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 Please turn in your Bibles to, I was about to say Revelation, but we're not in Revelation.

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 We're in 1 Corinthians 12, 27 to 14.1.

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 We're taking a break from our regular series in the book of Revelation

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 to talk about the Holy Spirit and his gifts,

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 because today is Pentecost Sunday commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon God's people

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 after Jesus' ascension.

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 This was on the 50th day after Easter,

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 and that's usually when Pentecost is,

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 but we celebrate it for our purposes, 7th Sunday after Easter, which is Pentecost Sunday.

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 We're going to read from 1 Corinthians 12, 27 to 14.1.

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 Let me pray for the reading and preaching of God's Word.

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 Heavenly Father,

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 we thank you for the gift of your Son, Jesus Christ,

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 and for the gift of your Holy Spirit.

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 Exalt the name of your Son and fill us more with your Spirit as we dive into 1 Corinthians 12, 14.

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 Teach us how to understand the gifts and the fruit of the Spirit in their proper place

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 as you teach us in your Word,

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 so that we might be a church that pursues love and eagerly desires the spiritual gifts.

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 In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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 If you are able, please stand for the reading of God's Word from 1 Corinthians 12, 27 to 14.1.

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 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it,

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 and God has appointed in the church first apostles,

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 second prophets,

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 third teachers,

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 then miracles,

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 then gifts of healing,

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 helping,

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 administrating,

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 and various kinds of tongues.

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 Are all apostles?

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 Are all prophets?

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 Are all teachers?

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 Do all work miracles?

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 Do all possess gifts of healing?

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 Do all speak with tongues?

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 Do all interpret?

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 But earnestly desire the higher gifts.

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 And I will show you a still more excellent way.

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 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,

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 but have not love,

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 I'm a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

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 And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,

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 and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains,

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 but have not love,

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 I am nothing.

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 If I give away all I have,

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 and if I deliver up my body to be burned,

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 but have not love,

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 I gain nothing.

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 Love is patient and kind.

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 Love does not envy or boast.

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 It is not arrogant or rude.

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 It does not insist on its own way.

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 It is not irritable or resentful.

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 It does not rejoice at wrongdoing,

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 but rejoices with the truth.

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 Love bears all things,

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 believes all things,

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 hopes all things,

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 endures all things.

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 Love never ends.

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 As for prophecies,

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 they will pass away.

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 As for tongues,

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 they will cease.

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 As for knowledge,

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 it will pass away.

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 For we know in part,

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 and we prophesy in part,

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 but when the perfect comes,

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 the partial will pass away.

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 When I was a child,

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 I spoke like a child.

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 I thought like a child.

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 I reasoned like a child.

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 When I became a man,

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 I gave up childish ways.

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 For now,

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 we see in a mirror dimly,

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 but then face to face.

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 Now I know in part,

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 then I shall know fully,

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 even as I have been fully known.

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 So now faith,

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 hope,

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 and love abide,

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 these three.

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 But the greatest of these

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 is love.

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 Pursue love

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 and earnestly desire

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 the spiritual gifts,

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 especially that you may prophesy.

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 This is God's holy

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 and authoritative word.

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 You may be seated.

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 Amen.

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 When the Holy Spirit

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 moved in power

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 during the first great awakening,

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 1700s,

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 the gifts of the Holy Spirit

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 that was manifested

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 among the people

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 was deeply polarizing.

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 And it divided people

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 into old lights

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 and new lights.

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 And Jonathan Edwards

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 there kind of emerged

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 as a bridging force,

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 someone to bridge

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 the old lights

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 and the new lights,

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 people who denied

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 the gifts

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 and saw these

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 as kind of a

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 manipulative

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 and sensationalist

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 acts

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 versus people

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 who saw it

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 as an essential

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 and important part

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 of the life

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 in the Holy Spirit.

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 And even today,

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 the manifestations

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 of the Spirit of God

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 and the gifts

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 of the Spirit

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 tend to have

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 that polarizing effect.

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 On the one hand

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 are what we call

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 cessationists

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 who believe

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 that the gifts

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 of the Holy Spirit

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 have ceased,

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 that's why cessation,

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 cessationists,

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 since the time

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 of the apostles.

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 And they often point

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 to the excesses,

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 manipulative tactics

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 and the disorderly practices

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 of charismatics.

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 And they accuse

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 the charismatics

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 of, quote,

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 zeal without knowledge

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 from Romans 10 too.

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 On the other hand

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 are the charismatics

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 who accept

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 the spiritual gifts

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 and denounce

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 what they see

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 as rigid formality

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 and spiritual lethargy

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 of those people

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 who deny

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 the spiritual gifts.

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 And they accuse them

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 in turn

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 of these verses,

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 1 Thessalonians 5,

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 19 to 20,

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 of quenching the Spirit

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 and of despising prophecies.

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 And our local church

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 and the denomination

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 we are part of,

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 Sovereign Grace Churches,

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 we believe

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 that the gifts

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 of the Holy Spirit

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 continue

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 to this day.

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 That's why we're called

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 continuationists.

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 And 1 Corinthians 12 to 14

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 teaches us

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 about the purpose

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 of the gifts

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 and the priority

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 of the gifts

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 so that we can put

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 the gifts

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 in their proper place

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 in our ministry.

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 And the main point

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 of this passage

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 is this,

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 pursue love

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 and eagerly desire

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 the spiritual gifts,

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 especially those

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 that build up others.

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 That's going to be

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 my main point,

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 which is almost

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 word for word,

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 14.1.

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 Or in short,

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 you could say,

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 chase the fruit

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 and crave the gifts.

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 Crave the gifts

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 of the Spirit

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 and chase the fruit

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 of the Spirit.

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 We're going to first

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 talk about craving

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 the gift,

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 deeply,

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 earnestly desiring

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 the gifts.

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 It says in verse 27

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 of chapter 12,

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 now you are

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 the body of Christ

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 and individually

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 members of it.

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 We are all

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 part of the

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 one body

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 of Christ.

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 There's only one body.

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 Christ does not have

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 multiple bodies

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 that would be monstrous.

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 He has one head,

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 one body,

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 one church,

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 the gathering

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 of his people.

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 But our unity

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 in Christ

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 does not negate

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 our individuality

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 because it says

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 we are individually

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 members of it.

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 And Paul is here

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 summarizing what he has

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 said up to this point

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 in chapter 12,

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 that God has designed

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 the church to be

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 an interdependent

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 body of believers,

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 not just a jumble

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 of independent limbs

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 that have been

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 put together.

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 the eye

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 can look at

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 a delicious

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 piece of fruit

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 all at once,

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 but the body

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 is not going

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 to get full

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 unless the hand

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 grabs the fruit

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 and brings it

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 to the mouth.

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 And the hand

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 can bring as much

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 fruit as it wants

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 to the mouth,

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 but unless the mouth

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 does its part

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 and chews it up

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 and swallows it,

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 it will bring

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 no nourishment

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 to the body.

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 And the mouth

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 can chew and swallow

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 as much food

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 as it wants,

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 but if the digestive

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 tract refuses

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 to digest it,

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 then you'll just

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 get indigestion

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 and die.

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 In some way,

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 you need the

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 digestive juices

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 to be able to

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 bring,

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 absorb the nutrients

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 into your body.

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 If any of those

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 members of the body

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 fail,

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 then you are

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 destined for

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 malnutrition

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 and eventual death.

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 The church of Christ

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 likewise,

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 Paul says,

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 using that same

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 analogy,

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 is an interdependent

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 body.

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 Paul restates

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 that same principle

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 in a different way

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 in chapter 12,

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 verse 7,

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 to each is given

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 the manifestation

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 of the Spirit

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 for the common

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 good.

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 To each is given

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 to each one

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 various gifts

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 for the common

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 good.

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 These gifts are

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 not meant to be

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 self-serving

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 or self-promoting,

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 but others building

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 for the common

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 good.

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 And that means

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 when a Christian

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 brother or sister

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 possesses a gift

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 that we do not

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 have,

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 it's no reason

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 to be jealous

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 or envious.

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 It's reason

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 to rejoice.

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 Thank you,

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 God,

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 for giving that

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 brother that gift

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 because now

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 that's going to

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 build me up.

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 You rejoice

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 in that.

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 Because of the

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 corporate nature

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 of the church,

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 a spiritual gift

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 that is given

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 to one of us

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 is given

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 for all of us.

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 And you've heard

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 the motto

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 of the three

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 musketeers

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 used earlier

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 by Shakespeare,

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 one for all

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 and all for one.

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 Each member

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 works for the

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 common good

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 and the whole

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 looks out

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 for the part.

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 Each member

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 works for the

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 common good.

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 As Paul says

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 in 1226,

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 if one member

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 suffers,

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 all suffer together.

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 If one member

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 is honored,

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 all rejoice together.

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 One for all,

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 all for one.

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 Then in verse 28,

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 Paul lists some

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 of the gifts

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 that God gives

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 to the various

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 members of the church.

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 And God has appointed

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 in the church

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 first apostles,

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 second prophets,

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 third teachers,

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 then miracles,

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 then gifts of healing,

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 helping,

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 administrating,

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 and various kinds

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 of tongues.

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 You can notice

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 that Paul numbers

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 the first three

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 gifts in order,

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 first,

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 second,

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 third,

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 to set them apart

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 from the other gifts.

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 And in doing so,

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 he also sets out

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 an order in which

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 these gifts function.

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 We see this exact

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 order of apostles,

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 prophets,

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 and teachers

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 functioning in the

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 life of the church

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 in the book of Acts.

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 As scattered Christians,

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 evangelized,

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 and Christian converts

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 are born in Antioch,

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 the church in Jerusalem

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 sends Barnabas

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 to Antioch

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 to establish the church

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 in Acts 11, 22.

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 And then Barnabas

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 recruits Paul

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 to join him

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 in this church

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 planting work,

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 and that's what

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 we call apostolic

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 or the word apostle

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 simply comes from

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 the Greek word

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 that means to send.

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 It's the same word

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 from which we get,

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 it's the same meaning

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 for the word missionary

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 which comes from

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 the Latin word

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 that means to send

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 or sending.

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 Nowadays,

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 when we hear

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 the word missionary,

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 we only think of

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 cross-cultural missionaries,

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 generally speaking,

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 or foreign missionaries,

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 but Paul was not

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 actually a cross-cultural

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 missionary

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 because he ministered

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 to other Greeks

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 and to other Greek-speaking

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 Romans

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 and to fellow Jews.

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 And so the Bible

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 uses the term

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 apostle or missionary

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 in a much more broad way

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 and it's referring

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 to pioneering

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 church planting work

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 in an area

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 that does not have

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 gospel witness.

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 And so after the apostles

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 are sent evangelize

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 and establish the church,

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 it says in Acts 11, 27

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 that the prophets

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 came down

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 from Jerusalem

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 to Antioch.

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 First the apostles

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 and then the prophets

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 to minister to the church there.

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 This is what

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 this is referring to.

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 This is the sense

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 in which the church

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 is built on the foundation

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 of apostles and prophets,

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 Christ Jesus himself

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 being a cornerstone

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 as it says in Ephesians 2, 20.

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 And we see that same pattern

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 repeated later

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 in Acts 15, 32, 35.

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 First there's the apostolic work

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 by Paul and Barnabas

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 and then it says

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 in Acts 15, 32,

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 the church in Jerusalem

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 sent Barsabbas and Silas

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 leading men among the brothers

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 who were themselves prophets

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 once again

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 to encourage

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 and to strengthen them.

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 First you send the apostles

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 and then you send the prophets.

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 So after the apostles

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 are dispatched

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 and the prophets

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 are dispatched

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 and then

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 after those prophets

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 return to their home church,

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 it says that

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 in Acts 15, 35,

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 Paul and Barnabas

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 remained in Antioch

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 teaching and preaching

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 the word of the Lord

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 with many others also.

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 So there's teachers

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 who continue

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 the ongoing instruction

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 of the word.

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 So first apostles,

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 second prophets,

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 third teachers.

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 This is the church

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 planting timeline

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 according to the book of Acts.

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 We see a slightly different

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 fuller list

00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.639
 in Ephesians 4, 11 to 12

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 where Paul writes

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 that God gave the apostles,

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 the prophets,

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 the evangelists,

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 the shepherds and teachers

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 to equip the saints

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 for the work of ministry,

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 for building up

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 the body of Christ.

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 I think 1 Corinthians 11, 28

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 is just an abbreviated

00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:39.580
 version of that list.

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 Now a few caveats

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 for those who are new

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 to our church.

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 While we believe

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 that the gifts

00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:47.180
 of apostleship

00:13:47.180 --> 00:13:48.379
 continue to this day,

00:13:48.500 --> 00:13:49.340
 we don't believe

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 as a church

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 that there are

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 modern day offices

00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:52.600
 of apostles.

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 Likewise,

00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:55.060
 while we believe

00:13:55.060 --> 00:13:56.340
 that the gift of prophecy

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 continues to this day,

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 we don't believe

00:13:58.420 --> 00:13:59.360
 that the prophets

00:13:59.360 --> 00:13:59.800
 of today

00:13:59.800 --> 00:14:00.980
 carry the same authority

00:14:00.980 --> 00:14:02.420
 as the scripture

00:14:02.419 --> 00:14:03.379
 prophesying

00:14:03.379 --> 00:14:05.159
 Old Testament prophets.

00:14:06.139 --> 00:14:07.299
 I think that's clear

00:14:07.299 --> 00:14:08.819
 from 2 Peter 3, 2

00:14:08.819 --> 00:14:10.139
 where Peter exhorts

00:14:10.139 --> 00:14:11.139
 believers to remember

00:14:11.139 --> 00:14:11.479
 quote,

00:14:11.579 --> 00:14:12.219
 the predictions

00:14:12.219 --> 00:14:14.039
 of the holy prophets,

00:14:14.299 --> 00:14:15.479
 referring to Old Testament prophets,

00:14:15.860 --> 00:14:16.819
 and the commandment

00:14:16.819 --> 00:14:17.740
 of the Lord and Savior

00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:18.919
 through the apostles.

