47,280 –> 00:56:49,160
\nindividuals and we’re building
\nupon the foundation. <\/p>\n
913
\n00:56:49,160 –> 00:56:51,600
\nIt’s gold, silver, precious
\nstones, wood, hay, stubble and <\/p>\n
914
\n00:56:52,040 –> 00:56:54,840
\nand the word pictures don’t
\nquite tie together, do they? <\/p>\n
915
\n00:56:54,840 –> 00:56:57,840
\nBecause we don’t tend to build
\nupon buildings with wood and hay<\/p>\n
916
\n00:56:57,840 –> 00:57:00,080
\nand and stubble.
\nWe’ll do with wood, but not with<\/p>\n
917
\n00:57:00,080 –> 00:57:01,960
\nhay and stubble.
\nNor do we tend to build with <\/p>\n
918
\n00:57:01,960 –> 00:57:03,760
\nwith gold upon it or precious
\nstones. <\/p>\n
919
\n00:57:03,880 –> 00:57:07,080
\nThey might be the things that we
\nuse at the end to put in place <\/p>\n
920
\n00:57:07,080 –> 00:57:11,480
\nand to make it look pretty.
\nSo what’s the point or the idea <\/p>\n
921
\n00:57:12,320 –> 00:57:17,200
\nthat’s coming out here?
\nWell, I think we see that if we <\/p>\n
922
\n00:57:17,200 –> 00:57:19,880
\ncarry on in the context of these
\nverses, every man’s work shall <\/p>\n
923
\n00:57:19,880 –> 00:57:22,240
\nbe made manifest before the day
\nshall declare it, because it <\/p>\n
924
\n00:57:22,240 –> 00:57:25,160
\nshall be revealed by fire, and
\nthe fire shall try every man’s <\/p>\n
925
\n00:57:25,160 –> 00:57:27,800
\nwork of what sort it is.
\nIf any man’s worker by which he <\/p>\n
926
\n00:57:27,800 –> 00:57:29,800
\nhas put thereon, he shall
\nreceive a reward. <\/p>\n
927
\n00:57:29,800 –> 00:57:32,720
\nIf any man’s work shall be
\nburned, he shall suffer loss, <\/p>\n
928
\n00:57:33,200 –> 00:57:36,520
\nbut he himself shall be saved
\nyet so as by fire. <\/p>\n
929
\n00:57:37,240 –> 00:57:40,440
\nAnd So what Paul actually tells
\nus here is the the word picture <\/p>\n
930
\n00:57:40,440 –> 00:57:43,720
\nhe is drawing is not so much the
\npicture of an edifice being <\/p>\n
931
\n00:57:43,720 –> 00:57:47,960
\nbuilt up, but the particular
\nfocus of this section here is <\/p>\n
932
\n00:57:47,960 –> 00:57:53,040
\nactually on what is the
\nimplication on our work when it <\/p>\n
933
\n00:57:53,040 –> 00:57:56,480
\nis tested by fire.
\nBut the materials that he is <\/p>\n
934
\n00:57:56,480 –> 00:57:59,600
\ntalking about here is not so
\nmuch the picture of the building<\/p>\n
935
\n00:57:59,600 –> 00:58:04,640
\nup, but the question of how do
\nthese materials respond to a <\/p>\n
936
\n00:58:04,640 –> 00:58:08,200
\ntesting by fire.
\nAnd so this section here is <\/p>\n
937
\n00:58:08,200 –> 00:58:10,960
\nactually the idea of the fact
\nthat having Co labored together <\/p>\n
938
\n00:58:10,960 –> 00:58:15,520
\nwith God, our work will go
\nthrough a testing of of fire. <\/p>\n
939
\n00:58:15,960 –> 00:58:19,720
\nAnd there’s a particular reason
\nthat he that he uses those ideas<\/p>\n
940
\n00:58:19,720 –> 00:58:21,200
\nthere.
\nJust see if you can bubble <\/p>\n
941
\n00:58:21,200 –> 00:58:23,480
\naround in the back of your head
\nwhere you might have heard of of<\/p>\n
942
\n00:58:23,480 –> 00:58:27,800
\nthose things before gold,
\nsilver, gems, wood, hay stubble <\/p>\n
943
\n00:58:28,200 –> 00:58:30,840
\nto see if you can see any echoes
\nas as we go through this <\/p>\n
944
\n00:58:30,840 –> 00:58:36,120
\nsection.
