27, tis so sweet to trust in Jesus.
excellent seeing everybody. Will the Raji please open us in a word of prayer. Amen.
All right if you want to take your hymnals we're gonna turn to page number 44.
It's page number 44.
To
and sing everybody at this time,
we will have our announcements.
All right, welcome everyone.
The verse of the week is Romans 8, verses 28,
Romans 8, verse 28, and we will know
that all things work together for good to them
that love God and to them who are called according
to his purpose.
That is Romans 8, verse 28.
Alright, service times are at 10.30 and 3.30 on Sundays and 6.30 I have Wednesday Bible
study.
So many times will be at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday and 1.00 p.m. on Sunday.
Let's see here, were there any additional since Sunday?
Nope, one.
Any others?
Okay.
for the year 66 for the year I believe so attendance is down below then
understand so upcoming events we have
August 23rd, which is this Saturday, will be my wife's baby shower. It will be at 1 p.m.
PLEOS RSVP if you have not and you attend to go. Also on August 30th,
which will be not this Sunday, but the following week will be last weekend,
so it will be in Cheney for sole winning. I ask Ryan for more details and then also the following week will be
a man's preaching night, first time we've had that in years, so looking forward to all
the messages that will come forward.
And for kids to please remember that Proverbs 20 verse 11 is the memory verse, and if you
can recite it, you get a piece of candy from Miss Kylie.
So just a good thing to look forward to.
All right, preach schedule coming up, it's all out of whack, so ignore that, but we have
numerous birthdays.
And I'm out of touch.
How are we up?
Are we not?
Do we need to sing?
What's going on here?
Sing?
Oh.
All right.
So I'm going to just say everybody.
Because at that point, I think it's like half the church.
I don't know.
It's happy birthday, everybody, I think.
But yeah, let's go ahead and sing for all the birthdays
that we've had recently, all right?
I miss that all up I couldn't get all the names done but happy birthday everyone it's great to have so much celebration all together
so congratulations to all of that and I think there have been gifts and will be gifts so amen
alright no anniversaries that I know and we still have one at the end of the month that is for James
All right, um, I believe that is all a tithe information is down below
Tins down and if you have any further prayer requests, please just slip the Thompson's or myself. No, and we will get it into the Bulletin
All right, but with that let's turn to the Lord in prayer
We're going to do Psalm 119, but the papers seem to have gone missing.
Then we're going to do Psalm 11 instead.
Take your Bibles and turn to Psalm chapter number 11.
Psalm number 11
Psalm number 11 we'll sing it out on the first in the Lord put I my trust
I'll say to my soul
Flee as a bird to your mountain
The chill
His countenance, doth behold, doth behold the upright, and the Lord put I my trust.
All right, Existing everybody, this time we will pray for the offering.
Really Father, thank you so much for all that we have. The Lord has never overbooked
each little blessing that we have for the Lord. Continuously bless us throughout
Hey, man.
First Corinthians chapter one, first Corinthians chapter one, and here at
Shure Foundation Baptist Church we read the entire chapter before the
preaching, so if everybody can go to first Corinthians chapter one. First
Corinthians chapter one, the Bible reads...
Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and
Sothness our brother unto the church of God which is at Corinth to them that are
Sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours
Grace be unto you in peace from God our Father
and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God
which is given to you by Jesus Christ.
Then in everything you are enriched by Him
in all utterance and in all knowledge.
Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you
so that you become behind in no gift
waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
who shall also confirm you unto the end
that you may be blameless
in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is faithful by whom you were called unto the fellowship of his son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Now I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same
thing and that there be no divisions among you but that you be perfectly joined together in the
same mind in the same judgment for it has been declared unto me of you my brethren by them which
that there are no contentions among you.
Now this I say that every one of you sayeth,
I am of Paul and I am of Apollos
and I am of Cephas and I am of Christ.
It's divided where Paul crucified for you
or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
I thank God that I baptized none of you
but Crispus and Gaius, or Gaius.
Lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name
and I baptized also the household of Stefanius besides.
I know not whether I baptize any other, for Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach
the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none
effect.
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which
are saved it is the power of God.
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the
understanding of the prudent.
Where is the wise?
Where is the scribe?
God made foolish the wisdom of this world for after that in the wisdom of God by the world
Wisdom knew not God it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe
For the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom
But we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishness
But unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks
Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God because the foolishness of God is wiser than men and
The weakness of God is stronger than men
or the
Yeah, okay for you see you're calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty
Not many noble are called
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God has chosen the weak things of the world
To confound the things which are mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised God have God chosen you
Yay, and things which are not to bring to nothing things that are
that no flesh should glory in his presence,
but of him are you in Christ Jesus who, of God,
is made unto us wisdom and righteousness
and sanctification and redemption,
that according as it is written,
he that gloryeth, let him glory in the Lord."
Brother Paul, would you go ahead
and pray for the service?
