McCracken New Testament Reading; 56-60

the The letter of Paul to the Romans Chapter Seven. You cannot be unaware of my friends. I am speaking to those who have some knowledge of law that a person is subject to the law so long as he is alive and no longer. For example, a married woman is by law bound to her husband while he lives but if her husband dies she is discharged from the obligations of the marriage law. If therefore in her husband's lifetime

she consorts with another man, she will incur the charge of adultery. But if her husband dies she is free of the law. And she does not commit adultery by consorting with another man. So you, my friends have died to the law by becoming identified with the body of christ. And accordingly you have found another husband in him who rose from the dead so that we may bear fruit for God. While we lived on the level of our lower nature, the sinful passions evoked by the law worked in our bodies to bear fruit for death. But now, having died to that which held us bound, we are discharged from the law to serve God in a new way, the way of the spirit in contrast to the old way,

the way of our written code. What follows is the law identical with sin? Of course not. But except through law, i should never have become acquainted with sin. For example, i should never have known what it was to covet if the law have not said thou shalt not covet through their command, not sin, found its opportunity and produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. In the absence of law, sin is a dead thing. There was a time when in the absence of law, i was fully alive. But when the commandment came, sin sprang to life. And I died. The commandment which should've led to life proved in my experience to lead to death because sin found its opportunity in the commandment,

seduced me, and through the commandment kill me. For the law is in it itself holy. And the commandment is holy, and just and good. Are we to say them that this good thing was the death of me by no means. It was sin that killed me and thereby sin exposed its true character. It used a good thing to bring about my death. And so through the commandant, sin became more sinful than ever. We know that the law is spiritual but i am not. I am unspiritual, the purchased slaves of sin. I do not even acknowledge my own actions as mine. For what I do is not what i want to do but what i did taste. But if what I do is against my will, it

means that I agree with the law and holded to be admirable. But as things are, it is no longer I who perform the action but sin that lodges in me. For what I know that nothing good lodges in me in my unspiritual nature, I mean. For though the will to do good is there, the deed is not. The good which i want to do I failed to do. But what i do is the wrong, which is against my will. And if what I do is against my will, clearly it is no longer I who I am the agent but sin that has it's lodging it me. I discover this principle than that when I want to do the night only the wrong is within my reach. In my inmost self, I delight in the lord of God. But I perceive that there is in my

bodily members a different law fighting against the law that my reason approves and making me a prisoner under the law that is in my members the law of sin, miserable creature that i am who is there to rescue me out of this body doomed to death. God alone through Jesus Christ our lord thanks be to God in a world then I myself subject to God's law as a rational being. I am yet in my unspiritual nature a slave to the law of sin. The conclusion of the matter is this, there is no condemnation for those who are united with Christ Jesus because in Christ Jesus the life giving law of the spirit has set you free from the law of sin and death. What the

law could never do because our law natural robbed of potency God has done by sending his own son in a form like that of our own sinful nature and as a sacrifice for sin. He has passed judgment against sin within that very nature. So that the commandant of the law may find fulfillment in us whose conduct no longer under the control of our law nature is directed by the spirit. Those who live on the level of law natural have their own group formed by it and that spells death. But those who live on the level of the spirit have the spiritual outlook and that is life at peace. For the outlook of the law of nature is enmity with God. It is not subject to the law of God. Indeed it cannot be.

Those who live on such a level cannot possibly please God. But that is not how you live. You are on the spiritual level, if only God spirit dwells within you. And if a man does not possess the spirit of Christ, he is no Christian. But if Christ is dwelling within you, then although the body is a dead thing because you sinned, yet the spirit is life itself because you have been justified. Moreover, if the spirit of him who raises Jesus from the day dwells within you, then the God who raised Christ Jesus from the dead were also give new life to your mortal bodies through his indwelling spirit. It follows my friends that our law in nature has no claim upon us. We are not obliged to live on that level. If you do so, you must die. But if by the

spirit, you put to death all the base pursuits of the body then you will live. For all our move by the spirit of God are sons of God. The spirit you have received is not a spirit of slavery leading you back into a life of fear but the spirit that make us sons enabling us to cry about father. In that cry, the spirit of God joins with our spirit in testifying that we are God's children and if the children, then they are heirs. We are God's heirs and Christ's fellow heirs if we share his sufferings now, in order to share his spread their hereafter. For what I reckon that the sufferings we now endure, there is no comparison with the splendor as yet unrevealed which is in store for us,

for the creative universe waits with eager expectation for God sons to be revealed. It was made a victim of frustration, not by its own choice but because of him who made it so. Yet always there was hope because the universe itself is to be freed from the shackles of mortality and enter upon the liberty and splendor of the children of God. Up to the present, we know the war created universe groans in all its parts as if in the pains of childbirth. Not only so but even we to whom the spirit is given as first fruits of the harvest to come are groaning inwardly while we wait for God to make us his sons and set our whole body free. thought we have been saved though only in hope. Now to see is no longer to