00:14:20.219 --> 00:14:21.479
 Peter sees

00:14:21.479 --> 00:14:23.019
 the New Testament apostles,

00:14:23.299 --> 00:14:24.419
 not New Testament prophets,

00:14:25.019 --> 00:14:26.480
 as standing in the tradition

00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:27.039
 and authority

00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:28.279
 of the Old Testament prophets.

00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:31.179
 So I don't have the time

00:14:31.179 --> 00:14:31.839
 to go into this

00:14:31.839 --> 00:14:32.480
 in any more detail,

00:14:32.620 --> 00:14:33.399
 but if you're interested

00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:34.360
 in learning more

00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:35.179
 about this distinction

00:14:35.179 --> 00:14:36.399
 between gifts and offices,

00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:38.079
 please listen to my sermon

00:14:38.079 --> 00:14:39.159
 on Ephesians 4,

00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:41.319
 1 to 16 from 2017.

00:14:43.459 --> 00:14:44.620
 That's a long time ago.

00:14:47.620 --> 00:14:49.620
 In 1 Corinthians 12, 28,

00:14:49.620 --> 00:14:50.839
 Paul sets the gifts

00:14:50.839 --> 00:14:51.579
 of apostles,

00:14:51.939 --> 00:14:52.240
 prophets,

00:14:52.500 --> 00:14:53.079
 and teachers

00:14:53.079 --> 00:14:54.620
 apart from the others

00:14:54.620 --> 00:14:56.539
 using these ordinal numbers,

00:14:56.659 --> 00:14:57.220
 first, second,

00:14:57.220 --> 00:14:57.600
 and third.

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 And that's because

00:14:59.340 --> 00:15:00.160
 these are gifts

00:15:00.160 --> 00:15:00.720
 that pertain

00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:01.379
 to the proclamation

00:15:01.379 --> 00:15:02.100
 of the gospel

00:15:02.100 --> 00:15:03.019
 and the establishing

00:15:03.019 --> 00:15:03.820
 of churches.

00:15:04.540 --> 00:15:06.180
 These are the higher gifts

00:15:06.180 --> 00:15:07.220
 that Paul mentions

00:15:07.220 --> 00:15:09.340
 in chapter 12, verse 31,

00:15:09.500 --> 00:15:10.700
 but earnestly desire

00:15:10.700 --> 00:15:12.340
 the higher gifts.

00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:14.519
 This verse has a parallel

00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:16.180
 in chapter 14, verse 1.

00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:17.660
 Pursue love

00:15:17.660 --> 00:15:19.279
 and earnestly desire

00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:20.340
 the spiritual gifts,

00:15:20.700 --> 00:15:22.899
 especially that you may prophesy.

00:15:23.700 --> 00:15:26.120
 In chapter 14,

00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:27.460
 Paul teaches us

00:15:27.460 --> 00:15:28.460
 that prophecy

00:15:28.460 --> 00:15:29.720
 is a higher gift,

00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:31.120
 especially in comparison

00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:32.060
 to the gift of tongues,

00:15:32.580 --> 00:15:33.220
 and he tells us

00:15:33.220 --> 00:15:34.580
 exactly why in verse 4.

00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:35.679
 The one who speaks

00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:36.139
 in the tongue

00:15:36.139 --> 00:15:37.340
 builds up himself,

00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:39.399
 but the one who prophesies

00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:40.720
 builds up the church.

00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:42.600
 Tongues is a gift

00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:43.220
 of speaking

00:15:43.220 --> 00:15:43.879
 in the tongues

00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:44.879
 of angels,

00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:45.580
 as Paul says

00:15:45.580 --> 00:15:46.899
 in chapter 13, verse 1,

00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:48.279
 in a heavenly language

00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:48.980
 to God.

00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:50.720
 The gift of tongues,

00:15:51.180 --> 00:15:52.240
 apart from the gift

00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:52.899
 of interpretation

00:15:52.899 --> 00:15:53.600
 of tongues,

00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.980
 is unintelligible

00:15:55.980 --> 00:15:56.899
 to the rest of the church

00:15:56.899 --> 00:15:57.720
 and therefore useless

00:15:57.720 --> 00:15:58.899
 for edifying the church,

00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:01.240
 while prophecy

00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:02.320
 is intelligible,

00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:02.919
 understandable

00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:03.700
 for the people

00:16:03.700 --> 00:16:04.580
 and therefore beneficial

00:16:04.580 --> 00:16:05.200
 to the church.

00:16:05.980 --> 00:16:06.680
 Corinthian believers

00:16:06.680 --> 00:16:08.039
 were unduly impressed

00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:09.259
 by and unhealthily

00:16:09.259 --> 00:16:09.840
 obsessed with

00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:10.759
 the gift of tongues

00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:12.139
 because they saw it

00:16:12.139 --> 00:16:12.639
 as a sign

00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:13.919
 of spiritual arrival.

00:16:15.060 --> 00:16:16.060
 But Paul flips

00:16:16.060 --> 00:16:16.659
 their view

00:16:16.659 --> 00:16:17.600
 on the gifts

00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:18.480
 on its head.

00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:20.639
 The gifts are not meant

00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:22.300
 for self-aggrandizement.

00:16:22.680 --> 00:16:23.220
 They are meant

00:16:23.220 --> 00:16:24.740
 for selfless service.

00:16:25.379 --> 00:16:26.100
 This is precisely

00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:26.940
 why he lists

00:16:26.940 --> 00:16:27.740
 the gift of tongues

00:16:27.740 --> 00:16:28.940
 last on this list

00:16:28.940 --> 00:16:30.620
 in order to de-emphasize it

00:16:30.620 --> 00:16:31.620
 for the sake

00:16:31.620 --> 00:16:32.100
 of the Corinthians.

00:16:33.420 --> 00:16:34.240
 If you have

00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:34.980
 the gift of tongues,

00:16:35.060 --> 00:16:36.139
 this is not to discourage

00:16:36.139 --> 00:16:37.259
 you from using the gift.

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 You should pray

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 for the gift

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 of interpretation

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 so that your gift

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 may be used

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 for the upbuilding

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 of the body.

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 That's what Paul says

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 in chapter 14, verse 13.

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 But it is notable here

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 that in Paul's ordering,

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 spectacular gifts,

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 supernatural gifts

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 like miracles

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 and gifts of healing

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 are not first.

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 And it's also notable

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 that seemingly ordinary,

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 natural gifts

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 like helping

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 and administrating

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 are listed before

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 the gift of tongues,

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 which is perhaps

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 the most otherworldly gift.

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 Why?

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 It's all about

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 the purpose

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 of the gifts

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 to build up

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 the church.

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 One for all,

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 all for one.

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 The pertinent question

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 is not

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 how supernatural

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 is my gift

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 or how special

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 or spiritual

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 is my gift.

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 Rather,

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 the pertinent question

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 is how edifying

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 is my gift

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 for the church.

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 God designed

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 the church

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 intentionally

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 to be interdependent.

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 We see this clearly

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 in verses 29 to 30.

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 Are all apostles?

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 Are all prophets?

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 Are all teachers?

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 Do all work miracles?

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 Do all possess

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 gifts of healing?

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 Do all speak with tongues?

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 Do all interpret?

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 These verses

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 reproduce

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 the same order of gifts

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 in verse 28,

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 but he omits

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 helping

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 and administrating,

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 interestingly enough.

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 I think because

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 they're less helpful

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 to the point

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 that he's trying

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 to make here.

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 The gifts

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 of helping

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 and administrating

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 are more

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 natural gifts,

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 so it may seem

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 like everybody

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 has those gifts

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 to varying degrees,

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 though that's not

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 actually true.

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 For example,

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 when I was a young boy,

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 I saw this motivational

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 Michael Jordan poster.

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 I'm sure you guys

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 have seen this.

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 He's sticking his tongue out

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 and dunking the ball

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 and printed next

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 to the picture

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 is this quote.

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 I've missed more

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 than 9,000 shots

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 in my career.

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 I've lost almost

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 300 games.

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 26 times I've been

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 trusted to take

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 the game-winning shot

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 and missed.

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 I've failed over

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 and over and over

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 again in my life

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 and that is why

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 I succeed.

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 You know,

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 very inspirational,

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 right?

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 It motivated me

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 to practice basketball

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 really hard

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 when I was in high school

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 and to try out

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 for my high school team.

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 Many of my friends

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 were on the team

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 and I had one thing

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 going for me

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 is that the coach

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 was my history teacher

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 and I was his

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 favorite student.

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 I worked really hard

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 whenever we ran lines

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 I was the first.

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 Anything that required

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 effort and grit

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 I was the first.

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 And then as soon

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 as we started doing

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 stuff that required

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 hand-eye coordination

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 and actual athleticism

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 I was last.

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 And I was mercilessly

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 cut from the team

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 by my teacher

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 and I felt deceived

00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:37.739
 by Michael Jordan.

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 Even on my high school

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 tennis team

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 I won the most

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 improved player

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 back-to-back years

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 but never the most

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 valuable player.

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 No matter how much

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 I practiced

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 I could never attain

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 the level of

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 physical athleticism

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 that some people

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 are just naturally

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 gifted with.

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 That's why it's a gift.

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 I'm not saying

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 your effort doesn't matter

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 you can keep trying

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 but there is a limit.

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 So even with helping

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 and administrating

00:20:08.539 --> 00:20:09.580
 there are people

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 who are gifted

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 with them

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 in a way that

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 other people aren't

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 even though it seems

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 seemingly more natural gift.

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 But because it doesn't

00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:17.740
 serve his purposes

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 that he's trying to illustrate

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 he leaves that out

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 because the implied

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 answer to these

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 rhetorical questions

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 are all apostles

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 are all prophets

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 do all prophesy

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 do all speak in tongues

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 the implied emphatic

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 answer is no.

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 No not all our prophets

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 not all our apostles

00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:37.660
 not all our teachers

00:20:37.660 --> 00:20:39.840
 no single person

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 has all the gifts

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 because God intended

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 for us to need each other

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 and depend on one another.

00:20:48.340 --> 00:20:49.799
 As Proverbs 18

00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:50.259
 one says

00:20:50.259 --> 00:20:52.019
 whoever isolates himself

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 seeks his own desire

00:20:54.120 --> 00:20:55.500
 he breaks out

00:20:55.500 --> 00:20:57.060
 against all sound judgment.

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 If you isolate yourself

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 if you declare

00:21:01.019 --> 00:21:02.120
 your independence

00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:03.179
 if you go rogue

00:21:03.179 --> 00:21:04.419
 then you're just

00:21:04.419 --> 00:21:05.359
 seeking your own

00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:06.199
 selfish desires.

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 Your independence

00:21:09.259 --> 00:21:10.339
 is an expression

00:21:10.339 --> 00:21:11.419
 of your selfishness

00:21:11.419 --> 00:21:11.959
 in that case.

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 And if you do that

00:21:14.500 --> 00:21:15.099
 you break out

00:21:15.099 --> 00:21:16.239
 against all sound judgment.

00:21:17.259 --> 00:21:18.139
 Christian maturity

00:21:18.139 --> 00:21:19.319
 does not lead

00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:20.199
 to independence

00:21:20.199 --> 00:21:22.179
 it leads to interdependence.

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 Sometimes people

00:21:23.439 --> 00:21:24.279
 mistakenly think

00:21:24.279 --> 00:21:25.579
 that a more mature Christian

00:21:25.579 --> 00:21:26.459
 has nothing to learn

00:21:26.459 --> 00:21:28.019
 from a less mature Christian

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 or that an older Christian

00:21:29.779 --> 00:21:30.659
 has nothing to learn

00:21:30.660 --> 00:21:31.700
 from a younger Christian.

00:21:32.180 --> 00:21:33.259
 But if that's the case

00:21:33.259 --> 00:21:34.820
 what are you going to do

00:21:34.820 --> 00:21:35.460
 when you're 70

00:21:35.460 --> 00:21:36.380
 or 80 years old?

00:21:38.320 --> 00:21:39.200
 Look for a church

00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:40.620
 that's full of centenarians.

00:21:44.140 --> 00:21:45.700
 The older and more mature

00:21:45.700 --> 00:21:46.220
 you get

00:21:46.220 --> 00:21:47.820
 you ought to grow

00:21:47.820 --> 00:21:48.640
 in humility

00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:50.460
 so that you can learn

00:21:50.460 --> 00:21:51.400
 and benefit from those

00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:52.519
 who are younger than you.

00:21:53.860 --> 00:21:54.880
 I think Lance and Shelley

00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:56.300
 are good examples of this

00:21:56.300 --> 00:21:57.560
 in our young church.

00:21:57.560 --> 00:21:57.840
 Yeah.

00:21:57.840 --> 00:21:57.900
 Yeah.

00:21:57.900 --> 00:22:01.880
 People in the church

00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:02.660
 young and old

00:22:02.660 --> 00:22:04.100
 have different gifts

00:22:04.100 --> 00:22:05.900
 like different parts

00:22:05.900 --> 00:22:06.360
 of the body

00:22:06.360 --> 00:22:07.720
 and therefore

00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:08.820
 we need each other.

00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:09.940
 Even someone

00:22:09.940 --> 00:22:11.180
 who is less mature

00:22:11.180 --> 00:22:11.700
 than you

00:22:11.700 --> 00:22:12.740
 in some ways

00:22:12.740 --> 00:22:13.700
 can be more mature

00:22:13.700 --> 00:22:14.180
 than you

00:22:14.180 --> 00:22:15.120
 in other ways.

00:22:15.800 --> 00:22:16.660
 The person

00:22:16.660 --> 00:22:17.840
 who lacks the gifts

00:22:17.840 --> 00:22:18.759
 you have

00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:20.040
 is going to have

00:22:20.040 --> 00:22:21.680
 gifts that you lack.

00:22:23.580 --> 00:22:25.460
 This is by divine design.

00:22:26.259 --> 00:22:27.500
 1 Corinthians 12 11

00:22:27.500 --> 00:22:28.740
 all these gifts

00:22:28.740 --> 00:22:29.519
 are empowered

00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:31.160
 by one and the same spirit

00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:32.380
 who apportions

00:22:32.380 --> 00:22:33.299
 to each one

00:22:33.299 --> 00:22:33.880
 individually

00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:35.259
 as he wills.