Heavenly Father, thank you so much for allowing us
to give the whole chapter of Preach, Lord.
May our minds be attentive as we start a new book and study,
and we have years to hear what brings us prepared for us.
Let's just be at a five and we'll glory you from your word.
Jesus' name, amen.
Amen, you guys are there.
In 1 Corinthians, we're gonna look at verse number one
where the Bible says, Paul called me an apostle
of Jesus Christ through the will of God
and sauced the knees, our brother.
The title of my sermon tonight is signs and wisdom.
Let's pray.
Do you offer to God?
Thank you so much for the day.
Thank you so much.
For this church, God, thank you so much.
For everybody that came that I got
and took time of their week
and their busy schedule to come
and hear your preaching, God.
I just pray that you would fill me
with your Holy Spirit right now, God,
and help me to have wisdom with what I say
from this chapter, God,
and help me to interpret it properly
and help me to be able to edify the people
in this room with my preaching on this chapter.
Just gonna pray, amen.
The title of my sermon again is Signs and Wisdom.
We're here in 1 Corinthians,
and so as you could probably imagine,
this is gonna be the new book that we do
for our Wednesday Night Bible Study.
There's a couple reasons I picked this.
Number one, just because I like the book of Corinthians.
Number two is because there's quite a lot
of different topics that Paul talks about.
that are what I say different from the topics of Romans
because Romans like we obviously established
was a lot about Jews versus Gentiles
and faith or this works, which obviously Corinthians
is gonna touch on that a little bit as well.
But for the most part, it's a lot of different concepts
and also there's a lot of good content in this.
for a wide range of maturities in the faith.
So I just thought it'd be a good book to go over.
So we'll just start out this chapter right away.
We're gonna look at verse number one again.
It says, Paul called to be an apostle Jesus Christ
through the will of God and Sosthenes, our brother.
Go if you would and keep your finger there
in verse Corinthians to Acts, verse number 18.
Verse number one, I always find it interesting
when Paul names his helpers and name drops people
just in general.
And I think that this one was pretty interesting as I was studying it and I think you'll find
it a little bit interesting as well.
You guys are going to Acts chapter 18, verse number one.
It says, after these things, Paul departed from Athens and came to...
Corinth, which is obviously the book that we're reading the letter that we got that Paul sent to them
Jump down if you would diverse number eight of this chapter as well
It says and Christmas which that name will come up in this chapter as well
Says the chief ruler of the synagogue believed on the Lord with all his house and many of the Corinthians
Hearing believed and were baptized. There's a little bit of a side note
But I couldn't help myself just because of this wording when it says like in all his house an argument that people will submit
for baby baptism. I actually had someone submit this actual argument to me for why you should
baptize babies according to the Bible. And they didn't use this verse because this verse obviously
obviously gives the prerequisite that you should believe before you're baptized.
But they went to the verse in Acts where it says,
you know, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and now shall be saved and my house.
And then it talks about how that his house
believed because Paul went and preached on the gospel afterwards,
and then they got baptized.
And the guy said, well, it says his whole house got baptized.
So are you just going to assume that there was no babies in his house?
That was his argument for why you should baptize babies
according to the Bible.
I was like, are you gonna assume that there was a baby
in the house?
And even if there was a baby in the house,
guess what we see every single time
that someone's baptized in the Bible
is that they believe on Jesus Christ first.
Babies can't do that, so babies don't get baptized.
It's really just cut and dry, it's really simple,
but that's a side note from what we were going on from.
But again, back in that verse in Acts is I want you to notice that it's from the Corinthians as well again,
then jump down to verse number 17, that same chapter.
And it says this, it says,
then all the Greeks took Sassanis,
which is obviously the guy that he's talking about right here,
the chief ruler of the synagogue
and beat him before the judgment seat
and Galileo cared for none of these things.
So then it makes sense when you get this context,
why Paul is bringing up Sassanis here,
because this is his hometown.
So it's obviously unclear whether or not
Sassanis went and traveled with Paul after this,
or maybe he met up with him in a different city
or something like that.
But nonetheless, he's naming him because this is his hometown
that he's writing to.
So he's like, hey, Saucenese is saying hi too.
When I was writing this, it actually reminded me
of it would be like if someone was in North Dakota or something
like that, and they were sending us a letter.
And they were like, hey, we're here with Brother Nate,
by the way, too.
You're like, oh, Brother Nate, what's up?
It's basically like the same thing that Paul
is doing right here in this chapter.
He's like, hey, we're here with Saucenese from his hometown.
Where are we at either?
Go back to 1 Corinthians, though, if you'd left your place there.
First Corinthians 1 verse number 2 look what it says there says under the church of God which
Which is that current to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints with all that in every place call upon the name of the Lord
the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,
both theirs and ours.
Here's two things I wanna bring up from this verse.