\nSo having built our workers <\/p>\n
945
\n00:58:36,120 –> 00:58:40,240
\nmanifest and if the work is
\nburned in verse 15, we’ve <\/p>\n
946
\n00:58:40,240 –> 00:58:45,720
\nsuffered loss, he says, but we
\nare still saved and yet so is by<\/p>\n
947
\n00:58:45,720 –> 00:58:48,680
\nfire.
\nSo how does that work? <\/p>\n
948
\n00:58:48,960 –> 00:58:51,520
\nHow can we understand that as a
\nconcept? <\/p>\n
949
\n00:58:51,960 –> 00:58:55,200
\nWe tend to see it, don’t we,
\nthat that we’ve built and we go <\/p>\n
950
\n00:58:55,200 –> 00:58:58,000
\nthrough a process of judgement
\nand either we come through as <\/p>\n
951
\n00:58:58,000 –> 00:59:00,600
\npurified gold or we’re
\ndestroyed. <\/p>\n
952
\n00:59:01,320 –> 00:59:03,960
\nAnd if we’re destroyed, then
\nthen we’re gone and can’t be <\/p>\n
953
\n00:59:03,960 –> 00:59:06,920
\nsaved.
\nBut Paul’s point here actually <\/p>\n
954
\n00:59:06,920 –> 00:59:11,760
\nis if any man’s work is burned,
\nhe he suffers loss, he loses <\/p>\n
955
\n00:59:11,760 –> 00:59:16,320
\nthat work and his contribution
\nis gone, but he himself shall be<\/p>\n
956
\n00:59:16,320 –> 00:59:18,480
\nsaved.
\nAnd yet so is by fire. <\/p>\n
957
\n00:59:18,560 –> 00:59:20,400
\nSo we can’t go past that point,
\ncan we? <\/p>\n
958
\n00:59:20,880 –> 00:59:23,600
\nPaul is talking about here about
\nthe fact that that individual <\/p>\n
959
\n00:59:23,600 –> 00:59:28,160
\nhas been saved, but they’ve
\nsuffered the loss of their work.<\/p>\n
960
\n00:59:30,040 –> 00:59:32,240
\nSo how can we answer all of
\nthis? <\/p>\n
961
\n00:59:33,600 –> 00:59:38,040
\nWell, the word picture is how
\nour work responds to the testing<\/p>\n
962
\n00:59:38,040 –> 00:59:41,080
\nof fire.
\nIt’s not not a picture of a <\/p>\n
963
\n00:59:41,080 –> 00:59:43,400
\nbuilding that’s that’s lumped
\ntogether with hay and precious <\/p>\n
964
\n00:59:43,400 –> 00:59:46,040
\nstones and then falls apart when
\nthe fire comes. <\/p>\n
965
\n00:59:46,760 –> 00:59:49,720
\nThe focus or the attribute
\nthat’s being picked up is how <\/p>\n
966
\n00:59:49,720 –> 00:59:52,160
\ndoes our work respond to the
\ntesting of fire? <\/p>\n
967
\n00:59:52,280 –> 00:59:54,680
\nSo let’s just see if we can
\nanswer first what this idea of <\/p>\n
968
\n00:59:54,680 –> 00:59:58,920
\nthe testing of fire is in Jude
\none and verse 23 others save <\/p>\n
969
\n00:59:58,920 –> 01:00:00,960
\nwith fear pulling them out of
\nthe fire. <\/p>\n
970
\n01:00:01,160 –> 01:00:03,960
\nAnd there’s this idea associated
\nwith the fire of of destruction <\/p>\n
971
\n01:00:03,960 –> 01:00:06,480
\nof the fact that the fire can
\ndestroy and we’ve got to get in <\/p>\n
972
\n01:00:06,480 –> 01:00:08,080
\nthere and pull them out of the
\nfire. <\/p>\n
973
\n01:00:08,640 –> 01:00:11,880
\nOne Peter one, and verse 7.
\nThat the trial of your faith, <\/p>\n
974
\n01:00:12,280 –> 01:00:15,160
\nbeing much more precious than of
\ngold that perisheth, though it <\/p>\n
975
\n01:00:15,160 –> 01:00:18,400
\nbe tried with fire, might be
\nfound unto praise, and honour, <\/p>\n
976
\n01:00:18,400 –> 01:00:20,440
\nand glory at the appearing of
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
977
\n01:00:20,840 –> 01:00:22,760
\nSo that’s a different attribute
\nof the fire, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
978
\n01:00:22,960 –> 01:00:25,920
\nThat’s actually of the
\npurification and of the fire <\/p>\n
979
\n01:00:25,920 –> 01:00:28,800
\nbeing used to bring gold through
\nso that it can be found unto <\/p>\n
980
\n01:00:28,800 –> 01:00:32,400
\npraise and honour and glory.