00:22:37.180 --> 00:22:38.359
 That's why Paul says

00:22:38.359 --> 00:22:39.180
 in verse 31

00:22:39.180 --> 00:22:40.960
 earnestly desire

00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:42.440
 the higher gifts.

00:22:42.940 --> 00:22:44.099
 Similarly in 14 1

00:22:44.099 --> 00:22:44.500
 he says

00:22:44.500 --> 00:22:45.660
 pursue love

00:22:45.660 --> 00:22:47.200
 and earnestly desire

00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:48.059
 the spiritual gifts

00:22:48.059 --> 00:22:49.559
 especially that you may prophesy.

00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:50.740
 Why does Paul

00:22:50.740 --> 00:22:51.660
 consistently use

00:22:51.660 --> 00:22:52.059
 the language

00:22:52.059 --> 00:22:53.599
 of earnestly desiring

00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:54.539
 when it comes

00:22:54.539 --> 00:22:55.440
 to spiritual gifts?

00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:56.799
 He doesn't tell us

00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:58.160
 to pursue the gifts

00:22:58.160 --> 00:22:58.799
 like he tells us

00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:00.240
 to pursue love.

00:23:01.340 --> 00:23:02.620
 The word pursue here

00:23:02.620 --> 00:23:03.680
 is a Greek word

00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:05.000
 that means to run after

00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:06.160
 to chase.

00:23:06.700 --> 00:23:07.500
 It's the same word

00:23:07.500 --> 00:23:08.019
 that's used

00:23:08.019 --> 00:23:09.200
 to describe sometimes

00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:10.460
 how unbelieving world

00:23:10.460 --> 00:23:11.620
 persecutes Christians

00:23:11.620 --> 00:23:13.320
 how they chase Christians.

00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:15.180
 Chase after

00:23:15.180 --> 00:23:16.200
 the fruit of the spirit

00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:16.840
 the love

00:23:16.840 --> 00:23:18.100
 of God.

00:23:19.620 --> 00:23:20.840
 But it doesn't use

00:23:20.840 --> 00:23:21.299
 that word.

00:23:21.539 --> 00:23:22.460
 That word is

00:23:22.460 --> 00:23:23.500
 very proactive.

00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:25.100
 In contrast

00:23:25.100 --> 00:23:26.380
 earnestly desire

00:23:26.380 --> 00:23:28.400
 is a very receptive word.

00:23:31.340 --> 00:23:32.519
 And that's intentional

00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:33.940
 because it's the spirit

00:23:33.940 --> 00:23:34.400
 of God

00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:35.620
 who apportions gifts

00:23:35.620 --> 00:23:36.700
 to each one

00:23:36.700 --> 00:23:37.420
 individually

00:23:37.420 --> 00:23:38.539
 as he wills.

00:23:38.860 --> 00:23:39.519
 And that means

00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:40.900
 we can't choose

00:23:40.900 --> 00:23:41.940
 or demand

00:23:41.940 --> 00:23:43.360
 or earn

00:23:43.360 --> 00:23:44.480
 any of these

00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:45.160
 spiritual gifts.

00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:47.900
 It's the Holy Spirit's

00:23:47.900 --> 00:23:48.860
 sovereign prerogative

00:23:48.860 --> 00:23:50.160
 to distribute his gifts

00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:51.400
 among whom he wills.

00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:52.740
 This is the important

00:23:52.740 --> 00:23:53.420
 distinction between

00:23:53.420 --> 00:23:54.220
 the fruit of the spirit

00:23:54.220 --> 00:23:55.220
 and the gifts

00:23:55.220 --> 00:23:56.000
 of the spirit.

00:23:56.580 --> 00:23:57.280
 Galatians 5,

00:23:57.360 --> 00:23:58.160
 22 to 33

00:23:58.160 --> 00:23:59.240
 lists the fruit

00:23:59.240 --> 00:23:59.720
 of the spirit

00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:00.700
 love,

00:24:00.860 --> 00:24:01.100
 joy,

00:24:01.259 --> 00:24:01.560
 peace,

00:24:01.700 --> 00:24:01.980
 patience,

00:24:02.140 --> 00:24:02.380
 kindness,

00:24:02.580 --> 00:24:02.820
 goodness,

00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:03.660
 faithfulness,

00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:04.080
 gentleness,

00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:04.920
 and self-control.

00:24:05.340 --> 00:24:06.180
 And if you pay attention

00:24:06.180 --> 00:24:07.440
 to that passage closely

00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:08.160
 you'll recognize

00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:08.960
 that there's actually

00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:10.080
 one fruit.

00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:11.860
 It's not eight fruit

00:24:11.860 --> 00:24:12.519
 or nine fruits.

00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:13.940
 It's one fruit.

00:24:14.040 --> 00:24:14.900
 Fruit in the singular

00:24:14.900 --> 00:24:16.220
 because all of them

00:24:16.220 --> 00:24:16.920
 actually comprise

00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:18.000
 one fruit.

00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:21.059
 and it's headed

00:24:21.059 --> 00:24:22.500
 by love

00:24:22.500 --> 00:24:23.099
 because love

00:24:23.099 --> 00:24:24.160
 really encompasses

00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:25.539
 all the fruit

00:24:25.539 --> 00:24:26.960
 of the Holy Spirit.

00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:30.940
 Love is the fulfilling

00:24:30.940 --> 00:24:31.539
 of the law

00:24:31.539 --> 00:24:32.019
 as it says

00:24:32.019 --> 00:24:32.720
 in Romans 13,

00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:33.339
 8 to 10.

00:24:33.779 --> 00:24:34.599
 For the whole law

00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:35.140
 is fulfilled

00:24:35.140 --> 00:24:36.119
 in one word

00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:36.859
 you shall love

00:24:36.859 --> 00:24:37.259
 your neighbor

00:24:37.259 --> 00:24:37.740
 as yourself.

00:24:37.819 --> 00:24:38.480
 Galatians 5,

00:24:38.539 --> 00:24:38.859
 14.

00:24:39.299 --> 00:24:40.460
 The fruit of the spirit

00:24:40.460 --> 00:24:40.900
 is something

00:24:40.900 --> 00:24:42.180
 that every Christian

00:24:42.180 --> 00:24:42.819
 has.

00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:44.700
 If you're not

00:24:44.700 --> 00:24:45.500
 bearing the fruit

00:24:45.500 --> 00:24:46.119
 of the spirit

00:24:46.119 --> 00:24:47.059
 then you don't

00:24:47.059 --> 00:24:47.839
 have the spirit

00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:48.759
 which means

00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:49.719
 by definition

00:24:49.719 --> 00:24:50.219
 you are not

00:24:50.219 --> 00:24:50.679
 a Christian.

00:24:52.239 --> 00:24:52.799
 Jesus says

00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:53.459
 in Matthew 7,

00:24:53.539 --> 00:24:54.199
 16 to 18

00:24:54.199 --> 00:24:55.019
 you will recognize

00:24:55.019 --> 00:24:55.919
 them by their fruits.

00:24:56.479 --> 00:24:57.079
 Are grapes

00:24:57.079 --> 00:24:57.739
 gathered from

00:24:57.739 --> 00:24:58.239
 thorn bushes

00:24:58.239 --> 00:24:59.759
 or figs from thistles?

00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:01.459
 Just as grapevines

00:25:01.459 --> 00:25:02.599
 bear grapes

00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:03.759
 Christians who are

00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:04.619
 born of the spirit

00:25:04.619 --> 00:25:05.039
 of God

00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:05.979
 bear the fruit

00:25:05.979 --> 00:25:06.659
 of the spirit

00:25:06.659 --> 00:25:08.500
 to varying degrees.

00:25:10.019 --> 00:25:11.059
 So you can tell

00:25:11.059 --> 00:25:11.739
 a Christian apart

00:25:11.739 --> 00:25:12.419
 by the fruit

00:25:12.419 --> 00:25:12.919
 that they bear.

00:25:13.479 --> 00:25:14.179
 But this is very

00:25:14.179 --> 00:25:14.839
 different from

00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:15.939
 the spiritual gifts.

00:25:16.519 --> 00:25:17.299
 Christian theologian

00:25:17.299 --> 00:25:18.299
 Alistair McGrath

00:25:18.299 --> 00:25:19.159
 uses a helpful

00:25:19.159 --> 00:25:20.239
 illustration in his book

00:25:20.239 --> 00:25:20.859
 I Believe

00:25:20.859 --> 00:25:21.339
 which is about

00:25:21.339 --> 00:25:22.119
 the Apostles' Creed.

00:25:22.699 --> 00:25:23.419
 He says this,

00:25:23.959 --> 00:25:24.699
 now think of

00:25:24.699 --> 00:25:25.739
 two fir trees.

00:25:26.139 --> 00:25:26.819
 One is growing

00:25:26.819 --> 00:25:27.379
 in a forest.

00:25:27.719 --> 00:25:28.339
 The other is a

00:25:28.339 --> 00:25:28.939
 Christmas tree

00:25:28.939 --> 00:25:29.659
 inside a home

00:25:29.659 --> 00:25:30.819
 with presents

00:25:30.819 --> 00:25:31.759
 around its base.

00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:33.000
 Those presents

00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:34.039
 have nothing to do

00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:34.539
 with the tree.

00:25:35.259 --> 00:25:36.479
 They didn't grow there.

00:25:36.859 --> 00:25:37.799
 They were placed

00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:38.619
 there by someone.

00:25:39.219 --> 00:25:40.099
 They are someone's

00:25:40.099 --> 00:25:40.699
 gifts

00:25:40.699 --> 00:25:41.799
 not the natural

00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:42.759
 fruit of the tree.

00:25:43.379 --> 00:25:44.500
 Not every fir tree

00:25:44.500 --> 00:25:45.739
 becomes a Christmas tree

00:25:45.740 --> 00:25:46.559
 and gets surrounded

00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:47.339
 by presents.

00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:48.819
 But that doesn't deny

00:25:48.819 --> 00:25:50.019
 that they are fir trees.

00:25:50.700 --> 00:25:51.359
 Spiritual gifts

00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:52.579
 are gifts.

00:25:53.339 --> 00:25:54.240
 They are not all

00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:55.039
 given to everyone.

00:25:56.500 --> 00:25:57.400
 It is no stigma

00:25:57.400 --> 00:25:58.039
 to lack

00:25:58.039 --> 00:25:58.960
 a charisma

00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:00.120
 that's using

00:26:00.120 --> 00:26:00.700
 the Greek word

00:26:00.700 --> 00:26:01.680
 for these spiritual gifts.

00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:02.480
 A particular

00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:03.500
 spiritual gift.

00:26:04.779 --> 00:26:05.400
 This is why

00:26:05.400 --> 00:26:05.940
 the command

00:26:05.940 --> 00:26:07.099
 is to earnestly

00:26:07.099 --> 00:26:07.859
 desire

00:26:07.859 --> 00:26:10.220
 and not pursue

00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:11.819
 or hone

00:26:11.819 --> 00:26:12.360
 the gifts

00:26:12.360 --> 00:26:13.640
 or practice

00:26:13.640 --> 00:26:14.200
 the gifts.

00:26:16.039 --> 00:26:17.100
 Spiritual gifts

00:26:17.100 --> 00:26:18.059
 are gifts

00:26:18.059 --> 00:26:19.539
 to be freely received

00:26:19.539 --> 00:26:21.000
 not rewards

00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:21.759
 to be earned

00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:23.220
 or a skill

00:26:23.220 --> 00:26:24.140
 to be honed.

00:26:24.819 --> 00:26:25.160
 Sure,

00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:25.779
 you can grow

00:26:25.779 --> 00:26:26.779
 in your faith

00:26:26.779 --> 00:26:28.019
 in stepping out

00:26:28.019 --> 00:26:28.880
 of your comfort zone

00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:30.019
 to exercise

00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:30.620
 those gifts

00:26:30.620 --> 00:26:34.440
 but you either

00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:35.120
 have the gift

00:26:35.120 --> 00:26:35.759
 or you don't.

00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:37.120
 It's what the Spirit

00:26:37.120 --> 00:26:38.180
 of God sovereignly gives.

00:26:38.180 --> 00:26:40.600
 So all you can do

00:26:40.600 --> 00:26:41.799
 is earnestly desire it

00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:43.160
 and pray for it

00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:43.740
 as Paul says

00:26:43.740 --> 00:26:44.560
 in chapter 14

00:26:44.560 --> 00:26:45.180
 verse 13.

00:26:46.120 --> 00:26:46.900
 It's up to God

00:26:46.900 --> 00:26:47.360
 to decide

00:26:47.360 --> 00:26:47.920
 whether to give it

00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:48.500
 to you or not.

00:26:49.019 --> 00:26:49.420
 That's why

00:26:49.420 --> 00:26:51.120
 it's well intentioned

00:26:51.120 --> 00:26:52.320
 but misguided

00:26:52.320 --> 00:26:53.340
 and unhelpful

00:26:53.340 --> 00:26:53.900
 that happens

00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:55.100
 in certain church circles

00:26:55.100 --> 00:26:56.440
 to teach people

00:26:56.440 --> 00:26:57.240
 that they can have

00:26:57.240 --> 00:26:58.440
 get the gift of tongues

00:26:58.440 --> 00:26:59.120
 by repeating

00:26:59.120 --> 00:27:00.560
 the word hallelujah

00:27:00.560 --> 00:27:01.700
 over and over again

00:27:01.700 --> 00:27:02.320
 really fast.

00:27:03.019 --> 00:27:03.720
 How many of you guys

00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:04.700
 had that growing up?

00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:05.680
 Okay,

00:27:05.779 --> 00:27:06.180
 a few of you.

00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:06.779
 You're too embarrassed

00:27:06.779 --> 00:27:07.440
 to raise your hands.

00:27:08.180 --> 00:27:08.299
 Yeah.

00:27:09.360 --> 00:27:10.180
 Because if you do that

00:27:10.180 --> 00:27:10.640
 fast enough

00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:11.680
 you start speaking gibberish

00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:12.680
 and it sounds sometimes

00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:13.620
 like the gift of tongues.

