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November 9 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today's reading will complete the reading of Paul's 2nd letter to the Corinthians with Chapter 12:1-12, 14, 19-21 and Chapter 13:1-5, and 7-13. We will read Acts chapter 20:1-3, and begin the book of Paul's letter to the Romans Chapter 1:7, 10, 13, and 15-32.
Today we will read and learn about correction within the the Body of Believers and how it is both necessary and must be done correctly- with the goals of reconciliation with God and other believers as well as building up the one(s) being corrected.
In our discussion for daily application we will talk about the importance of correction being given in a Godly way, IN LOVE, making sure it is being given from MESSIAH, not from ourselves, that we do so with two or three witnesses, making sure that we are not condemning or tearing one another down but are building one another up. So often we can give our correction the goal of shaming or condemnation when God has shown so many times that He is GENTLE with us, seeking restoration and reconciliation with us. he is not looking to try and shame us. We are to be imitators of God even in the ways we speak to one another about correction of sin.
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Introduction of Daily Bible Reading Event
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Shalom A'Lehem, everybody. Peace be to you on this fine November 9th. Thank you for joining me. My name is Robin. I'm within the Family Way Coaching, and it is my pleasure to bring to you our daily Bible reading event through the Day by Day Kids Bible, written by Karen Henley.
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If you are following along on your bookmarking commitment calendar, go ahead and get that out. Let's get that sticker ready, whatever you're using to mark off your days, because we're about to hear the Bible today.
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I hope that you have come hungry, because let me tell you, we have a feast today. Today, we are going to be finishing the second letter that Paul wrote to the Corinthians with chapters 14 and 15, I think it is.
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And then we will also begin the first chapter of the book of Romans. Now, what's interesting is is that ah the way Karen Henley has set these up, these readings, is that each reading is good for one day, just like a devotional reading.
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But what's interesting is the continuity, which tells me that God's spirit was at work. It wasn't simply Karen Henley and her... ah scheduling.
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It was the Holy Spirit working through her, and I love it.
Corrective Teachings in Corinthians
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Today, we are going to be reading about everybody's maybe least favorite topic, and that is correction, dealing with sin.
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So we've been seeing in the book of Corinthians that Paul has addressed a couple of sinful things. Despite his encouragement, he has addressed also some sinful behaviors in the first letter, I think it was.
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And he is writing to them today to once again address those same sinful behaviors. So what we're going to be seeing here is an example of correction and not human correction, but correction the way God has designed it.
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In the old covenant, God told us that it's not by one person that somebody is to be accused, but it's by the witnesses of two or three that then somebody can be what we would call convicted.
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for sinful behavior. So Jesus, he said the same thing. he said, if we were to have disputes that we should take it, not by ourselves. First, we can say something to the person ourselves if it's simply a dispute between ah one of us and another brother or sister.
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But then if that brother or sister is unwilling to listen, that then we take another brother or sister or two with us ah to discuss the matter with our spiritual brother or sister.
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So God is talking about the same thing here. And I'm going to include that in our from our big Bible, because it's not included in our day by day kids Bible, because it doesn't include every single detail.
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But I think that this is a detail that is important to understand our big picture today in dealing with godly correction. God, when he corrects us, his goal is not condemnation.
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When God corrects us, first of all, it is not done harshly. Not unless we finally get to that point where his anger is very much aroused. When God deals with us, many of us can testify to the fact that he is gentle with us.
Paul's Vision and Humility
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How many times have you known that God has dealt gently with you? And so we also are meant to deal gently because the purpose of correction is not condemnation.
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It is for reconciliation. Reconciliation with who? Reconciliation with God. And also it can be reconciliation between believers.
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So when God corrects us, we learned yesterday that God delights in loving kindness, fairness, and righteousness. So that is what we are going to be learning about today, is is that correction is also done not just for reconciliation, but it is meant to build us up.
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not to tear us down. So that is ah can be correction rebuking for us because the when we correct someone, we have to be mindful that in everything we do, we do it with loving kindness, with the...
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ah goal of reconciliation and building somebody up, not with condemnation and judgment and the tearing down of another person.
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That is not what God does. And since we are to become imitators of God, then we need to be correcting even the way God corrects. So I'm telling us this ahead of time so that as we read today's scripture, that we will have our eyes opened and our ears opened so that we may see and hear and have understanding of what it is that we are hearing.