\nOn the one hand, fire can <\/p>\n
981
\n01:00:32,400 –> 01:00:36,080
\ndestroy, on the other hand, it
\ncan purify and reveal. <\/p>\n
982
\n01:00:37,160 –> 01:00:40,840
\nSecond Thessalonians one, verse
\n7 and 8 To you who are troubled,<\/p>\n
983
\n01:00:41,080 –> 01:00:43,560
\nrest with us, when the Lord
\nJesus shall be revealed from <\/p>\n
984
\n01:00:43,560 –> 01:00:47,520
\nheaven with his mighty angels in
\nflaming fire, taking vengeance <\/p>\n
985
\n01:00:47,520 –> 01:00:51,320
\non them that know not God, and
\nthat obey not the gospel of our <\/p>\n
986
\n01:00:51,320 –> 01:00:54,120
\nLord Jesus Christ.
\nSo He’s there in flaming fire, <\/p>\n
987
\n01:00:54,120 –> 01:00:57,840
\ntaking vengeance on them that
\nknow not God, that don’t obey <\/p>\n
988
\n01:00:57,840 –> 01:01:01,120
\nGod’s gospel, but at the same
\ntime he’s there revealed from <\/p>\n
989
\n01:01:01,120 –> 01:01:04,400
\nheaven with his mighty angels.
\nAnd again, you get the sense, <\/p>\n
990
\n01:01:04,400 –> 01:01:07,040
\ndon’t you, of the revealing and
\nthe destruction that’s <\/p>\n
991
\n01:01:07,040 –> 01:01:09,960
\nassociated with fire.
\nSo Paul’s point here in <\/p>\n
992
\n01:01:09,960 –> 01:01:14,360
\nCorinthians is when the when our
\nwork is tested by fire, it does <\/p>\n
993
\n01:01:14,360 –> 01:01:16,440
\ntwo things.
\nIt destroys what is able to be <\/p>\n
994
\n01:01:16,440 –> 01:01:20,240
\ndestroyed, but it purifies and
\nreveals and brings in rejoicing <\/p>\n
995
\n01:01:20,240 –> 01:01:24,200
\nforth what cannot be destroyed.
\nThat’s the concept of fire, both<\/p>\n
996
\n01:01:24,200 –> 01:01:27,640
\nto destroy and to reveal,
\ndestroys what it can, but <\/p>\n
997
\n01:01:27,640 –> 01:01:30,080
\npurifies and reveals what it
\ncannot. <\/p>\n
998
\n01:01:31,360 –> 01:01:35,000
\nThe other question we need to
\nanswer is the question of this <\/p>\n
999
\n01:01:35,000 –> 01:01:40,560
\nday, because he says that it is
\nin a particular day. <\/p>\n
1000
\n01:01:40,560 –> 01:01:43,680
\nVerse 13 Every man’s work shall
\nbe made manifest for the day <\/p>\n
1001
\n01:01:43,680 –> 01:01:45,800
\nshall declare it so.
\nWhat is that day? <\/p>\n
1002
\n01:01:46,960 –> 01:01:50,120
\nWell, I believe clearly that
\nthat day is the day of, of the <\/p>\n
1003
\n01:01:50,120 –> 01:01:53,240
\ncoming of Christ and, and
\njudgement when He shall become <\/p>\n
1004
\n01:01:53,320 –> 01:01:56,280
\nSecond Thessalonians, when he
\nshall come in fact the the one <\/p>\n
1005
\n01:01:56,280 –> 01:01:58,680
\nwe just looked at, when He shall
\ncome to be glorified in His <\/p>\n
1006
\n01:01:58,680 –> 01:02:02,840
\nSaints and to be admiring in all
\nthem that believe, because our <\/p>\n
1007
\n01:02:02,840 –> 01:02:05,280
\ntestimony among you was believed
\nin that day. <\/p>\n
1008
\n01:02:06,280 –> 01:02:08,720
\nSo that’s the talking of the day
\nof the coming of Christ there. <\/p>\n
1009
\n01:02:09,280 –> 01:02:13,200
\nAnd Acts 17 Because he hath
\nappointed a day in the which he <\/p>\n
1010
\n01:02:13,200 –> 01:02:15,360
\nwill judge the world in
\nrighteousness by that man whom <\/p>\n
1011
\n01:02:15,360 –> 01:02:18,160
\nhe hath ordained, whereof he
\nhath given assurance unto all <\/p>\n
1012
\n01:02:18,160 –> 01:02:20,480
\nmen, and that hath raised him
\nfrom the dead. <\/p>\n
1013
\n01:02:20,480 –> 01:02:23,000
\nSo this concept of the day
\nthat’s being talked about is the<\/p>\n
1014
\n01:02:23,000 –> 01:02:25,800
\nday of judgement, the judgement
\nseat process. <\/p>\n
1015
\n01:02:26,520 –> 01:02:33,480
\nIt’s a day of coming judgement.