00:27:16.360 --> 00:27:16.900
 That's why

00:27:16.900 --> 00:27:17.880
 it's well intentioned

00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:18.680
 but misguided

00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:19.580
 and unhelpful

00:27:19.580 --> 00:27:20.160
 to teach

00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:21.160
 that anyone

00:27:21.160 --> 00:27:21.840
 can quote

00:27:21.840 --> 00:27:22.640
 activate

00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:23.940
 their prophetic gift

00:27:23.940 --> 00:27:24.799
 with some guidance

00:27:24.799 --> 00:27:25.580
 and training

00:27:25.580 --> 00:27:26.940
 which a lot of you

00:27:26.940 --> 00:27:27.640
 hear this a lot

00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:28.400
 on YouTube

00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:29.220
 and some books.

00:27:30.820 --> 00:27:31.840
 I've met plenty

00:27:31.840 --> 00:27:32.279
 of people

00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:33.100
 who already had

00:27:33.100 --> 00:27:34.440
 the gift of prophecy

00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:34.960
 for example

00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:36.200
 but had no idea

00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:36.620
 that they had

00:27:36.620 --> 00:27:37.299
 the gift of prophecy

00:27:37.299 --> 00:27:37.639
 because they had

00:27:37.639 --> 00:27:38.359
 never been taught

00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:39.240
 and they could

00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:39.759
 start to use

00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:40.079
 the gifts

00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:40.519
 more effectively

00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:40.899
 because now

00:27:40.899 --> 00:27:41.240
 they know

00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:41.879
 what it is.

00:27:42.299 --> 00:27:43.240
 I've seen that happen

00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:43.680
 but I've never

00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:44.279
 seen it happen

00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:44.659
 that someone

00:27:44.659 --> 00:27:45.180
 who didn't have

00:27:45.180 --> 00:27:45.919
 the gift of prophecy

00:27:45.919 --> 00:27:47.059
 simply hears teaching

00:27:47.059 --> 00:27:47.399
 about it

00:27:47.399 --> 00:27:47.859
 and then starts

00:27:47.859 --> 00:27:48.960
 having gift of prophecy.

00:27:49.379 --> 00:27:50.240
 Now that's the spirit

00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:51.099
 of God's prerogative

00:27:51.099 --> 00:27:52.099
 not something

00:27:52.099 --> 00:27:52.819
 we activate

00:27:52.819 --> 00:27:53.519
 or train.

00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:56.619
 this is why

00:27:56.619 --> 00:27:57.079
 even though

00:27:57.079 --> 00:27:57.859
 Christian maturity

00:27:57.859 --> 00:27:58.879
 is necessarily

00:27:58.879 --> 00:27:59.900
 marked by growth

00:27:59.900 --> 00:28:00.519
 in the fruit

00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:01.139
 of the spirit

00:28:01.139 --> 00:28:02.579
 it is not

00:28:02.579 --> 00:28:03.200
 necessarily

00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:03.920
 marked by

00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:04.400
 the gifts

00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:05.079
 of the spirit.

00:28:07.019 --> 00:28:07.779
 The gifts

00:28:07.779 --> 00:28:08.519
 are not connected

00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:09.779
 to spiritual maturity.

00:28:10.859 --> 00:28:11.660
 The spirit of God

00:28:11.660 --> 00:28:12.799
 simply gave them

00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:13.519
 to you

00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:14.819
 like presents

00:28:14.819 --> 00:28:16.059
 around the Christmas tree.

00:28:16.819 --> 00:28:17.460
 This is why

00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:18.639
 in 1 Corinthians 1

00:28:18.639 --> 00:28:19.259
 4-7

00:28:19.259 --> 00:28:20.139
 Paul can give

00:28:20.139 --> 00:28:21.339
 thanks to God

00:28:21.339 --> 00:28:22.259
 for the Corinthians

00:28:22.259 --> 00:28:23.519
 saying because of

00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:24.680
 the grace of God

00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:25.200
 that was given

00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:26.279
 to them in Christ Jesus

00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:27.859
 so that in every way

00:28:27.859 --> 00:28:28.720
 they were enriched

00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:29.200
 in him

00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:30.240
 in all speech

00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:31.259
 and all knowledge

00:28:31.259 --> 00:28:32.140
 so that you are

00:28:32.140 --> 00:28:32.859
 not lacking

00:28:32.859 --> 00:28:33.920
 in any gift.

00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:34.839
 That's what Paul said

00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:35.440
 about the Corinthians.

00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:37.660
 This grace of God

00:28:37.660 --> 00:28:38.640
 they have all speech

00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:39.460
 all knowledge

00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:40.640
 these prophetic gifts

00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:42.079
 they're not lacking

00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:43.079
 in any gift.

00:28:43.819 --> 00:28:45.099
 The most gifted church

00:28:45.099 --> 00:28:45.700
 in the New Testament.

00:28:47.619 --> 00:28:49.000
 But then later on

00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:50.000
 in that same letter

00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:51.539
 to the same people

00:28:51.539 --> 00:28:52.099
 he says in

00:28:52.099 --> 00:28:52.599
 chapter 3

00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:53.459
 verses 1-3

00:28:53.459 --> 00:28:54.740
 But I brothers

00:28:54.740 --> 00:28:55.699
 could not address you

00:28:55.699 --> 00:28:56.819
 as spiritual people

00:28:56.819 --> 00:28:57.439
 but as people

00:28:57.439 --> 00:28:58.219
 of the flesh

00:28:58.219 --> 00:29:00.139
 as infants in Christ.

00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:01.859
 I fed you with milk

00:29:01.859 --> 00:29:02.919
 not solid food

00:29:02.919 --> 00:29:03.859
 for you were not ready

00:29:03.859 --> 00:29:04.339
 for it

00:29:04.339 --> 00:29:05.319
 and even now

00:29:05.319 --> 00:29:06.219
 you are not ready

00:29:06.219 --> 00:29:07.199
 not yet ready

00:29:07.199 --> 00:29:08.139
 for you are still

00:29:08.139 --> 00:29:08.699
 of the flesh

00:29:08.699 --> 00:29:09.419
 for while there is

00:29:09.419 --> 00:29:10.839
 jealousy and strife

00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:11.419
 among you

00:29:11.419 --> 00:29:12.859
 are you not of the flesh

00:29:12.859 --> 00:29:13.740
 and behaving only

00:29:13.740 --> 00:29:14.539
 in a human way?

00:29:15.740 --> 00:29:16.740
 The Corinthian church

00:29:16.740 --> 00:29:17.500
 was gifted

00:29:17.500 --> 00:29:18.699
 but immature.

00:29:20.199 --> 00:29:21.079
 This is why

00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:22.019
 sometimes we see

00:29:22.019 --> 00:29:22.960
 the most gifted

00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:24.159
 and the most successful

00:29:24.159 --> 00:29:25.220
 pastors and ministers

00:29:25.220 --> 00:29:26.319
 fall into sin

00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:26.919
 and scandal.

00:29:28.539 --> 00:29:29.519
 They're gifted

00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:31.199
 but immature.

00:29:32.299 --> 00:29:32.759
 In fact

00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:34.199
 the most gifted people

00:29:34.199 --> 00:29:36.299
 should be especially careful

00:29:36.299 --> 00:29:38.079
 because people often

00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:39.480
 mistake giftedness

00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:40.339
 for maturity

00:29:40.339 --> 00:29:42.339
 and because you are gifted

00:29:42.339 --> 00:29:42.859
 they assume

00:29:42.859 --> 00:29:43.199
 oh yeah

00:29:43.199 --> 00:29:44.279
 he must be doing fine

00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:44.740
 spiritually

00:29:44.740 --> 00:29:45.500
 oh yeah

00:29:45.500 --> 00:29:46.559
 she must be doing great

00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:47.059
 spiritually

00:29:47.059 --> 00:29:47.939
 but that's not

00:29:47.940 --> 00:29:49.000
 necessarily the case.

00:29:52.580 --> 00:29:53.640
 Love is the mark

00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:54.400
 of Christian maturity.

00:29:56.360 --> 00:29:57.100
 This is why

00:29:57.100 --> 00:29:57.900
 it's all the more important

00:29:57.900 --> 00:29:59.640
 that we pursue love

00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:00.580
 as Paul says

00:30:00.580 --> 00:30:01.259
 in 14.1

00:30:01.259 --> 00:30:02.259
 you don't simply

00:30:02.259 --> 00:30:02.980
 desire

00:30:02.980 --> 00:30:04.180
 and pray for love

00:30:04.180 --> 00:30:05.420
 you pursue it

00:30:05.420 --> 00:30:07.080
 you chase it down

00:30:07.080 --> 00:30:08.200
 you make use

00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:09.160
 of the means of grace

00:30:09.160 --> 00:30:10.779
 that God has given to us

00:30:10.779 --> 00:30:11.720
 in order to grow

00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:12.259
 in love

00:30:12.259 --> 00:30:13.299
 you cultivate

00:30:13.299 --> 00:30:14.799
 the fruit of the spirit

00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:16.400
 you crave the gift

00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:17.920
 but you chase the fruit.

00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:19.740
 That's why Paul says

00:30:19.740 --> 00:30:20.420
 in 12.31

00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:21.640
 but earnestly desire

00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:22.620
 the higher gifts

00:30:22.620 --> 00:30:24.340
 and I will show you

00:30:24.340 --> 00:30:26.120
 a still more excellent way

00:30:26.120 --> 00:30:28.380
 there's a still more excellent way

00:30:28.380 --> 00:30:30.080
 than even the higher gifts

00:30:30.080 --> 00:30:32.220
 that build up the church

00:30:32.220 --> 00:30:33.720
 and that paves the way

00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:34.640
 for chapter 13

00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:36.440
 where Paul teaches about love.

00:30:40.560 --> 00:30:43.000
 Now I do want to note

00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:44.660
 well actually I'll mention that later

00:30:44.660 --> 00:30:46.000
 look at chapter 13 with me.

00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:49.000
 In order to demonstrate

00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:49.620
 the priority

00:30:49.620 --> 00:30:51.240
 and primacy of love

00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:52.620
 the fruit of the spirit

00:30:52.620 --> 00:30:54.259
 Paul contrasts it

00:30:54.259 --> 00:30:56.240
 with several of the spiritual gifts

00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:57.400
 that he has just mentioned.

00:30:58.440 --> 00:30:59.560
 He says in verse 1

00:30:59.560 --> 00:31:01.280
 if I speak in the tongues

00:31:01.280 --> 00:31:02.480
 of men and of angels

00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:03.980
 but have not love

00:31:03.980 --> 00:31:05.560
 I am a noisy gong

00:31:05.560 --> 00:31:07.420
 or a clanging cymbal.

00:31:08.080 --> 00:31:08.880
 A noisy gong

00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:10.280
 or a clanging cymbal

00:31:10.280 --> 00:31:12.440
 unaccompanied by other instruments

00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:13.620
 together represent

00:31:13.620 --> 00:31:15.700
 these harsh discordant sounds.

00:31:15.700 --> 00:31:17.180
 A cacophony of noise.

00:31:18.620 --> 00:31:20.380
 You think yourself important

00:31:20.380 --> 00:31:21.519
 Paul is saying to the Corinthians

00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:22.960
 because you're speaking in tongues.

00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:24.720
 If you don't have love

00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:26.920
 it's all a bunch of meaningless noise.

00:31:28.779 --> 00:31:30.019
 Paul continues in verse 2

00:31:30.019 --> 00:31:31.579
 and if I have prophetic powers

00:31:31.579 --> 00:31:33.259
 and understand all mysteries

00:31:33.259 --> 00:31:34.059
 and all knowledge

00:31:34.059 --> 00:31:35.279
 and if I have all faith

00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:36.680
 so as to remove mountains

00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:38.059
 but have not love

00:31:38.059 --> 00:31:39.099
 I am nothing.

00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:42.920
 Prophecy is a gift

00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:44.079
 that Paul regularly

00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:45.559
 tells us to seek.

00:31:45.660 --> 00:31:46.940
 It's one of the most significant gifts

00:31:46.940 --> 00:31:48.539
 for building the body of Christ

00:31:48.539 --> 00:31:49.799
 and yet

00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:51.180
 even that

00:31:51.180 --> 00:31:53.839
 you could have all prophetic powers

00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:55.000
 and mysteries and knowledge

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:56.400
 understand all of it

00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:58.080
 and if you have all faith

00:31:58.080 --> 00:31:58.860
 so as to remove mountains

00:31:58.860 --> 00:31:59.740
 notice the contrast

00:31:59.740 --> 00:32:01.780
 between all, all, all

00:32:01.780 --> 00:32:03.140
 and nothing.

00:32:04.220 --> 00:32:05.380
 If you have not love

00:32:05.380 --> 00:32:06.320
 I am nothing.

00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:11.980
 In verse 3

00:32:11.980 --> 00:32:13.220
 Paul goes even beyond

00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:13.940
 the spiritual gifts

00:32:13.940 --> 00:32:15.600
 to expound the absolute necessity

00:32:15.600 --> 00:32:16.259
 of love.

00:32:16.380 --> 00:32:16.660
 He says

00:32:16.660 --> 00:32:17.800
 if I give away

00:32:17.800 --> 00:32:19.000
 all I have

00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:20.620
 and if I deliver my body

00:32:20.620 --> 00:32:21.259
 to be burned

00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:22.280
 but have not love

00:32:22.280 --> 00:32:23.420
 I gain nothing.

00:32:23.420 --> 00:32:26.420
 These two phrases

00:32:26.420 --> 00:32:27.019
 describe

00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:28.259
 what we might consider

00:32:28.259 --> 00:32:29.700
 the two of the most

00:32:29.700 --> 00:32:30.940
 total examples

00:32:30.940 --> 00:32:32.140
 of self-sacrifice.

00:32:32.779 --> 00:32:33.480
 The sacrifice

00:32:33.480 --> 00:32:34.660
 of all our belongings

00:32:34.660 --> 00:32:35.240
 on the one hand

00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:36.259
 and sacrifice

00:32:36.259 --> 00:32:37.680
 of our body itself

00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:38.400
 on the other.

