1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,560 Have me thank you so much to God for today, Father. 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:06,040 Thank you for all these blessed Saints before me, Father. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:08,640 Their desire is is my desire. Lord. 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:10,720 We want to to worship you Father. 5 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:14,640 We want to put you on display. You're the most important thing 6 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,120 to us in our lives, Father, and it it's good to get together on 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,280 a Wednesday and together together as a as your body, 8 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,200 Father, and we know that you're honored whenever we get together 9 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,520 and and still your word Father. We pray that you would be with 10 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,280 us Father, and help us to open our hearts up so that we might 11 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,320 understand that the great truths of your word, Father, and help 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,160 us to leave us building. Father, thankful for who you are 13 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:38,880 and what you did for us on the cross. 14 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:41,840 We pray these things in Jesus name, Amen. 15 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:46,520 So if you would open your Bibles to 1st Corinthians chapter 2, 16 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,720 it's a a study that we did in our man's Bible stay together. 17 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,000 And I apologize for your man that was here for that earlier 18 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,360 study. I'll try to change a few things 19 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,720 around maybe to make it more interesting to you. 20 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,760 But we want to share with you the the wisdom of the world and 21 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,400 of God as as your notes. They hope you have your notes. 22 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,080 And we'll be talking about the wisdom of the world and compare 23 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:10,240 it to the to the wisdom of God. God's wisdom in comparison to 24 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:15,960 the wisdom of man. And certainly God has perfect 25 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,600 wisdom. He tells us through his word how 26 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,440 people should think and how people should believe. 27 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,000 But the world does the same thing. 28 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:26,920 They also have are trying to persuade us how we as Christians 29 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,280 should think and and should should believe. 30 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,160 But godly wisdom would certainly include the eternal plan of 31 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,640 salvation and eternal plan of, of his sovereignty and God's 32 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,000 plan for for his church. And we'll look tonight up about 33 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,680 how God wants us to to to run his church and how what we 34 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,880 should do as we humble our hearts as, as we serve it in the 35 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,840 church. But the world does make itself 36 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:51,960 wise. And one of the biggest 37 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:56,040 discussions right now on on the wisdom of the world today is the 38 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:01,440 discussion on the the new rule of artificial intelligence AI in 39 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,000 the world. This is the area that that 40 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,440 should we should focus upon as believers in Christ and the 41 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:11,960 world certainly is that they try to figure out how wise AI is and 42 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,400 they try to figure out whether it's good or evil. 43 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,600 Will it destroy us that will it make our lives better? 44 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,280 I think certainly we all agree that AI has some definite 45 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:25,200 benefits within the within the culture. 46 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,680 We have done some amazing and marvelous things, but we also 47 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,240 need to be aware that also, although it's called artificial 48 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,560 intelligence, there's only one who's ultimate intelligent. 49 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,840 He's the real intelligence, right? 50 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,960 He's a God of real intelligence, not some artificial 51 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,760 intelligence. He is all knowing and he's 52 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,240 omniscient, omniscient. He's all powerful. 53 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,800 But the unbeliever thinks that they are pretty, pretty 54 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,240 intelligent. They they think that they've 55 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,440 figured out and solve most of the problems within their own 56 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,560 lives. Unbelievers walk around even 57 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,920 right now thinking that they've figured it all out. 58 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:02,440 They have the answers to this life and the problem. 59 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:06,840 This would have been solved. Yet despite the arrogance, the 60 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:12,160 world is still trying to be extra smart, using AI, extra 61 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,600 intelligence to help give them perhaps a better ability to 62 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,960 solve problems and in a faster and and correct way. 63 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,960 What men should do though, however, is to look to God and 64 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,840 look to his word to help them to, to solve the problems. 65 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,120 And the concern that I have sometimes for the, the church, 66 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,720 for the believers in Christ is that they will look in the wrong 67 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:32,920 direction. And so let's say a look toward 68 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:34,720 God's word. They will look toward the 69 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,960 worldly wisdom of artificial intelligence, super 70 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,240 intelligence, which although it does do some amazing things for 71 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,880 us, certainly within the medical field, it's just a machine and 72 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,760 it's controlled by, by people's worldly thinking. 73 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,880 So we need to ask Christians out to be aware of what's coming, 74 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,600 our direction and, and to get in front of it, so to speak. 75 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,560 So we're not overcome by and we don't just do things because the 76 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,760 rest of the world goes to AI. Therefore, we should also, so we 77 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,480 need to make sure we think about this and consider the hearts of 78 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,400 two people that might be within the same room. 1 being a an 79 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,120 unbeliever who believes in humanly wisdom and the other a 80 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,480 Christian in the same room who believes in godly wisdom. 81 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,800 And the first man thinks of a question to ask AI and clicks on 82 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,160 the the dive deeper button. Who's ever seen the dive deeper? 83 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,840 That's what then, you know, Google search, dive a little bit 84 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:30,400 deeper into the AI. They click on that button and 85 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,920 Gemini 3 to try to get the answers to their problems, to 86 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,560 perhaps dive deeper into the entire knowledge of human 87 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,960 history. Every books that are written can 88 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,080 be searched by AI within a millisecond. 89 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,600 They have the whole world library at their hands. 90 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,040 How could you not succeed in finding great wisdom here? 91 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,800 And they click on that button and they wait half a second, but 92 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,200 the answer to come back amazed and marbled by this great 93 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,560 technology that can tell the answer to their problem. 94 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,600 And they answer according to the way it thinks. 95 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,320 And the person I believe in, the first person in the room, 96 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,640 believes it to to be true. He wants to search and he wants 97 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,160 a summarization of of human knowledge to help him solve a 98 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,280 problem or even to understand what is right and what is wrong. 99 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:23,480 The second man believes in God's wisdom instead of clicking on 100 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,760 the button, he opens up his Bible right. 101 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:30,040 He searches God's word and in God's infinite wisdom, which is 102 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,840 revealed within his word and God tells him clearly how he created 103 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:36,480 the universe. He he solves his problems to 104 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,760 reading God's word and obeying God's word. 105 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:43,400 He he bends his heart to obey what God says, what is right and 106 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,280 what is wrong. And while the AI machine tries 107 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:49,360 to to search the entire breath of human wisdom to to give an 108 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,400 answer on ChatGPT, God knows every question. 109 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:57,160 God knows every answer. He knows exactly what's going to 110 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,280 happen even before we even think of the question, even before we 111 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:03,400 verbally think about it or write it down to a computer. 