hope. Why should a man endure and wait for what he already sees. But if we hope for something we do not yet see then in waiting for it, we show our endurance, in the same way the spirit comes to the aid of our weakness. We do not even know how we ought to pray. But throughout inarticulate groans, this spirit himself is pleading for us. And God who searches our inmost being knows what the sprit means because he pleads for God's own people in God's own way and in everything as we know he cooperates for good with those who love God and a quote according to his bubbles foregone you his own before never they wear and also ordained that they should be shaped to the likeness of a sudden that he might be

the eldest of ahmad family of brothers and it is these so called or deed whom he has also called out those who'll be quote he has testified add to those who'd be justified he has also given his spread with all this in mind what are we to say if god is on our side who is against us he did not spare his own sound but some ended him for the solo and with this gift how can he feel too lavish apartments or he has to give who will be the accuser of god's chosen ones it is god who pronounces acquittal then who can go and did it is christ christ who died and more than that was raised from the dead who is at god's right

hand and indeed tweets are cause then what can separate us from the love of christ and affliction or hardship and persecution hunger nakedness peril or the sort we have been done to death for thy sake won't be alone as scripture says we have been treated like sheep for slaughter and yet it's by dillow overwhelming victory is ours through him who loved us what i am conference but there is nothing in death or life in the realm of spirit saw superhuman powers in the world as it is on the world as it shall be in the forces of the universe into heights or gets nothing it'll creation that can separate us from the love of god in christ jesus r martin

but reading has concluded at the thirty ninth vests off the eighth chapter of the letter of support to the romans as both the letter of support to the romans chapter nine the book porcelain god in history i am speaking the truth as a christian and my own conscience enlightened by the holy spirit assures me it is no lie in my heart there

is great grief and unceasing sorrow that i could even prayed to be an outcast from christ myself for the sake of my brothers my natural tinsel they aren't israelites they were made below and sons there's is the splendor of the divine presence there as the covenants below the temple worship and the promises they are as of the patriarchs and from him in natural dissent spreading the messiah may god supreme above all be bliss in fort ever amen it is impossible that the word of god should have proved false or not all descendents of israel are truly is real nor because they are abrams offspring it all is true children but in the words of

scripture through the light of isaac your posterity shall be traced that is to say it is not those born in the course of nature who are children of god it is the children born through god's promise who are threatened as abrams descendants for the promise runs at the time fixed i will come and see a show of a sound like that is not a low for rebecca's children had one and the same father and sister eyes are and get in order that buoyancy left of the post might stand be used not a bar names deeds but upon the court of god she was doing even before they were born when they hadn't yet done nothing gold or below the other show be servant of the younger and then of course with the text of scripture jacob i loved andy

so i hated what shall we say to that is going to be charged with injustice by no means for he says to rose is where i show mercy i will show less say and where i pity i will dictate less it does not to be and one man's will or a fart but on god's mercy for scripture says to federal i have raised you up for this verdi propose to exhibit my power in my dealings with you and this parade my fame overall the world that's he not only shows a messy as he chooses but also makes men stubborn as he chooses you will say and why does god blame a man for who can resist his widow who are you sir to our synagogue that catapult speak to the pot and see

why did you make me like this surely the potter can do what he likes with the plea is enough lead to make out of the same lamp two vessels one to be treasured the other for carbon use but what if god desiring to exhibit is retribution at work and to make his power known tolerated very patiently those vessels which were objects of retribution june for destruction and did so in order to make known the food wealth of its splendor upon vessels which were objects of mercy and which from the first had been prepared for this splendor such vessels are we will be as quote from among the gentiles as well as jews as it says in the book of hosea those who are not my people i will quote my people and the unloved nation i will

call my beloved for the very place where they were told you were no people of mine they shall be called sons of the living god but i said makes this proclamation about israel so the israelites the counter says the sands of the sea it is about iran that shall be saved for the lord sentence on the land will be some moderate and freidel has also you said previously if the lord of hosts had not lift us to be a gem of a nation we should have become like sodom and no better than go mama then what are we to say the gentiles who made no effort after i just miss nevertheless achieved it and righteousness be used on faith whereas israel made great efforts after a low of righteousness but never

attained to it why was this because that efforts were not be used on fees but as they supposed on deeds they stumbled over the stumbling stolen mentioned in scripture here i lay in zion a stumbling stolen and iraq to turn them up by and he knew who his faith in him will not be able to shave brothers my deepest desire and my prayer to god is for their salvation to their zeal for god i can testify but it isn't who informs you for they ignore laws wave of righteousness and try to set up their own and therefore they have not submitted themselves to god's righteousness for christ ends the law and brings righteousness for everyone who has faith of legal righteousness moses writes man oh does

this show gave a life by it but a righteousness that comes by faces do it to yourself who could go up to heaven that is to bring christ down or who can go down to the abyss to bring christ up from the dead but what doesn't see the word is near you it is upon your lips and in your heart this means the word or faith which we proclaim it's on your lips is the confession jesus is lord and in your heart the faith that god raised him from the dead then you will find salvation for the faith that leads to righteousness is unlocked and the confession that leads to salvation is upon the lips scripture says everyone who has faith in him will be saved from shame everyone there is no distinction