00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:40.340
 First

00:32:40.340 --> 00:32:40.860
 giving away

00:32:40.860 --> 00:32:41.740
 all I have

00:32:41.740 --> 00:32:43.039
 refers to giving away

00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:44.160
 all our possessions

00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:44.720
 to the poor.

00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:46.500
 Voluntarily

00:32:46.500 --> 00:32:47.860
 impoverishing oneself

00:32:47.860 --> 00:32:49.340
 in order to enrich others.

00:32:51.320 --> 00:32:51.920
 Similarly

00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:52.700
 the second expression

00:32:52.700 --> 00:32:53.559
 refers to a form

00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:54.640
 of self-sacrifice.

00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:55.660
 If you have footnotes

00:32:55.660 --> 00:32:56.840
 in your ESV

00:32:56.840 --> 00:32:57.400
 it says

00:32:57.400 --> 00:32:58.160
 that there's

00:32:58.160 --> 00:32:59.100
 an alternate translation

00:32:59.100 --> 00:32:59.779
 it says

00:32:59.779 --> 00:33:00.840
 that if I give up

00:33:00.840 --> 00:33:01.480
 my body

00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:02.720
 in order that I may boast

00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:03.900
 that may be

00:33:03.900 --> 00:33:05.000
 the accurate translation

00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:05.700
 if you have NIV

00:33:05.700 --> 00:33:06.380
 that has that also

00:33:06.380 --> 00:33:07.279
 but you don't have to worry

00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:08.400
 about the textual variations

00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:09.380
 because in the end

00:33:09.380 --> 00:33:10.279
 the essential meaning

00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:10.880
 is the same.

00:33:11.360 --> 00:33:12.080
 If you give up

00:33:12.080 --> 00:33:13.059
 your own body

00:33:13.059 --> 00:33:14.220
 for the sake of the Lord

00:33:14.220 --> 00:33:15.100
 whether that's

00:33:15.100 --> 00:33:16.220
 in giving your body away

00:33:16.220 --> 00:33:17.680
 in martyrdom

00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:20.000
 in serving God

00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:21.000
 or as some

00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:22.039
 early Christian writings

00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:23.779
 have examples of

00:33:23.779 --> 00:33:24.339
 for example

00:33:24.339 --> 00:33:24.980
 1st Clement

00:33:24.980 --> 00:33:26.079
 of Christians

00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:27.279
 surrendering themselves

00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:28.279
 to slavery

00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:30.019
 that with the price

00:33:30.019 --> 00:33:30.940
 which they receive

00:33:30.940 --> 00:33:31.460
 for themselves

00:33:31.460 --> 00:33:32.339
 they might provide

00:33:32.339 --> 00:33:33.460
 food for others.

00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:34.460
 Some Christians

00:33:34.460 --> 00:33:35.379
 in the first century

00:33:35.379 --> 00:33:35.940
 did this.

00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:37.319
 They intentionally

00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:38.539
 enslaved themselves

00:33:38.539 --> 00:33:39.460
 so that through the money

00:33:39.460 --> 00:33:40.299
 that they get from that

00:33:40.299 --> 00:33:41.700
 they can pay for others

00:33:41.700 --> 00:33:42.680
 who need food.

00:33:44.899 --> 00:33:45.980
 It's that kind of

00:33:45.980 --> 00:33:47.019
 self-sacrifice

00:33:47.019 --> 00:33:48.180
 or even martyrdom

00:33:48.180 --> 00:33:49.379
 that Paul has in mind.

00:33:49.380 --> 00:33:52.920
 even the greatest

00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:54.540
 possible thing

00:33:54.540 --> 00:33:56.620
 that we can imagine

00:33:56.620 --> 00:33:57.220
 that a Christian

00:33:57.220 --> 00:33:58.340
 can do for God

00:33:58.340 --> 00:33:59.140
 and for the church

00:33:59.140 --> 00:34:01.800
 is nothing

00:34:01.800 --> 00:34:02.640
 without love.

00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:08.320
 If I

00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:09.980
 I'm never going to

00:34:09.980 --> 00:34:10.539
 do this

00:34:10.539 --> 00:34:11.500
 nor can I do this

00:34:11.500 --> 00:34:12.960
 but if I start

00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:13.820
 and run

00:34:13.820 --> 00:34:15.200
 a Fortune 500 company

00:34:15.200 --> 00:34:15.960
 and give away

00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:17.260
 billions to charity

00:34:17.260 --> 00:34:19.720
 but have not love

00:34:19.720 --> 00:34:20.740
 I am nothing.

00:34:22.900 --> 00:34:23.780
 If I leave

00:34:23.780 --> 00:34:24.780
 all my possessions

00:34:24.780 --> 00:34:25.260
 behind

00:34:25.260 --> 00:34:25.920
 and go somewhere

00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:26.760
 to be a missionary

00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:27.360
 and I plant

00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:28.660
 hundreds of churches

00:34:28.660 --> 00:34:29.340
 where previously

00:34:29.340 --> 00:34:30.080
 there were none

00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:31.800
 but have not love

00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:32.800
 I am nothing.

00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:37.360
 If I grow my church

00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:38.060
 to thousands

00:34:38.060 --> 00:34:39.000
 of members

00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:39.900
 and write books

00:34:39.900 --> 00:34:40.320
 that land

00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:41.480
 on the bestseller list

00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:43.180
 and pack stadiums

00:34:43.180 --> 00:34:43.720
 full of people

00:34:43.720 --> 00:34:44.940
 and speak at conferences

00:34:44.940 --> 00:34:45.860
 to tens of thousands

00:34:45.860 --> 00:34:46.360
 of people

00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:48.340
 but have not love

00:34:48.340 --> 00:34:49.980
 I am nothing.

00:34:52.900 --> 00:34:53.960
 If I become

00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:54.440
 a Christian

00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:56.220
 social media personality

00:34:56.220 --> 00:34:57.400
 with millions

00:34:57.400 --> 00:34:58.340
 of subscribers

00:34:58.340 --> 00:35:00.260
 but have not love

00:35:00.260 --> 00:35:01.559
 I am nothing.

00:35:02.160 --> 00:35:03.140
 If I can interpret

00:35:03.140 --> 00:35:03.980
 all tongues

00:35:03.980 --> 00:35:05.039
 and have all

00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:06.059
 prophetic knowledge

00:35:06.059 --> 00:35:06.700
 so that I am

00:35:06.700 --> 00:35:07.640
 sought after

00:35:07.640 --> 00:35:08.340
 globally

00:35:08.340 --> 00:35:09.200
 as a prophet

00:35:09.200 --> 00:35:10.980
 but have not love

00:35:10.980 --> 00:35:12.320
 I am nothing.

00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:16.900
 Do you get the point?

00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:18.920
 Do you see

00:35:18.920 --> 00:35:20.340
 how extreme this is?

00:35:23.180 --> 00:35:23.860
 Remember that

00:35:23.860 --> 00:35:24.420
 these are not

00:35:24.420 --> 00:35:25.180
 bad things.

00:35:26.180 --> 00:35:26.780
 All of these

00:35:26.780 --> 00:35:27.460
 are good things.

00:35:28.500 --> 00:35:29.460
 The spiritual gifts

00:35:29.460 --> 00:35:30.280
 are good.

00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:31.400
 Giving to the poor

00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:32.380
 is good.

00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:33.039
 Giving away

00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:33.840
 your life for God

00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:34.539
 is good

00:35:34.539 --> 00:35:35.580
 but if you do

00:35:35.580 --> 00:35:36.420
 any of these things

00:35:36.420 --> 00:35:37.100
 without love

00:35:37.100 --> 00:35:38.039
 it's pointless.

00:35:39.080 --> 00:35:40.160
 So Paul's not saying

00:35:40.160 --> 00:35:41.940
 pursue love

00:35:41.940 --> 00:35:43.579
 instead of the gifts

00:35:43.579 --> 00:35:44.260
 he's not saying

00:35:44.260 --> 00:35:44.980
 pursue love

00:35:44.980 --> 00:35:45.840
 and forget about

00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:46.240
 the gifts

00:35:46.240 --> 00:35:47.920
 leave it or take it

00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:48.200
 he says

00:35:48.200 --> 00:35:49.420
 earnestly desire

00:35:49.420 --> 00:35:49.800
 the gifts

00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:50.820
 that's the problem

00:35:50.820 --> 00:35:51.500
 in some search

00:35:51.500 --> 00:35:51.860
 church schools

00:35:51.860 --> 00:35:52.200
 they're like

00:35:52.200 --> 00:35:52.800
 well a gift

00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:54.139
 it's too scary

00:35:54.139 --> 00:35:55.980
 too unpredictable

00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:58.679
 out of control

00:35:58.679 --> 00:35:59.400
 forget about it

00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:00.000
 let's just focus

00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:00.780
 on these things

00:36:00.780 --> 00:36:02.760
 but that would also

00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:03.360
 be unfaithful

00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:03.880
 to what scripture

00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:04.260
 teaches

00:36:04.260 --> 00:36:04.619
 it says

00:36:04.619 --> 00:36:05.480
 to earnestly

00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:06.039
 desire

00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:06.840
 the gifts

00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:10.340
 so let's not

00:36:10.340 --> 00:36:11.199
 throw the baby

00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:11.679
 out with the

00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:12.440
 bath water

00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:14.639
 but what he is

00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:15.039
 saying here

00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:15.699
 is that instead

00:36:15.699 --> 00:36:16.740
 is that all

00:36:16.740 --> 00:36:17.719
 the spiritual gifts

00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:19.800
 must be pursued

00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:20.740
 or must be

00:36:20.740 --> 00:36:21.460
 rather to use

00:36:21.460 --> 00:36:22.300
 the biblical language

00:36:22.300 --> 00:36:24.019
 must be used

00:36:24.019 --> 00:36:24.960
 and desired

00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:26.699
 in the context

00:36:26.699 --> 00:36:27.280
 of love

00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:28.380
 as expressions

00:36:28.380 --> 00:36:29.079
 of love

00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:31.820
 love is the context

00:36:31.820 --> 00:36:33.059
 in which the gifts

00:36:33.059 --> 00:36:33.800
 are to be used

00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:36.239
 and if love

00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:36.900
 is so important

00:36:36.900 --> 00:36:37.820
 what then is it

00:36:37.820 --> 00:36:39.380
 Paul describes love

00:36:39.380 --> 00:36:40.139
 in verse 4

00:36:40.139 --> 00:36:40.940
 with these two

00:36:40.940 --> 00:36:41.780
 positive words

00:36:41.780 --> 00:36:42.659
 love is patient

00:36:42.659 --> 00:36:43.780
 and kind

00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:45.280
 these two words

00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:45.920
 describe love

00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:46.960
 in its passive form

00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:48.019
 and its active form

00:36:48.019 --> 00:36:49.519
 the first word

00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:50.280
 is patient

00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:51.519
 it's literally

00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:52.039
 a combination

00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:52.699
 of two words

00:36:52.699 --> 00:36:53.480
 that mean anger

00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:54.679
 and a long time

00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:55.599
 it means that

00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:56.759
 you don't get angry

00:36:56.759 --> 00:36:58.119
 for a long time

00:36:58.119 --> 00:36:59.000
 you're patient

00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:00.400
 it means that

00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:01.880
 you are long suffering

00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:03.360
 this is the passive

00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:04.159
 expression of love

00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:04.920
 how it responds

00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:05.860
 to the offenses

00:37:05.860 --> 00:37:07.079
 and the provocations

00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:07.980
 of other people

00:37:07.980 --> 00:37:09.880
 the second word

00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:10.440
 kind

00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:10.940
 refers

00:37:10.940 --> 00:37:12.679
 it's a more active

00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:13.480
 expression of love

00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:14.279
 it refers to

00:37:14.279 --> 00:37:15.300
 doing good

00:37:15.300 --> 00:37:17.759
 seeking the good

00:37:17.759 --> 00:37:18.340
 of others

00:37:18.340 --> 00:37:19.320
 it commonly used

00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:20.320
 the word is used

00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:21.300
 to describe the goodness

00:37:21.300 --> 00:37:21.900
 of God

00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:22.420
 in scripture

00:37:22.420 --> 00:37:24.900
 scripture also

00:37:24.900 --> 00:37:26.220
 describes God's rules

00:37:26.220 --> 00:37:26.900
 as good

00:37:26.900 --> 00:37:27.400
 and that God

00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:28.080
 is good

00:37:28.080 --> 00:37:29.120
 and does good

00:37:29.120 --> 00:37:30.000
 and that's what

00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:31.220
 this word is here

00:37:31.220 --> 00:37:31.880
 kind

00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:34.140
 it's the disposition

00:37:34.140 --> 00:37:35.420
 to do good

00:37:35.420 --> 00:37:36.080
 to others

00:37:36.080 --> 00:37:37.059
 even to our enemies

00:37:37.059 --> 00:37:38.280
 as God does

00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:39.840
 so if patient

00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:40.940
 describes the passive

00:37:40.940 --> 00:37:41.539
 posture of love

00:37:41.539 --> 00:37:42.360
 kind describes

00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:43.220
 the active posture

00:37:43.220 --> 00:37:43.519
 of love

00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:44.600
 to love then

00:37:44.600 --> 00:37:46.080
 we could define it

00:37:46.080 --> 00:37:47.460
 according to 1 Corinthians 13

00:37:47.460 --> 00:37:49.220
 is to suffer long

00:37:49.220 --> 00:37:50.460
 and do good

00:37:50.460 --> 00:37:51.079
 to others

00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:54.539
 suffer others

00:37:54.539 --> 00:37:55.360
 for a long time

00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:56.559
 and do good

00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:57.099
 to others

00:37:57.099 --> 00:37:59.639
 are you patient

00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:00.260
 with others

00:38:00.260 --> 00:38:01.340
 are you long

00:38:01.340 --> 00:38:01.880
 suffering

00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:02.980
 when others

00:38:02.980 --> 00:38:03.559
 offend you

00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:04.240
 or hurt you

00:38:04.240 --> 00:38:05.840
 or do you flare up

00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:06.199
 quickly

00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:08.179
 in anger

00:38:08.179 --> 00:38:09.440
 seeking vengeance

00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:10.920
 in canceling them