112 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,840 God knows all things and we need to make sure that we we think 113 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:10,720 about this. I asked AI the in Gemini 3 this 114 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:15,320 question in a deeper dive mode. Here's a question. 115 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:23,960 Who knows more, God or AI? All right, and here's the answer 116 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,440 I came up with. It says some philosophers and 117 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:33,160 tech enthusiasts argue that as approaches super intelligence, 118 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,600 it may eventually mirror some traits we associate with the 119 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:41,280 divine, such as omnipresence through the digital realm or a 120 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:44,600 form of omniscience to access to all human data. 121 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,640 It says somehow super intelligence may somehow mirror 122 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:53,400 God in some way, right? You have all of the history of 123 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,800 mankind at your fingertips and we need to make sure that we 124 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:01,560 make sure we we go according to Psalms 139, which says you have 125 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,520 searched and known me. You know when I sit down and 126 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,720 when I get up, you understand my thought from far away. 127 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:12,600 You scrutinize my path and my lying down and acquainted with 128 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,120 all my ways even before there was a word on my tongue. 129 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:21,560 Behold Lord, you know it all verse John 320 but whenever our 130 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,560 heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and he 131 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,800 knows everything. We need to think about the topic 132 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,520 of AI and and our topic today is humanly wisdom versus godly 133 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,600 wisdom. We need to make sure we use our 134 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,080 Bibles as as a filter to block out the things from the world 135 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,000 which can possibly get to our heart. 136 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,240 We need to hold up our Bible to the TV and to music and to 137 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,480 movies that might try to get to our hearts, and our kids need to 138 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,000 do the same thing. If it can't get through God's 139 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,520 Word into it, through what it says, and we shouldn't believe 140 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:54,200 it. It's a filter that we use to 141 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,360 block out the ways of the world. We trust upon our Lord in His, 142 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,960 in his ways. But the AI within the church is 143 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,800 something to think about within our church. 144 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,600 But last Sunday we had a nice, very good meeting with Tim and 145 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:12,240 with AJ and elders discussing the topic of AI usage within the 146 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:13,840 church. And pastors, you know, could 147 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,480 possibly misuse it and say, give me a message, you know, write or 148 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,320 write your whole message that pastors can. 149 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,400 I'm sure some, some people do use that. 150 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,200 Some people just might use that in our world today. 151 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,480 Because believing in Christ, we need to to consider these issues 152 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,840 and let us not marvel over a machine, but over our God 153 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,080 instead, Let us not seek the answer to our pause by clicking 154 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,400 a button on the device within our pocket and to make sure we 155 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,280 keep our focus within God's word. 156 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,480 And our topic today, as you can see, is First Corinthians 157 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,080 chapter 2. And Paul has the same issue in 158 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,600 his time as we do within ours. Let's go ahead and pray before 159 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,680 we read. We read first Corinthians 21 to 160 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:53,840 16. Have me. 161 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,680 Thank you so much for God, for thy Father be with us in our 162 00:08:56,680 --> 00:08:58,120 time. Father, help us to look through 163 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,120 your word. Father, see how we should 164 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,400 actually bend our hearts. Lord, Paul says. 165 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,920 And when I came to your brothers, I did not come with 166 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:08,200 the period of wisdom, order or wisdom. 167 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,680 Proclaim to you the witness of God, but determined to know 168 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:15,360 nothing among you except Jesus Christ, him crucified. 169 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,760 And I was with you in weakness and in fear, and it was 170 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:20,960 trembling. And my Word and my preacher were 171 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:25,480 not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of 172 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,600 spirit and power, so that your faith would not be in the wisdom 173 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,880 of men been the power of God. Yet we not speak wisdom among 174 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,960 those who are mature, a wisdom, however, not of this age, nor of 175 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,680 the rulers of this age who are being abolished. 176 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:45,200 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom which has 177 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,080 been hidden, which God predestined before the ages to 178 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,400 our to our glory, which none of the rules of this age has 179 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,160 understood. For if they had understood it, 180 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,200 they would not have crucified the Lord of glory, just as 181 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,480 written things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and 182 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,960 which have not into the heart of man all that God's prepared for 183 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,840 those who love Him. But to us God will build them 184 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,160 through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all 185 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,920 things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the 186 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,800 depths of a man except the spirit of the man which is in 187 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,040 him? Even so the depths of God no one 188 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:25,600 knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the 189 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,240 Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God's, that 190 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,920 we may know the depths graciously given to us by God, 191 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,600 of which depths we also speak, not in words taught by human 192 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,520 wisdom, but in those top of the Spirit, combining spiritual 193 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,760 depths with spiritual words. But a natural man does not 194 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,680 accept the depths of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness 195 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:49,200 to him, and he cannot understand them because they are 196 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,680 spiritually examined. But he who is spiritual examines 197 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:58,040 all things, yet he himself is examined by no one but who has 198 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,920 known the mind of the Lord, that he will direct him. 199 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:06,200 But we have the mind of Christ. Paul is speaking to those within 200 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,000 the Church of Corinth, of Corinth, and he's trying to tell 201 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,880 them, explain to them how they need to direct their church and 202 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,320 to direct their hearts. And as you look at your notes, 203 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:19,080 you'll see Paul reminds them that they need to preach Christ 204 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:21,760 crucified. He reminds them that the 205 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,200 unbeliever cannot understand the wisdom of God not humanly 206 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,480 discovered. Point #3 explains to them how 207 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,040 God has used the Holy Spirit to show himself to us. 208 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,720 And last, your Lord tells us clearly in point #4 we have the 209 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:40,080 mind of Christ. And Paul is is reminded church 210 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:44,040 in Corinth that that before he left them, he was a pastor with 211 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:48,320 them for 18 months. He spent time come alongside 212 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,120 them and teaching them and, and showing them God's word. 213 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,680 And they, they were raised together in the church. 214 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:56,320 And he many people got saved within the Church of Corinth 215 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,960 before he left them. But while he preached them, he 216 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:04,360 did not do so, he says, with impressive words or with humanly 217 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:05,960 wisdom. He didn't do that. 218 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,440 He preached God's word. He says, you know, come to 219 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,240 Corinth as as other Greek philosophers did. 220 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,760 There was 50 Greek philosophers the time that would go into the 221 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:17,160 church into the area in the city of of Corinth. 