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0:00 You're listening to Waters Church podcast, where faith meets real life. Where 1 church, many locations, and 1 mission, to see lives changed by Jesus. No matter where you're listening from, you0:12 are a part of Waters Church family. Now let's dive into today's message from our pastor.0:20 Taking thoughts captive. The mind, part 1, the mind of a believer. So spring is usually the time of new beginnings. We call it0:32 spring because things start to spring forward. Grass springs back to life again on the lawn. Leaves spring out of the branches of our trees. Flowers spring out of the buds of0:44 the stems of the roses and the daisies. And maybe in your life, something is springing into existence. Maybe you're springing out of high school. Maybe you're springing out of college, springing0:56 out of education, and into real life. Welcome. Maybe, you're like me and my wife, and 1 of your children is springing out of the house. Spring1:09 is a time for new things. That's why we call it spring. And I thought before you think about what's changing in your life, let's do a series of messages about1:21 how God changes how you think. Before you embrace the change, receive the way to think about that change. So1:33 we're in first Corinthians for a reason, and this is a letter from the apostle Paul to a church in ancient Corinth, a city known for its wisdom, its intellect, its philosophies. Some people compare it to the modern1:45 day city of Boston, Massachusetts with all of its educational facilities, educational centers. People gather and debate the most modern ideas and thoughts of men, and this is a letter to that1:57 church. And Paul gives a promise to this church that is a promise for you and for me, and I want you to take a look at this at the end of the chapter, the last line of first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 16. But we have2:08 the what? Mind. Notice this. It doesn't say we might get. It doesn't say we have to strive for. It doesn't say if you ask, you will receive. No. We, Christians, have the2:20 mind of Christ. Now there's another passage of scripture where Paul tells us that our thoughts are in concert with the Lord's thoughts. In Philippians chapter 2 verse 5, he says, have2:32 this mind among yourselves, no notice the prophet the promise, which is not will be. Which is yours in Christ.2:44 Now this word mind here in the Greek is different than the word for mind in first Corinthians chapter 2. In In first Corinthians chapter 2, the the the word is phroneo. It means the attitude of mind by which you2:55 perceive reality. You have the mind of Christ, meaning that in Christ, if you're a believer in the Lord, you have a way of perceiving reality that has been3:07 transformed from your old life to a brand new life. You see the world in some way, shape, or form through the lens of Jesus. That is a wonderful gift.3:20 That is a wonderful privilege. When he talks about the word have this mind in you in Philippians, I'm sorry, that word is phroneo, that means the way to think. So not only does God3:31 change how we perceive the world in Christ, he changes how we think about our perception of the world. In other words, what I'm trying to say is Christians3:43 see reality completely different than non this is your spiritual privilege. It's a beautiful privilege. Now I want you to write3:55 this down to start us off with this series. Salvation doesn't just change my eternal destination. It changes how I think about my present condition.4:07 Listen. This this is not just, the the the gospel is not just the escape hatch. Is not just a fire escape for a building burning down. No. It changes how you see your reality around4:19 you. In large part, you are walking in eternal realities right now. You have a way of perceiving reality that nonbelievers do not4:31 have. This is why nonbelievers and and believers oftentimes cannot have intimate fellowship with each other because they see the world completely differently. How many are tracking with that? You know what I'm talking4:42 about? And what we have to learn to do in our lives is we have to learn to look past the conditions to the reality of what Christ4:54 is doing in our world. Amen. Now the scriptures are the bedrock principle by which we measure reality. We do not measure reality by the front page of the newspaper.5:06 We measure reality by the glorious narrative of heaven given to us by God through the scriptures. 40 different authors, 1500 years of writing,5:17 66 different books, 39 in the Old Testament, 27 in the New Testament, all with 1 glorious narrative that God has come in the person of Jesus Christ to rescue fallen5:28 mankind and redeem them and bring them into the glorious future of eternal glory in the presence of almighty God forever and ever. And we shall reign5:40 forever and ever. That's the narrow that's our narrative. I don't know what your story was, but your story now is I've got a5:52 future. I'm a champion. I'm more than a conqueror through Christ who gives me strength. Now I've been talking about this for a while, and I6:04 feel I need to close the deal on this narrative portion of my life, but I've been coaching flag football for a few weeks. Let's go. I told you I was undefeated, and I want to let you know that on Friday night,6:16 our team took the championship home. I have never stood on the sideline of a losing effort. Never. Never.6:29 I hope that changes how you see me. From now on, I'd like you to call me Champ. Pastor Champ, Reverend Champ, however you wanna say it. I know I'm gonna pay for that. Years from6:41 now, people will be like, hey, Champ. You gotta understand that's who you are. You are more than a conqueror. How do you see