Number one is this, is that people have this weird
understanding of what the word saint means,
but clearly from this chapter and from all the Bible,
we understand that a saint is just someone
that believes on Jesus Christ.
It's a saved Christian.
Now, there's a lot of religions that like to do weird stuff
with saints because they like to pray to them.
And if you're curious about that,
because this was a little bit of a side note as well,
I was asking a person one time, I was like,
Why is there a bunch of qualifications for sainthood in the catholic church and for like the orthodox church and stuff like that?
I was like, why do you guys make a big deal about that if you don't see those kind of things in the Bible?
And he was like, well, here's the reason why he was like since we pray to the saints
We need to ensure that we're praying to someone that's actually in heaven. So he's like so
Cause he's like, if you're praying to someone that's not in heaven,
then you're just like committing like necromancy.
You're like speaking to the dead.
So he's like, so when we pray, we only pray to like canonize saints because
then we can guarantee that they're up in heaven.
It's like, I have a better idea for you guys.
Why don't you just pray to God, the father, because that's what we see every
single time in the Bible.
It's like.
This kind of like actually blows me away like because not only do you only ever see people pray to God the Father in the Bible
You just never see anyone that's praying to a saint and when Jesus Christ himself
Gives us the example of how we're supposed to pray. He says our father, which are in heaven
He says that we're supposed to pray to God the father when we pray if that's the example that Jesus Christ gave us
Which the Catholic Church should know since they repeat that same vain repetition over and over and over again
They repeat that so many times and they can't actually get what it's teaching
Which is that you're supposed to pray to God the father not the saints
You think that they repeat that like 30 times and you get that but apparently not that's being spiritually blind to the scripture
No matter I mean no matter how times they repeat it. They're blind to what it's actually teaching because they're not saved
You guys are there go to
Actually, I'm just gonna keep you guys right there
There's one more other thing I wanted to bring up about this because I was talking about the Catholics again
They're on my radar for some reason that's kind of asking for it though
Okay, give me some mercy, but the second they want to bring up from this verse is this is that?
Paul identifies saints with a certain characteristic
in this verse and what is it that he identifies them with?
It says with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord
both theirs and ours. So what is Paul saying right here?
What do you have to do?
You have to call upon the name of the Lord.
That's how he distinguishes someone that's saved
versus someone that's not saved.
Someone that's a saint versus someone who's not a saint
is by if they have called.
upon the name of the Lord. And that just reminds me like with Romans chapter number 10, because obviously we preached on that song.
I preached the whole top sermon on that topic, so I'm not going to
really get off into that too far.
But like it's just insane to me that how clear that chapter is and people still want to twist it and say, no, no, no.
This is about physical salvation. Confessing with your mouth,
that's salvation on the physically on the day of the Lord, brother.
It's like, well, then why is Paul identifying saints right here with people that have called the
Jesus Christ our Lord. Sounds like a spiritual salvation right there to me,
doesn't it? But I'm sure that they twist that as well because here's what I just
learned about people. Some people just don't care what the Bible says. Some
people are just gonna take whatever they want to believe and they're just gonna
ignore every scripture that contradicts it. So then today you just have to let
them be, you know, wrapped up in their own beliefs, I guess.
What are we where we at first Corinthians 1 verse number 3 it says grace be unto you and peace from God our father and from the Lord
and from the Lord Jesus Christ, I think my God always on your behalf for the grace of God,
which is given to you by Jesus Christ, that in everything you are enriched by Him in all utterance
and in all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come
behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. There's again two things I want
to bring up from this. Number one is that phrase right there. It says that in everything you are
As I was writing this sermon, I was just thinking, like, how much of a privilege it is that we have the Bible in our life
and that we have the Holy Spirit in our heart, the Comforter, and that we are, you know, in Christ Jesus.
Like, it's such a privilege that we don't walk like the world does, where we're just blind and we don't know what we're doing in this world.
Like, the world, like, seeks for a purpose. They seek for wisdom. They seek for knowledge. They seek for how to live a fulfilling life.
and we just get all of this hand to do us
in the form of the Bible.
And all we have to do to reap the benefits of that
from the Bible is actually pick it up,
read it and apply it to our life.
But there's so much wisdom and there's just such
a blueprint for our lives from the Bible
and it's just a great privilege.
Especially when I see how people will waste
their lives on things in this world.
Like people will be seeking for a purpose,
for like some kind of mission in this life.
and then they devote themselves to just vanity.
They're like, I'm gonna be the best video game player ever,
or I'm just gonna watch all these movies,
or I'm gonna worry about my physique to the max.
All these things that people wrap themselves up in,
and they just have a void in their life,
even despite having all those things.
And the reason why is this is because
you'd need Jesus Christ to live a fulfilling life
on this earth, or else your life is just meaningless.
It's just purposeless.
You're finding flashy things to grab your attention.
But what does it mean at the end of the day?
Because it all gets burned up in the fire.
The only thing that lasts on this earth though is what we do for Jesus Christ.