222 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:20,560 And they would the Corinthians were very interested in 223 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:23,200 philosophy and the interesting the different Greek philosophers 224 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,640 that came that way. And while in the city of Corinth 225 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:27,920 would also, their thoughts would also spill into the Church of 226 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,760 Corinth, which was next to it. And so the church was starting 227 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,440 to be infiltrated with, with philosophical ideas. 228 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:38,120 They started to to to like the idea of Greek philosophy and 229 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,680 Paul says right here, I didn't come with with this superiority 230 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:43,840 of speech, he says, or of wisdom. 231 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,920 These humanly philosophical beliefs, they didn't come that 232 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,440 way. But now as it comes back after 233 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,920 18 months, these philosophies have crept to the church and 234 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,320 Paul feels a need to to address them. 235 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,760 He said he did not he he came proclaiming to you the testimony 236 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,160 of God, Paul says, I came proclaiming Christ. 237 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:05,720 I saw Christ. He testified what he he 238 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:07,880 witnessed. He's a witty test for what he 239 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:11,040 saw with Christ and what he heard and what he experienced. 240 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,320 He said that he is he witnessed that that how Christ changed his 241 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,880 heart. And one could imagine that that 242 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,080 Paul could have taken the opportunity with the Corinthians 243 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,040 during those 18 months as a pastor. 244 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,920 And he certainly could use the time to lift himself up and to 245 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,800 the congregation 18 months to do that. 246 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,640 And more people probably would have attended church in in 247 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:37,320 Corinth if he had done so, if Paul had spoken with, he says to 248 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,360 put his speech of wisdom, More people would have flocked to the 249 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:44,640 church if he had spoken that way with persuasive words or wisdom. 250 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,880 But Paul didn't do that. He made a willful choice. 251 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,120 And how he would preach to proclaim God's word, He would 252 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,760 proclaim. We had seen what he'd heard 253 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:58,920 experienced with Jesus Christ, but this text goes to show us 254 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,200 how we are to preach God's word and the focus of the mess that 255 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,480 we should have from from the pulpit how we are to to preach 256 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:10,360 the gospel and Paul states here not with superiority of speech. 257 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,480 Let's not be persuasive. The past should not be 258 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,480 persuasive of elegant people want to just hear him because of 259 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,280 his eloquence. We're not interested and 260 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,400 preaching about men's ideas or humanly wisdom, not in 261 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:29,120 persuasive words or wisdom. First Corinthians tells us in 13 262 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:33,440 one Paul says if I speak with tongues of men and if angels but 263 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:38,280 not have love, I become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 264 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:43,320 We always speak about God's word and share God's with out of a 265 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,120 heart of love. It goes to the motivation of the 266 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,040 pastor. We had to speak as Paul states, 267 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,680 that a word should be about Christ. 268 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,240 Let us, let us not be offensive on top of God's Word, which 269 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,920 already offends the heart of the unbeliever. 270 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:02,000 But he says quite clearly in verse #4 but he does so. 271 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,560 He says what? But in demonstration of the 272 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,400 Spirit and the power. That's what Paul did. 273 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:12,080 He spoke that way. He desired to be obedient to our 274 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,080 Lord, and he knew there was a Spirit of God that gave him the 275 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,480 power to do so, that God was the one that would change men's 276 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,800 hearts, as it did for those 18 months. 277 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,760 And he saw the amazing responsibility that that was 278 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,520 before him and that God had called him into Corinth, and 279 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,720 that now he was sending him on to another church afterwards and 280 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,360 was asking for the pastor stepping after him to also 281 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,960 preach God's Word. He saw God's larger plan than 282 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,000 than himself, and he was obedient to that plan. 283 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,240 He had no desire to preach with pride and a desire to to lift, 284 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,480 lift themselves up. He saw that that his heart was 285 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,840 changed by Christ on the road to Damascus, and that with a 286 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:52,880 converted heart he would preach Christ. 287 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:57,000 And he says, For I determine, know nothing among you except 288 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:02,560 Jesus Christ and him crucified. That was Paul's desire as it 289 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:07,280 should be our desire. 1st Corinthians 123 But we preach 290 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,680 Christ crucified to Jews, a stunning block into Gentiles 291 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,480 foolishness. And today we have people that 292 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:17,680 don't do that. You wonder what, what, what 293 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,160 would you do if you're the pastor for 18 months of a 294 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,600 church, right? What would you preach on, right? 295 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,400 I trust it wouldn't be humanly wisdom but we know there's many 296 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,960 pastors out there that don't use the time given to them, 18 297 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,960 months or whatever time might be to glorify God. 298 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,680 Many pasts today are influenced by the wisdom of the world and 299 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,080 their churches are based on humanly thinking based on what 300 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,400 they want to do to please the the culture around them that are 301 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:49,480 man centered gospel preaching churches and the world focused 302 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,680 their thoughts instead upon being self-centered rather than 303 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:56,680 upon being being God centered. But the wizard in the world will 304 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,040 creep into the church and it will try to influence the pastor 305 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,119 and pastors will sometimes try to compromise God's word and to 306 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,400 tickle the people's ears and to try to entertain the people and 307 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,599 try to please the people as they say within the within the 308 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:12,119 pulpit. Paul would have nothing of that 309 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,520 if I determined he thought wealthy about this. 310 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:19,359 I will preach nothing else, nothing else among you except 311 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,920 Jesus Christ and him crucified. He could have preached many 312 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,960 things about 18 months by heaven, something about man's 313 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,040 relationship to each other, but he said no, what the heart of 314 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:35,160 the gospel is Christ crucified. That's our salvation. 315 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,160 He didn't want to stray from the heart of the gospel and godly 316 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,600 wisdom is to preach Christ crucified. 317 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:46,680 Paul was determined to keep us in mind and it's hard focused on 318 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,720 Christ and so near. God wants our minds and our 319 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:53,240 priorities to be on the heart of the gospel and not about 320 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,880 anything else. Yeah, all all what we do and 321 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,640 testify is about Christ. We just speak about Christ only. 322 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,120 We have to be focused upon the cross and the sacrifice that 323 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:07,040 Jesus Christ made upon us. We have to reflect upon our 324 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,520 salvation and how Christ changed our hearts in the way they used 325 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,920 to be. Think about the eternal plan for 326 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:14,960 our life. Think about the plan for us in 327 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,680 our homes. Focus upon a larger perspective 328 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,880 than than ourselves and why It's great to to study many things 329 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:25,680 from predestination to ecclesiology. 