your life? How do you see you? How do you see your spouse? How do you see your children? How do6:51 you see the people who don't believe like you? There's a frame of reference that God wants to reorient inside of you through the mind that is yours in Christ Jesus. Now what was the deal with Corinth?7:03 Well, they were in a condition that was unhealthy, and Paul needed them to see beyond the condition. Now I don't know if anybody remembers these pictures from way back. They were called auto stereograms. Auto7:13 stereograms. Anybody does that ring a bell? We're gonna put 1 up on the screen. Some of you are gonna remember immediately. Here we go. This is an audio stereo auto stereogram. You know what happens in this picture?7:24 Supposed to fix your eyes a certain way so that you actually see a picture within the picture. And on the screen is full screen at other locations, but, you know, if you get your mind, your eyes trained just7:36 so you start to perceive that something in that chaotic mess that you didn't previously see. Now does anybody know what the what the key is? The key7:48 is to look beyond the picture. The key is to look beyond what is in front of you. If you can get your does anybody get has anybody got it yet?8:01 Does anybody see it? There's like a shark. Do you see the shark? Don't beat yourself up. If you couldn't, I couldn't see it on the screen either. I had to do it on my computer screen. But there is a I think there's a8:11 shark in there. Anybody? Nobody. Okay. Take it down. It's not working. I don't wanna freak you out. Let's put the word of God back in your mind. Yep. There we go.8:25 The picture is though a principle. You've got to learn the spiritual gift that God has given you, again, has given you in Christ to see beyond the8:37 mess, the chaos, the things that don't look ordered. Somebody once said it like this, that on this side of heaven, life is like an oriental8:49 rug, a real 1, not the fake ones at HomeGoods. If you ever go and see a real oriental rug, the the top of the rug is this gorgeous, beautiful, ornate, very9:00 ordered pattern. But if you flip it upside down, it's all these tangled wired messes of threads going every which way. They look completely chaotic. Here's your reality. Under the9:12 banner of heaven, your life could look like a chaotic mess, but my Bible tells me that God is working all things together for my good. There are things going on spiritually in9:24 in the heavenly realms that I cannot perceive fully yet, but I can get a glimpse of through the mind of Christ. Now what was the condition in Corinth? Well, Corinth was a very, like I9:36 said, intellectual, sophisticated city. Paul brings the gospel there. A church is born there in the 2000 in 2000 years ago, way back. I've actually been to the ruins of the ancient city of Corinth,9:49 and he talks about the condition of the church in the first chapter. He says it's been reported to me by Chloe, someone that was in the church, that, there's quarreling among you. Who who would ever10:01 have discovered fighting in a church? He says, here's here's your fights. 1 of you says, I follow Paul. I follow Apollos. I follow Cephas. Cephas is another name for Peter. I follow10:12 Christ. And and Paul says, this is ridiculous. You're all fighting each other over who's your favorite preacher. Or or or how about in modern times? Your favorite denomination, your favorite church style, your10:24 favorite worship leader, your favorite, you know you know, style of church service, and and and this is ridiculous. We get we still do this to this day. He goes, look. You gotta stop focusing on on the10:36 things, the small little issues of your differences and come together in Christ. And and so he reminds them. He says, listen. You gotta remember that when God chose you later on in that chapter,10:48 he didn't choose you because you were wise and sophisticated and knowledgeable. He chooses foolish things, lowly things, despise things, and and he and he chooses those things that are not very important in this present10:59 world to bring to not the things that seem to be important. God flips the script on society, and it says this, and because of him, verse 30, you are in Christ. And the and so then he says, so that him who boasts boasts11:10 in what? Boasts in the Lord. Lord. In other words, you are saved by Christ to be in Christ for the glory of Christ. Amen. And that is still true to this day.11:23 For every believer, in the sound of my voice at every location, I want you to understand something. You are where you are for Christ. I am in this family11:35 for Christ. I am in this job for Christ. I am in this church for Christ. Let me tell you what you do not say. You do not say, I am in this thing for me. You do not I am in this church for me. I'm looking11:47 for a church that meets my needs. Okay. How about you meet somebody else's needs because you're here for Christ? How about you stop thinking about marriage as what am I getting out of this person, but11:59 rather what is Christ doing through me for that person? You see, this is the reorientation. We need to look past the condition. Some of you are in a health scare. Some of you are in a diagnosis, and you're12:10 struggling to comprehend. Why would God allow this? Here's what you don't understand. God is weaving together the threads of your life through that sickness and through that condition to bring glory to the12:22 name of Christ. Sometimes God supernaturally heals for his glory. And sometimes God lets you struggle through the recovery12:33 for his glory. Sometimes God lets you gain for his glory. Sometimes God lets you lose for his glory. Christians experience the same12:45 hardships, the same heartaches, the same brokenness. As many non