between jews and drink because the same reward is a lot of all and has a rich enough for the need of all to evoke him for everyone as it says again everyone who evokes medieval the law and will be saved how cool the envelope one in home they had no faith and how old they have faith in one they had never had a dog and how here without someone to spread the news and how could anyone spread the news without a commission to do so and that is what scripture is how well come on the feet of the messengers of good news but not all have responded to the good news for isaiah says lord who has believed our message we conclude that faith is awakened by the message and the message that awakens it comes through the word of christ but i

ask can it be that they'd never had to of course they did that voice has sounded or over the earth and their words to the bones of the inhabited world but i ask again can it be that israel failed to recognize the message in reply i first sight moses who says i will use a nation that is no nation to stereo and they and a foolish nation tomorrow was your day but isaiah is still more daring i was filed he says by those who were not looking for me i was clearly shorting to those who'd never asked about me while to israelis says won't be long i have staged of my hands to another ruling and prosecute people i ask them has got rejected these

people i cannot believe it i am an issue like myself all this talk of a broken off the tribal benjamin no god has not projected the depot which he acknowledged the loaders is only you know do you about what scripture says in the story of imagine how we like joe pleads with god against israel law and they have to type profits they have overthrown by doctors and i owe them with and they're seeking my life but what does the article seeding and i have lived myself seventies those of men who have not done all the age to be oh in just the same way at the present time iran has come into being selected by the grace of god but if it is by grace that he does not rest on deeds done or grace would cease to be greece what follows what israel sought

israel has not achieved but the selected few have achieved it arrests were made blind to the truth exactly as it stands are and god brought upon them a numbness of spirit he gave them blind eyes and deaf ears and so it is still similarly david says may that table be a severe and wrap both stumbling block and retribution by their eyes be dark and so that they do not see oh joe beck whatever i know asked and that failure mean complete don't fall far from it because they all faded salvation us come to the gentiles to steer israel to emulation but if that your fans means the enrichment of the worm and if they're falling off means the enrichment of the gentile is how much more they're coming to fool

strength but i have something to say to you gentiles i'm a missionary to the gentiles and as such i give to that ministry when i tried to stay or emulation in the man of my own race and so to save some of them for their rejection has made the reconciliation of the world for world their acceptance mean nothing less than life from the dead if the first portion of dual is consecrated so it's all up if the route is consecrated sort of the branches but if some of the branches have been knocked off and you allowed olive have been crafted in among them and have come to share the same route and sat as the olive make yourself disappear into the branches if you do so remember that it is not use a state and the root beer and sustains you

you will say branches were knocked off so that i might be drafted and very well they wear knocked off for lack of faith and by faith you load your place put away your pride and be on your guard what god did not spare the native branches no more we spare you you observe the kindness and the severity of god severity to those who fail or we define kindness do you if only you remain within its scope otherwise you too will be cut off when as they if they do not continue face less will be crafted in for that is in god's power broker off them in again ford if you were cut off from your native wild olives and against or nature grafted into the cultivated olive how much more readily willie the natural olive branches be grafted into their native stock

for that is a deep those he have my brothers off which i want you to take account so that you may not be complacent about your own does adam want this partial blank this has come upon israel only until the gentiles have been admitted into full strength when that has happened and the whole of israel will be saved in agreement with the text of scripture from xi'an shall come to deliver he should remove wickedness from jacob and this is the covenant i will grant them when i take away their sins in the spreading of the gospel they are treated as god's enemies for usaid but god's joyce stands and they are his friends for the sake of the patriarchs for the gracious gifts of god and his colleagues are irrevocable justice for money you would disobedience to god but no have received messy in the

time of their disobedience sold know when you received mass say they approve this obedient but only in order that they too may receive massey for baking or all mankind prisoners to disobedience god's purpose was to show mercy toward mankind audience of wealth wisdom and knowledge in god hello i'm sacha blow his judgments hello i'm curious aboard his ways who knows the mind of the lord who has been his counselor who has ever made a gifted him to receive a gift in return source buried and glow of her letters to him the glory forever bobby reading has concluded at the thirty six verse of the eleventh chapter of the

letter of pull to the rooms fb chapter twelve christian behavior therefore my brothers i implore you by god's mercy to offer your very sales to him a living sacrifices dedicated unfit for his acceptance the worship off on my mind and heart

i bet your sales no longer to the pattern of this present world but let your mind's be remade and you're alone nature of the strands formed then you will be able to deserve the wu of god and to know what is good acceptable and perfect it virtue of the gift that god in his case has given me i say to everyone among you do not be conceited or think too highly of yourself but think you're weighed two was so good estimate based on the measure of faith that god has dealt to each of you or just as in a single human body that i'm any limbs and organs or with different functions so all of us united with christ for one body serving individually as women's and organs to one another the gift suite was this different as they are allotted to us by god's grace and