330 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,160 The cross is the heart of the gospel that we need to speak 331 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,800 about to our loved ones. We love Christ, we cling to 332 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,480 Christ, He's everything to us. He died for us. 333 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:40,160 He's the heart of our lives. We must preach Christ crucified. 334 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,880 Without him we are nothing. And Paul says I determined to 335 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:49,840 know nothing else. Verse #5 he tells us why he 336 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:55,320 preached Christ crucified. Look at verse #5 so that your 337 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,920 faith would not rest on the wisdom of men from the power of 338 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:03,880 God, right? Your faith would rest on Christ 339 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,720 by his power He was determined to preach Christ crucified. 340 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:12,000 He doesn't warrant Timothy that in latter times some will fall 341 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,720 away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits 342 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:19,160 and doctrines of demons by means of the pockets of liars seared 343 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,040 in their own conscious as with the branded iron. 344 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,960 First Timothy 412 and Second Timothy 43. 345 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,360 Paul said the Timothy for the time will come when they were 346 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:31,600 not enduring Psalm doctrine but want to have the ears tickle. 347 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,760 They were killing for themselves, teachers, and 348 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:37,720 accordance to their own desire. But our faith in Christ does not 349 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:42,080 rest upon the wisdom of men. Not based on the false beliefs 350 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:46,880 that one can earn our salvation. Not based on the false belief 351 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,960 that that God is only loving and that He is not a judge, that He 352 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,560 is not as holy as He proclaims out to be. 353 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,760 Men want to make God less holy and themselves not as sinful as 354 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,040 they are. We need to pick Christ as holy, 355 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,680 holy, holy, and even more so than He is. 356 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,080 God's the holiest thing imaginable and know that your 357 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:13,200 flesh doesn't see Him as holy as He truly is, not on this side of 358 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,520 eternity. Someday you won't have this 359 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,040 flesh that wants to lift yourself up and to lower Him. 360 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:22,200 It'll proclaim and worship Him for the way He rightly is. 361 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,320 He's a holy, holy God. And Paul focused our hearts on 362 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,720 how we are saved. It's by the power of God, not by 363 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:34,120 any humanly wisdom and point #2 we see verse #6 to 9. 364 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:40,240 Paul says it's godly wisdom is not humanly discovered. 365 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,360 He says you will not speak wisdom among those who are 366 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:45,840 mature a wisdom. However, not this age. 367 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,440 You know the rule is age who are passing away. 368 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:53,560 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which 369 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,800 God predest for the ages of a of our glory to our glory, the 370 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,200 wisdom which none of that will this age has understood both of 371 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,720 which they understood it. They would not have crucified 372 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:08,000 Lord of Jesus the glory verse 9 But just as written things which 373 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,320 I has not seen, ear has not heard, and which have not 374 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,720 entered the heart of man all the gods I prepare for those who 375 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,440 love him true wisdom godly wisdom. 376 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,480 It is not discoverable by humanly wisdom. 377 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:25,920 God's wisdom, and it is only revealed through his through his 378 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,640 word and through reveals to us. It's his eternal plan of 379 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,600 salvation. God's wisdom is Jesus Christ 380 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,760 crucified. God's wisdom is living our lives 381 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,920 by by God's desire and by God's will. 382 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,680 And he makes it quite clear that man cannot stand that without 383 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,400 the Holy Spirit to show them this to be true. 384 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,280 I like what JMX says in his commentary on this topic. 385 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,640 Far as a man not be able to understand J Mac, John MacArthur 386 00:21:55,640 --> 00:22:00,080 says is impossible for a lesser creature to understand a more 387 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,760 advanced one. How can anything understand 388 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,520 something more complex and advanced than himself than 389 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,280 itself? For a flea to understand a dog 390 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,920 it would have to be at least at advance of the dog, but a dog to 391 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,280 understand a man it would have to be at least advance of the 392 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,520 man. How much greater distance is 393 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,120 there between creature and creature? 394 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,240 Men can't imagine what God might be like, and people have plenty 395 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,280 of ideas about him. Almost everyone has an opinion 396 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,320 as to what God is or is not like, or as to whether he even 397 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,720 exists. But man's opinions are 398 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,840 irrelevant because they can never be more than speculations 399 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,680 by his own resources. A creature cannot possibly 400 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,680 comprehend his his Creator. You can't. 401 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:49,840 You can't possibly do so within your natural flesh, but God's 402 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,480 Word is a means by which the Christian cannot stand his 403 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,040 Creator and cannot stand who he is. 404 00:22:55,520 --> 00:23:00,120 God's Word in his wisdom, the text says, are not this age nor 405 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:02,800 of the rules this age who are passing away. 406 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,080 Paul's making the point that mature believers in the church 407 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,600 can understand God's Word, but the unbeliever cannot. 408 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,560 The gospel, he says, will be foolishness to them. 409 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,040 God's wisdom is a mystery to them. 410 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:20,360 He says to the unbeliever, and 1st Corinthians 118 He said for 411 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:24,080 the word, the crosses flourish those who are perishing, but to 412 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,240 us who are being saved is the power of God. 413 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:32,520 God's wisdom is hidden wisdom to them because God chooses not to 414 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,120 reveal all of his nature to them. 415 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,360 He chooses in His judgment to keep some things hidden from 416 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:41,640 them out of His mercy. Otherwise He might have to have 417 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:46,160 more just upon their hearts. Says in verse #9 For if they 418 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,560 understood it, they would have could not crucify the Lord Jesus 419 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:55,560 Christ, the leaders of the Jews. Jesus was a stumbling block to 420 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,080 the Gentiles. The gospel was foolishness to 421 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,560 them. We certainly are blessed by 422 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,480 God's mercy to to understand the gospel which is given to us. 423 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,880 And then Paul calls from Isaiah 64. 424 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,000 Four, you see there things which eyes have not seen, the ears are 425 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,320 not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man. 426 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,480 All that God appeared for those who who love him. 427 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:22,720 God's word it eternal wise plans prepare for those who who love 428 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,320 him. He states that while men may not 429 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,320 send the gospel in their own flesh and abilities, they cannot 430 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,080 send the gospel that has been given to them. 431 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,640 As he preached the gospel to to the unbeliever. 432 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:36,560 It's a Holy Spirit and the word of God. 433 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,000 He's switching his thoughts now, the work affecting the heart of 434 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,360 of the unbeliever. And we're going to examine a 435 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:46,280 little closer now the Holy Spirit's role in helping us have 436 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,800 godly wisdom, the Holy Spirit's vote and conferring the heart of 437 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,560 the unbeliever. Because man cannot and will not 438 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,800 come to God on on their own free will. 439 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,840 Man is free to act and to choose within the boundaries only of 440 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,520 his own sinful nature. He will not come to Christ nor 441 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:08,560 desire to be with God, but God by his mercy has come to mankind 442 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,160 and to the power of the Holy Spirit. 