1 00:00:00,700 --> 00:00:02,900 It's certainly good to see everybody this morning who's 2 00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:05,500 made it with us. We're thankful for all your 3 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:08,100 presents and if you're a visitor, we welcome you. 4 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:09,800 We think we're thankful that you're here. 5 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,900 And if there's any questions you may have after service, please 6 00:00:12,900 --> 00:00:16,400 see one of us and we'll do the best we can to help you out with 7 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,900 whatever is needed. Today we're going to be studying 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,800 in First Corinthians chapter 2. I'd ask everybody to please turn 9 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,000 their, grab your bible in front of you or underneath your seat, 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,200 or if you don't have one, your neighbor may have, when you can 11 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,600 look upon, or your iPad or iPhone, whatever, maybe, but 12 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,900 we're going to read the word of God together. 13 00:00:37,900 --> 00:00:39,800 I'm not going to be putting it up here on the screen 14 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,800 intentionally because I think it's important that we read from 15 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,600 the good book. And as you turn there, I want us 16 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,200 to think about you know, the chapter that we're going to be 17 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,000 studying, give us to Crystal Clear ways that we can live our 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:59,200 life, two opposing ways that we can live and the choice that we 19 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:03,900 make today based on what we're going to read on chapter 2 of 20 00:01:03,900 --> 00:01:08,000 First Corinthians can determine how we live our life and how it 21 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,200 affects our cells, how it affects our lives, how it 22 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:16,100 affects those that may be around us and ultimately it'll affect 23 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,400 not just our life here, but Eternity, it'll affect how we 24 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:27,200 live beyond death. So, as we read, I want us to. 25 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,400 If you have your own bibles, if you want to underline or Circle 26 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,700 or whatever it may be, but I want us to pick out words that 27 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:38,100 are kind of repetitive that keep coming up not not single two or 28 00:01:38,100 --> 00:01:41,200 three letter words, you know, but but larger words that have 29 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,700 some substance to it. So be aware of those as we kind 30 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:51,100 of read through there. So let's start reading First 31 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:54,600 Corinthians chapter 32, what will only read through verse 13 32 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,800 there? And it says, and I Brethren when 33 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:03,000 I came to you did not come with excellent source of speech or of 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,500 wisdom, declaring to you, the testimony of God. 35 00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:10,500 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus 36 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:13,600 Christ. And him crucified, I was with 37 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:18,300 you in weakness and fear and in much, trembling and my speech. 38 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:21,200 And my preaching were not with persuasive words of human 39 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,200 wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit, and of power, power 40 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,100 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the 41 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:35,500 power of God, However, we speak wisdom among those, who are 42 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:39,400 mature yet. Not the wisdom of this age, nor 43 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,200 of the rulers of this age who are coming to nothing. 44 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:46,500 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, 45 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:51,800 which God ordained before the ages of our Glory, which none of 46 00:02:51,808 --> 00:02:54,800 the rulers of this age. New for, they had known. 47 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:57,900 They would not have crucified the Lord Of Glory. 48 00:02:57,900 --> 00:03:01,700 But as it is, written Eye Has Not Seen Nor Ear heard nor Or 49 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:05,200 have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has 50 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:10,200 prepared for those who love him. But God has revealed them to us 51 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,700 through his spirit for the spirit searches all things. 52 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:17,600 Yes, the Deep things of God for what man knows the things of 53 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:21,800 what for what man knows the things of a man except the 54 00:03:21,808 --> 00:03:26,100 spirit of the man which is in him, even so no one knows the 55 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:28,600 things of God, except the spirit of God. 56 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:32,400 Now we have received not the spirit of the The world but the 57 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,400 spirit who is from God that we might know the things that have 58 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,700 been freely given to us by God these things. 