must be exercised accordingly the gift of inspired veterans for example in proportion to a man's face or the gift of administration in administration a teacher should employ his gift in teaching and one who has the gift of standing speech should use it to stare his heroes if you give to charity deal with only a part if you're the leader to exert yourself to lead if you're helping others in disgrace do it carefully love in all sincerity moving event and clinging to the gold medal ever for our brotherhood reid warmth of mutual affection give pride of place to one another in a steam without threatening energy in honor of spirit serve the lord like whoa keep your joyful in trouble stand firm persist in prayer

contribute to the needs of god's people and practice hospitality court own blessings on your prosecutors blessings not dresses with the joyful be joyful and mourn with the mourners of equal regard for one another do not be halted but globo with humble falk do not keep thinking how wise you are never pay back even for even let your team's be such as ornamental and honorable if possible so far as it lies with you live at peace with all of me and my dear friends do not seek revenge but leave the police for divine retribution for that is a text which reads justice's mind sister laura and i will repeat but there's another for ticks if your enemy is hungry he did if he is to state gave him a drink by

doing this you will keep alive course on his head to not let evil conquer you but who's going to defeat evil every person must submit to the super evil of parties that is no austerity but by an act of god at the existing authorities are instituted by consequently anyone who rebels against our party is resisting a divine institution and those who sought resist have themselves to thank for the punishment they will receive for government at ten after crime has no terrorists for good behavior you wish to have no fear of the us on it is then continued to do right and you who have their approval for the airports agents working for your good but if you're doing wrong and you would've caused a fee of them it is not for nothing that they rolled out of the sort of their gourds

agents of punishment for retribution on leo fender that is why you are obliged to submit it is an obligation and posed not merely by fear of retribution but by conscience that is also why you paid taxes the authorities are in god's service had to these duties they devote their energies this judge your obligations torre amin be tech santo reverence and respect to those two will be out you leave no clean outstanding against you except that of mutual love you loves his neighbor has satisfied every played a little for the commandments thou shalt not commit adultery though shalt not to though shalt not steal though shalt not covet and any other commodities will lead them maybe are all summed up in the one rule love your neighbor as yourself love cannot

roam a neighbor the former warlord is summed up in love in all this remember how critical the moment is it is time for you to wake up to sleep for deliverance is near to us now than it was when first we believed it is far on in the night these mia let us therefore throw off the deeds of darkness and put on our armor as soldiers off the light let us brave with decency as befits the date no reveling on drunkenness noted bought chevy or rice no quarrels or jealousies that christ jesus himself b the opera that you wear it no more thought to satisfy the bodily appetites if iran is weakened his faith you must accept him without attempting to settle down four points for instance one man will have faith in ft oral kinds of food while a weaker man eats only

vegetables the man who eats must not killed and condemned the man who does not and hugh does not eat must not pass judgment on the wanted us has accepted him who are you to pass judgment on someone else's servant with these dams or force is his own masters business and stand the wheel because his master's parlor to enable him to stand again this man regards one day more highly than another while that man regards all days alike on such a point everyone should have reached conviction in his own mind he respects the date has an award in mind in doing so and he who eats meat has a lot in mind when he eats since he gives thanks to god and eu of staines has logged in mind norway this city to give thanks to god no one of us lives and equally we know one of those guys

for himself alone if we live we live for the lawn and if we die we die for the loan whether that's where we live or die we belong to the morgue this is why christ died and came to light for good to establish his lordship or what did and living you said why do you pass judgment on your brother and you said why do you lose your brother in content we shall all stand before guards tried you know for scripture says as i live says the lord to be every the showboat and everytime acknowledge god so you see each of us would have done so for himself then as their fancies judging one another but rather make this simple judgment that no obstacle or stumbling block be placed in the brothers' way i am absolutely convinced as a christian that nothing his employer in itself

only if imam considers a particular thing npr then to limit is impure if your brother is outraged by what you read that your conduct is no longer dated by love do not buy your eating bring disaster to a man pullman christ died what for you is a good thing must not become a location force lenders told for the kingdom of god he's not eating and drinking but justice peace and joy inspired by the holy spirit you that shows himself a servant of christ is acceptable to god and approved by maine let us then pursue the things that make for peace and build up the common life you don't ruin the work of god for the sake of food everything is pure in itself but anything is bad for the man to

buy his heating causes another to fall it is a fine thing to abstain from eating meat or drinking wine or doing anything which causes your brother's downfall if you have a clear convictions apply to yourself in the sight of god happy is the man who can make his decision with a clear conscience but amanda was dope says guilty it beats because his action does not arise from his conviction and anything which does not authorize from conviction is sin those of us who have a robust options must accept as our own burden the tender scruples a week of maine i'm not considered ourselves each of us must consider his neighbor and think what is for his group and we'll build up the common life for christ who did not consider himself but might have said in the words of scripture their approaches of those who approached lead

pharaoh upon me for all the ancient scriptures were written for our own instruction in order that through the encouragement they gave us we may maintain our hope with fortitude have to guard the source of our fortitude of your coverage would grant that you may agree with one another after the matter of christ jesus so that with one mind and one voice you may praise the godfather of our lord jesus christ and i would accept one another as christ accepted us to the glory of god i mean that christ became a servant of the jewish people to maintain the truth of god by making good his promises to the patriarchs and at the same time to give the gentiles course to glorify god for his message as scripture says therefore i will pray sleep among the gentiles and sing hymns