\nSo let’s try and pull this <\/p>\n
1016
\n01:02:33,480 –> 01:02:36,160
\ntogether here.
\nI’ll just quote to you out of a <\/p>\n
1017
\n01:02:36,160 –> 01:02:38,040
\nlittle section from Alpas
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
1018
\n01:02:39,000 –> 01:02:42,440
\nProbation, Brother Thomas says,
\nis a refining process. <\/p>\n
1019
\n01:02:43,000 –> 01:02:45,920
\nIt purges out a man’s dross and
\nbrings out the image of Christ <\/p>\n
1020
\n01:02:45,920 –> 01:02:49,000
\nand all his character and
\nprepares him for exultation to <\/p>\n
1021
\n01:02:49,000 –> 01:02:53,240
\nhis throne.
\nWe can only enter the Kingdom <\/p>\n
1022
\n01:02:53,240 –> 01:02:57,560
\nthrough the fire, but if a man
\nbe courageous and hold fast the <\/p>\n
1023
\n01:02:57,560 –> 01:03:00,480
\nconfidence and rejoicing of the
\nhope firm unto the end, he will <\/p>\n
1024
\n01:03:00,480 –> 01:03:04,360
\nemerge from it unscorched and be
\npresented wholly unblameable and<\/p>\n
1025
\n01:03:04,360 –> 01:03:08,120
\nunrebukeable before the king.
\nSo that’s the power of of the <\/p>\n
1026
\n01:03:08,120 –> 01:03:11,200
\nrefining process, isn’t it?
\nThat it, it destroys what it can<\/p>\n
1027
\n01:03:11,200 –> 01:03:14,760
\ndestroy, but then it reveals and
\npurifies, but cannot, cannot be <\/p>\n
1028
\n01:03:14,760 –> 01:03:17,720
\ndestroyed.
\nOK, so we’ve got all these <\/p>\n
1029
\n01:03:17,720 –> 01:03:21,200
\nconcepts in our minds now.
\nIt’s a little hard to see what <\/p>\n
1030
\n01:03:21,200 –> 01:03:23,560
\nPaul’s saying, isn’t it?
\nHow can you have this, this <\/p>\n
1031
\n01:03:23,960 –> 01:03:27,400
\njudgement, as it were, by fire,
\nwhere the hay is burned up? <\/p>\n
1032
\n01:03:27,720 –> 01:03:30,880
\nAnd if our work has suffered
\nloss, we’re still going to be <\/p>\n
1033
\n01:03:30,880 –> 01:03:34,200
\nsaved in that day.
\nWhat is the concept that that’s <\/p>\n
1034
\n01:03:34,200 –> 01:03:38,760
\nbeing talked about?
\nThe materials here seem <\/p>\n
1035
\n01:03:38,760 –> 01:03:40,400
\ndisconnected from the building,
\ndon’t they? <\/p>\n
1036
\n01:03:41,600 –> 01:03:44,760
\nBut as usual with Paul, I think
\nhe’s actually going somewhere <\/p>\n
1037
\n01:03:44,760 –> 01:03:47,320
\ndeeper in this.
\nSo let’s come back to it. <\/p>\n
1038
\n01:03:47,320 –> 01:03:49,640
\nWhere have you heard those
\nechoes before of gold and of <\/p>\n
1039
\n01:03:49,640 –> 01:03:54,160
\nsilver being refined, of a day?
\nOf a fire that tries and <\/p>\n
1040
\n01:03:54,160 –> 01:03:58,360
\npurifies and reveals of the
\nprecious stones or the jewels <\/p>\n
1041
\n01:03:59,000 –> 01:04:01,280
\nand the stubble that’s burnt in
\nthe fire? <\/p>\n
1042
\n01:04:02,200 –> 01:04:05,440
\nLet’s come across to Malachi in
\nChapter 3 and 4. <\/p>\n
1043
\n01:04:21,000 –> 01:04:24,160
\nMalachi 3 And verse one.