59 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:45,700 We also speak not in Words which of which man's Wisdom teaches, 60 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,300 but which the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual 61 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:57,500 things with spiritual. so, I hope that we noticed the word 62 00:03:57,500 --> 00:04:03,200 wisdom in that Passage That's what we're going to be studying 63 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,100 on. And I think if I counted 64 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:08,700 correctly in that in that span of verses that we read, we see 65 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:13,000 wisdom eight times. And if just a reminder that this 66 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,200 is Paul is the one who wrote this, to the Corinthians and 67 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,700 Paul is the one who actually established the church in 68 00:04:19,700 --> 00:04:21,600 Corinth and he's writing back to them. 69 00:04:22,100 --> 00:04:24,800 And he tells them when I came to you, I did not come in these 70 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,900 ways, but I came in this way. And after which, he talks a lot 71 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:32,200 about wisdom, then in the second half of the chapter there's also 72 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,900 another word that we see over and over again, and that word is 73 00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:43,500 spirit, so if we read on and in verse 4, it says, and my speech 74 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:48,200 and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom 75 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:54,000 but in demonstration of the spirit and of power, Is this too 76 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,700 loud? and then, if we skip down to 77 00:04:57,700 --> 00:05:05,000 verse 10, It says but God has revealed them to us through his 78 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,300 spirit for the spirit searches all things. 79 00:05:07,300 --> 00:05:10,100 Yes, the Deep things of God for what man knows the things of a 80 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:12,700 man except the spirit of the man which is in him. 81 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,500 Even so no one knows the things of God, except the spirit of 82 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:18,200 God. Now we have received not the 83 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,000 spirit of the world but the spirit who is from God that we 84 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,300 might know the things that have been freely given to us by God 85 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,700 these things. We also speak not not in Words 86 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:32,800 which man's Wisdom teaches but which The Holy Spirit teaches 87 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,200 comparing spiritual things with spiritual, but the natural man 88 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,900 does not receive the things of the spirit of God for, they are 89 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:42,400 foolishness to him. Nor can, he know them because 90 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,200 they are spiritually discerned, spiritually discerned, but he, 91 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,100 who is spiritual judges. All things yet he himself is 92 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:56,900 rightly judged by no one. 13 times in this chapter, it talks 93 00:05:56,900 --> 00:06:00,700 about spirit, either the spirit of God, the spirit of a person, 94 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:04,600 or spiritual things and it's pretty clear that the theme of 95 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:10,400 this section of verses of chapter is wisdom from God's 96 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,200 spirit. And there's a clear contrast 97 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,100 between the wisdom that comes from God, Spirit which is 98 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:19,600 spiritual wisdom, and wisdom that comes from man or women, 99 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,300 which is natural wisdom. So, I also want to go back to 100 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:28,500 chapter 1, in First Corinthians as well, starting in verse 17, 101 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:30,100 will read through the end of the chapter there. 102 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:37,400 First Corinthians 1, verse 17 for Christ did not send me to 103 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,900 baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of 104 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:43,000 words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made. 105 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,300 No of no effect for the message of the Cross. 106 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:49,900 Is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us, who are 107 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:52,400 being saved, it is the power of God. 108 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,200 For it is written. I will destroy the wisdom of the 109 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,300 wise and bring nothing to the understanding of The Prudent. 110 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:00,700 Where is the wise? Where is the Scribe? 111 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:02,800 Where is the disputer of this age? 112 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,500 Has God not made foolish, the wisdom of this world for since 113 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:11,200 in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God. 114 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,200 It pleased God through the foolishness of the message, 115 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:19,000 preached to save those who believe for Jews request a sign 116 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,400 and Greeks seek after wisdom but we preach Christ crucified to 117 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,700 the Jews, a stumbling block, and to the Gentiles foolishness but 118 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:30,100 to those who are called both Jews and gris-gris. 119 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,100 Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God, because the 120 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:36,200 foolishness of God, is wiser than men. 121 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,900 And the weakness of God is stronger than men for you see 122 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,100 your calling Brethren. That we may not let, not many 123 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:47,600 wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are 124 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,600 called, but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to 125 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,800 put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of 126 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,600 the world to put to shame the things which are Mighty. 127 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,600 And the base things, worse the world and the And the things 128 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,300 which are despised God has chosen and the things which are 129 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:09,200 not to bring to nothing. The things that are that no 130 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,100 flesh should glory in his presence. 