declining and again didn't arabs make magic together with his own people and yet again or gentiles praise the lord lead to blow people's praise him once again isaiah says that should be the route of jesse the one raised up to govern the good times on him the gentiles chow said that it will a neighbor got a full interview with joy and peace by your faith in and out to buy the power of the holy spirit you will overflow with hope my friends i have no doubt in my own mind that you your sales are quite full of goodness and equipped with knowledge of every kind well able to give advice to one another nevertheless i have written to refresh your memory and written some what locally at times in virtual the gift i have from god

his grace has made me a minister of christ jesus to the gentiles my priestly so this is the breaching of the gospel of god and it forced me to awful attempt to oust him as an acceptable sacrifice consecrated by the holy spirit last in the fellowship of christ jesus i have grown four prayed in the service of god i would venture to speak of those things alone in which i have been christ's instrument to bring the gentiles into his allegiance by word indeed by the force of the miraculous signs and by the power of the holy spirit as others out i have completed the preaching of the gospel of christ from jerusalem must farm around as an intercom it is my ambition to bring the gospel to places where the very name of christ as not be met what i do not want to build on another man's foundation but as scripture says they

you had no news of him shall see and they would never had of the show understand that is why i have been prevented loyalist i'm from coming to you but no i have no further scope in these parts and i have been longing for many years to visit you on my way to speed what i hope to see you as i traveled through and to be sent there with your support after having enjoyed your company for a while but at the moment i'm on my way to jerusalem on an errand do god's people there for macedonia and a cap have resorted to raise a common fund for the benefit of the poor among god's people at jerusalem they have resort to do so and indeed they had under an obligation to them for if the jewish christians shared their spiritual pages with the gentiles the gentiles have a clear duty to contribute to their material needs so when i finish

this business and delivered the proceeds under my own seal i shall set out for spain by way of your city and i am sure that when i arrived i shall come to you with a fool measure of the blessing of christ i implore you by our lord jesus christ and by the love that the spirit inspires be my allies in the fight pray to god for me that i may be saved from and believers in judea and my hair and jerusalem may find acceptance with god's people so that by his will i become to you in a happy frame of mind and enjoy the time of arrest with you the good of peace be with you all are man i command to you feeding a fellow christian wars office in the congregation that simply be give her in the fellowship of christ alone tom worthy of god's people and stand by her in any business in which she may need your

help for she has herself been a good friend to many including myself give my greetings to prescott and a corner my fellow interns interest the interest there managed to save my life and not dialogue about all the gentile congregations are grateful to them great also the congregation at their house get my greetings to my dear friend it be neat us the first combat the christ in asia and to many who toiled harmful you greet and draw because antonio's my fellow countryman and comrades in captivity their imminent among the apostles and they were christians before i was creating stern plea at this my dear friend in the fellowship of the lord the urban my cupboard in christ and to my dearest a kiss my greetings to appear less well proved in christ service

to the most sort of either stubbornness and to my country juan forero dionne and to those of the host sort of nasa says who are in the lord's fellowship great tough enough and truffles are who toil in the lord service and be a person's who is torrid in his service so long give my greetings to rufus an outstanding follower of the lord and to his mother whom i call mother too reid seemed courageous freedom harry's petrobras have us and your friends in that company beat an arduous and julian lewis and his sister and olympus and armed guards people associated with the great one another with the case of peace or christ's congregations send to their beatings i implore you my friends keep your eye on those instead of quarrels and lead other

sister a contrary to the teaching you received avoid them for such people as servants not of christ our lord but also their own appetites and they seduce the minds of innocent people with smooth and specious words the fabled your allegiances spread everywhere this makes me happy about you yet yet i should wish you to be expensive goodness but simpletons in the vote and the broader peace will soon clash satan beneath your feet the grace of our lord jesus be with you greetings to you from my colleague timothy and from nbc's jason and support of my fellow countryman i had her shears who drew this letter don't admire just of greetings greetings officer from diocese my last and most of the congregation and from a master's vision of the city and our brother quarters to him who is going

to make your standing sure according to the gospel i brought you and the proclamation of jesus christ according to revelation of that divine secrets kept in silence for ages but no disclosed and through prophetic scriptures by eternal guard's command they'd known to all nations to bring them to faith and to be jobs to god who alone is wise through jesus christ the glory for endless ages are man reading has concluded at the twenty seven most of the sixteenth chapter of the letter of pull up to the romans fb the faster that of polo to the corinthians you imitate and

order in the church from paulo apostle of jesus christ that god's call and by god's will to get there with our colleagues saw cities to the congregation of god's people at problems dedicated to him in christ jesus claimed by him as its own along with all men everywhere who invoke the name of our lord jesus christ there are and as well as ours grayson beast to you from god our father and the lord jesus christ i'm always thanking god for you i thank him for his grace given to you in christ jesus i think him for all the enrichment that has come to you in christ you possess food knowledge and you can give full expression to it because he knew the evidence for the truth of christ has found