And a lot of people would feel a lot more fulfilled in this life if they'd realized that.
Number two though that I want to bring up from this verse,
go to Acts 10, verse number 44.
Acts 10, verse number 44.
Oh, Kyla, can you give me that one or two please?
It's gone.
I got raptured.
You see it?
Is the water in the room with us?
You guys are going to Acts 10, 44.
I want to talk about the confirmation of the gifts that he's talking about in this verse that we see in Acts 10-44.
Because Paul basically, in my opinion, he says that you come behind in no gift, and he says, waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I think he's referring to the spiritual gifts that he's about to bring up later on if you know the context of Corinthians.
And also, I think he's nodding to the fact that the Gentiles, clearly in the New Testament, have the Holy Spirit shed on them, and that they get...
access to all the gifts that we see as well,
that are promised to anyone that believes on Jesus Christ
and whether they're a Jew or a Gentile.
And obviously to us, that's like, well, duh,
like, of course, if you believe on Jesus Christ,
you're gonna get all these gifts, right?
But the Jews thought that this was shocking.
They're like, how could God come upon these Goyem scum?
How could God come upon all these wicked heathen nations?
It's because the Jews lacked what so many people lacked,
which was self-reflection to realize
that we're all wicked at the end of the day.
And the only reason that the Jews did anything great for God
was because of God in the first place.
Acts 10, 44, it says this.
While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on them, which heard the word.
And as they, of the circumcision, which believe were astonished, as many as came with Peter,
because that on the Gentiles also was poured out, it says, the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Yeah. That's reminiscent of the language you see there.
It says, for they heard them, for they heard them speak with tongues,
which he also brings up later on in 1 Corinthians as well, and magnify God.
then answer, Peter, can any man forbid water
that these should not be baptized,
which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
So when you kind of compare these verses,
I think that he's making it obvious
that what Paul is referring to is the fact
that their Gentiles are confirmed, obviously,
to have the Holy Ghost because they're doing works
that would only be from the gifts of the Holy Ghost, okay?
And again, I'm not gonna break that down right now
because it would, it would,
Obviously, we're gonna come to that chapter later on.
So I would just leave you with that for right now,
but let's look at verse number eight.
It says,
I think it's kind of interesting with this
because he said that he'll confirm us until the end.
Why is it that we are blameless as Christians?
confirms us until the very end he stays with us and he says that he'll never
leave us nor forsake us right and that he cleanses us from all of our sins and
from all of our unrighteousness and when you pair this with Jude verse 24 I
think it paints a good picture of eternal security I'll just read this for
you guys real quickly because we read right there who shall also confirm you
to the end that you may be blameless yeah and then Jude it says now unto him
You faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy to the only wise God our Savior be glory and majesty
Dominion and power both now and forever. Amen. So I think it's interesting that in in first Corinthians
He's saying that he confirms us to the end, but in Jude. He says that he keeps us from falling
so that we can be blameless before Jesus Christ.
So it's like, when you think about that,
it paints a really good picture of eternal security
because not only does Christ confirm us to the end,
but he also keeps us from falling.
Because I think this is kind of a thought
that people have about salvation.
This is what a lot of unsafe people think about salvation.
They think that salvation is this.
You're in the mud as a Christian,
and then God pulls you out of the mud and stands you up
and he's like, all right, now don't go falling that mud again
or you're losing your salvation, okay?
And then it's like a constant battle of falling
falling and getting back up, okay?
But here's what Judah's saying right here.
He's saying, it's not this thing we're got.
We're like, he pulls us out of the mud one time
and then we have to keep ourselves
from falling back into sin.
He keeps us from falling.
So when God pulls us out of that mud,
He also keeps us from falling back into it again which would obviously be the picture of eternal
security. He keeps us from falling and he's able to present us faultless in that way. It also
reminds me of Romans when he says like bless is the man who God will not impute you know
iniquity or impute sin upon because not only does God save us in the sense that he forgives us of
all of our unrighteousness but he doesn't allow any unrighteousness to be applied to our record
Go back to 1 Corinthians,
I don't even know if I had you guys leave from there,
but we're going to look at verse number 10.
1 Corinthians 1, verse number 10.
It says this,
Now I beseech you brethren,
by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
that ye all speak the same thing,
and there be no divisions among you,
but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind,
and in the same judgment.
For it has been declared to me of you,
my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe,
that there are contentions among you.
So obviously Paul hears about these problems
because it seems like the house of Chloe with some snitches,
okay, they're going and telling Paul what's going on, right?
That's a little bit of a joke.
But what I would take from that little joke is this,
is that this should show you that there are some things
that you should bring to leadership
when you notice them, okay?
Cause like, it's very good that they pointed this out
to Paul cause then he's able to write this whole letter
to them and address the issues that they were having.
And they obviously fix a bunch of issues cause he writes
them another letter in 2nd Corinthians as well.