131 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,900 But of him, you are in Christ. Jesus who became for us, wisdom 132 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:19,900 from God, and righteousness and sanctification and Redemption 133 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:25,000 that as it is written, he who glories let him glory in the 134 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,700 Lord. That makes a total of I counted 135 00:08:29,700 --> 00:08:34,400 correctly 21 times, Paul talks about wisdom in the first two 136 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,799 chapters. So we've got to understand the 137 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:41,700 point here that God is teaching us about wisdom, in his word and 138 00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:46,800 in chapter 1 focusing to specifically today on chapter 2, 139 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:52,300 there's a clear contrast between foolishness or Folly type of 140 00:08:52,300 --> 00:08:58,600 wisdom and and the wisdom that God gives us and if combined 141 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,200 with this, the emphasis on the spirit, and the last half of the 142 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,700 chapter, the contrast is between, which is that which is 143 00:09:04,700 --> 00:09:09,900 natural wisdom, and that, which is spiritual wisdom, I wanted to 144 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:12,100 make two columns here in our study. 145 00:09:13,700 --> 00:09:16,600 I was thinking about writing this out but that would not have 146 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:18,700 been wise because nobody would have been able to read my 147 00:09:18,700 --> 00:09:21,500 handwriting, it's really, really bad. 148 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,800 But so I put these up here and hopefully we can see, we've got 149 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,200 two columns here on the left side. 150 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,900 We have the foolish life, which is natural wisdom. 151 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:35,600 And on the right side we have the wise life which is spiritual 152 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,100 wisdom and that's the contrast, the choice that every one of us 153 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:41,900 must take, which way are we going to live? 154 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:46,700 First, the foolish life is marked by natural wisdom or the 155 00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:49,700 wisdom of men and women. In this world, we want to hear 156 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:53,900 what God says to us in his word. Starting with what we've already 157 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:56,800 read, in chapter one but they will continue into chapter 2. 158 00:09:57,900 --> 00:09:59,600 What is the foolish life look like? 159 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:06,300 So the foolish life number one, feeds Pride, the foolish life 160 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:09,700 feeds pride. And if we remember in chapter 1, 161 00:10:09,700 --> 00:10:16,900 in verse 29, It says so that no human being might. 162 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:25,600 So that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 163 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,600 In verse 31 at his as it is written. 164 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:37,100 Let the one who let the one who boasts boast in the Lord. 165 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:41,200 So clearly there's a right way of boasting and there's a wrong 166 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,100 way of boasting and in some of your Bibles, some Bibles have 167 00:10:45,100 --> 00:10:49,100 with little letter or number down in verse 31. 168 00:10:49,700 --> 00:10:52,800 You know, if you have a study Bible those are actually cross 169 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,100 references that we see that we can say okay well this verse is 170 00:10:57,100 --> 00:11:01,100 referencing another verse and this one specifically here is 171 00:11:01,100 --> 00:11:07,100 referencing Jeremiah 9. Verse 23, and it says here, thus 172 00:11:07,100 --> 00:11:09,800 says, the Lord. Let not the wise man boast in 173 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,000 his wisdom. Let not the Mighty Man boast in 174 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,500 his might let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let 175 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:20,000 them let him who boasts in this that he understands and knows me 176 00:11:20,300 --> 00:11:24,000 that I am the Lord, who practices steadfast love Justice 177 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,500 and righteousness in the Earth for in these things, I did like 178 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:33,300 declares the Lord So we see boasting kind of throughout this 179 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:38,100 passage in Jeremiah, you know, let the not mine wise man boast 180 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:40,400 in his widows. Let boast you know, here's 181 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,100 another one. Here's my boast right there. 182 00:11:42,700 --> 00:11:44,900 Boasts. We kind of see that through that 183 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:51,300 passage and we're not to boast just in our own wisdom or even 184 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:54,100 in our riches. He says, here says let not the 185 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:56,500 rich man boast his riches. That's not what we're supposed 186 00:11:56,500 --> 00:11:59,500 to be boasting in, not in ourselves and not in our riches. 187 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:04,200 Not what we Have we're all prone to focus in that area, you know, 188 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:08,500 from, you know, a student who may be consumed by what others 189 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:11,800 may be thinking about him at school or them at school or the 190 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,700 man or woman, who is consumed on how they are comparing with 191 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:17,000 others at work or maybe on social media. 192 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,000 You know, the comparison they're focused on what they have and 193 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,800 how they look and how they draft dress and what status they may 194 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,900 attain. That is the curse of the foolish 195 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:30,900 life. The constant focus on ourselves 196 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:34,900 and what we have or what we want to attain, instead of what God 197 00:12:34,900 --> 00:12:37,700 who God is and what he can give to us. 198 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,500 This is why Paul says back in First Corinthians 2 verse 1. 199 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,300 It says when I came to you Brothers, I did not. 200 00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:48,700 Come proclaiming The Testament, testimony of God with lofty 201 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:52,500 speech or wisdom. Paul was not trying to impress 202 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:55,200 them with his speech or his wisdom. 