00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:16.340
 after the two

00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:17.300
 positive descriptions

00:38:17.300 --> 00:38:17.880
 of love

00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:18.659
 as patient

00:38:18.659 --> 00:38:19.320
 and kind

00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:20.599
 Paul continues

00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:21.680
 with what love

00:38:21.680 --> 00:38:22.360
 is not

00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:23.599
 he says

00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:24.579
 love does not

00:38:24.579 --> 00:38:25.360
 envy

00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:27.700
 the same word

00:38:27.700 --> 00:38:28.360
 used earlier

00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:28.860
 in chapter 3

00:38:28.860 --> 00:38:30.180
 describe exactly

00:38:30.180 --> 00:38:30.900
 what the Corinthians

00:38:30.900 --> 00:38:31.500
 were like

00:38:31.500 --> 00:38:32.380
 they were characterized

00:38:32.380 --> 00:38:33.000
 by envy

00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:33.680
 and rivalry

00:38:33.680 --> 00:38:34.440
 with each other

00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:36.380
 envy is a covetous

00:38:36.380 --> 00:38:36.780
 desire

00:38:36.780 --> 00:38:37.880
 for something

00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:38.500
 or someone

00:38:38.500 --> 00:38:39.079
 that belongs

00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:39.680
 to another

00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:41.819
 it means to begrudge

00:38:41.819 --> 00:38:42.519
 the status

00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:43.339
 or blessing

00:38:43.339 --> 00:38:43.899
 of another

00:38:43.899 --> 00:38:44.599
 and therefore

00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:45.399
 it's contrary

00:38:45.399 --> 00:38:46.000
 to love

00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:47.779
 if we love someone

00:38:47.779 --> 00:38:48.480
 we delight

00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:49.460
 in their blessing

00:38:49.460 --> 00:38:50.179
 we rejoice

00:38:50.179 --> 00:38:50.679
 with them

00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:51.519
 when they rejoice

00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:53.899
 but if we're envious

00:38:53.899 --> 00:38:54.879
 we begrudge

00:38:54.879 --> 00:38:55.619
 their good

00:38:55.619 --> 00:38:59.419
 are you envious

00:38:59.419 --> 00:39:00.059
 of others

00:39:00.059 --> 00:39:00.779
 prosperity

00:39:00.779 --> 00:39:01.519
 blessings

00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:02.399
 giftedness

00:39:02.399 --> 00:39:02.960
 status

00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:03.839
 or position

00:39:03.839 --> 00:39:05.559
 envy

00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:06.179
 is a failure

00:39:06.179 --> 00:39:07.079
 of love

00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:07.960
 and we are rightly

00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:08.399
 alarmed

00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:08.960
 when we start

00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:09.579
 to feel envy

00:39:09.579 --> 00:39:10.180
 rising up

00:39:10.180 --> 00:39:10.680
 in our hearts

00:39:10.680 --> 00:39:12.019
 I wish I had the time

00:39:12.019 --> 00:39:12.639
 to go through

00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:14.400
 all these words

00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:14.860
 in detail

00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:15.619
 but I don't have

00:39:15.619 --> 00:39:16.019
 the time

00:39:16.019 --> 00:39:17.180
 if you want

00:39:17.180 --> 00:39:18.200
 to look at those words

00:39:18.200 --> 00:39:18.740
 in more detail

00:39:18.740 --> 00:39:19.200
 you can listen

00:39:19.200 --> 00:39:19.980
 to my sermon

00:39:19.980 --> 00:39:21.160
 on 1 Corinthians 13

00:39:21.160 --> 00:39:23.039
 I don't remember

00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:23.960
 when I preached that

00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:29.559
 love is not

00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:32.079
 love does not boast

00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:32.900
 these are all

00:39:32.900 --> 00:39:33.820
 related words

00:39:33.820 --> 00:39:35.119
 love is not arrogant

00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:36.760
 love is not rude

00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:37.480
 these are all

00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:39.480
 these contrasts

00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:40.720
 a self-oriented

00:39:40.720 --> 00:39:41.940
 disposition

00:39:41.940 --> 00:39:43.060
 versus others

00:39:43.060 --> 00:39:44.400
 oriented disposition

00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:45.940
 seeing others

00:39:45.940 --> 00:39:46.940
 regarding others

00:39:46.940 --> 00:39:47.820
 is more significant

00:39:47.820 --> 00:39:48.560
 than for ourselves

00:39:48.560 --> 00:39:49.680
 higher than ourselves

00:39:49.680 --> 00:39:51.040
 rather than being

00:39:51.040 --> 00:39:52.000
 self-sufficient

00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:53.080
 and self-promoting

00:39:53.080 --> 00:39:55.120
 love does not insist

00:39:55.120 --> 00:39:55.980
 on its own way

00:39:55.980 --> 00:39:57.320
 in chapter 10

00:39:57.320 --> 00:39:58.080
 Paul corrected

00:39:58.080 --> 00:39:58.600
 the Corinthians

00:39:58.600 --> 00:39:59.700
 because they were

00:39:59.700 --> 00:40:00.840
 disregarding the

00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:01.840
 consciences of others

00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:02.680
 and insisting

00:40:02.680 --> 00:40:03.680
 on their own way

00:40:03.679 --> 00:40:05.559
 and he told them

00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:06.259
 there to seek

00:40:06.259 --> 00:40:07.460
 to please others

00:40:07.460 --> 00:40:09.299
 by seeking out

00:40:09.299 --> 00:40:10.119
 their interest

00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:10.919
 and not insisting

00:40:10.919 --> 00:40:11.579
 on your own way

00:40:11.579 --> 00:40:14.139
 people who insist

00:40:14.139 --> 00:40:14.839
 on their own way

00:40:14.839 --> 00:40:15.599
 they're willful

00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:16.159
 and stubborn

00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:16.799
 they don't take

00:40:16.799 --> 00:40:17.460
 counsel well

00:40:17.460 --> 00:40:17.960
 they don't take

00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:18.799
 criticism well

00:40:18.799 --> 00:40:19.899
 when they are

00:40:19.899 --> 00:40:20.719
 proven wrong

00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:21.519
 they are reluctant

00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:22.519
 to admit fault

00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:24.099
 they're resistant

00:40:24.099 --> 00:40:24.759
 to reforming

00:40:24.759 --> 00:40:25.319
 their ways

00:40:25.319 --> 00:40:27.199
 even with relation

00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:27.759
 to God

00:40:27.759 --> 00:40:28.779
 they're like this

00:40:28.779 --> 00:40:29.159
 sometimes

00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:29.779
 those who are

00:40:29.779 --> 00:40:30.119
 arrogant

00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:30.779
 they insist

00:40:30.779 --> 00:40:31.519
 on their own way

00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:32.359
 when God's doing

00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:33.000
 what they think

00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:33.800
 he should be doing

00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:34.660
 they're really happy

00:40:34.660 --> 00:40:35.039
 with him

00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:35.820
 and they praise him

00:40:35.820 --> 00:40:37.460
 but as soon as

00:40:37.460 --> 00:40:38.200
 God starts doing

00:40:38.200 --> 00:40:38.860
 things in their life

00:40:38.860 --> 00:40:39.720
 they don't like

00:40:39.720 --> 00:40:40.740
 or they don't think

00:40:40.740 --> 00:40:41.140
 is the way

00:40:41.140 --> 00:40:41.840
 things should be

00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:43.019
 they become bitter

00:40:43.019 --> 00:40:44.039
 and resentful

00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:45.360
 which shows

00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:45.740
 that they were

00:40:45.740 --> 00:40:46.360
 never submitted

00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:46.800
 to God

00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:47.559
 in the first place

00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:48.700
 and his rule

00:40:48.700 --> 00:40:49.380
 and his sovereignty

00:40:49.380 --> 00:40:53.360
 now this doesn't mean

00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:54.200
 that loving people

00:40:54.200 --> 00:40:55.260
 necessarily makes

00:40:55.260 --> 00:40:55.640
 people

00:40:55.640 --> 00:40:56.880
 pushovers

00:40:56.880 --> 00:41:00.320
 Jonathan Edwards

00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:01.620
 mentioned before

00:41:01.619 --> 00:41:02.440
 17th century

00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:03.659
 pastor and theologian

00:41:03.659 --> 00:41:04.679
 writes in his sermon

00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:05.779
 on 1 Corinthians 13

00:41:05.779 --> 00:41:07.719
 humility disposes

00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:08.699
 people to be

00:41:08.699 --> 00:41:10.799
 of a yielding spirit

00:41:10.799 --> 00:41:11.319
 to others

00:41:11.319 --> 00:41:12.699
 ready for the sake

00:41:12.699 --> 00:41:13.239
 of peace

00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:15.000
 and to gratify others

00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:16.940
 to comply in many things

00:41:16.940 --> 00:41:18.000
 with their inclinations

00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:18.679
 and to yield

00:41:18.679 --> 00:41:19.539
 to their judgments

00:41:19.539 --> 00:41:20.539
 wherein they are not

00:41:20.539 --> 00:41:21.859
 inconsistent with truth

00:41:21.859 --> 00:41:22.440
 and holiness

00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:24.380
 a truly humble person

00:41:24.380 --> 00:41:25.539
 is inflexible

00:41:25.539 --> 00:41:26.319
 in nothing

00:41:26.319 --> 00:41:28.079
 but in the cause

00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:28.920
 of his Lord

00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:29.519
 and Master

00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:31.019
 which is the cause

00:41:31.019 --> 00:41:31.460
 of truth

00:41:31.460 --> 00:41:31.980
 and virtue

00:41:31.980 --> 00:41:33.300
 in this

00:41:33.300 --> 00:41:35.119
 he is inflexible

00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:36.099
 because God

00:41:36.099 --> 00:41:36.820
 and conscience

00:41:36.820 --> 00:41:37.320
 required

00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:38.500
 but in things

00:41:38.500 --> 00:41:39.739
 of lesser moment

00:41:39.739 --> 00:41:40.739
 and which do not

00:41:40.739 --> 00:41:41.739
 involve his principles

00:41:41.739 --> 00:41:42.400
 as a follower

00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:42.880
 of Christ

00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:43.780
 and in things

00:41:43.780 --> 00:41:44.639
 that only concern

00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:45.940
 his own private interests

00:41:45.940 --> 00:41:46.840
 he is apt

00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:48.099
 to yield to others

00:41:48.099 --> 00:41:49.139
 I think that's what

00:41:49.139 --> 00:41:49.460
 it means

00:41:49.460 --> 00:41:49.980
 that we do not

00:41:49.980 --> 00:41:51.179
 insist on our own way

00:41:51.179 --> 00:41:54.639
 I've known people

00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:55.119
 like this

00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:56.039
 and I hope you have too

00:41:56.039 --> 00:41:56.340
 because they're

00:41:56.340 --> 00:41:57.219
 a pleasure to know

00:41:57.219 --> 00:41:58.759
 they're like lions

00:41:58.760 --> 00:41:59.480
 when it comes

00:41:59.480 --> 00:41:59.940
 to the things

00:41:59.940 --> 00:42:00.300
 of God

00:42:00.300 --> 00:42:01.120
 and defending it

00:42:01.120 --> 00:42:01.980
 when it comes

00:42:01.980 --> 00:42:03.280
 to their personal preferences

00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:03.760
 they're

00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:05.720
 they're like a doormat

00:42:05.720 --> 00:42:15.020
 love is not irritable

00:42:15.020 --> 00:42:16.840
 not easily provoked

00:42:16.840 --> 00:42:17.560
 to anger

00:42:17.560 --> 00:42:18.200
 it's patient

00:42:18.200 --> 00:42:18.980
 and forbearing

00:42:18.980 --> 00:42:20.640
 it's not resentful

00:42:20.640 --> 00:42:21.980
 that literally means

00:42:21.980 --> 00:42:22.980
 that it does not

00:42:22.980 --> 00:42:23.600
 count

00:42:23.600 --> 00:42:24.420
 or reckon

00:42:24.420 --> 00:42:25.160
 evil

00:42:25.159 --> 00:42:26.539
 the NIV puts it

00:42:26.539 --> 00:42:28.079
 as keeps no record

00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:29.239
 of wrongs

00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:32.799
 it's what God

00:42:32.799 --> 00:42:33.539
 does for us

00:42:33.539 --> 00:42:35.699
 2 Corinthians 5.19

00:42:35.699 --> 00:42:36.379
 in Christ

00:42:36.379 --> 00:42:37.819
 God was reconciling

00:42:37.819 --> 00:42:38.779
 the world to himself

00:42:38.779 --> 00:42:40.259
 not counting

00:42:40.259 --> 00:42:41.319
 their trespasses

00:42:41.319 --> 00:42:41.980
 against them

00:42:41.980 --> 00:42:43.299
 but entrusting to us

00:42:43.299 --> 00:42:43.779
 the message

00:42:43.779 --> 00:42:44.519
 of reconciliation

00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:46.960
 God sees

00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:47.859
 all our evil

00:42:47.859 --> 00:42:49.899
 but when we put

00:42:49.899 --> 00:42:50.359
 our trust

00:42:50.359 --> 00:42:51.119
 in Christ

00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:51.599
 and repent

00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:52.379
 of our sins

00:42:52.380 --> 00:42:53.940
 he does not

00:42:53.940 --> 00:42:55.220
 count those sins

00:42:55.220 --> 00:42:56.380
 against us

00:42:56.380 --> 00:42:57.260
 likewise

00:42:57.260 --> 00:42:58.039
 if we love

00:42:58.039 --> 00:42:58.539
 one another

00:42:58.539 --> 00:42:59.059
 we're not going

00:42:59.059 --> 00:42:59.460
 to keep

00:42:59.460 --> 00:43:00.140
 a record

00:43:00.140 --> 00:43:01.059
 of wrongs

00:43:01.059 --> 00:43:02.200
 we don't count

00:43:02.200 --> 00:43:02.740
 those things

00:43:02.740 --> 00:43:03.500
 against them

00:43:03.500 --> 00:43:03.840
 in the way

00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:04.619
 we deal with them