And he's not like addressing a bunch of problems
that they have in 2nd Corinthians.
So just not everything obviously,
We teach little kids like you don't need to tell your siblings for everything, right?
Not everything bad should you make necessarily mention to leadership, but it's like someone's like again
I said this kind of last week, but if someone's pulling you aside and being like hey
Oneness is true or it does take works for salvation or maybe we should start calling them Yeshua instead of Jesus
Like that is not a snitch like come tell me or come tell somebody about that because that's wild, okay?
But the second thing I want to bring about this is this is that
Something I've never really noticed in and I think it's being brought to my attention a lot
Just because it Paul keeps bringing this up in his epistles is this idea of unity and this idea of you know
Being in one mind and one judgment in the scripture like it's so important that we aren't divided as a church
And I've said that a lot but again, this is what Paul's breaking up
So I said that before as well, but it's like if God brings up something in the Bible one time
It's obviously important.
But if he brings it up multiple times,
it's because he really wants us to grasp the truth from that.
And the truth from that is this,
is that we tend towards fighting,
we tend towards contention.
And Paul is saying that that's terrible for a church
because a house divided against itself
can't stand is what Jesus Christ says, right?
So we need to be of one mind and of one judgment
is what he said in these scriptures.
And obviously,
I've kind of balanced that where I'm saying like, you know, this is kind of the balance I'd bring from this and Romans 14
Paul talks about how not every doctrine's the end all be all not everything's a big deal
Not everything is something that like bite someone's head off over
But then right here
He's kind of balancing that and saying that on the big things though
Obviously, we should be in one mind and in one judgment and that's what I want from a church
Like I don't want to go to a church where it's like I come up and preach eternal security once saved always saved
And then brother Calvinist comes up here and says well if you're the elect then you'll actually be saved like
We're not gonna have a unity in that church
if someone's teaching that, right?
Or I come up and preach a sermon
how the Jews aren't God's chosen people
and then someone comes up the next time they're like,
Israel, my glory is the title of my sermon, right?
It's like.
And obviously you can probably filter with people that are Zionists or whatever that still be the Jews are chosen
You can for sure, but I'm just kind of bring up the point that like in a church
It is important to have a balance of differing of opinions on minor things, but then you know
Cohesion and unity on big, you know topics of the Bible big doctrines in the Bible
Where we have verse number 12 it says now this I say that every one of you say it I'm of Paul and I am of Apollos
And I have Cephas, and I have Christ.
Is Christ divided?
Was Paul crucified for you?
Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
So clearly what we see here from the context of this,
and this makes a lot sense,
I think when you get the general context
of the first kind of things as well,
is that what they're doing is different people
have come and visited this church,
whether it be Paul, whether it be Cephas, or Apollos,
or maybe they just heard some of their teachings
from different letters or something like that.
or they've been baptized by these different men of God.
And people are like dividing over this.
And they're like, well, I got baptized
by the apostle Paul.
So, you know, I'm like more special than you are.
And then someone's like, no, no, no, friend,
I got baptized by Peter, the rock on which Jesus Christ said
he's going to build his church.
And then someone's like, I got baptized by Apollo.
So I'm kind of like, I don't know if Apollo is exactly
on those level, those are two guys.
But I don't know, maybe he was new or something.
Obviously that someone brings up Jesus Christ, but here's the kind of idea I want to bring from this that we can grab from this is this is that like
We all might have come to the church from different ways
We got saved by different people who are inspired by different kinds of preaching
We have different favorite preachers and different stuff like that
But we need to realize at the end of the day that we're not of those camps. We shouldn't be a church that's made up of camps and divisions
We're all on one team, and it is team Jesus Christ, if you believe on Him, right?
So we don't want to be divided because, again, being divided against each other
and having contention with each other is a great hindrance to doing the work of God.
So we need to be of one mind, and don't let carnal things separate us.
dive too deep and kind of undercut that part when I get there but I will just
say for right now we shouldn't have this idea where it's like well I'm of this
camp I'm of this preacher I got baptized by this guy and you got baptized by that
guy so you sit over here and I'll sit over here okay it's like hey we're one
body we're one church we should have unity as a church is what Paul is saying
right here
And when there's contentions and when there's fighting,
it causes the work of Christ to be hindered.
Verse 14 in this chapter,
it says, I think God that I baptized none of you,
but Crispus, which we saw in Acts chapter 18,
and Gaius, lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name.
I baptized also the household of Stefanus,
besides I know not whether I baptized any other.
Verse 17, it says,
to baptize but to preach the gospel,
not with wisdom of words,
lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
So the first thing I want to bring up from this is this,
is that Paul separates baptism.
from the gospel right here.
And people that are work salvationists
try really, really hard to lump those things together.
But Paul puts a separation right here and says,
hey, there's baptism and then there's the gospel.
And only one of those things saves you.