\nBehold, I will send my <\/p>\n
1044
\n01:04:24,160 –> 01:04:26,280
\nmessenger, and he shall prepare
\nthe way before me. <\/p>\n
1045
\n01:04:26,480 –> 01:04:29,760
\nAnd the Lord whom you seek shall
\nsuddenly come to his temple, <\/p>\n
1046
\n01:04:29,960 –> 01:04:32,200
\neven the messenger of the
\ncovenant whom you delight, and <\/p>\n
1047
\n01:04:32,200 –> 01:04:35,520
\nbehold, he shall come.
\nS Yahweh of armies, this is a <\/p>\n
1048
\n01:04:35,520 –> 01:04:37,960
\nday, the day of the coming of
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
1049
\n01:04:37,960 –> 01:04:42,240
\nBut who may abide to the day of
\nHis coming, and who shall stand <\/p>\n
1050
\n01:04:42,240 –> 01:04:45,320
\nwhen he appeareth?
\nFor he is like a refiner’s fire,<\/p>\n
1051
\n01:04:45,480 –> 01:04:48,880
\nand like a fuller’s soap, and he
\nshall sit as a refiner and <\/p>\n
1052
\n01:04:48,880 –> 01:04:52,600
\npurifier of silver, and he shall
\npurify the sons of Levi, and <\/p>\n
1053
\n01:04:52,600 –> 01:04:57,240
\npurge them as gold and silver,
\nthat they may offer unto Yahweh <\/p>\n
1054
\n01:04:57,240 –> 01:05:00,360
\nan offering and righteousness.
\nI believe that Paul here is <\/p>\n
1055
\n01:05:00,360 –> 01:05:04,520
\npicking up this idea of, of the
\nLord Jesus Christ returning as <\/p>\n
1056
\n01:05:04,520 –> 01:05:09,520
\nthat refiners fire to sit as a
\nrefiner and purifier of silver, <\/p>\n
1057
\n01:05:09,840 –> 01:05:13,240
\nto purify the sons of Levi and
\nto purge them as gold and silver<\/p>\n
1058
\n01:05:13,840 –> 01:05:16,040
\nso that they can offer unto
\nYahweh an offering and <\/p>\n
1059
\n01:05:16,040 –> 01:05:17,560
\nrighteousness.
\nIt’s all those ideas we’ve <\/p>\n
1060
\n01:05:17,560 –> 01:05:20,840
\nlooked at, isn’t it, that the
\nLord Jesus Christ returns and he<\/p>\n
1061
\n01:05:21,040 –> 01:05:24,920
\nhis, his fire of judgement goes
\nout to purify, to destroy what <\/p>\n
1062
\n01:05:24,920 –> 01:05:29,040
\ncan be destroyed, but to to in
\nturn to, to purify and bring <\/p>\n
1063
\n01:05:29,040 –> 01:05:36,840
\nforth the gold.
\nSo why would Paul link back to <\/p>\n
1064
\n01:05:36,840 –> 01:05:40,560
\nMalachi?
\nWhat is Paul doing in in taking <\/p>\n
1065
\n01:05:40,560 –> 01:05:44,000
\nus back to Malachi?
\nWell, interestingly, Paul is <\/p>\n
1066
\n01:05:44,000 –> 01:05:47,440
\nclearly comparing the Corinthian
\necclesia to the congregation in <\/p>\n
1067
\n01:05:47,440 –> 01:05:51,040
\nthe time of Malachi.
\nAnd that is because many of the <\/p>\n
1068
\n01:05:51,040 –> 01:05:54,320
\nissues that Paul is dealing with
\nin the Corinthian ecclesia were <\/p>\n
1069
\n01:05:54,320 –> 01:05:56,120
\nactually occurring in in Malachi
\nas well. <\/p>\n
1070
\n01:05:56,120 –> 01:05:58,400
\nYou see verse verse 5 of chapter
\n3. <\/p>\n
1071
\n01:05:58,680 –> 01:05:59,960
\nI will come near to you in
\njudgement. <\/p>\n
1072
\n01:05:59,960 –> 01:06:02,720
\nI will be a swift witness
\nagainst the sorcerers and <\/p>\n
1073
\n01:06:02,720 –> 01:06:05,200
\nagainst the adulterers, against
\nfalse wearers, against those <\/p>\n
1074
\n01:06:05,200 –> 01:06:07,520
\nthat oppress the highling and
\nthe wages, the widow and the <\/p>\n
1075
\n01:06:07,520 –> 01:06:10,400
\nfatherless, and that turn aside
\nthe stranger from his right. <\/p>\n
1076
\n01:06:10,400 –> 01:06:14,280
\nAnd fear not me S Yahweh of
\narmies, if you take the time in <\/p>\n
1077
\n01:06:14,280 –> 01:06:16,000
\nyour in your own time to go
\nthrough and have a look, you’ll <\/p>\n
1078
\n01:06:16,000 –> 01:06:18,960
\nfind a number of connections
\nbetween what was happening here <\/p>\n
1079
\n01:06:18,960 –> 01:06:21,360
\nin Malachi and the Corinthian
\necclesia. <\/p>\n
1080
\n01:06:22,840 –> 01:06:29,240
\nBut the message of Malachi is
\nthat one day the Lord will come <\/p>\n
1081
\n01:06:29,240 –> 01:06:34,920
\nsuddenly to his temple, which
\nPaul is saying is us and our <\/p>\n
1082
\n01:06:34,920 –> 01:06:37,920
\nwork.