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So with that in mind, we are going to open up our Bibles today. and I am going to start with,
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I wanted to see if I needed to include the first verses. That is for chapter 13. Okay.
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Bear with me one moment here.
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So Paul left off yesterday saying, I may brag, but I will brag about things that show i am weak. And God knows this is not a lie. Picking up today, Paul says, I have to brag some more.
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It won't do much good, but I'm going to tell about things that God has showed me. I know a follower of Jesus, and he went up to a part of heaven 14 years ago.
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In our big Bible, Paul calls this the third heaven, which can be very confusing. And ah just for clarification, so I looked that up. And what that is ah speaking about is that God took this person in the spirit.
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And Paul goes on to say, maybe it was just his spirit that went. I don't know. Only God knows. But like when Ezekiel was taken in the spirit for a vision, we are told that God's spirit picked him up by the head and took him.
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So this is where ah that similar ah type of experience can be explained. So Paul is telling us about another believer that he is aware of whom God took to show a great vision, whether he was physically present in his body or whether he was just in spirit, only God knows.
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But when this occurred, Paul says, I only know that this man went there and he heard things that he cannot even tell. They are things that God will not let people talk about.
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Sometimes God does give us a message. Like he gave some of the message in Revelation to Paul or to John rather, and told him to seal it up.
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He was not to write it down. And I believe God told the same thing to, I think it was Ezekiel when he was given vision, when Ezekiel asked questions. He was given answer to his questions, but God told him that he was to seal it up and he was not to write it down because it was not for other people to know.
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that is an amazing thing to be trusted with isn't it so this man is whom paul is talking about and the reason paul is talking about this is because i also want to remind us that in yesterday's reading the corinthians had ah were having difficulty with uh some people whom they were referring to as super apostles Meaning that they were trying to say that they were better than Paul or Timothy or Titus or any other emissary who had brought them the good news.
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So Paul says, I will brag about a man like that. But I will not brag about myself because I will just be talk because I will just so I will just talk about how I am not strong.
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I will not brag about myself. I will just talk about how I am not strong. What if I did brag? Well, I would not be a fool. i would just be telling the truth.
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But I will not brag about myself so that no one will think that I am better than I am. which is not what is going on with the super apostles. They are apparently bragging about themselves, which we spoke about yesterday.
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God has given me something to keep me from being proud. It's a place that hurts in my body, and it comes from Satan. It is here to bother me.
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Three times I asked Jesus to take it away. But Jesus said, my kind love is enough for you. And my power shows up best when you are weak.
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So I am glad to brag that I am weak. And then Jesus's power can stay with me. And that is why I am glad to be weak.
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So this is in contrast to these supposed super apostles.
Warnings and Guidance for Corinthians
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ah who were bragging about how strong and great they were. On the other hand, on the contrast, Paul is bragging about the fact that he is weak because when he is weak, that is when Jesus's power shows up the strongest.
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I am glad when people say bad things about me and I'm glad to have hard times and I'm glad that people want to hurt me. I'm glad to have troubles.
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I may not be strong by myself, but I am very strong in Jesus. And I'm sounding like a fool, but you made me do it because you should have told about the good I have done.
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am not less important than the super apostles, even though I am nothing. There is a way to tell that someone is an apostle and you can tell by signs and wonders.
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When we were with you, we did these. So apparently these people who were claiming to be super apostles, although they were claiming to be stronger and better, they couldn't do any works in the spirit.
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And Paul is a little bit irritated by the fact that when these people who were claiming to be stronger and better than the apostles, if they did not defend him,
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They did not speak up for him. And so that was to their discredit as well. Paul says that he wouldn't have to be writing these things to even say, to to remind them of these things, had they simply spoken up for him in his defense while he was not there.
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Now I am ready to visit you again, Paul says. And this will make three times. I will not be any trouble to you. Paul is referring to the fact that he does not ask them for financial support while he is visiting.
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Just like he did not ask for financial support while he was visiting previously on any other trip. I do not want your things, Paul says.
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i want you And this is where I'm going to also insert verse 19 of verse 12, which goes on to say, All along you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you.
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It is before God that we have been speaking in Messiah and all for building you up, loved ones.