And spoiler alert, it is the gospel
and faith in the gospel that saves you, not baptism.
And Paul right here, he said,
Christ didn't send him to baptize people,
though Paul did baptize people undoubtedly, right?
that he sent him to preach the gospel.
And what is the gospel?
We also find out in Corinthians.
Go to 1 Corinthians 15 and we'll look at it real quick.
1 Corinthians 15, verse number one.
It says in 1 Corinthians 15, verse number one.
By the way, that verse in 1 Corinthians 17 is a, is a really good verse when you're dealing with
someone else, so wanting that things you have to be baptized to be saved. Because you can point
to that and be like, why is Paul saying that he's glad that he didn't baptize people, but that he is
glad that he preached the gospel to them, right? If these are one and the same thing, like a lot
of people think. 1 Corinthians 15, though it tells us what the gospel is, it says, more of a brethren,
I declare unto you the gospel, which I preach unto you, which also ye have received and wearing
you're saved if you keep in memory what I have preached unto you unless you have
believed in vain. And I'll come back to that in a second because people do weird
stuff with that verse too. It says in verse three though, for I delivered unto
you first of all that which I also received how that Christ died for our
sins according to scriptures and that he was buried and that he rose again the
third day according to the scriptures. Do you see baptism at all in those four
burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And Paul is saying right here,
the gospel is the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.
And if you believe in the death, burial and resurrection,
then you are saved is what he says right here.
Clear as day.
You don't have to be baptized.
And obviously I could point to many examples
like the thief on the cross obviously wasn't baptized.
Though some people I've heard argue be like, well, there's no proof he wasn't baptized.
Like dip him down real quick.
Okay, I guess they're Catholic.
They could just sprinkle on.
So, okay, but not so because baptism means immersion.
Like you're dunked into something.
Okay.
Where are we at though? Oh, yeah, I wanted to talk about that verse where it says if you keep in memory
Would I preach it unless you bleed in vain so people take that be like oh well you got a like
You know if you were to quit believing or something weird like that then you wouldn't be really saved
But what the Bible is say actually saying here in its proper context, which I'll probably
Breakdown more when we get to chapter 15 is this is that if you know the content of this chapter
It's talking. He's addressing people that don't believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ
They think that he just was he just died and he was buried he never came back up again
And so he's addressing them in this chapter. So what he's saying is this is that if you
believed what I was preaching you,
but then you thought that Jesus Christ just died
and never rose again.
He said, you believed in vain.
You have a false confession.
You didn't believe the right thing, okay?
So he's saying right there,
that's actually what he's talking about
because he says that if Christ be not raised from the dead,
he says your faith vane is yet in your sins.
So he ties that together.
But again, I'll get that.
I don't wanna get ahead of myself for that chapter.
Let's go back to First Corinthians one.
verse number 18, with this idea in mind that baptism is not the gospel.
And obviously, we're not against baptism. We're a Baptist church, okay?
But baptism does not save you.
The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and having faith in that is what saves you.
That is the gospel that you have to believe to be saved.
1 Corinthians 1 18 the Bible says this for the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness but unto us which are saved it is the power of God for it is written I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise and I will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent where is the
wise where is the scribe where is the disputer of this world hath not God made foolish the wisdom
of this world
What Paul is kind of saying here, if you boil this down, is this, he's saying,
Hey, the world thinks that how we behave as Christians is stupid.
They think it's foolish.
Like they're like the gospel, the Bible, your God and all of his rules.
They're like, this is foolishness.
But what Paul is saying right here is this is like, Hey, the world might think that,
but guess what God thinks?
He thinks that the world and the things that they do and the things that they
believe is foolishness and God is the one who's actually right in that scenario.
the wise with the foolishness that they think that God is preaching. Oh excuse me God confounds
the wise with the foolishness that they think that he is teaching okay. And it doesn't like if you
really break this down though like the foolishness of the world or I should say the wisdom of the
world okay so-called it really does it really does look stupid like I brought it up before but
like the big bang theory they're like oh nothing exploded and created everything they're like well
Everything exploded and is still everything.
Science, okay?
Like that's stupidity. Okay, that is a fairy tale
They can like get lost and all these other things are that surround that aspect
But nothing will ever be more dumb than believing that everything came from nothing that everything just created itself
When you see how like everything functions on this planet and in this universe, it's insane to believe that it's foolishness
It's stupid. Yeah, the the the perfect design of the human body and of this earth that we live on and how the sun and the stars and the moon
around and like all these things how the universe is perfectly placed for us to
have life on this planet and all the great science and the great designs of
the animals that we see on this earth and people are just like
just happened by accident, what would it like? How amazing is that that nature just created itself?
It's like that is amazing because it's a fantasy because it's not true because if there is creation
that means that there is a creator, especially when the creation that we see is like marvelous.