confirmation that is indeed no single gift you let while you wait expectantly for our lord jesus christ to reveal himself he will keep your firm to the end without reproach on the date of our lord jesus it has gotten several called you to share in the life of his son jesus christ our lord and god keeps faith i have you to you my brothers in the name of our lord jesus christ agree among yourselves and avoid divisions be firmly joined in unity of mind and thought i have been to my brother's by police people that that a chorus among you what i mean is this each of you is saying i am postman or i am for a promise i foresee for us or i am christ's surely christ has not been divided among you

was a poll was crucified for you was it in the name of a board that you were booked ties thank god i've ever baptized one of you except for christmas and that's so no one can say you were booked as in my name yes i did but i was no sort of staff unless i can't think of anyone else christ did not send me to bow ties but to proclaim the gospel and to do it without relying on the language of worldly wisdom so the effect of christ on his cross might have its full weight this doctrine of the cross is she a funny to those on their way to ruin but to us one on the way to salvation it is the code of god scripture says i will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the cleverness of the clever whit ayres you're wise man no you're a man

of learning or you're settled did beat her limited all of them to this passing ej goddess made the wisdom of this we look foolish as god in his wisdom on today in the world fail to find him by its wisdom and he chose to save those who have faith by the folly of the gospel jews call for americans weeks look for wisdom but we proclaim christ yes christ nailed to the cross and though this is a stumbling block to jews and for rita greeks yet to those who have heard his quote juice and greeks say like he is the poet of god and the wisdom of god divine folly is wiser than the wisdom of man and the very weakness stronger the man's strength my brother's think what sort of people you

are old guard as quote two of you i mean it was to by any one standard if you are powerful all highly born yet to shade the wise god has chosen what the wu counts falling after she too strong borders joins waddle welcomes weakness he has chosen things lo and contemptible be enough things to overthrow the existing order and so there is no place for human pride in the presence of god you are in christ jesus by guards act for god has made him out wisdom he is a lot of righteousness in him we have consecrated and set free and so in the words of scripture if a man is ground led to be proud of the lord as from the brothers when i came to you i declared the attested to some god without display of fighting words or

wisdom it was so that while i was with you i would think of nothing but jesus christ christ nailed to the cross it before you weak as i was then nervous and shaking with fear the word i spoke the gospel i proclaimed did not sway you would settle arguments it padded conviction by spiritual power so that your faith might be built not upon human wisdom but upon the power of god and yet i do speak words of wisdom for those who are ripe for the nano wisdom belonging to this passing age or to any of its governing powers which are declining to that end i speak guards it was to his secret posts free him from the very beginning to bring us to our full glory the powers that rule the world have never known it if they had they would not have crucified the lord of glory

but in the words of scripture things beyond our seeing things beyond our hearing things beyond our imagining or prepared by god for those who live in the cities that god has revealed to us through the spirit for the spirit explores everything even the depths of god's own nature among man who knows what a man is but the man's own spirit within him in the same way only the spirit of god knows what parties this is the spirit that we have received from god about the spirit of the world so that we may know all that god of his old grace gives us and because we're adapting spiritual truths to those who have the spirit we speak of these gifts of god in words found for us not by our human wisdom but by the spirit manolis and

spiritual refuses what belongs to the spirit of god it is folly to him he cannot grasp it because it needs to be judged in the light of the spirit a man gifted with the spigot can judge the worth of everything but is not himself subject to judgment by his fellow man thought in the words of scripture who knows the mind of the lord who can advise him we however was this the mind of christ for my part my brothers i could not speak to us i should speak to people have the spirit i had to deal with you on the meal a natural plane as infants in christ and so i gave you know to drink instead of solid food for which you were not yet ready indeed you are still not ready for it for us to learn the merely an actual plane can you not see that while that is genesee and stifle the new you are living on the

purely human level of your more nature one wednesdays i am postman and another for upon us i you know or to human after all what is upon us what is paul we have simply god's agents in bringing you to the faith each bass performed the task which the lord i want to do and i planted the seed and a paulus watergate but abroad they did grow the city's not the god those with the plant didn't want to make oak island but god who makes it grow whether they plan for what they work as a team the leech will get his aunt paid for his own labour we have guards fellow workers and you hire guards got to ordered in your guards building i'm like a skilled master builder go by god's grace laid the foundation and someone else is putting up the building let each day care how he builds that

can be no other foundation beyond that which is already lead i mean jesus christ himself if any one builds on that foundation with gold silver and find stolen or are widowed he and stroll the words that each man does when at last be brought to light the day of judgment would expose it for that day dawns and fire and the fire will test the worth of each man's were ever man's building stands he will be rewarded if it burns he will have to bear the loss and yet he will escape with his life as one might from a fire surely you know that you are god's temple where the spirit of god the wells anyone who destroys gods tempo with himself be destroyed by god because the temple of god is holy and that temple you are make no mistake about this if there's