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And I am afraid that you may be fussing. You may be wanting things that others have. Our big Bible says that, for I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I may find you not as I wish, or I may be found by you not as you wish, but that there will be strife and envy and outbursts of anger, self-seeking disputes, hateful talk, gossip, arrogance, unruly commotions.
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I am afraid that you may be acting in anger. You may be wanting things that others have. You may be in groups against each other. You may be saying bad things about each other, and you may be proud.
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Remember, Paul had already spoken about these things to them in his first letter. Then I will be sad about people who sinned and have not changed.
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They have not chosen to do what is right. They have used sex in a wrong way and their hearts are not clean and good.
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Here I am going to insert verse 1 of chapter 13. This is the third time I am coming to you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
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This is quoting Deuteronomy chapter 19 verse 15 that says, 18 verse 16 where Jesus says,
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for any offence or sin that he commit by the word of two or three witnesses is a case to be established and this is confirmed in matthew eighteen verse sixteen where jesus says Remember, Jesus came to uphold, not abolish Paul goes to say,
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so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand remember jesus came to uphold not to abolish god's ways
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paul goes on to say
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I spoke a warning when I was with you the second time, though now I am away. I am again speaking a warning to those who have sinned before, as well as to all the rest, that if and I will not spare anyone.
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And since you are demanding proof that Messiah is speaking through me, he is not weak toward you, but powerful among you. Jesus is strong enough to deal with you.
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He may not have seemed strong when he died on the cross, but he is alive now because of God's power. And we may not seem very strong, but by God's power, we will live with him and serve you.
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Look at yourselves. See if you are believers. Test yourselves. Don't you know that Jesus is in you He is in you unless you don't believe.
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So we pray that you will not do anything wrong. We want you to do what is right. It's not that we worry about looking like we failed, but we can't do anything against the truth.
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We can work only for the truth. Remember Paul spoke about that yesterday.
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We are glad if we are weak and you are strong. And we pray that you will do what is right. And that is why I am writing to you.
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i do not want to be hard on you. God put me in charge, but I should build you up, not tear you down. At last, I want to say goodbye.
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Try to be clean from sin and to be good. Listen to what I say. Agree together. Live in peace. And then the God of love and shalom will be with you. I'm going to read verses 10 and 11 out of our Big Bible.
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For this reason I write these things while I am absent, so that when I am present, I need not proceed harshly, according to the authority which the Lord gave me, for building up and not for tearing down.
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Finally, brothers and sisters, aim for restoration. Encourage one another. Be of the same mind. Live in shalom, and the God of love and shalom will be with you.
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When you tell each other hello, give a kiss that is godly, and all God's people here say hello. From Paul and Timothy.
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Now we are going to begin the book of Romans chapter one.
Introduction to Romans
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There's a little bit in Acts chapter 20, just verses one through three, because this is written chronologically.
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So this tells us the timeframe for which this occurred. And we actually have a great deal of confidence that this was written and about 57, over the winter of to
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Paul traveled through Macedonia and he cheered up Jesus' followers there. So this is where he did after his letter go on to Corinth. At last he came to Greece and he stayed there for three months.
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Now while Paul was in Greece, he wrote a letter and he sent it to his friends in Rome. I wanted to give us a little bit of backstory on this community in Rome.
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What's interesting about the community of believers in Rome is that it was not started by emissaries. It was most likely started by those who were in attendance at Shavuot when the Holy Spirit was given to the apostles and that many were saved that day and were but and became believers and were baptized and they too received God's Holy Spirit.
00:19:07
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And then they returned to Rome. that is what is unique about the ah community in Rome. So it was not built ah from the apostles. It wasn't started that way.
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So while they lived in Rome, these new believers, we read in Acts that there was a great deal of uproar that occurred by the people ah bringing this news, this good news about Jesus.
00:19:37
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And so ah it eventually resulted in and Priscilla and Aquila being told to leave that area. And that's when they left.
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And that's because the leader in that area did not make any distinction between Messianic Jews and gentiles who believed in jesus from jewish people who did not believe in jesus and so they simply viewed them because they shared this common background now with the old covenant that they declared that they were pretty much the same and because they had they were holding to the some of the same traditions and beliefs and they expelled the Jewish and now Gentile believers and Messianic believers from that area. And remember that's why Priscilla and Nikila had to leave.