\nAnd when he does come, a time of<\/p>\n
1083
\n01:06:37,920 –> 01:06:40,600
\nrefining fire to test will
\narrive. <\/p>\n
1084
\n01:06:42,520 –> 01:06:44,160
\nSee.
\nSee, Paul’s transformed the <\/p>\n
1085
\n01:06:44,160 –> 01:06:49,080
\nissue so far beyond the tis tisn
\ngroup of Paul and Apollos to the<\/p>\n
1086
\n01:06:49,080 –> 01:06:52,480
\nreality of the coming of Christ
\nto all of us. <\/p>\n
1087
\n01:06:53,640 –> 01:06:55,800
\nWhat about Malachi 3?
\nVerse 16? <\/p>\n
1088
\n01:06:57,720 –> 01:07:00,480
\nThey that feared Yahweh spoke
\noften one to another, and Yahweh<\/p>\n
1089
\n01:07:00,480 –> 01:07:02,920
\nhearkened and heard it, and a
\nbook of remembrance was written <\/p>\n
1090
\n01:07:02,920 –> 01:07:05,800
\nbefore him for them that feared
\nYahweh, and that thought upon <\/p>\n
1091
\n01:07:05,800 –> 01:07:07,600
\nhis name.
\nThis is those who are going to <\/p>\n
1092
\n01:07:07,600 –> 01:07:11,280
\nbe revealed by fire, isn’t it?
\nWho, Who will be purified and <\/p>\n
1093
\n01:07:11,280 –> 01:07:12,680
\nshone forth?
\nVerse 17. <\/p>\n
1094
\n01:07:12,680 –> 01:07:15,440
\nAnd they shall be mine S Yahweh
\nof armies in that day. <\/p>\n
1095
\n01:07:15,600 –> 01:07:19,880
\nWhen I make up my jewels, that’s
\nthe precious stones that Paul <\/p>\n
1096
\n01:07:19,880 –> 01:07:22,920
\nhad mentioned in Corinthians.
\nWhen I make up my jewels, and I <\/p>\n
1097
\n01:07:22,920 –> 01:07:26,960
\nwill spare them as a man,
\nspareth his own son, that <\/p>\n
1098
\n01:07:26,960 –> 01:07:31,040
\nserveth him that God will take
\nthem as his own son. <\/p>\n
1099
\n01:07:31,280 –> 01:07:33,640
\nAnd then shall you return and
\ndiscern between the righteous <\/p>\n
1100
\n01:07:33,640 –> 01:07:36,560
\nand the wicked, between him that
\nserveth God, and serveth him <\/p>\n
1101
\n01:07:36,560 –> 01:07:40,840
\nnot.
\nMalachi 4 verse one. <\/p>\n
1102
\n01:07:42,200 –> 01:07:47,600
\nFor behold, the day cometh that
\nshall burn as an oven, and all <\/p>\n
1103
\n01:07:47,600 –> 01:07:52,040
\nthe proud, yeah, and all that do
\nwickedly shall be stubble. <\/p>\n
1104
\n01:07:53,120 –> 01:07:54,840
\nAnd the day that cometh shall
\nburn them up. <\/p>\n
1105
\n01:07:54,840 –> 01:07:57,400
\nSaith Yahweh varies, that it
\nshall neither leave them root <\/p>\n
1106
\n01:07:58,240 –> 01:08:01,240
\nnor branch.