203 00:12:57,100 --> 00:12:59,600 That's the opposite of what he was trying to do or he could do 204 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,900 verse in verse 3. It says I was with you in 205 00:13:01,900 --> 00:13:04,000 weakness and in fear and much trembling. 206 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,800 So secondly, the foolish life which is natural wisdom, depends 207 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:13,100 on human power. Depends on ourselves. 208 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:17,200 And what Paul is saying here in this chapter is I'm not good 209 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:22,200 enough to impress you When I came to you, I was weak. 210 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,000 I was afraid. I was trembling. 211 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:27,600 And Paul is saying, I don't want to preach in a way that makes 212 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,100 you depend on my wisdom. I don't want to speak to you. 213 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:34,500 So you're depending on me and who I am, it would be utterly 214 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:37,600 foolishness to bank your life, on the wisdom of power of 215 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,200 people. You know if that's what Paul was 216 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,300 saying to these, in the process of banking on our own wisdom, we 217 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:50,800 will reject the wisdom of God. Thirdly, the characteristic of a 218 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,900 foolish life. Is it rejects truth from God? 219 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:58,500 Natural wisdom, rejects truth from God. 220 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:01,500 And this is exactly what Paul is saying here. 221 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,300 After he's talking about how the spirit of God reveals the wisdom 222 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:10,500 of God. We look at verse 14 in Chapter 223 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:13,900 2, it says the natural person does not accept the things of 224 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:17,200 the spirit of God. He rejects them. 225 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,000 He is not able to understand them because they are simple 226 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,300 spiritually discerned. This means that the foolish 227 00:14:23,300 --> 00:14:27,900 person is so focused on the wisdom of this world, their 228 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:31,600 pride, and their own power, that they may feel like they have, 229 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,000 they may have That they have no room for the wisdom of God. 230 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:39,800 There's nothing left for God. And, you know, we can say, you 231 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,800 know, what will never say that, you know, but I think, you know, 232 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:48,100 if we go day-to-day and this is something that I can completely 233 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:50,300 improve on. But if we do not read the word 234 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:54,800 of God daily, we are not gaining spiritual wisdom, from God and 235 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,700 what he can, he can provide for us, we can be better in that 236 00:14:58,700 --> 00:15:00,500 area. You know, when we were younger, 237 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:03,200 we all had a tendency that they could got it all figured out 238 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:07,500 every single one of us. yeah, I don't need I don't need an 239 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:11,600 advice of an adult or my parents or you know we got it all taken 240 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:16,400 care of We don't need to God to tell us what to do and that 241 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:17,900 tendency I think doesn't go away. 242 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:21,300 Sometimes, you know, we can get older and we can actually 243 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,800 convince ourselves that we know better than God. 244 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,100 And what's best for our lives and reject his truth, or maybe 245 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:30,700 even just ignore it. That is foolishness. 246 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:37,000 And it's interesting in verse 14 that says the things of God are 247 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,300 Folly to him. And that's not the first time we 248 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:44,000 see the word Folly. If we go back to chapter 1 verse 249 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:50,600 18, Paul wrote for the word of the Cross is folly to those who 250 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,400 are perishing, but to us, who are being saved, it is the power 251 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,100 of God. And then down in verse 21. 252 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:01,300 For since the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through 253 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:05,000 wisdom, it pleased, God through the Folly of what we preach to 254 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,700 save. Those who believe the cross the 255 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:14,400 message of Christ crucified. Was folly or foolishness to the 256 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:18,000 Gentiles. The wisdom of the world says, 257 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:21,300 you know, God's wisdom is foolishness, that's natural 258 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:24,100 wisdom. That's that they're, you know, 259 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:27,600 the Cross of Christ, doesn't matter and that leads to the 260 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:32,100 next point in this column. The foolish life sees Jesus on 261 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:36,500 the cross as foolishness. And that makes sense when we 262 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:40,600 think about it because the cross represented truth from God and 263 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,100 that is a shock. Basically, to human pride and 264 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:47,100 power, isn't it? If we put ourselves in the shoes 265 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:52,300 are of the first century, Christians, you know, we see 266 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:56,200 some who are we see people wearing crosses around their 267 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,200 necks, or crosses on pictures in their homes? 