anyone among you will fancies itself a wise wise i mean by the standards of this passing age he must become a fool to gain true wisdom for the wisdom of this world is falling in god's sight scripture says he traps the wise and that old kind and again the lord knows that the arguments of the lies i feel so never make me i'm in a cause for pride follow everything belongs to europe all of apollo sons seif was the world life and death the present and the future all of them belong to you yet you belong to christ and christ to god we must be regarded as christ's underlings and the stewards of the secrets of god will then still isn't expected to show themselves trustworthy or my part if i am going to account by you all by any human court of judgment it does

not matter to me in the least why i do not even pass judgment on myself but i have nothing on my conscience but that does not mean i stand acquitted my judges the lord so passel premature judgement wait until the cubs where you would regulate want that ms hines and disclose names in wood motives then will be the time for each to receive from god such praise as he deserves and to this general picture of my friends i have brought a possum myself on your attempt so that you make a case as an example and learn to keep within the rules as they say and may not be inflated with bright as you actor as one or the other who makes you my friends so important what you possess that was not given you if then you really received it won't as a gift one

take the credit for yourself oh you know don't have everything you could design you have come into your fortune already you have come into your kingdom and lift us sent oh i wish you had indeed won your kingdom then you might share with us what it seems to be god has made us apostles the most abject of mankind we are like man condemned to death in the aria ice spectacle des moines university angels as well as a man with balloons for christ's sake while us at sensible christians we're weak you're so powerful we are a disgrace you'd want on and to this day we go hungry and thirsty and directs we are roughly handled we wandered from place to place we wear our sales are working with our own hands they

process and we bless the prosecutors said we submit to it they slammed episode we humbly makeup you we are treated as the scum of the earth the dregs of humanity to this very day i'm not writing investor she knew but to bring you the reason for you when my dear children you may have ten thousand shelters in christ but you only won father far in christ jesus your my offspring and mine owned through the preaching of the gospel i appeal to you the effort to follow my example that is the very reason why apps in timothy who is a dsm to be on the most trustworthy christian he will remind you of the way of life in christ which i follow at which i teach everywhere in all our congregations there are certain persons were filled with self importance because they think i'm not coming to cotton i shall come very soon if the more

blue and then i shall take the measure these self important people not by what they say but by world powers in the kingdom of god is not a matter of talk but of power choose then i might to come to you in or out in my hand and a gentle spirit the reading has concluded that the twenty first verse of leaf last chapter of the first letter of poland to the corinthians it's been the first letter to the corinthians the fifth chapter

i actually hear reports of sexual immorality among you immortality such as even patients do not tolerate the union of a man with his father's life and you can still be proud of yourselves you want to have gone into mourning a man who has done such a deed should've been rooted out of your company for my part though i'm absent and body i am present in spirit and my judgment upon the man who did this thing is already given as if i would indeed present your being assembled in the name of our lord jesus and i with you and spit with the power of our lord jesus over us this man is to be consigned to satan for destruction of the body so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the lord your self satisfaction hill becomes you have you never had this saying a little evan

leavens orbital the wound level of corruption is working among you purge it out and then you will be braver when you begin as it where i live and passover bread or indeed our passover has begun the sacrifices offered price didn't sell so we will observe the festival must not use the old liv and the level of corruption and wickedness but only leon live and braid which is sincerity and troops in my letter that i wrote that you must have nothing to do with moose livers i was not of course are fed into begins to reduce slaves one of gravitas and swindlers so i don't as you avoid them you would have to get right out of the world i note right that you must have nothing to do with any so called christian who leads a loose life or is grasping what i don't want as the slander of a drunkard or a

swindler you should not even eat with any such person what business of mine is it to judge outsiders guard is that judge uk judges within the fellowship root out the evil joy from your community if one of your number has a dispute with another has seen a face to take it to pagan law courts instead of to the community of god's people it is god speed want to judge the world surely you know that and if the world just come before you for judgment i you incompetent to deal with these trifling cases i'm not aware that we have to judge insurers how much more media matters of business it's therefore you have such business disputes how can you address jurisdiction to outsiders mineral count for nothing in our community i like this to shave you can it be that that is not a

single wise man among you able to give a decision in a brother christian sports must brother baltimore with brother and before i believe it is indeed you already four below your standard of going to war with one another at all rather suffer an injury i don't have images of going rogue so far from the issue actually inject embroiled injured and rub your brothers surely you know that the un just will never come into possession of the kingdom of god make no mistake know for make a tunnel i don't attack now a new identity even of adultery on almost sexual perversion no thieves are breadwinners or drunk a sauce lenders or swindlers we'll pause this the kingdom of god church where some of you but you have been through the purified water as you have been dedicated to

garden justified through the name of the lord jesus and the spirit of our god i'm free to do anything you say yes but not everything is for my good no doubt i'm free to do anything but i for one will not let anything make free with me so this for the belly in the belly for food use a true and one day god will put an end to both but it is not true that the body is fun last it is for the log of the world for the body god not only raised are moored from the day and he will also raise as by his power do you not know that your body's organs of christ shall i didn't take from christ his bodily parts and make them over to our heart never you surely know that anyone who leaks himself with a heart becomes physically one with what scripture says the pair shall