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So this had been about 10 years now. And so now there was division, ah between the Jewish people and the believers in Messiah because they viewed the believers in Messiah as the the reason for their problems.
00:20:47
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Does that sound familiar? For a long time, Gentile believers blamed Jewish people. And here we have the Jewish people who are blaming the Gentile believers for them having to be expelled because they had to lose their home.
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So now 10 years later, they were allowed to come back. But now there is division in the communities between and Gentile believers and Messianic believers ah together versus Jewish people who are not believers.
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So that's a little bit of background there as to what's going on in Rome. So this has now prompted Paul's letter to the Romans.
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To my friends in Rome, I am praying that God will let me come see you. Lots of times I have made plans to come see you, but I have not been able to come.
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I want to teach you the good news about Jesus. Now I'm not shy about the good news. It is God's power. It saves everybody who believes. First, it saves the Jewish people, and then it saves people who are not Jewish.
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So this letter is written both to Jewish people and Gentile believers. So this letter is written to both. It encompasses both believers ah both sets of people, whether they are believers yet or not.
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Very interesting. I told you I hope you were hungry today.
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First, it saves the Jewish people, and then it saves people who are not Jewish. God shows how we can be right with him. We can be right by believing.
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Now, remember, this was also holding true um to the people who were Jewish because Abraham was given credit for righteousness by his faith, which means he believed god God is showing his anger.
God's Anger and Believers' Responsibility
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He is against anything that leaves him out. The Jewish people were leaving out Jesus. He is against sinful people who hide the truth by their sins.
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This would also be speaking to the Gentile believers or the Messianic believers. These people know about God. Now he is speaking about unbelievers as well. God has clearly shown who he is.
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God showed his greatness and people can see his greatness by looking at what he made. So there is no reason for people not to believe. He's referring to in God at all.
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And these sinful people knew God, but they did not show how great he was. And they did not thank him. Their thoughts were no good. Their hearts were foolish and dark, and they said they were wise.
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But they were really fools, and they made figures of people and animals, and they said these idols were God. They did not worship and serve their maker.
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Instead, they worshiped and served what they made. So God let them go. He let them have the sin that their hearts wanted. They didn't even care about their own bodies, and instead they sinned with sex.
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They threw away the truth of God, and they held on to a lie. So God let them do what they wanted so badly to do, and he let them do things that made them feel like nothing.
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Men wanted sex with men. Women wanted sex with women. And this is not the way God made it to be. In their bodies, they were paid back for their sin, Paul writes.
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They did not think it was important to know God. So he let them have minds full of nothing important, and he let them do what they should not do. We just read yesterday in Paul's second letter to the Corinthians that knowing and understanding God is what God delights in.
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And these people, unbelievers, they did not think it was important to know God.
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Sinful people are now full of all kinds of sin. They want what others have, they kill, they fuss and fight, they lie, they hate people, they say bad things about others.
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They hate God, they are rude, they are proud, they brag, they make up new ways to sin. They do not obey their parents.
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They don't think, they don't believe, they seem to have no feelings. They are not kind. They know what is right.
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They know what God says. They know that they should die for what they have done. But still, they do those things. And they think it's all right when other people do those things too.
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So Paul is going to be, that is the end of our reading today. So Paul is going to be making comparison. This is the way that people who are even believers can still behave.
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And so we are learning in our second letter to the Corinthians that we are to put away these ways of thinking because now we are a new creation. We have God's spirit within us.
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And so God ah has given us this spirit for reconciliation. so that we can learn to be like him, to know and understand him. The role, part of the role of the Holy Spirit is to reveal God to us.
00:26:43
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Even though we can clearly see that there is a creator, have we all not met people who say, i don't believe in a God. i do believe that there is a higher power.
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Why are they so difficult? Why do they want to say and acknowledge that there is, quote, some higher power, but as we would say, God forbid, that they believe in actual God, this God, our maker, the one who has created everything and has given us everything.
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They can see that he exists. Paul tells us that it is easy to see that there is a creator. There is order. God shows his presence in everything.
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And yet people chose to ignore this presence. they see Even still today, people choose to ignore that there is order in the world. They want to say that everything is chance and and random, that none of this exists without just have it it having it happened.