Christians, the difference is how we respond to it because we have a perspective that has been shaped by heaven. This is12:56 ours. This is our mind. So Paul says, listen, when I came to you in chapter 2, I didn't come the way you expected me to. I didn't come with high minding arguments, lofty speech13:08 or wisdom. No. No. That's your game. That's the world's game. He says in verse 2, I decided to know nothing among you except Christ and him crucified. I decided to boil the message down to the fact that there13:20 was this Jewish carpenter named Jesus who was put on a cross and was resurrected 3 days later. And I was there in weakness and in fear and trembling. What does that mean? Paul probably had eye issues. Historians tell us13:32 he wasn't a very good looking man. He was short. He walked with a limp. He had missing teeth, and he was bald. Eddie had an eye issue. Not an impressive man. And on top of that, not exactly the most13:44 impressive message. Believe on this Jew named Jesus who died and rose again. But there's power to the message of the gospel. It is not about who13:56 delivers it. That's his point. It's not about who's who declares it. It's not about how good they look or how sophisticated they sound or how wise they appeal to your intellectual sensibilities. No. The14:07 power of the gospel is in Jesus and him crucified, not in the presentation of men. I I said this a couple of weeks ago. I said, it's always astounding to me that I14:19 will show up here on Sunday, and I will preach, and I'll talk about Jesus. And somebody who was dragged to church by a friend, begged to come for weeks, finally relented and and very reluctantly walked14:31 through the doors, and before you know it, they're receiving Jesus, standing for salvation, and jumping in the baptismal bank tank. That's the power of the gospel. And he says, I did this, verse14:43 5, so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. And I want you to reorient your minds around what you think is so important, and I want you to get back to this14:54 simple foundational reality as a Christian. Here we are. We are here for Christ. His glory,15:06 his honor, his name. What do we what are we instructed to pray in the Lord's prayer? What are we instructed to pray? Our father in heaven, what? Hallowed be My name. Not my15:18 name. Your name. And then the next line. Not my kingdom. Your kingdom Your kingdom come. You know, sometimes it's hard to say your kingdom come when my kingdom's had a good15:30 year. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Okay. Pop quiz.15:42 Very intentional phrase on earth. Where does humankind come from? The earth. God took the dust of the sand, molded it together, and15:53 went inflated that that dirt that dirt balloon, and a man became a living being. Whenever we pray your kingdom come on earth, we are saying, your kingdom16:05 come to this body as it is in heaven. And it shapes not just what we do or what we experience.16:17 It shapes how we perceive reality. So 3 points about the believer's mind, and then we're done. Number 1, the believer's mind is anointed to receive godly wisdom. You've got an16:29 anointing in Christ Jesus to receive wisdom, not from this world, but from Christ. This is what he means when he says in verse 6, yet16:41 among the mature, we do impart wisdom. Now before we get to wisdom, let's talk about what does maturity mean? What does maturity mean? Here it is. Write this down. Maturity is a16:52 recognition that you do not know as you should. That's maturity. The book of Proverbs is a book of wisdom. And the ironic thing about the book of Proverbs is that the heartbeat of getting17:04 wisdom is to realize you don't have it. That's the irony of Proverbs. Because the book of Proverbs says, the fool thinks he is17:16 wise in his own eyes. To to to be a fool in this world, in your marriage, in your parenting, in your workplace, to be a fool in education is to17:28 think you already know. And you're ignorant because you need to have the humility to learn. In fact, Paul says this later to the Corinthians in chapter 8 verse17:39 2. He says, if anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. So our minds have been anointed17:52 to receive wisdom from God. Why? Because we need it. Some of you beat yourselves up and you say, I don't I don't know how to handle this situation. Okay. Just put a pin in that because we're gonna circle back to it in18:01 just a moment. The first step is to acknowledge you don't know. Come on. Welcome to some spiritual maturity. Like, the first step to healing your marriage is to acknowledge18:13 that you need wisdom Amen. About that marriage situation. The first thing about that child, I need wisdom on how to raise this child. Because how many know this, parents? The first 1 ain't like the second18:25 1. And the fourth 1, I haven't gone that far, but you know what I'm saying? So we we have to have a maturity to let wisdom be imparted to us, and then notice18:37 how he describes it. It is not a wisdom of this age. This is 2000 years ago. This is 2000 years ago when they thought there were hundreds of gods on a mountain called18:49 Olympus. And those gods fought each other, and all the catastrophes and the dangers of the world were a result of the gods fighting. And I wanna let you know that at the time that Paul was19:00 writing that line, that's what people thought was true. Today, we call that Greek, what? Mythology. Mythology. But it wasn't always mythology to most people. You understand?19:13 So he says, it's the rulers of this age. Now let me talk about this. Rulers this is a very simple thought. Rulers are whoever seems most important at the time. And he says, look, the wisdom of19:25 this age and the wisdom of the people who are