00:43:04.619 --> 00:43:05.539
 and relate to them

00:43:05.539 --> 00:43:08.840
 love covers

00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:09.619
 all offenses

00:43:09.619 --> 00:43:11.099
 as Proverbs 10.12

00:43:11.099 --> 00:43:11.480
 says

00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:14.500
 love does not

00:43:14.500 --> 00:43:15.640
 rejoice in wrongdoing

00:43:15.640 --> 00:43:16.220
 it rejoices

00:43:16.220 --> 00:43:17.300
 with the truth

00:43:17.300 --> 00:43:18.200
 the fact that

00:43:18.200 --> 00:43:18.820
 you love someone

00:43:18.820 --> 00:43:19.340
 doesn't mean

00:43:19.340 --> 00:43:19.960
 that you say

00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:20.840
 everything that they do

00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:21.300
 is okay

00:43:21.300 --> 00:43:22.559
 even when they do wrong

00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:23.519
 it does not rejoice

00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:24.300
 with wrongdoing

00:43:24.300 --> 00:43:25.360
 it speaks the truth

00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:26.380
 in love

00:43:26.380 --> 00:43:32.519
 and after describing

00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:32.940
 at length

00:43:32.940 --> 00:43:33.820
 what love is not

00:43:33.820 --> 00:43:34.940
 he says in verse 7

00:43:34.940 --> 00:43:36.940
 love bears all things

00:43:36.940 --> 00:43:38.120
 believes all things

00:43:38.120 --> 00:43:39.120
 hopes all things

00:43:39.120 --> 00:43:40.539
 endures all things

00:43:40.539 --> 00:43:41.700
 and that verse

00:43:41.700 --> 00:43:42.360
 is structured

00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:43.140
 chiastically

00:43:43.140 --> 00:43:45.220
 the first item

00:43:45.220 --> 00:43:46.420
 and the last item

00:43:46.420 --> 00:43:47.440
 match each other

00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:48.300
 bearing all things

00:43:48.300 --> 00:43:49.240
 and enduring all things

00:43:49.240 --> 00:43:50.559
 and the middle two items

00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:51.219
 match each other

00:43:51.219 --> 00:43:52.179
 believe all things

00:43:52.179 --> 00:43:53.340
 and hope all things

00:43:53.340 --> 00:43:55.579
 love

00:43:55.579 --> 00:43:57.239
 believes all things

00:43:57.239 --> 00:43:58.960
 and hopes all things

00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:02.639
 the word all things

00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:03.440
 is repeated

00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:04.639
 for rhetorical effect

00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:07.559
 now it doesn't mean

00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:08.380
 that we should become

00:44:08.380 --> 00:44:09.599
 credulous people

00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:10.860
 who believe everyone

00:44:10.860 --> 00:44:11.739
 and everything

00:44:11.739 --> 00:44:13.759
 we need to be discerning

00:44:13.759 --> 00:44:16.420
 what it does mean

00:44:16.420 --> 00:44:17.239
 is that we should be

00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:19.139
 disposed to trust people

00:44:19.139 --> 00:44:20.779
 to give them

00:44:20.779 --> 00:44:22.159
 the benefit of the doubt

00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:24.139
 to believe the best

00:44:24.139 --> 00:44:24.960
 about them

00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:26.019
 as an expression

00:44:26.019 --> 00:44:27.119
 of our love for them

00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:28.940
 instead of suspecting people

00:44:28.940 --> 00:44:30.759
 and distrusting them

00:44:30.759 --> 00:44:32.759
 love believes all things

00:44:32.759 --> 00:44:35.879
 do we love one another

00:44:35.879 --> 00:44:36.480
 in this way

00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:37.679
 or are we suspicious

00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:38.579
 of one another

00:44:38.579 --> 00:44:40.839
 skeptical toward one another

00:44:40.839 --> 00:44:42.779
 inclined to distrust

00:44:42.779 --> 00:44:43.379
 one another

00:44:43.379 --> 00:44:45.339
 similarly love hopes

00:44:45.339 --> 00:44:45.900
 all things

00:44:45.900 --> 00:44:46.539
 not in the sense

00:44:46.539 --> 00:44:47.519
 of naive optimism

00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:48.079
 but in the sense

00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:49.159
 that we never despair

00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:49.840
 of people

00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:51.300
 we never give up

00:44:51.300 --> 00:44:52.280
 on people

00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:55.000
 I called a friend

00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:55.840
 of mine recently

00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:57.940
 he used to be a pastor

00:44:57.940 --> 00:45:02.860
 and had a family

00:45:02.860 --> 00:45:04.340
 and three kids

00:45:04.340 --> 00:45:04.719
 like me

00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:06.500
 but now he's divorced

00:45:06.500 --> 00:45:08.400
 and he's lost custody

00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:08.960
 of his children

00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:10.400
 and because he's also

00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:11.579
 no longer able

00:45:11.579 --> 00:45:12.320
 to minister

00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:14.320
 in the church

00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:15.800
 and he was not

00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:16.980
 guiltless in the matter

00:45:16.980 --> 00:45:19.900
 but what's happened

00:45:19.900 --> 00:45:20.340
 to him

00:45:20.340 --> 00:45:22.100
 was way beyond

00:45:22.100 --> 00:45:23.220
 what should have happened

00:45:23.220 --> 00:45:23.860
 and I think

00:45:23.860 --> 00:45:24.820
 the custody situation

00:45:24.820 --> 00:45:26.300
 is really really unjust

00:45:26.300 --> 00:45:28.280
 and I called him

00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:30.820
 and to talk to him

00:45:30.820 --> 00:45:32.160
 and he was just

00:45:32.160 --> 00:45:33.720
 so thankful to me

00:45:33.720 --> 00:45:35.080
 in the whole call

00:45:35.080 --> 00:45:35.740
 we talked for about

00:45:35.740 --> 00:45:36.440
 50 minutes

00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:40.240
 and like saying

00:45:40.240 --> 00:45:40.980
 oh you're such

00:45:40.980 --> 00:45:42.039
 a faithful friend

00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:42.820
 you're such a

00:45:42.820 --> 00:45:43.740
 good friend

00:45:43.740 --> 00:45:44.160
 and all that

00:45:44.160 --> 00:45:44.760
 and it kind of

00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:45.420
 was embarrassing

00:45:45.420 --> 00:45:45.740
 to me

00:45:45.740 --> 00:45:46.200
 because I felt

00:45:46.200 --> 00:45:46.760
 really guilty

00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:49.280
 because I see him

00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:50.380
 like once

00:45:50.380 --> 00:45:51.580
 every two years

00:45:51.580 --> 00:45:53.640
 even though he lives

00:45:53.640 --> 00:45:54.320
 in New England

00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:56.180
 and then

00:45:56.180 --> 00:45:56.900
 and then I

00:45:56.900 --> 00:45:58.460
 and he had called me

00:45:58.460 --> 00:45:59.440
 like four months ago

00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:01.580
 before I called him

00:46:01.580 --> 00:46:03.080
 and it took me

00:46:03.080 --> 00:46:03.539
 four months

00:46:03.539 --> 00:46:04.280
 to call him back

00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:07.160
 and so I wasn't

00:46:07.160 --> 00:46:08.080
 the greatest friend

00:46:08.080 --> 00:46:08.400
 to him

00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:08.860
 and yet he was

00:46:08.860 --> 00:46:09.760
 so thankful

00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:11.200
 and so I told him

00:46:11.200 --> 00:46:11.840
 like you're being

00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:12.440
 really generous

00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:12.820
 to me

00:46:12.820 --> 00:46:13.140
 you know

00:46:13.140 --> 00:46:14.120
 I really could have

00:46:14.120 --> 00:46:14.760
 been a much better

00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:15.100
 friend

00:46:15.100 --> 00:46:16.060
 and I'm sorry

00:46:16.060 --> 00:46:16.600
 that I haven't

00:46:16.600 --> 00:46:17.060
 been a better

00:46:17.060 --> 00:46:17.720
 friend to you

00:46:17.720 --> 00:46:19.620
 and then he said

00:46:19.620 --> 00:46:20.120
 Sean no

00:46:20.120 --> 00:46:20.640
 I'm not

00:46:20.640 --> 00:46:21.360
 I'm not being

00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:22.040
 overly generous

00:46:22.040 --> 00:46:22.500
 to you

00:46:22.500 --> 00:46:24.760
 because you didn't

00:46:24.760 --> 00:46:25.640
 give up on me

00:46:25.640 --> 00:46:28.340
 I had many friends

00:46:28.340 --> 00:46:29.640
 who gave up on me

00:46:29.640 --> 00:46:31.720
 but after a decade

00:46:31.720 --> 00:46:32.640
 you still haven't

00:46:32.640 --> 00:46:33.540
 given up on me

00:46:33.540 --> 00:46:36.100
 I think that's what

00:46:36.100 --> 00:46:38.200
 I don't point to myself

00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:39.119
 as a shining example

00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:39.439
 of love

00:46:39.439 --> 00:46:41.019
 I fail every day

00:46:41.019 --> 00:46:41.819
 but I think that's

00:46:41.819 --> 00:46:42.879
 what this hope

00:46:42.879 --> 00:46:44.059
 all things

00:46:44.059 --> 00:46:44.859
 looks like

00:46:44.859 --> 00:46:46.299
 you don't give up

00:46:46.299 --> 00:46:46.879
 on people

00:46:46.879 --> 00:46:49.519
 you keep persevering

00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:54.339
 and then Paul

00:46:54.339 --> 00:46:55.299
 concludes in verse 8

00:46:55.299 --> 00:46:56.719
 love never ends

00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:57.379
 which sets up

00:46:57.379 --> 00:46:58.000
 the contrast

00:46:58.000 --> 00:46:58.839
 between the gifts

00:46:58.839 --> 00:46:59.480
 of the spirit

00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:00.899
 that will cease

00:47:00.899 --> 00:47:01.859
 and pass away

00:47:01.859 --> 00:47:02.919
 versus love

00:47:02.919 --> 00:47:04.279
 which never ends

00:47:04.279 --> 00:47:06.379
 as for prophecies

00:47:06.379 --> 00:47:06.779
 he says

00:47:06.779 --> 00:47:07.839
 they will pass away

00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:08.880
 as for tongues

00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:09.660
 they will cease

00:47:09.660 --> 00:47:10.460
 as for knowledge

00:47:10.460 --> 00:47:11.420
 it will pass away

00:47:11.420 --> 00:47:12.860
 for we know in part

00:47:12.860 --> 00:47:14.360
 and we prophesy in part

00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:15.460
 but when the perfect

00:47:15.460 --> 00:47:16.000
 comes

00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:17.180
 the partial will

00:47:17.180 --> 00:47:18.120
 pass away

00:47:18.120 --> 00:47:20.100
 this is

00:47:20.100 --> 00:47:21.539
 representative

00:47:21.539 --> 00:47:22.500
 of all the gifts

00:47:22.500 --> 00:47:23.220
 that he's been talking

00:47:23.220 --> 00:47:23.940
 about so far

00:47:23.940 --> 00:47:25.120
 in chapter 12

00:47:25.120 --> 00:47:28.920
 contrary to

00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:30.280
 the thinking

00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:30.860
 of the Corinthians

00:47:30.860 --> 00:47:31.800
 that the spiritual gifts

00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:32.840
 are a sign of arrival

00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:33.880
 oh we're there

00:47:33.880 --> 00:47:35.059
 I already speak

00:47:35.059 --> 00:47:35.920
 in the tongues of angels

00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:36.559
 we're there

00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:38.239
 instead Paul says

00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:39.119
 no it's not a sign

00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:39.880
 of arrival

00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:41.019
 the gifts are actually

00:47:41.019 --> 00:47:42.239
 a sign of awaiting

00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:44.320
 the perfect

00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:45.960
 has not come yet

00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:48.940
 we know in part

00:47:48.940 --> 00:47:51.340
 we prophesy in part

00:47:51.340 --> 00:47:54.799
 we have partial knowledge

00:47:54.799 --> 00:47:55.239
 of God

00:47:55.239 --> 00:47:56.860
 and partial prophetic revelation

00:47:56.860 --> 00:47:57.539
 and that's

00:47:57.539 --> 00:47:58.480
 the characteristic

00:47:58.480 --> 00:47:59.739
 of our present age

00:47:59.739 --> 00:48:00.679
 that will pass away

00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:01.659
 eventually

00:48:01.659 --> 00:48:03.099
 we will know God fully

00:48:03.099 --> 00:48:03.599
 and we'll have

00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:04.779
 his revelation fully

00:48:04.780 --> 00:48:07.140
 and when the perfect

00:48:07.140 --> 00:48:07.900
 comes the partial

00:48:07.900 --> 00:48:09.040
 will pass away

00:48:09.040 --> 00:48:11.120
 as Karl Barth

00:48:11.120 --> 00:48:11.720
 the 20th century

00:48:11.720 --> 00:48:12.660
 theologian says

00:48:12.660 --> 00:48:14.280
 because the sun rises

00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:15.100
 all lights

00:48:15.100 --> 00:48:15.980
 are extinguished

00:48:15.980 --> 00:48:19.200
 we turn on the lamps

00:48:19.200 --> 00:48:19.620
 at night

00:48:19.620 --> 00:48:21.120
 because there's no light

00:48:21.120 --> 00:48:22.200
 but when the sun rises

00:48:22.200 --> 00:48:23.460
 we all turn our lights off

00:48:23.460 --> 00:48:25.540
 there's no need

00:48:25.540 --> 00:48:26.440
 for lesser lights

00:48:26.440 --> 00:48:29.200
 Paul also uses

00:48:29.200 --> 00:48:29.780
 this analogy

00:48:29.780 --> 00:48:30.640
 to explain this

00:48:30.640 --> 00:48:32.040
 and in verse 11

00:48:32.040 --> 00:48:33.019
 when I was a child

00:48:33.019 --> 00:48:33.980
 I spoke like a child

00:48:33.980 --> 00:48:34.820
 I thought like a child

00:48:34.820 --> 00:48:35.860
 I reasoned like a child

00:48:35.860 --> 00:48:37.119
 when I became a man

00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:38.980
 I gave up my childish ways