00:27:48
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Or if they do believe that that there was something that that started things, they don't believe in our personal God. And so what the result is of this is that people are not choosing to think that it is important to know God because God is knowable.
00:28:08
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We cannot know his mind, but we can now. We could not previously know his mind, but now we can because now we have God's spirit. And so now we can know the mind of Jesus We have the mind of Jesus because God tells Jesus.
00:28:24
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Jesus tells the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is in us and he speaks to us. So we can know and understand God. This is attainable.
00:28:37
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Are we going to know the answer to every single question we ask? Possibly not. But we can know God and knowing God means that we are doing what is right and fair and with love and kindness.
00:28:57
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In contrast, people who do not think that God is important, they want to just do any kind of sin. they are doing They are seeking and searching for just doing anything and everything that their flesh desires for them to do.
00:29:13
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And it ends up making them feel like nothing. They are emptiness. When we pursue those things in sin, they cause us to feel empty.
00:29:27
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They cause us to even disrespect our own bodies. Whereas God, when we look in search for him and have understanding and know him, we have respect for the holy temple that we have become, which means we respect our bodies.
00:29:46
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We follow God's natural order of how we are to do things because the Holy Spirit will tell us what is right. So Paul is teaching us about re rebuking.
00:29:58
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All of God's word is useful for correction. And not just any correction, but correction that God is giving. We have to be careful not that we are not judging, as Paul will tell us tomorrow, that we are not judging because we have to be careful. We can in turn do these same things that we are judging people.
00:30:19
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The key is in the verse that we read today in 2 Corinthians, where Paul says,
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You are demanding proof in verse 3, chapter 13, that Messiah is speaking through me.
00:30:41
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So this means that the correction... The rebuking the is coming from God. We have to be careful that when we correct people, it is not our own judgment for condemnation that we are giving, but instead that Messiah, that Jesus is speaking through us using his Holy Spirit.
00:31:05
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That is key. It is very important. Correction is not from one person to another for condemnation, but God corrects in order to reconcile, as Paul has told us here today.
00:31:23
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He says, aim for restoration. He is referring to restoration with God. Don't be like the people who do not believe in God, who are just seeking to do whatever kind of sinful things.
00:31:40
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Paul is telling them that they he will be very sad if the people who have already received correction are still choosing to live in this godless way.
00:31:51
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So we need to remember that we are set free from the sinful patterns of behavior. Because the Son has set us free and we are free for real.
00:32:04
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We are free indeed. So we do not have to make these choices.
Correction, Freedom, and Restoration
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Instead, we are capturing every thought to make it obey Jesus, to make it obey God.
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And so this wreck ah correction is meant to restore us in our relationship with God and to build us up, not to tear us down.
00:32:30
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So what do you think? Was that not a complete, Feast? Have you had more than you can eat? but Are you stuffed?
00:32:41
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God's word is so rich. We read that God's word is is is' like riches in a vessel. and And that's exactly what this is. So we we are seeing and not just sinful behavior, but how to correct it in God's way, using for God to speak through us, not ourselves.
00:33:00
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Even when witnesses of two or three, like when Jesus was put on trial, he was sinless. And yet he was being falsely condemned, and even with false witnesses.
00:33:11
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So two or three people can get together and lie. We want to be sure that we are not condemning, that we are not judging, but that when correction is given, that it is indeed Messiah, Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit, who are speaking through us, that it is not our own judgment.
00:33:32
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because we can be just as guilty as they are. And we will read about that tomorrow. But I wanted us to have a very good complete picture today.
Closing Remarks and Prayer
00:33:41
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Well, thank you for joining me today. i hope that you feel that God has encouraged you and lit your light today, that you feel today's daily reading has a great deal of daily application in your life as we set forth to go out in our day and to make sure that we are not just willy-nilly correcting, condemning, and ah passing judgment on fellow believers or even the world.
00:34:07
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00:34:26
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And that is so we can encourage the metrics to help get God's word out. for encouragement, for daily application. All of God's word is useful for teaching, for correction, for building one another up, and for equipping us for every good work that God gives us to do, including today.
00:34:47
Speaker
ah hope you have a fabulous day, no matter where you are or what you are doing. And I would like to close us with a prayer. Paul prayed this at the end of 2 Corinthians in chapter 13, in verse 13, where he says, The grace of the Lord Jesus the Messiah, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. Amen.