It's not just like like some rink eating stuff. It's like when you break down the science of the
human body and you really understand like some of the more complex things about how we work,
by accident. Oh, star exploded. Poof! Millions of years.
and now you're here on this earth. What an amazing story. What an amazing fairy tale that is.
But because they say it's science, hey, it sounds reasonable because you stamp science on it, okay?
And if you don't understand it, it's just because you're stupid. No, we don't understand it because
it doesn't make sense, because it's nonsense, okay? Same thing with the primordial soup. It's like
life came from non-life. That is so stupid. It's like it rained on the rocks for millions of years,
but they were complex rocks. They were complex chemicals, okay?
And then eventually, for whatever reason, it's like,
life comes out of it, okay?
And that's how you got here today.
Foolishness. Okay, when you break that all down and it sounds so stupid when you actually say it out loud
They're like no, no, no our best scientists in the world believe this stuff
Yeah, it's because they'll choose anything over the god of the bible at the end of the day
But I just don't understand because it's like what's more likely in your opinion that everything created itself or that there is
Supernatural creator that created everything that we see on this planet. It's like I just don't understand like matters eternal or god's eternal
Which one of those things makes more sense
Apparently to the scientists, it's matter.
Created itself even though nothing could be created nor destroy matter can't be created nor destroyed. It's kind of weird
What else we got here? Oh the two genders
It's like that's the the wisdom of this world nowadays
It's like if you believe that there's only two genders you're hateful and you're wrong and you're brainwashed by the Bible
Because science teaches us that there's just a multitude of genders. There's genders unnumbered
There's an eternal amount or a never-ending amount of genders. Okay. It's like is that really science though or you?
going overextending yourself a little bit on that one, okay? It's nonsense as well.
It's like the same thing with like nowadays they try to like convince us
with all this trans stuff like oh if someone believes that they're a woman
then they're a woman and if you say anything against that you're the one
who's you know uneducated and unlearned. It's like no I think the one that
thinks that just dressing up like a woman makes you a woman is someone who's
uneducated and unlearned, okay?
Give me a break on that and all that kind of stuff it blows me away.
I've kind of wigged out about that before but it does just make me mad
that like this is their argument for all this nonsense.
They'll just be like, well, if you don't like this kind of stuff,
then just keep your kids away from it or just don't look at it.
It's like it's kind of hard though.
When these freaks are walking around our society though, it's kind of hard.
Like you're just like gonna like just like get to get the blinders at the
Jews have or something like that.
Just like walk like that.
Okay, but it's like.
I just don't understand like how do we get here as a country or like you're driving by it's not even just them too
It's just like all this filth that's on display nowadays like I drive by and like see like this ad
I've seen the same ad where this is like naked girl on this ad you guys probably know what I'm talking about
Just by me saying that and I'm like how did that get okay in America when we're driving around when there's kids walking around
How did that ever get stamped and be okay?
And it's like, they're like, whoa, you should just keep your kids from looking at it.
You should keep yourself from putting pornography in the face of my kids,
what in the world?
Why is that all a responsibility?
Don't put naked people out on billboards.
Don't don't, even the women that go down to the river, all these water parks,
why are they allowed to defile the eyes of all these children that are going to the same place?
We went to Silverwood and we're like, hey, we're going to go to Boulder Beach.
We go to the kid's section in that little place and there's still girls walking around with like just no clothing on it's like
In front of children
That's weird and they'll say you're weird for even noticing that no
It's weird that you would put that in front of children in reality. You're the weirdo not us. Okay
That kind of stuff it just like it really is unbelievably how we got to that place in our society though where it's like
If you don't like it just look away. I guess just like who cares about children who cares about them
Like I don't know. It's bizarre to me first Corinthians 121 is where we were going to next
So don't go off too much on that but God says that all this all this is foolishness
That's why I was bringing that all up because it's just foolishness
It's like when you logic these things out like they just don't look at it
It's like okay, but why do you can't just walk around public naked though like actually naked, okay?
They would throw you out if you tried to walk into a place naked. It's like why don't they just look away then same logic, huh?
Why don't you just deep your eyes to yourself, huh? No, it's because weird, okay?
But then, like, somehow on our society, we're like, that's bizarre.
Like, to have, you know, no clothing on, bizarre.
But to have two inches of clothing on, completely normal in our society.
Weird.
First Corinthians 121, said that God says this foolishness.
Here's the reality things.
Life didn't come from nothing.
Life didn't come out of a primordial soup.
There is only two genders.
A dude that dresses up like a woman
is still a dude at the end of the day, okay?
That is not.
That's not foolishness, that is the wisdom of God, okay?
That's something that should just be basic common sense
in reality, okay?
But our world has gone mad.
But they'll say that we're foolish, we're done.
I don't think so.
First Corinthians 121, it says,
for after that in the wisdom of God,
the world by wisdom knew not God,
it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching
to save them that believe,
for the Jews require a sign
and the Greeks seek after wisdom.
Now these verses are really powerful.