00:48:38.980 --> 00:48:41.739
 he's using this example

00:48:41.739 --> 00:48:42.559
 to tell the Corinthians

00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:43.599
 you think that you are

00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:44.579
 grown up and mature

00:48:44.579 --> 00:48:45.519
 because of your gifts

00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:46.199
 when in fact

00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:46.840
 the gifts

00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:48.460
 are a sign of

00:48:48.460 --> 00:48:50.559
 our childlike state

00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:53.980
 and when we're fully grown

00:48:53.980 --> 00:48:54.659
 we will give up

00:48:54.659 --> 00:48:55.340
 these things

00:48:55.340 --> 00:48:57.380
 in the same way

00:48:57.380 --> 00:48:58.579
 as we grew up

00:48:58.579 --> 00:48:59.099
 as adults

00:48:59.099 --> 00:48:59.639
 we gave up

00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:00.539
 our childish ways

00:49:00.539 --> 00:49:03.440
 the gifts exist

00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:04.739
 to build up the church

00:49:04.739 --> 00:49:05.880
 but when Christ returns

00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:06.679
 and our union with him

00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:07.500
 is perfected

00:49:07.500 --> 00:49:09.079
 the gifts will no longer exist

00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:09.840
 because the church

00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:10.880
 will no longer need

00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:11.599
 to be built up

00:49:11.599 --> 00:49:13.019
 it will already be complete

00:49:13.019 --> 00:49:16.599
 Paul continues

00:49:16.599 --> 00:49:17.259
 in verse 12

00:49:17.259 --> 00:49:18.039
 for now we see

00:49:18.039 --> 00:49:19.239
 in a mirror dimly

00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:21.800
 but then face to face

00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:24.779
 now I know in part

00:49:24.779 --> 00:49:26.460
 then I shall know fully

00:49:26.460 --> 00:49:28.659
 even as I have been fully known

00:49:28.659 --> 00:49:30.920
 the word translated dimly here

00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:31.599
 can be more

00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:32.619
 literally translated

00:49:32.619 --> 00:49:33.500
 as indirectly

00:49:33.500 --> 00:49:35.079
 or by riddle

00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:37.019
 and that's referring to

00:49:37.019 --> 00:49:37.859
 in alluding to

00:49:37.859 --> 00:49:38.859
 numbers 12

00:49:38.859 --> 00:49:39.399
 68

00:49:39.399 --> 00:49:40.019
 where God says

00:49:40.019 --> 00:49:41.960
 when there is a prophet

00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:42.519
 among you

00:49:42.519 --> 00:49:43.319
 I the Lord

00:49:43.319 --> 00:49:44.399
 reveal myself to them

00:49:44.399 --> 00:49:45.059
 in visions

00:49:45.059 --> 00:49:46.379
 I speak to them

00:49:46.379 --> 00:49:47.079
 in dreams

00:49:47.079 --> 00:49:48.359
 but this is not true

00:49:48.359 --> 00:49:49.319
 of my servant Moses

00:49:49.319 --> 00:49:50.059
 he is faithful

00:49:50.059 --> 00:49:50.879
 in all my house

00:49:50.879 --> 00:49:52.399
 with him I speak

00:49:52.399 --> 00:49:53.899
 face to face

00:49:53.899 --> 00:49:55.259
 clearly and not

00:49:55.259 --> 00:49:56.000
 in riddles

00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:57.460
 he sees the form

00:49:57.460 --> 00:49:58.000
 of the Lord

00:49:58.000 --> 00:49:59.220
 why then were you

00:49:59.220 --> 00:49:59.760
 not afraid

00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:00.480
 to speak against

00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:01.440
 my servant Moses

00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:03.119
 this is why Moses

00:50:03.119 --> 00:50:03.760
 is considered

00:50:03.760 --> 00:50:04.699
 the greatest prophet

00:50:04.699 --> 00:50:05.340
 of greatest

00:50:05.340 --> 00:50:06.480
 of the Old Testament prophets

00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:08.059
 God spoke to him

00:50:08.059 --> 00:50:09.019
 face to face

00:50:09.019 --> 00:50:10.119
 and not in riddles

00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:11.400
 God addressed them

00:50:11.400 --> 00:50:12.659
 directly and not

00:50:12.659 --> 00:50:13.480
 indirectly

00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:14.579
 through dreams

00:50:14.579 --> 00:50:15.199
 and visions

00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:16.619
 or through prophecies

00:50:16.619 --> 00:50:17.480
 that we need to decipher

00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:18.179
 and interpret

00:50:18.179 --> 00:50:20.119
 so the contrast

00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:21.179
 is not merely

00:50:21.179 --> 00:50:22.980
 between a low resolution image

00:50:22.980 --> 00:50:24.179
 and a high resolution image

00:50:24.179 --> 00:50:25.559
 but between a mediated view

00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:25.940
 of God

00:50:25.940 --> 00:50:26.579
 and a direct

00:50:26.579 --> 00:50:27.340
 unmediated

00:50:27.340 --> 00:50:28.239
 face to face

00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:29.119
 view of God

00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:32.279
 we don't have that yet

00:50:32.279 --> 00:50:35.519
 just like when we're away

00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:36.320
 from our loved ones

00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:37.119
 we talk to them

00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:37.679
 on the phone

00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:39.059
 we might zoom call

00:50:39.059 --> 00:50:39.799
 do a zoom call

00:50:39.799 --> 00:50:40.239
 with them

00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:42.340
 but you put away

00:50:42.340 --> 00:50:42.799
 those things

00:50:42.799 --> 00:50:43.659
 when you can sit

00:50:43.659 --> 00:50:45.139
 with them face to face

00:50:45.139 --> 00:50:46.420
 and embrace one another

00:50:46.420 --> 00:50:48.759
 that's what will be

00:50:48.759 --> 00:50:50.059
 when Christ returns

00:50:50.059 --> 00:50:50.619
 and we see him

00:50:50.619 --> 00:50:51.739
 face to face

00:50:51.739 --> 00:50:54.159
 and we will know fully

00:50:54.159 --> 00:51:02.719
 and until then

00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:05.099
 we pursue love

00:51:05.099 --> 00:51:07.059
 and eagerly desire

00:51:07.059 --> 00:51:07.839
 the spiritual gifts

00:51:07.839 --> 00:51:08.799
 especially those

00:51:08.799 --> 00:51:09.759
 that build up

00:51:09.759 --> 00:51:11.199
 the body of Christ

00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:12.479
 but we can't

00:51:12.479 --> 00:51:13.419
 love one another

00:51:13.419 --> 00:51:14.719
 in this way

00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:16.679
 in our own strength

00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:27.759
 I realize I just

00:51:27.759 --> 00:51:30.159
 faith, hope, and love

00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:30.940
 it says in verse 13

00:51:30.940 --> 00:51:32.419
 so now faith, hope, and love

00:51:32.419 --> 00:51:33.259
 abide these three

00:51:33.259 --> 00:51:34.940
 but the greatest of these

00:51:34.940 --> 00:51:35.480
 is love

00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:38.319
 faith is the assurance

00:51:38.319 --> 00:51:39.359
 of things hoped for

00:51:39.359 --> 00:51:40.219
 a conviction of things

00:51:40.219 --> 00:51:41.159
 not seen

00:51:41.159 --> 00:51:42.819
 when we see Christ

00:51:42.819 --> 00:51:43.839
 faith will be no more

00:51:43.839 --> 00:51:44.679
 because faith

00:51:44.679 --> 00:51:45.679
 will give way to sight

00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:50.719
 Romans 8 24

00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:51.779
 for in this hope

00:51:51.779 --> 00:51:52.480
 we were saved

00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:53.960
 now hope that is seen

00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:54.639
 is not hope

00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:55.239
 for who hopes

00:51:55.239 --> 00:51:56.099
 for what he sees

00:51:56.099 --> 00:51:57.739
 right now we have hope

00:51:57.739 --> 00:51:58.480
 because our hope

00:51:58.480 --> 00:51:59.599
 is not yet realized

00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:00.739
 but when Christ returns

00:52:00.739 --> 00:52:01.759
 our hope will be

00:52:01.759 --> 00:52:02.699
 fully realized

00:52:02.699 --> 00:52:05.299
 and hope will be no more

00:52:05.299 --> 00:52:07.339
 but when faith

00:52:07.339 --> 00:52:08.000
 is no more

00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:08.919
 and hope is no more

00:52:08.919 --> 00:52:10.460
 love will abide forever

00:52:10.460 --> 00:52:11.159
 it endures forever

00:52:11.159 --> 00:52:11.879
 and that's why love

00:52:11.879 --> 00:52:12.480
 is the greatest

00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:13.179
 of the three

00:52:13.179 --> 00:52:14.259
 cardinal Christian virtues

00:52:14.259 --> 00:52:15.480
 of faith, hope, and love

00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:17.639
 but how can we love

00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:18.099
 one another

00:52:18.099 --> 00:52:19.039
 we can't love

00:52:19.039 --> 00:52:19.519
 one another

00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:20.420
 in this way

00:52:20.420 --> 00:52:21.659
 unless we have

00:52:21.659 --> 00:52:22.820
 first love of God

00:52:22.820 --> 00:52:25.559
 1 John 4 19

00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:26.320
 says we love

00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:27.480
 because he first

00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:28.639
 loved us

00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:30.760
 the love that we see

00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:31.539
 in chapter 13

00:52:31.539 --> 00:52:32.400
 that is patient

00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:33.159
 and kind

00:52:33.159 --> 00:52:34.579
 is the very love

00:52:34.579 --> 00:52:35.000
 with which

00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:36.659
 God has loved us

00:52:36.659 --> 00:52:38.039
 Romans 2 4

00:52:38.039 --> 00:52:38.920
 says do you presume

00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:39.460
 on the riches

00:52:39.460 --> 00:52:40.860
 of his kindness

00:52:40.860 --> 00:52:41.740
 same word

00:52:41.740 --> 00:52:42.800
 and forbearance

00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:44.000
 and patience

00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:44.739
 same word

00:52:44.739 --> 00:52:45.579
 not knowing

00:52:45.579 --> 00:52:46.539
 that God's kindness

00:52:46.539 --> 00:52:47.019
 is meant

00:52:47.019 --> 00:52:47.820
 to lead you

00:52:47.820 --> 00:52:48.619
 to repentance

00:52:48.619 --> 00:52:50.800
 God has been

00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:51.760
 long suffering

00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:52.139
 with us

00:52:52.139 --> 00:52:52.980
 through all of our

00:52:52.980 --> 00:52:53.820
 sins and evil

00:52:53.820 --> 00:52:56.260
 he has suffered

00:52:56.260 --> 00:52:57.280
 long with us

00:52:57.280 --> 00:52:58.000
 and he has

00:52:58.000 --> 00:52:58.539
 and has been

00:52:58.539 --> 00:52:59.519
 kind to us

00:52:59.519 --> 00:53:00.320
 seeking to do

00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:01.219
 good to us

00:53:01.219 --> 00:53:02.840
 he has kept

00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:03.780
 no record

00:53:03.780 --> 00:53:05.000
 of wrongs

00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:06.860
 instead he sent

00:53:06.860 --> 00:53:07.519
 his only son

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 Jesus to die

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 on the cross

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 to pay for our sins

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 so that our record

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 can be cleansed

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 cleared

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 that's the way

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 in which God

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 has loved us

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 in Christ

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 and it's only

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 when we receive

00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:24.120
 that love

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 from God first

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 and we're

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 transformed

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 by that love

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 that is love

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 is patient

00:53:31.260 --> 00:53:31.800
 and kind

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 that we can

00:53:32.380 --> 00:53:33.060
 love one another

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 in this way

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 so let's pray

00:53:36.380 --> 00:53:36.740
 together

00:53:36.740 --> 00:53:37.740
 that God's love

00:53:37.740 --> 00:53:38.519
 would be poured

00:53:38.519 --> 00:53:39.420
 into our hearts

00:53:39.420 --> 00:53:40.480
 through the Holy Spirit

00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:42.139
 as we trust

00:53:42.139 --> 00:53:42.639
 in Jesus

00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:44.219
 so that we might

00:53:44.219 --> 00:53:45.099
 abound in love

00:53:45.099 --> 00:53:46.440
 let's pray

00:53:46.440 --> 00:53:53.740
 Father

00:53:53.740 --> 00:53:57.679
 just as the gifts

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 are the gifts

00:53:58.320 --> 00:53:59.079
 of your spirit

00:53:59.079 --> 00:54:00.300
 the fruit

00:54:00.300 --> 00:54:01.119
 is the fruit

00:54:01.119 --> 00:54:01.800
 of your spirit

00:54:01.800 --> 00:54:04.679
 we can have

00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:05.099
 neither

00:54:05.099 --> 00:54:06.219
 apart from your spirit

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 so give us

00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:09.219
 more of your spirit

00:54:09.219 --> 00:54:10.159
 Father we ask

00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:12.319
 as we

00:54:12.319 --> 00:54:14.859
 abide in Jesus Christ

00:54:14.859 --> 00:54:15.339
 our Lord

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 and Savior

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 who loved us

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 and gave himself

00:54:19.619 --> 00:54:20.819
 up for us

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 in love

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 fill us more

00:54:25.399 --> 00:54:25.719
 and more

00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:26.779
 with his spirit

00:54:26.779 --> 00:54:29.679
 that we might

00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:30.579
 abound in love

00:54:30.579 --> 00:54:31.399
 toward one another

00:54:31.399 --> 00:54:33.379
 so that we might

00:54:33.379 --> 00:54:34.119
 use the gifts

00:54:34.119 --> 00:54:34.759
 you have given us

00:54:34.759 --> 00:54:35.379
 appropriately

00:54:35.379 --> 00:54:36.000
 in a way that

00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:37.079
 builds up one another

00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:38.860
 we pray this

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 in Jesus name

00:54:39.599 --> 00:54:40.319
 amen

00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:40.860
 amen

00:54:40.860 --> 00:55:10.840
 Thank you.