268 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:05,000 You wouldn't do that in the first century because the cross 269 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:11,900 was a picture of death. It was not something that was 270 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:15,700 socially acceptable to do that. You know, we're you know, if we 271 00:17:15,700 --> 00:17:18,300 put that in our house today, you know, maybe a picture of an 272 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:20,800 electric chair or a injection table. 273 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,400 Lethal injection, table honor above our mantel. 274 00:17:24,099 --> 00:17:26,099 We're not getting many people, coming back to our homes for 275 00:17:26,108 --> 00:17:31,100 dinner. It's, it's the the cross back in 276 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:35,200 the first century was and still is a picture of death. 277 00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:39,700 The cross is the most gruesome torture shameful way to kill 278 00:17:39,700 --> 00:17:43,300 somebody and it was reserved for barbarians and slaves. 279 00:17:44,100 --> 00:17:46,900 And Paul said in First Corinthians 1 verse 23 that the 280 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:51,300 idea of the Cross and Christ crucified is a stumbling block 281 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:54,200 to the Jews and to a Jewish person. 282 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:58,400 Anyone who hung on a tree was cursed of God. 283 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:04,100 In the idea of the messiah messiah, being crucified was 284 00:18:04,100 --> 00:18:06,300 shocking to the Jews that would never happen. 285 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,100 Open in Jewish thought. It was also a Folly to the 286 00:18:10,100 --> 00:18:14,400 Gentiles and that word literally means Madness. 287 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,400 If the GIF, the Gentiles heard that a Jewish man had died on a 288 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,400 piece of wood, in a nondescript Hill, on a knot in a nondescript 289 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,700 part of the world and his death determine the Eternal fate of 290 00:18:24,700 --> 00:18:27,100 everyone else in the world. They would think that that would 291 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:32,900 be ridiculous. And if Christ is crucified as a 292 00:18:32,900 --> 00:18:37,200 stumbling block, to the Jews and Folly to the Gentiles, I think 293 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:41,700 as cultural Americans, some can see it as completely absurd. 294 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:47,900 You know, we take the nice successful well-dressed American 295 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:50,500 with a nice job of big house. A nice car. 296 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Take your free thinking American woman who thrives on her 297 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,800 independence from everything including God, and you take them 298 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,800 both outside to the city dump. Okay? 299 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,800 We're a naked man is hanging on by Nails on a tree, covered in 300 00:19:05,808 --> 00:19:10,000 blood and you tell that American your only hope. 301 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,000 In life, is to believe that this man is God and you are entirely 302 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,000 dependent on him as your judge, Master Lord, and King and that, 303 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,000 man or woman would rolled her eyes at most. 304 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,400 They would feel sorry for this man and his deranged condition, 305 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:26,900 then they will move on with their lives. 306 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:33,000 It's entirely possible. Or maybe many like some who are 307 00:19:33,008 --> 00:19:35,100 profession Christians in America, they will just give 308 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:37,900 some lip service to that man for a little bit. 309 00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:42,000 Because it's culturally the acceptable thing to do, while 310 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,600 they continue to live a life that's focused on their selves. 311 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:50,000 The natural wisdom of this world sees the cross as falling or 312 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,000 foolishness and ultimately this natural wisdom. 313 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,300 And foolishness life is doomed to pass away, which is the exact 314 00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:01,100 language that we see here in the English Standard Version. 315 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:05,700 It says, here in verse 6 of chapter 2, yet among the mature, 316 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:08,800 we do not import wisdom, although it is not a wizard. 317 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,300 I'm of this age or of the rulers of this age who are doomed to 318 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:16,700 pass away. Or some translations say coming 319 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:19,400 to nothing? I think that's what the new King 320 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,900 James says. We can have it all. 321 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:27,000 We can have the riches power wealth, natural wisdom in this 322 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,600 world to a point where you're even a ruler in this world, you 323 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:35,800 know, Your ruler over a company or rule over a country but we 324 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,300 can have it all. But at the end of the day, it is 325 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:41,500 doomed to pass away or to come to nothing. 326 00:20:42,300 --> 00:20:46,600 We know that one day we are going to die and it doesn't 327 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,300 matter. We all know this and that 328 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:51,700 moment, it doesn't matter. How big our house was, it 329 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:54,400 doesn't matter what the cars we drive, it doesn't matter, or 330 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,200 social status, doesn't matter where we're at in life. 331 00:20:57,700 --> 00:21:02,900 None of that matters. Because at the end everything 332 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:07,500 will be left. That is all empty empty wisdom 333 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:09,300 that we're having in those things. 