These verses are really powerful when you understand what they're actually saying because I cannot tell you how many times I've seen people butcher what these verses are actually teaching from Baptist pulpits.
They'll say stuff like, you know, the Jews require a sign so what we need to do is figure out a way to give the Jews a
Sign and they'll say and the Greeks they seek after wisdom
So we need to try to win them over with wisdom, but here's the thing
Did Jesus try to win the Jews over with signs?
That's what he says in Matthew 12, 38.
It says, then certain of the scribes and Pharisees
answered saying, master, we would have a sign from thee.
They want a sign, right?
They require a sign.
He says, buddy answered and said unto them,
an evil and adulterous generation seek it after a sign
and there shall no sign be given to it,
but the sign of the prophet, Jonas.
So the scribes and the Pharisees, they're asking Jesus,
hey, will you give us a sign so that we can believe you?
But Jesus doesn't give them a sign.
What does He give them?
He gives them the death, burial, and resurrection
because that's what the sign of Jonas represents.
He's like, that's the only sign that you guys are gonna get
is the death, burial, and resurrection.
They don't believe that.
They don't get anything else, okay?
Same thing with the Greeks though.
Does Paul, I mean, he's talking to people
that are in Greece right now, Corinth, right?
Does he give them wisdom to win them over?
Let's look, look at 1 Corinthians 2, verse number one.
First Corinthians 2 verse number one of what it says there it says and I brethren when I came to you came not with
Excellency of speech or of
wisdom
Declaring unto you the testimony of God,
for I determined not to know anything among you,
save Jesus Christ and him crucified.
The Greeks seek after wisdom and the Jews seek after a sign,
so that's what we got to give them.
No, Jesus Christ says there's going to be
no sign given to you except for the sign of the prophet Jonas.
Paul says when he came to Corinth,
he didn't come to them with great wisdom of words.
What did he come to them with?
The gospel of Jesus Christ. So if that's what we see from Paul and that's what we see from Jesus Christ
Why would we differ away from those strategies?
And I just don't understand how people like break their neck trying to interpret this right here because my whole life
I've heard it preach that way. We got to give these Jews a sign. We got to give the Greeks wisdom
No, he can't he says that's what we're not supposed to do in this chapter. Okay, verse 17
It even says this was before what we just read earlier. I focus on the baptism part of this first Corinthians 117
He says
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel,
not with wisdom of words.
What does it say?
lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
Why shouldn't we try to win the Jews over with a sign?
Why shouldn't we try to win the Greeks over with wisdom?
Here's why. It's because their faith is not supposed to be in a sign.
It's not supposed to be in wisdom. It's supposed to be in the death, burial, and
resurrection of Jesus Christ. And when you try to focus on those other
things, you make the cross of Christ of none effect is what Paul is saying
right here. And if you read those verses in their context, it's exactly what it's
For the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom.
What did he say though?
But we preach Christ crucified
unto the Jews a stumbling block
and to the Greeks foolishness.
He says, hey, they might seek those things,
but you know what we're giving them?
Christ and him crucified. That's what they get the other day because this is not like the Burger King Gospel where it's like have it your way
Paul's gonna like just cater to everything they believe he says that God's already catered to you
You know how he sent his only begotten son to die on the cross for your sins and he was buried in your rose again
He says that's how God is catered to you
That's what God's given to you to believe and if you don't believe it
Hey, it can be a stomach block to you as a Jew. It could be foolishness to you
as a Greek with all your wisdom.
But guess what?
You won't think it's that foolish
when one day your knees bowing to Jesus Christ
and calling Him Lord,
like every single soul will do at the end of time.
First Corinthians nine.
Verse number 19 first Corinthians 9 verse number 19 again our faith should rely in the
resurrection of Jesus Christ not in
In like when signs in wisdom, okay first Corinthians 919 is that we're gonna have you guys turn it right now first Corinthians 919
Because I want to address this because I've seen people link these verses together and I don't think that what they're doing is right
I understand of why they do this though because it kind of would maybe
Make sense if you didn't understand that the context of chapter 1
Like you're just pulling sermon notes or something like that or pulling verse out of the Bible to make sermon notes
What I should say, but these two things are not the same first Corinthians 9 verse 19. It says
For though I be free from all men,
yet have I made myself serving unto all
that I might gain the more.
He says unto the Jews, I became as a Jew,
that I might gain the Jews.
To them that are under the law is under the law.
That I might gain them that are under the law.
To them that are without law, as without law,
being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,
that I might gain them that are without law.
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak.
I made all things to all men,
that I might by all means save some.
So people will take that and they'll connect it to verse number one.
That's why they get that idea.
Like we need to give them the signs and the wisdom.
That's not what he's saying though.
What he's saying this, the difference in these two chapters and these two verses
is this, these sections of verses, I should say.
First Corinthians one is talking about the method of how we get people saved
and how we should try to.