become one flesh but you links itself with christ is one with him spiritually sharon for vacation every other sin that a man can commit is outside the body but before making decisions against his own body do you not know that your body is actually writing the end wellington holy spirit at the spit it is god's skin do you you do not belong to yourselves you were bought at the price then on abroad in your body the christian and a peek of society and no for that matter as you wrote about it as a good thing for a man to have nothing to do with women but because there's so much immortality led each man have his own wife and each woman her own husband last one must give the wife

what is due to her and the wife equally must give the husband his view the wife cannot claim her body as a film it is her husband's equally the husband kept in his body as his own it is his wife's do not deny yourselves to one another except when you agree upon a temporary abstinence in order to devote yourselves to prayer afterwards you may come together again otherwise for lack of self control you may be tempted by satan all this icy by way of concession not command i should like you all to be as i am myself but everyone is the gifts god has granted him one this gift and another that de leon mind of the windows i say this it is a good thing if the state as i am myself but if they cannot control themselves they should not a better be mounted the burden with veined

desire to the money and i give this ruling which is not mine but the lord's a life was not separate herself from her husband and if she does she must either remain on my id or be reconciled to it as an investment must not divorce his wife the rest i say this as my own would not as the launch if a christian is a heathen white and she is willing to live with him he does not divorced her and a woman who hasn't even has been willing to live with a must not divorce and has been for the heathen has been no belongs to god through his christian life and that even wife sue have christian has been otherwise your children would not belong to god whereas in fact they do if on the other hand they even bought the wishes for separation let him have it

in such cases the christian husband or wife is under no compulsion but gone school is a call to live in peace think of it has a wife you may be your husband salvation as allison you baby your wife's salvation however that maybe each one must order his life according to the gifts the more discredited him and his condition when god called him that is what i teach in on our congregations was a man called with the marks of circumcision on him let him not remove them was ian circumcised when he was quote let it not be circumcised circumcision on and circumcision is neither here nor there what matters is to keep god's commandments every man should remain in the condition in which he was called were you a sleeve when you were called who thought that that troubled you but

if the chance of liberty should come to get other men and who as a slave received the court to be a christian is the logs for the ban and equally the free man who received the corps a sleeve in the service of christ you were bought at a price do not become sleeves of man that's each one my friends is to remain before god in the condition in which he received his call on the question of celibacy i have no instructions from the lord but i give my judgment as one who by god's mercy is fit to be tested it is my opinion than that in a day most tourists like the present this is the best way for a man to live it is best for a man to be as he is are you bound in mileage do not seek a dissolution has your mileage been dissolved do not seek a life if however you do

it there's nothing wrong in it and if the virgin mary's she has done lauro but those whom it would have been an increase in this brotherly life and my aim is to spare you what i mean my friends is this that i know we live in will not last long while it lasts my name should be as if they had no why does monitor should be as if they have nothing to greet them the joyful as if they did not re joyce buyers must not count on keeping what they buy your those who use the world's wealth on using it to the full of moral frame of this world is passing away i want you to be free from anxious care the automatic man cares for the lord's business is ad is to please the lord of the moderate man cares for worldly things his aim is to please his wife and he has a divided mind the iron

mined or seven that woman cares for the lord's business have we missed a beat dedicated to him in body as in spirit but the mine were one cares for a worldly things have aim is to please her husband in st louis i have no wish to keep your neck tight grain i'm thinking simply of your own good or what is seemingly and of your freedom to wait upon the lord without distraction but if a man as a partner in celibacy and feels that he's not behaving properly towards it if that is his instincts are too strong for him and something must be done he may do as he pleases that is nothing wrong and that the body but if the man is steadfast in his book was being under no compulsion and has complete control of his own joyce and if he has decided in his own mind to preserve his part in her virginity he will do well that's

human bodies to spot not does well and he who does not do better a life is bound to her husband as long as he lives but if the husband die she's freedom idea when she will provided the body ages within the lord's fellowship but she is better off or she is that is my opinion and i believe that i too have the spirit of god no about food consecrated three the deities of course we all have knowledge as you say this knowledge breeds could seek it is love that builds if anyone fancies that he knows he knows nothing good in the true sense of knowing but of a man who loves he is acknowledged by god well then well eating this consecrated food of costs as you say a false god has no existence in the real world there's no god but

one for indeed if there'd be so called god's whether in heaven on earth as indeed that are many guards and many markets it for us there is one god the father from whom or be incomes fortune we move and there's one lord jesus christ through more things came to be and we flew him but not everyone knows this there are some long been so accustomed to idolatry that even know they eat this food with a sense of it's he even consecration and their conscience being week is polluted by the eating certainly for will not bring us into god's presence if we do not eat we have none the worse and if we eat we haven't done that better be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a pitfall for the week it'll we character sees you sitting down to a meal in it than temple

you'll have knowledge without his conscience be emboldened to eat food consecrated to the the deity this knowledge of yours is utter disaster to the week the brother for oh christ died in last sitting against your brothers and wounding their conscience whose sin against christ and therefore it fooled be the done for my brother i would never eat meat anymore for i will not be the cause all my brothers don't fall reading has concluded that the thirteenth less of the eighth chapter of the first letter of portland to the corinthians fb