\nBut unto you that fear my name <\/p>\n
1107
\n01:08:01,240 –> 01:08:03,960
\nshall the Sun of Righteousness
\narise with healing in his wings,<\/p>\n
1108
\n01:08:04,960 –> 01:08:07,360
\nand ye shall go forth and grow
\nup his calves at the store. <\/p>\n
1109
\n01:08:08,080 –> 01:08:11,200
\nSo Paul’s message to the
\nCorinthian ecclesia is that they<\/p>\n
1110
\n01:08:11,200 –> 01:08:14,560
\nneeded to understand the message
\nto the Malachi congregation. <\/p>\n
1111
\n01:08:15,920 –> 01:08:19,560
\nThey needed to understand that
\nYahweh would come through his <\/p>\n
1112
\n01:08:19,560 –> 01:08:23,920
\nSon as a refining fire that
\nwould burn up the proud and <\/p>\n
1113
\n01:08:23,920 –> 01:08:27,840
\nthose who were stubble but would
\nleave the gold and silver and <\/p>\n
1114
\n01:08:27,840 –> 01:08:31,240
\nthe precious stones.
\nSo that’s answered the question,<\/p>\n
1115
\n01:08:31,240 –> 01:08:35,439
\nhasn’t it?
\nBut not not quite, because there<\/p>\n
1116
\n01:08:35,439 –> 01:08:38,920
\nis still this matter that a man
\ncan suffer loss but himself be <\/p>\n
1117
\n01:08:38,920 –> 01:08:45,760
\nsaved and so is by fire.
\nSee Paul’s focus is not on <\/p>\n
1118
\n01:08:45,760 –> 01:08:47,080
\nhimself through the section of
\nit. <\/p>\n
1119
\n01:08:47,080 –> 01:08:50,760
\nIt’s about the fact that we are
\nCo labourers together with God, <\/p>\n
1120
\n01:08:51,479 –> 01:08:55,040
\nthat our whole purpose in life
\nbecomes once we’ve understood <\/p>\n
1121
\n01:08:55,040 –> 01:08:58,680
\nwe’re nothing, to become slaves
\nthat are Co labouring together <\/p>\n
1122
\n01:08:58,680 –> 01:09:04,279
\nwith God because we desire to be
\npart of His glory, to build upon<\/p>\n
1123
\n01:09:04,279 –> 01:09:08,279
\nhis glory, to expand upon His
\nglory, to contribute to the <\/p>\n
1124
\n01:09:08,279 –> 01:09:12,399
\nbuilding of Yahweh’s building
\nitself as an expansion of the <\/p>\n
1125
\n01:09:12,399 –> 01:09:14,880
\nglory and the power of God’s
\nbuilding. <\/p>\n
1126
\n01:09:16,399 –> 01:09:19,840
\nAnd I believe that Paul’s point
\nhere in Corinthians is this, <\/p>\n
1127
\n01:09:20,720 –> 01:09:25,920
\nthat how we build with God will
\ndetermine whether or not in the <\/p>\n
1128
\n01:09:25,920 –> 01:09:29,840
\nday of testing our work that we
\nhave accomplished is going to <\/p>\n
1129
\n01:09:29,840 –> 01:09:33,920
\ngive forth glory to the Father
\nand remain as part of his <\/p>\n
1130
\n01:09:33,920 –> 01:09:37,319
\nbuilding or not.
\nIt takes it up another level, <\/p>\n
1131
\n01:09:37,319 –> 01:09:39,040
\ndoesn’t it?
\nBecause what he’s saying here, I<\/p>\n
1132
\n01:09:39,040 –> 01:09:40,120
\nbelieve this is what he’s
\nsaying. <\/p>\n
1133
\n01:09:40,720 –> 01:09:44,720
\nIf you are Co labouring together
\nwith God, if you have got to the<\/p>\n
1134
\n01:09:44,720 –> 01:09:47,680
\npoint in your life where you are
\nrecognising that the flesh is <\/p>\n
1135
\n01:09:47,680 –> 01:09:50,399
\nnothing, that you are not
\nprepared to work in your own <\/p>\n
1136
\n01:09:50,399 –> 01:09:53,439
\nstrength, but that it is only
\nthrough God’s strength and His <\/p>\n
1137
\n01:09:53,439 –> 01:09:55,720
\npower that you can Co labour and
\nwork with Him. <\/p>\n
1138
\n01:09:56,120 –> 01:09:58,880
\nIf that has become our attitude
\nand we are labouring and <\/p>\n
1139
\n01:09:58,880 –> 01:10:02,240
\nbuilding as a Co labour with
\nGod, then we will be saved. <\/p>\n
1140
\n01:10:03,440 –> 01:10:05,800
\nIf we have learnt that
\nprinciple, then we will be <\/p>\n
1141
\n01:10:05,800 –> 01:10:09,000
\nsaved.