443 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,200 He prompts man's heart to change and to and to believe. 444 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:19,880 Point #3 godly wisdom leads to man's salvation, certainly, but 445 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,880 the Holy Spirit is the one that shows us Himself. 446 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,360 And He does throw through, first of all, revelation. 447 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:32,240 The Holy Spirit helps have godly wisdom and to see who Christ is, 448 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,240 converting the heart of the unbeliever. 449 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,120 And God does that through His revelation, because God must 450 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:42,640 reveal Himself to mankind, because man has no desire to see 451 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,720 anything else but Himself. If God has not opened His heart 452 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,320 to help him to see Him God, man will stay within the same place 453 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,520 He always has been, condemned to go to hell forever. 454 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:56,720 But consider God's neither communication or revelation to 455 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,360 mankind. And our God has soon decided 456 00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:03,720 that in this unique way, His Word, He will save mankind and 457 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,760 convert His heart through revelation. 458 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,800 And He does do through the Holy Spirit. 459 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,480 Verse #10 the text says for to us God reveal them to the Spirit 460 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,160 for the Spirit switches all things, even the depths of God. 461 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,120 Who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of 462 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:23,080 the man which is in him. Even so the thoughts of God no 463 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,480 one knows except the the Spirit of God. 464 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,160 Paul focuses the cringes of minds upon the amazing rule of 465 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,840 the Holy Spirit plays in in their salvation. 466 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,400 He wants them to lean on the Holy Spirit and not on being 467 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,160 divisive. First four chapters about 468 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,920 cringes about them being divisive and how some would say, 469 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,960 well, I am Apollo, I'm a Paul, I'm Apollos, I am a Peter. 470 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,120 I am. They are making divisive 471 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,160 factions in Group within the Church of Corinth and dividing 472 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,000 themselves that way, thinking that the person they're 473 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,000 following is the person that should lead them, Paul through 474 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,840 the hearts. No, it's the Holy Spirit that 475 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,560 has changed your heart to begin with. 476 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,040 We are not to be divisive within within the church. 477 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,960 We are focused upon Christ, upon Christ crucified. 478 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,840 So Paul spoken to hearts upon the Holy Spirit is the means by 479 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,160 which we should lead within the church. 480 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,120 That means by which we should serve within the church. 481 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:22,440 He said the Spirit is all things in deaths of God. 482 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,000 The Holy Spirit knows our thoughts better than than we do. 483 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,480 And while we certainly know it ourselves very well, God knows 484 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,080 us more. He knows every bit about us. 485 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,320 Men are taught in and learn that learn through the Holy Spirit 486 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,640 and God's word must be read and understood for men to be to be 487 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,280 saved. More specifically, God used Holy 488 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,440 Spirit reveal himself through through his word. 489 00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:51,840 Do you know what it means? People are not saved through 490 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,520 watching a Christian movie. People not saved through 491 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,520 listening to a Christian song on the radio. 492 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,080 They're not saved by having a dream. 493 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,400 These things might inspire people to read God's Word. 494 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,040 They're not even saved by a person coming through their door 495 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,160 and knocking on their door. But people don't say people. 496 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,680 It's only when a person reads God's Word and believes God's 497 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,960 Word, not the person who's preaching but rebelieves God's 498 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:24,920 Word, Not the preacher, not the person who's talking before 499 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,520 them. While they might have 500 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,800 credibility in their eyes, they must believe God's Word to be 501 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:30,880 true. To be saved. 502 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,440 You must push God's word forward to them. 503 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,400 Have them read God's word for themselves that the Holy Spirit 504 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,800 might might convert their hearts, might convert their 505 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,160 souls. Romans 10/17 says so faith comes 506 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,920 from hearing and hearing by the the word of Christ that that's 507 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,000 our focus when we share with with our loved ones, we focus 508 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,320 with friends. They need to read God's Word, 509 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,760 and your job and my job is to put God's Word before them. 510 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,280 Certainly they see our testimony example as a Christian that has 511 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,520 an influence upon their hearts and adds reliability to what 512 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,680 we're saying. But so much better for them to 513 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,440 read God's Word on their own than for us to preach to them. 514 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,680 God wants them to read God's way certainly, wants us to preach to 515 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,080 them, certainly, but God's words and means by which our hearts 516 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,400 are are converted. It's God's revelation that 517 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,520 reveals salvation to to mankind, and the Holy Spirit is a means 518 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,200 by which that is revealed to them. 519 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:34,120 First Thessalonians 213 For this reason, we also constantly thank 520 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,440 God that when you receive the Word of God which you heard from 521 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,720 us, you accepted it not as it would have been, but for what it 522 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:47,000 really is, the Word of God which also performs its work in you 523 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,880 who believe God's words without which performs the work not not 524 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:57,120 upon us, but the pastor is a tool to bring people to Christ. 525 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,400 The pastor is a tool that bring God's word to the heart of the 526 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,200 unbeliever, to the power of the Holy Spirit. 527 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,800 And that's that. That's what Paul is focused upon 528 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,680 to the Corinthians. Let's not be divisive. 529 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,440 Think about the Holy Spirit and the rule which it converted you 530 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,600 think about Christ crucified. It's the word of God which also 531 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,600 performs work in you who who believe Peter said in first 532 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:24,400 Peter 123 For you have not for you have been born again, not of 533 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,400 C which is perishable, but imperishable. 534 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:33,560 That is through the living and enduring word of God is is it is 535 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,840 God's word that changes the hearts of people. 536 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,240 He was 412 for the Word of God, living, active and sharp than 537 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,040 any 2 edged sword. It's Word and piercing as far as 538 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:48,200 a division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, able 539 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,360 to do the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 540 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,520 It's it's God's revelation, and we need to see our role as we 541 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,240 think about God's revelation to bring God's Word to people. 542 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,760 They are not. They are not to believe upon 543 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,840 anything else, but upon the independent Word of God and the 544 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,560 Holy Spirit's the means by which men's souls are or converted. 