334 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,400 We live in a world that encourages and exalts pride, 335 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,000 self-esteem. You know, self-worth is the 336 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,900 Mantra Mantra. We have thousands of words that 337 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:21,800 start with the word self. It's what we're all about. 338 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000 What can we do? How can I pull my bootstraps up? 339 00:21:25,100 --> 00:21:29,200 I need to work harder for this. I need to put more effort into 340 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,600 this. I need to, I need to look deeper 341 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,700 Within Myself. You know, we want to rely on our 342 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:39,400 human power and reject the truth of God, which is some think is 343 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,600 Antiquated and defensive. The world sees the cross is 344 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,500 folly in his foolishness. And God tells us that these 345 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:51,100 things are all doomed to pass away or come to nothing. 346 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,500 But there's another way to live that's characterized by 347 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:58,600 spiritual Supernatural. Other worldly, wisdom, wisdom 348 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,800 that comes from God and not ourselves. 349 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,400 First Corinthians 2 says that it's freely given to all. 350 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:08,500 So what does that look like? What is, what is the opposite of 351 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:12,100 a foolish life look like? And instead of feeding Pride, 352 00:22:12,100 --> 00:22:17,000 spiritual wisdom, crucifies Pride, And I think crucified is 353 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,200 that is the right word. He's making this contrast in 354 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:25,300 First Corinthians. Paul by chapter two saying, I 355 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:30,200 decided to know nothing among you except one thing Jesus 356 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,700 Christ. And him crucified really is that 357 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:41,300 all that Paul wanted to know nothing else, just that It's the 358 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:44,600 one thing Paul talked about and the answer is yes, because that 359 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:51,700 summarizes living a wise life, the wise life dies to self 360 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,800 position and status in this world. 361 00:22:55,900 --> 00:22:58,300 That's not what we live for anymore, we've died to those 362 00:22:58,300 --> 00:23:00,000 things. It's the same thing. 363 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:05,800 Paul says, in Galatians 2 verse 20, that not just Christ had 364 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,500 been crucified, but I have been crucified with Christ, the life. 365 00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:13,100 I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who 366 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:15,300 loved me and gave himself for me. 367 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:21,300 The wise life is an entirely New Life In Christ. 368 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:26,400 The wise life. Also, boasts in one thing 369 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,500 Christ, that's what we boasted. We don't boast in our houses or 370 00:23:31,500 --> 00:23:34,500 nice jobs. Our status or nice success in 371 00:23:34,508 --> 00:23:37,500 this world. It's all rubbish, it means 372 00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:41,000 nothing. We boast in Jesus, he's our 373 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,600 life, everything revolves around him. 374 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,600 And instead of depending on human power, the wise life, 375 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:51,900 trusts in spiritual power Supernatural power that we 376 00:23:51,900 --> 00:23:57,300 receive from God, And the way that Paul talks about this, you 377 00:23:57,308 --> 00:24:00,800 know, back in verse 3, he said, when I came to you I was in 378 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,000 weakness and fear and much trembling. 379 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:09,100 We might, you know, read and get this picture of Paul, sometimes 380 00:24:09,100 --> 00:24:13,500 as a amazing preacher and maybe he was. 381 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:18,700 But also to he's telling the Corinthians I came to you week 382 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:22,100 and in fear and trembling, I was afraid to do what I was doing. 383 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:24,600 I did not have the strength to do what I was doing. 384 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:30,900 And First Corinthians 2 10:10 talks talks about Paula says his 385 00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:34,500 bodily presence is weak and his speech of know. 386 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:37,300 Account. So we can get that picture of 387 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:41,500 Paul in our minds of some Stout, man, but that's not what people 388 00:24:41,500 --> 00:24:43,500 who saw him thought. They thought this guy is weak 389 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:47,900 and he can't preach. You know we think about think 390 00:24:47,900 --> 00:24:53,300 about you to kiss back in Acts 20 verse 9 that guy Paul 391 00:24:53,300 --> 00:24:55,300 preached so long. This guy was so bored that he 392 00:24:55,300 --> 00:24:57,700 fell asleep and fell out of a window and died. 393 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:03,900 You know. The language that in that in 394 00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:08,300 that verse basically say that he was eutychus, was lulled to 395 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:11,100 sleep. He was put to sleep by the 396 00:25:11,100 --> 00:25:14,700 teaching of Paul. I think we've all been there. 397 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,400 Maybe some of you are there right now. 398 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:20,900 I don't know, but we can, we can be loyal to sleep. 399 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:23,200 You know, that that guy was the first guy to fall asleep in a 400 00:25:23,208 --> 00:25:28,700 sermon that we can read about and it's you know, it's amazing, 401 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,100 you know, that guy falls asleep and he dies, Paul goes down 402 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:35,000 there and brings him back to life, but Paul continues to 403 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,400 preach after that like somebody dying in his sermon wasn't going 404 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,900 to stop Paul from preaching, it was pretty amazing. 