Don't be that person that like gets a lot of Bible knowledge
and then you think you're smarter than everybody else
because that's being puffed up.
And it says that one of you be puffed
up for one against the other.
You know, oh, I can't believe that they're, you know,
they're doing this with their kids or whatever.
Hey, just want to worry about your own self and worry
about where you're at and don't put men
above that which is written.
That's a good rule to live by.
So, being puffed up is a prideful and ungodly attitude.
And so, and it really looks ugly on Christians.
And a lot of people that get that way don't even realize
that they're there.
I'll admit I've been here before.
When I first got saved and I started going
to a Baptist church, you know,
I did start reading the Bible a lot.
And I did start, the pastor started calling me
the theologian.
And that's not a good thing to be called, you know.
But I didn't realize that what I was doing was like,
I had too much knowledge too fast and I was like,
I just, you know, I was asking the pastor questions.
It's not like I was rude to him or something.
But sometimes, you know, you can get too much knowledge
too quick and it can be a bad detriment
to your Christian walk.
So, and if you think that you know more than everybody else,
then you are puffed up because you don't.
So, look at verse seven.
It says, for who maketh thee to differ from another?
And what hast thou that thou didst not receive?
You know, this ability to get this knowledge that you have,
you got that from somebody, didn't you?
Who'd you get it from?
You got it from God.
And now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory?
As if thou hadst not received it.
See, people are glorying in things that they received.
And it's like, you got the ability to do that.
Yeah, you did the study, but who gave you the ability
to retain it?
God did.
And so, every good gift is from above.
Everything that we get is from above, is from God.
And so, we shouldn't be glorying in the things
that he's allowed us to receive.
Now look at verse eight.
It says, now you're full.
Now you're rich.
You have reigned as kings without us.
And I would to God you did reign,
that we also might reign with you.
For I think that God has set forth us,
the apostles last, as it were appointed to death.
For we are made a spectacle unto the world,
and to angels, and to men.
So, now the apostle Paul's talking about
how he's, they're put last.
You know, but people would look at the apostles
and say, those guys are first.
But they're saying that they're,
he's saying that they're last.
We're made a spectacle unto the world.
The world's looking at everything that they're doing.
And the apostle Paul, still to this day,
gets maligned by the Jews.
You know, I saw, I was looking through YouTube videos today
and I saw where it says Paul, the great liar.
And it's just like, no, you just,
you can't handle what he's saying.
They can't handle what the apostle Paul had to say.
And the apostle Paul had a lot of knowledge, didn't he?
But he wasn't puffed up.
See, there's an example of someone
that had a lot of knowledge.
But see, you gotta be able to take everything in,
you know, with what you can allow yourself to do.
You know, don't get puffed up
and don't get all this knowledge
and think you're better than everybody else.
The apostle Paul didn't do that.
Now, you're like, well, I'm not the apostle Paul.
Well, yeah, I know that.
But what he's saying is that God made them last.
God made them spectacles for the world to see and look at.
And then look at verse 10, it says,
we are fools for Christ's sake.
But we are wise in Christ.
We are weak, but you're strong.
You're honorable, but we're despised.
See, people will despise leadership
and people like the apostle Paul and still do today.