545 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,080 But how does the Holy Spirit convert the wicked heart of men? 546 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,320 He does so also not through, not only through revelation, but 547 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:22,400 also due to inspiration. God changed the heart and 548 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:27,080 believer to revelation to become a child of God, but also through 549 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:31,640 inspiration. That's verse #12 but we have 550 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,680 received not the spirit of the world for the Spirit who is from 551 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,520 God, so we may know the things really given to us by God. 552 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:44,720 Paul says we have received this. It's inspired by US. 553 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,720 Men cannot discover God's truth within their own. 554 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,880 His truth must be given to men, and the Holy Spirit inspires or 555 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,800 transmits His truth to men. That's what I said. 556 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:02,520 That's what inspiration means do God's word God transmits his 557 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:07,320 truths to he inspires men inspired by God. 558 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:12,800 We know Second Timothy 316 all scripture is inspired by God and 559 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,920 popular for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for 560 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,240 training righteousness. So the man of God may be 561 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,600 adequate equipped for every good work. 562 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,280 The inspiration is from God. God's Word inspires men to 563 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,280 believe and He does do to the Holy Spirit. 564 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:33,200 Men must receive His Word, which has been offered up to them by 565 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,360 God. God offers it to the unbeliever 566 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,440 and He either accepts it or denies the Word. 567 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,520 I remember when I was in church with Linda, when I, before I got 568 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:48,480 saved, I would go into church and I would hear the passage to 569 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,400 an altar call and I would put my hands on the Pew in front of me 570 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:57,280 and count to 20, hoping he was done with this call. 571 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,960 And then I count the 20 backwards to 1 and just not 572 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,280 wanting to give, to give my heart to Christ. 573 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,640 I, I was battling the pastor and battling God and battling his 574 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,800 word in, in my life. But God calls us and talks to us 575 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,600 and reveals to us who he is, inspires us to give us his great 576 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,800 truths. And men have the responsibility 577 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,640 to, to bend their hearts to, to, to lean their hearts toward 578 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,600 Christ. And Paul's taught in the 579 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,800 Corinthians, God is the one who has inspired you to believe upon 580 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,960 him. You must receive his words, 581 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,200 which has been offered up to you by his grace and offered up to 582 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,840 you by his mercy. God's word is grace and mercy 583 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,880 given to the unbeliever. It was given to us by his grace 584 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,960 and and mercy. Paul tell the Corinthians, now 585 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:50,040 we have received this. He tell him in order for God to 586 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:55,000 to be received by men, he must first offer himself up to man as 587 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,360 he has. He wants him to see that it is 588 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:02,920 God who is, who is reaching out to man, not man reaching out to 589 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,480 God. We have received the Holy Spirit 590 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,639 so that he says we may know the things freely given to us. 591 00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:15,400 Verse #12 that which is freely given to us, His grace, His 592 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:20,159 mercy, His kindness. God reveals us to us so we might 593 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:22,719 see it and also we might be saved. 594 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:27,080 We must have the Holy Spirit transmit His great truth to us 595 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,719 as we read it, His word. We see His grace, we see His 596 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,239 mercy, we see His sovereignty within our lives. 597 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,560 We see how He's personal place He has and the people He has 598 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,679 used in our lives to bring us to salvation. 599 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,920 And I trust you could name numerous people that we're 600 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,880 instrumental in in your life and brought you to Christ in one way 601 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,840 or another. We see that, we understand. 602 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:56,840 God reveals Himself to us. He transmits or inspires His 603 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,600 great truth to us. Then He also illuminates our 604 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,080 minds. He opens our minds. 605 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,840 He changed the heart of the unbeliever to become a child of 606 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,680 God through the process of illumination. 607 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:14,800 That's verse #14 Paul says. But a natural man does not 608 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,560 accept things of the Holy Spirit, Spirit of God, for their 609 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,880 force to him you can't stand. They come there they because 610 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,760 they are spiritual praise. But he who is spiritual 611 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,920 appraised all things. He himself is appraised by no 612 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,040 one, for who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will 613 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,480 instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ. 614 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:39,920 The natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God. 615 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,360 And some people will read God's Word which has been offered up 616 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,600 to them, and they choose not to receive God's Word into the 617 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,840 hearts. And we look at them now like, 618 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:55,120 what were you thinking? Why don't you see the grace of 619 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,440 God? We see that today, the beauty of 620 00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,960 the majesty of Christ. It's in our hearts. 621 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:02,560 We see that, and our loved ones don't see that. 622 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,240 Their minds can't comprehend that. 623 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,040 They can hear God's Word and choose not to receive it into 624 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,600 the hearts. We think of the parable of the 625 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:16,600 soils and how God's word, when the soul goes out to sow the 626 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:21,040 fields, the seed he drops, which is God's word, falls upon the 627 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,960 hearts of men. And the seed he drops falls 628 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,080 either on hard soil or rocky soil or a thorny soul soil. 629 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,320 And they choose not to to receive His word. 630 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,120 They love their sin. They love the life that they're 631 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,400 living. They're no better or worse than 632 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,840 than you and I who had the same motivation, same thoughts in our 633 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,800 hearts. They choose not to receive God's 634 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,560 Word well. The parable also tells us that 635 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,440 some sea will fall upon good ground, good soil, and some 636 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,800 people will receive God's Word well. 637 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,080 These people that receive it well are not better than anybody 638 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,400 else. They chose by God's grace and 639 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,360 mercy, to open the hearts to illumination of God into into 640 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,560 the hearts. God is the one that illuminates 641 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:12,000 the unbelievable mind to see God understand that Jesus is their 642 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,400 only savior, the only way of salvation. 643 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,920 This is the gospel of illumination, great spiritual 644 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,240 truths to be able to understood to the Holy Spirit, to the 645 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,880 unbeliever's heart. He understands. 646 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:29,600 He opens his eyes just a little bit to see understand and a 647 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,000 little bit more as God illuminates his mind. 648 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,240 Tech says because they are spiritually appraised, the 649 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:40,040 process of man's salvation and regeneration can be seen in this 650 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:44,680 process of of illumination. Open their minds and men 651 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:49,000 certainly must repent to be saved, but God more must open 652 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,280 their eyes before they they can repent and they can't believe. 653 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,400 Luke 2445 Then you open their minds so that they could 654 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,800 understand the scriptures. Second Corinthians 4/6 for God 655 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:06,080 who said let light shine our darkness made his light shine in 656 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:10,400 our hearts to give us the knowledge of the glory of God in 657 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,680 the face of Christ. He illuminates our minds. 