405 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:46,500 So I think we can somewhat get grass. 406 00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:48,900 The Paul wasn't, maybe necessarily, he probably didn't 407 00:25:48,900 --> 00:25:51,300 think of himself as the best preacher and that's the whole 408 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:53,200 point. He said, I don't want to preach 409 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,300 in a way that you want to trust in me. 410 00:25:55,700 --> 00:26:00,000 Do not trust in my preaching. I want to preach a way that you 411 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,200 trust in God's power. I want you your faith to not 412 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,000 rest on the wisdom of men. But in the power of God, I don't 413 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,500 know who you know everybody here today feels weak or unqualified 414 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:15,200 in any position that we might have or any Roll, we might take 415 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:17,900 but if we do, I think we can all feel. 416 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:20,300 Like we all kind of feel the same way. 417 00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:23,100 Sometimes in our life when we get those positions that we feel 418 00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:27,100 completely unqualified. If we feel weak as a parent, a 419 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:29,300 spouse a student in her employee. 420 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:33,300 If we if we don't feel weak in those ways, I would submit maybe 421 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:38,200 we have a pride problem. If you do feel weak, then what 422 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,300 we have coming from spiritual wisdom which is the word of God. 423 00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:45,400 The Bible is that all who are weak and look to God, he is our 424 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,300 strength. There Are Spiritual power 425 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,000 available for us to have faith in. 426 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,900 It's a wise way to live experiencing the power strength 427 00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:58,400 wisdom, and the help of God himself that is the wives life. 428 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,000 Spiritual wisdom. Also receives truth from God. 429 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:10,100 Receives truth from God. Verse 7 of chapter two were Paul 430 00:27:10,100 --> 00:27:13,900 says, but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden 431 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:17,100 wisdom, which God ordained before the ages of our glory. 432 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:19,900 And when we think about that passes, I want us to focus on 433 00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:23,700 two words. God ordained. 434 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,500 What the Bible is saying here that is God, that has spoken 435 00:27:29,500 --> 00:27:33,500 this wisdom to us. He has decreed this mess, these 436 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:37,800 messages Force, you know, this is not just, the Bible is not 437 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,700 just a book of information about God. 438 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,600 You know, these are the characteristics of God, this is 439 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:48,900 who he is. This is not just information 440 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:52,000 about God. It's a message from God. 441 00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:56,000 And that's two totally different things we could read information 442 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,000 about somebody, you know, we can just read them and read it. 443 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,600 Okay. This is what this guy's done, 444 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,600 this is his resume, okay, but when they come to us and they 445 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,100 give us a message, that's a direct message to us. 446 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:11,100 And that's what the Bible is. It's a direct message to us from 447 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:14,400 God and that will change. The way we look at the book at 448 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,600 this at the Bible, when we come together on Sundays, we have not 449 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:22,100 come to hear wisdom for me or from any other one who stands up 450 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:23,200 here. And Gives a word. 451 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,200 That would be an utter waste of everybody's time if you're 452 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,500 coming to hear a preacher because of preacher, in the 453 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:32,800 words that he says we're coming because we want to hear from God 454 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,500 and God Alone out of the book out of out of the Bible. 455 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,200 Our job is Teachers is to take that word from God and speak it, 456 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,000 and teach it to you in a way as best we can. 457 00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:50,100 So we need not rest, our faith in wisdom of people, but on the 458 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:53,400 power of God. So the wides life prioritizes 459 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,400 receiving this truth every week when we come together, you know, 460 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,500 we do that sometime Sunday evenings, where we just we just 461 00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:01,600 read a few chapters out of the Bible. 462 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:06,900 That's a direct message from God to us and that is worship at its 463 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:10,700 best. So instead of seeing the cross 464 00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:15,300 is folly, we see the wise life. Additionally, we see the cross 465 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:20,400 as forgiveness. The wise life doesn't look at 466 00:29:20,408 --> 00:29:23,400 the cross and walk away thinking that it's absurd. 467 00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:28,800 The wise life looks at the cross and falls on our faces in, awe, 468 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:37,100 knowing what that means to us. God in his wisdom is far greater 469 00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:39,600 than ours and he has made a way for us to be forgiven of our 470 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,300 sins by his Mercy. We see the cross as beautiful as 471 00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:48,100 a way to be forgiven of our sins and this leads to the last point 472 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,400 of a wise life, it's not doomed to pass away, but the wise life 473 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:57,100 is destined for eternal glory. And that's the language that's 474 00:29:57,100 --> 00:30:00,700 used in verse 7 of chapter 2. Right. 