\nAnd if we have learnt that <\/p>\n
1142
\n01:10:09,000 –> 01:10:12,720
\nprinciple, then the question of
\nthe coming of Christ is not our <\/p>\n
1143
\n01:10:12,720 –> 01:10:17,360
\nsalvation, but the question is
\nwhether our work and the <\/p>\n
1144
\n01:10:17,360 –> 01:10:20,560
\ncontribution we have made in the
\ndevelopment of God’s glory is <\/p>\n
1145
\n01:10:20,560 –> 01:10:26,240
\ngoing to to survive or not.
\nThe question is essentially, has<\/p>\n
1146
\n01:10:26,240 –> 01:10:28,960
\nthe contribution we have made
\npersonally to the ecclesial <\/p>\n
1147
\n01:10:28,960 –> 01:10:33,480
\nenvironment been one that will
\nstand the day of testing when <\/p>\n
1148
\n01:10:33,480 –> 01:10:38,000
\nChrist returns?
\nI believe it picks up the <\/p>\n
1149
\n01:10:38,000 –> 01:10:41,520
\nsentiment of the Lord Jesus
\nChrist here in John 17. <\/p>\n
1150
\n01:10:43,320 –> 01:10:47,320
\nWhile I was with them in the
\nworld, I kept them in thy name. <\/p>\n
1151
\n01:10:48,640 –> 01:10:53,160
\nThose that thou gave us, me I
\nhave kept, and none is lost. <\/p>\n
1152
\n01:10:55,200 –> 01:11:02,600
\nImagine salvation where we enter
\ninto the Kingdom, but to know <\/p>\n
1153
\n01:11:02,600 –> 01:11:06,280
\nthe anguish of our life’s work
\ndestroyed it in a moment. <\/p>\n
1154
\n01:11:08,080 –> 01:11:12,720
\nWe want to build as Co laborers
\ntogether with God because we <\/p>\n
1155
\n01:11:12,720 –> 01:11:15,640
\nearnestly desire to expand His
\nglory to others. <\/p>\n
1156
\n01:11:16,600 –> 01:11:19,960
\nOur work is not about ourselves.
\nIt’s not just focused upon <\/p>\n
1157
\n01:11:19,960 –> 01:11:23,200
\nourselves, but it’s with our
\nchildren and with our friends <\/p>\n
1158
\n01:11:23,200 –> 01:11:25,880
\nand with those in need and with
\na broader ecclesial environment.<\/p>\n
1159
\n01:11:26,040 –> 01:11:29,240
\nWe are Co labouring together
\nwith God to build one another, <\/p>\n
1160
\n01:11:29,440 –> 01:11:32,920
\nfitting each other in as pure
\ngold and as tried silver and as <\/p>\n
1161
\n01:11:32,920 –> 01:11:39,200
\nprecious polished gems.
\nHow tragic to stand at the <\/p>\n
1162
\n01:11:39,200 –> 01:11:42,880
\njudgement seat and to find that
\nwhile by God’s grace we are <\/p>\n
1163
\n01:11:42,880 –> 01:11:45,760
\nbought into the Kingdom because
\nwe have endeavored to build <\/p>\n
1164
\n01:11:47,000 –> 01:11:52,120
\nthat, our work has been undone
\nbecause at times we lost the <\/p>\n
1165
\n01:11:52,120 –> 01:11:57,320
\nwisdom of men of God and
\nreverted to schism and division.<\/p>\n
1166
\n01:12:00,560 –> 01:12:04,680
\nPaul’s plea to the Eclesia that
\nhe picks up so beautifully out <\/p>\n
1167
\n01:12:04,680 –> 01:12:10,840
\nof Malachi is to highlight that
\nthe Lord will come to his <\/p>\n
1168
\n01:12:10,840 –> 01:12:15,920
\ntemple, which we are building as
\nCo labourers together with God <\/p>\n
1169
\n01:12:18,040 –> 01:12:24,880
\nin the day of Christ’s return.
\nWe will be tried by fire and our<\/p>\n
1170
\n01:12:24,880 –> 01:12:28,920
\nwork will be revealed as to what
\nmanner of work it was. <\/p>\n
1171
\n01:12:30,200 –> 01:12:33,360
\nMay it be brothers and sisters
\nthat having lost ourselves, <\/p>\n
1172
\n01:12:34,240 –> 01:12:39,080
\nhaving become Co labourers,
\ntogether with God we are able to<\/p>\n
1173
\n01:12:39,080 –> 01:12:45,600
\nhelp one another, all of us to
\nbe there as His temple in that <\/p>\n
1174
\n01:12:45,600 –> 01:12:45,800
\nday.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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