658 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,400 The worldly wisdom. On the other hand, the way the 659 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,760 unbeliever thinks is he doesn't want his mind illuminated. 660 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,600 The unbeliever thinks he's pretty good, doesn't need his 661 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,400 eyes opened up to understand right. 662 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,520 I was offended when I had my name on a prayer list. 663 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,960 I'm a church. How dare you pray for me. 664 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,560 I don't want. I don't have a problem, I don't 665 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,200 need anything. Open my mind, it's already 666 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,320 opened already. I have great knowledge already. 667 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,160 They don't even have AI right? Worldly wisdom. 668 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,960 If anything, the unbeliever today needs to be more woke, 669 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:55,760 more woken up to ideas of liberalism and being progressive 670 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,760 and accepting of that which is sinful in the hearts and their 671 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,880 minds. God chooses out of His glorious 672 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:08,360 mercy to illuminate our hearts, and He does so also by 673 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:13,800 convicting men of their sins. John 16-8 And he, when He comes, 674 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,720 Holy Spirit, will convict the world concerning sin and 675 00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:21,400 righteousness and judgment concerning sin, because they do 676 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,160 not believe in Him. Paul's pushing the point. 677 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:30,480 You have the Holy Spirit that He build us himself to us and stop 678 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,960 being divisive with within the church. 679 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,920 But the Holy Spirit while it does convict men's of their 680 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,640 sins, the unbelievers soon does not want or see the need for the 681 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,440 heart to be convicted of their sins. 682 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:47,560 John tells us in John three, they love their sin, they love 683 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,760 the darkness, they love the way they are. 684 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,440 It's a miracle that anybody has any change within the hearts 685 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:59,200 because they're so devoted, loving their sins, so passionate 686 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,320 about who they are, thinking so much that they are right and 687 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,280 they're thinking how can anybody's heart possibly be 688 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,360 changed by a pastor, evangelist sharing the gospel with them? 689 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,560 It truly is a miracle that someone's heart, it is 690 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,240 converted. John 319. 691 00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:17,120 This is a judgment that light has comes to the world. 692 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,800 People loved the darkness rather than light. 693 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,320 For the deeds were evil doesn't say they like they love the 694 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,280 darkness they're deeply in dwell within their sinful nature. 695 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:34,280 They're like pigs walling within the mud and enjoying the 696 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,960 simpleness of the hearts. That's where we once were. 697 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:43,040 And God, by His grace and mercy, opened her eyes so we might see 698 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,720 that we were like the pigs wallowing in the mud. 699 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,520 He helped to see who called wonderful and all holy, and how 700 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,200 gracious and how mercy and how kind He is. 701 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:56,000 And He changed our hearts. The Holy Spirit convicts men of 702 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,840 their sin. He also changes the heart of man 703 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,360 at Jeremiah 24/7. I will give them a heart to know 704 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:09,320 me, for I am the Lord, and they will be my people, and I will be 705 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:14,880 their God, for they return to me with their whole hearts and 706 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,320 without a new heart. We would think and believe the 707 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:22,240 same way as we used to. God, by His grace and mercy, 708 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:25,120 changed our hearts so that we think differently now. 709 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,120 Our heart's desire is to follow Him. 710 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:28,680 Our heart's desire is to obey Him. 711 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,920 Our heart's desire is to go to church and to read His word and 712 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,640 to pray and to worship Him. We did not desire these things 713 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,760 before. God changed us. 714 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,400 He changed our hearts. He gave us a new hearts, He 715 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,000 helps to think differently. We love him now, we love him 716 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,520 back. Well first He loved us and 717 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,080 before we hated him. Whether we send those words or 718 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:55,600 not, now we love him back, we love him back then. 719 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,440 He caused our hearts for men to believe and to have faith. 720 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:05,160 Here is ways when men has a responsibility in this salvation 721 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,360 process to believe and have faith. 722 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:12,520 Here was men exercised their free will to to either receive 723 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,120 God's word in good soil or poor soil. 724 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,680 Men do have responsibility and the free will to to listen to 725 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,080 the preacher and to read God's word and to accept into the 726 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,680 heart that they are accountable to God for the the choice that 727 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,920 that that they make. The men may still choose to 728 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:36,080 reject reject his Christ. The hearts may still have be not 729 00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,080 be moved to a place of accept of God's great truths. 730 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:44,320 But as God has grand the ability to believe in the 1st place, to 731 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,800 have faith upon him. It is a gift given to us by God. 732 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:53,280 We believe and we repent and we confess because God is given the 733 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,080 ability to do so. But man still has a, a, a 734 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:01,560 decision to make in that process, to confess and to 735 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,720 repent. Man's process, God's process. 736 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,160 John 110 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar 737 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:13,840 and his word is not in us. That is the heart of some 738 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,280 unbelievers. God's a liar. 739 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,920 I'm not a lying. God's a problem here. 740 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,280 I'm not the problem here. John says if we have not say 741 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,760 you're not sin, you're saying he's a liar and God's wish, it 742 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,680 is not in you. But God calls men to confess 743 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,200 their sins before him and to repent of their sins, to 744 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,920 repentance. Out of mercy comes the ability 745 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:40,120 for men to see their sins, to see that they're wrong, to see 746 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:43,120 if they need to change, to confess their sins, to get right 747 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:47,040 with God, to believe that He is their judge, and to believe that 748 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:51,680 there is a hell awaiting them if they don't confess their sins 749 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:56,840 and get right before our Lord. Luke 923 is such a great verse 750 00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,960 on repentance. Our Lord says and he was saying 751 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:03,680 to them, if any wish come after me, he must deny himself and 752 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,640 take up his cross daily and follow me. 753 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,720 God allows men the ability to repent. 754 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:15,640 What's an amazing concept Think about that God allows men the 755 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:21,040 ability to repent. Does he have to No you can give 756 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,760 him what they deserve. He allows men the ability to 757 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,440 repent in the 1st place to change their hearts. 758 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:31,480 It's a great thought to have to think about the significance of 759 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,680 that, that God allows man the ability to repent in the 1st 760 00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:38,480 place. And lastly, he he makes us a new 761 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:42,840 creation. Saint Francis 517 Therefore, if 762 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,400 anyone cries, he is a new creature. 763 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:50,680 The old things passed away. Behold, new things have come. 764 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,720 Paul wants him to focus our hearts on how to serve in the 765 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:56,600 church. Stop being divisive, stop 766 00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,640 focusing upon yourselves. See how Christ changed your 767 00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:01,640 heart. See what the Holy Spirit's done 768 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,080 within you. See how he's going to use you. 769 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:08,840 You're a new creation as we have become a new creation, our 770 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:13,280 hearts desire and now changes. We now desire to try to to live 771 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,240 for Christ. I love Galatians 220. 