475 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:05,700 After we hear about the wisdom of this age and the rulers of 476 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:09,100 this age, we read Doom to pass away or coming to nothing. 477 00:30:09,100 --> 00:30:11,700 Then what does it say? It says, but it's one of my 478 00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:16,100 favorite words in the Bible but It's a transition. 479 00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:17,800 You know, you guys were this way. 480 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,900 This is the you guys were didn't have any way to, to be 481 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:26,300 reconciled to God, but that means God's done something for 482 00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:28,700 us. Things have changed. 483 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,400 It says there, but which is the contrast we speak the wisdom of 484 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,900 God in a mystery. The hidden wisdom of God 485 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:38,300 ordained before the age of our Glory. 486 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:45,900 Before the age for our Glory. For our Glory. 487 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:52,200 For our glory. In God's wisdom, he has made a 488 00:30:52,208 --> 00:30:57,600 way for Sinners to be glorified with him in eternity and that is 489 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,500 great news. Verse 9 says, as it is written, 490 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,200 what what? No eye has seen nor ear heard 491 00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:08,500 nor the heart of man, imagine what God has prepared for those 492 00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:12,500 who love him. That's a really encouraging 493 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:15,800 verse. The wise life does not live for 494 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,700 this world. So we need to set our sights 495 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:19,800 higher. The wise life lives for what God 496 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,800 has prepared, for those who love him. 497 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:28,100 So, I asked, what about you Which way are you going to 498 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:31,300 choose to live today was our last day on Earth? 499 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:37,300 Which way are we going to choose the foolish life or the wise 500 00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:40,600 life? Are we going to feed our pride 501 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,700 or crucify? Our pride, are we going to 502 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:46,500 depend on our own power or trust in God's power? 503 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,100 Are we going to reject and ignore God's truth? 504 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:54,600 Or are we going to accept it? Ultimately, are you going to see 505 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,500 the cross is folly and give Jesus? 506 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,700 Pity and lip service, or we going to see the crosses 507 00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:07,300 forgiveness and give Jesus our life and the answer to these 508 00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:10,300 questions will determine not just the shape of Our Lives. 509 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,000 Now here on Earth, but it will shape our lives for eternity. 510 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:18,400 So if you're here and you want to change your life from a 511 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,800 foolish life to a wise life, this is the time. 512 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:23,900 It doesn't have to happen just now. 513 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:27,300 But we also always offer an invitation to those who may want 514 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:30,400 to obey the gospel of Christ, and the gospel can do that 515 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,300 today. We believe the gospel is this, 516 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:36,300 that we believe that God is real, and Jesus has come and has 517 00:32:36,300 --> 00:32:39,900 died for our sins, so that we might have restoration with God. 518 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:42,300 We then repent of our former way of life. 519 00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:44,800 You know we were living a foolish life now we're going to 520 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,700 change that. We're going to we're not going 521 00:32:46,700 --> 00:32:48,500 to depend on our natural wisdom anymore. 522 00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:51,900 We're going to go ahead and depend on God's wisdom, change 523 00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:54,100 our way of life. We're going to confess the name 524 00:32:54,100 --> 00:32:57,700 of Christ and knowledge in that he is a Son of God and then be 525 00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:00,200 baptized for the remission of our sins of your sins 526 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,700 contacting, the blood of Our Savior, Jesus the Christ, and 527 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:06,100 then and only, then he add you to his church. 528 00:33:07,100 --> 00:33:09,700 That can be fulfilled today. We can assist in that. 529 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:12,700 Today, we have the baptistry here, that can we can fill up 530 00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:15,300 quickly and we can make that happen. 531 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,100 Also there if there's one here who needs to make a public 532 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:22,500 confession of any sort or just needs the prayers of the 533 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:24,100 congregation, we ask you to please come. 534 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:28,800 Now as we stand in as we see We thank you for listening to our 535 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:33,500 podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 536 00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:37,000 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 537 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,300 information, or you would like to receive a free Bible 538 00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:45,800 correspondence, course by mail. 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