772 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:20,600 Look at that verse if you would. Such a great verse in scripture. 773 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:25,360 It's it's a life verse. It's a, a verse to live your 774 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:30,000 life by now that you have a a new heart, Paul says in 775 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:35,280 Galatians 220. I am in crucifer with Christ 776 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:39,640 that no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me the life 777 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,760 which I now live on the flesh. I live by faith and the Son of 778 00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,840 God who loved me and gave himself up for me. 779 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,720 God's the one who has changed our hearts. 780 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,000 We see that we've been crucified with Christ. 781 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,560 We are now. We are part of who he is now. 782 00:45:55,960 --> 00:46:00,560 It's no longer we who live a Christ that somehow lives within 783 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,960 us. That's our motivation as we 784 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,760 serve within the church. Christ lives within us as we 785 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,600 serve. And now I live in the and the 786 00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,560 light which I now live in the flesh. 787 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:16,840 I live by faith now. And the Son of God, seeing that 788 00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:20,240 he is the one who loved me and gave himself up for me, that's 789 00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:24,320 how we serve as we answer the doors on Sunday, we think God 790 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,800 love me. He gave himself up for me. 791 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:28,920 I have been crucified with Christ. 792 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,840 Let me go to my ministry. Let me walk this way or that 793 00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,040 way. Let me sit within the pews and 794 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,400 hear our pastor preach the word knowing that I've been crucified 795 00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,360 with Christ. No longer I live, but Christ who 796 00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,120 lives in me. I'm a new creature. 797 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,880 I'm a new creation. God's changed my heart. 798 00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,800 And God does change the heart of unbeliever to become a a child 799 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,680 of his. He does this to his through 800 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:55,840 godly wisdom and not by man's worldly wisdom. 801 00:46:56,360 --> 00:47:01,080 Lastly, Paul hits the last point that the hammer on the nail in 802 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:06,320 verse 1516. We have the mind of Christ, the 803 00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,880 heart of the Scripture, but he who is spiritual praise all 804 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,160 things, get himself the praise by no one. 805 00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,080 For who has known the mind of the glory that he once struck 806 00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:20,680 him? But we have the mind of Christ, 807 00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,680 the natural. The natural mind does not know 808 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,480 the mind of Christ. He can't think God's thoughts. 809 00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:30,720 And the unbelievance? They would make make fun of the 810 00:47:30,720 --> 00:47:33,400 gospel. They would make fun of us as 811 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,920 believers in Christ. When they argue with you, they 812 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,480 try to, they say things which are opposed to God's Word 813 00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,880 because that's the way the hearts are. 814 00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,960 They are not arguing with us, but ultimately they argue with 815 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,880 God and are not wanting to have the hearts changed. 816 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,480 They think so differently than we do. 817 00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:58,160 Paul says we have the mind of Christ, an amazing statement 818 00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,280 that he gives to us. We are believers in Christ, 819 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,320 think the same way that Christ does. 820 00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:05,760 We feel the same way Christ does. 821 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:10,800 That which God desires, we desire that was God wants, we 822 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,800 want. We want his will on heaven as it 823 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,800 is the earth. We desire everything that he he 824 00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,440 desires for us. It's one of the the greatest 825 00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:20,960 sentences ever written, the Bible. 826 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:25,440 We have the mind of Christ. We now have, we all knew his 827 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:27,680 creation. We think like Christ. 828 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:33,000 We now desire what he desires and God allows us amazingly in 829 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,520 some manner to partake in his thinking. 830 00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,200 Why would God do that? Why would allow us to partake in 831 00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,800 his thinking? To have the mind of Christ 832 00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,600 speaks of His desire to have relationship with us, to want to 833 00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:49,560 be part of of His divine prerogative. 834 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,360 He shares part of His chemical aspects with us. 835 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,520 He wants to have a dear relationship with us. 836 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:58,840 He wants us to see who He is and understand why why He does what 837 00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,920 He does. Desires for us to see Him and to 838 00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:05,560 love Him out of out of free will and free choice. 839 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:10,520 God desires that we come to Him desires that we be with Him for 840 00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,120 all eternity and Paul wants a Corinthians and us within this 841 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:18,040 church to stop being divisive, not that we are device which we 842 00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:23,080 we are not, but not stop looking towards the wisdom of men as can 843 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:26,400 potentially happen within the church, even our church as we 844 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,960 surf the Internet as we look for the things which marvelous as 845 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,560 you click on AI and wait for the answer to come. 846 00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,400 What can the answer be? Here's my my answer. 847 00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,640 Yes, there's the answer. I get to follow the answer now. 848 00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,560 No, Paul wants our minds that focus upon him. 849 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,360 God wants the Corinthians and us see the beauty of His salvation 850 00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,320 plan. He wants us to see how we are to 851 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,600 serve within the church in Corinth and also church within 852 00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,880 Christ Community Church. God has changed our hearts in 853 00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:00,720 the same manner. By His grace and His mercy, the 854 00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:03,320 Holy Spirit has changed their hearts so we might serve within 855 00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:05,720 this church. By His sovereignty. 856 00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:09,800 He brought us to this church by his instruction. 857 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,600 We are we have the ability to obey His word and we will serve 858 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,200 within his church, always leaning on God's power to help 859 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,360 lead us. Let's go in and pray heaven. 860 00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:22,280 Thank you, Lord God, for the time you gave it to us. 861 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:27,920 But time to think about Corinth and Paul and his desire, Lord, 862 00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:32,480 to correct your church Father. So in our hearts desire, Lord, 863 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,840 that we might also Father be corrected when you see a need to 864 00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,800 correct us, Father. Our hearts desire is to see you 865 00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:42,960 Father and to love you, Father, and to see how you brought us to 866 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:46,720 this place for a purpose and a reason, Father, and help to see 867 00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:49,720 how we are to serve within your amazing church. 868 00:50:49,720 --> 00:50:51,600 Father. Help us to to love each other 869 00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:55,000 within the church. Father, help us to to see how 870 00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:59,440 you brought our such a wonderful pastor, Father with desire to 871 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:03,640 preach a word to us, Father, and to help us to to grow closer to 872 00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,280 your words, Father. His desire, Lord, is that we 873 00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,720 might grow in Christ grace and mercy. 874 00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:10,800 Father, that's where our hearts lay. 875 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:13,480 Father, we're thankful for your salvation. 876 00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,200 We're thankful for the church and for the many blessing you've 877 00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,240 given to our lives. Father, for truly you've been a 878 00:51:18,240 --> 00:51:21,960 great and wonderful God. Our desire is to praise you and 879 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,960 worship you for all eternity. Lord, we pray these things in 880 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,600 Jesus name, Amen.