important today are doomed to what? Pass away. This is so important19:37 that you understand and catch. Whatever seems important today, just give it time. Whoever seems right right now,19:50 just wait. This is the time of the ancient mythology of the Greeks, and Paul says, it's doomed to pass away. And guess what? Paul's right.20:02 No 1 goes up on Mount Olympus and worships Zeus, except a few nuts that I heard about when I was in Greece. He says it's a secret and hidden wisdom from God,20:14 and in those which God decreed, this is a wisdom that God put into effect when? Before the ages began for20:26 our glory. Ages means before time. In other words, God had a wisdom by which he made the world. Before there was the world, there was God's wisdom.20:37 And this is why every age seems so, attractive because it seems right now, but it's just right only for right now, and give it time, and we'll think that20:49 what was right in 1 generation is completely moronic in the next. I'll give you a couple of, like, extreme examples. Did you do you know that in the 19 fifties, doctors21:01 would prescribe cigarettes for people who had a cough? Literally, doctors would advertise, you know, camel smokes like this the the the cigarette doctors21:13 trust the most. And we laugh today because we think, of course, that's stupid, but they thought it was right back then. And do you know that we used to put heroin in21:24 children's cough syrup? I'm not kidding. This is true. And and today, we would never think of doing such a thing. Do do you do anybody ever have to remediate asbestos or lead21:36 paint in your house? You you understand that the people who put asbestos and lead paint in your house did not do so saying, I can't wait to21:48 ruin the lives of these people who are gonna have to remediate as no. They put the asbestos and the lip aid in the house because they thought they were good. And what I'm trying to22:00 say is that in every age, there is a accepted normative wisdom, and there are important sounding people who22:12 are all doomed to pass away. So don't Christians, Christians don't22:23 adopt the standards of the age blindly with the sheep of this world. I think it was bishop22:35 Fulton Sheen who said, he who marries the spirit of the age will be will find himself a widower in the next. What's cool today? How how about this? Go home,22:47 for those of you like me, my gen right? Gen x. Go home today if you still have it and whip out your yearbook. And just look at the hairstyles.23:00 And look at the shirts and the styles. And some of you will remember when we used to peg our pants. And we thought that was cool.23:11 So glad that the mullet is coming back. Maybe we can redeem the mullet. There's always a passing fad. And what happens23:23 is humans do this all the time in every generation. We experiment we experiment by getting away from what God has decreed from the ages from before the ages. We23:35 experiment, we fall on our face, and then we try to come back to God. That's what humanity is doing on a regular basis. Now let's talk about these 2 words, secret and hidden. Does that mean that God keeps23:47 it away from no. No. No. No. It's a way that Paul says, listen. You only get a hold of this wisdom if God reveals it to you. You can't search it out. You can't come to it on your own.23:59 It is a revelation of God. To be a Christian is to understand that God, not you, has revealed Jesus Christ, his24:11 son, to you. When when Peter says to Jesus, he says, who do you say who do you say that I am? And Peter says, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. It's an astounding statement from24:22 Peter. And Jesus responds in Matthew chapter 16 17. He says, blessed are you bar Simon Bar Jonah because flesh and blood, you didn't find this out on your own. You have been24:34 revealed this by my father who is in heaven. Do you understand that you don't find the truth? The truth finds you. You don't discover24:45 Jesus. He reveals himself to you. And and when you when you get ahold of that, it starts to change how you think, change how you24:57 perceive, change how you see people. It changes because God puts a new lens over which you see through the world, and all things have been reoriented reoriented around the25:08 person and the work and the narrative of God's only son, Jesus Christ. And and we just talked about this, and and heaven is gonna be the praise of Jesus. That25:20 the scripture says, heaven is without sun because he will light it up forever. There'll be no tears, no pain, no sorrow, no misery. Why? Because in Christ, the prince of peace,25:32 all has been renewed and restored to God's original intention, fellowship with us and the father. Number 2, the believer's mind goes deeper25:44 with the holy spirit. Some of you are snorkeling in the waters of waters church when you should be scuba diving.25:57 You're surface You're surface yeah. I I just like Sunday morning. I'm a Sunday morning only guy. And and and and God bless you, Sunday morning people. At least you're not Christmas and Easter only people.26:11 But there's more. There's more than Sunday morning. There's LifeGroup where you get to face each other. There's GrowthTrack where you get to find out your gifts and where you fit. There there's Marriage Reengage26:23 class. There's Alpha if you're new to the faith and you have questions about evil and suffering and and the hard questions of faith. There there's all these opportunities for you to dive deeper. And the Christian mind,26:35 if if if you're a Christian, and this is a big if, there should be, I mean this, there should be a serious26:47 inquisitive appetite for the things of God. Did you hear that? Yep. You said a pretty good amen. I'm assuming you heard it. Let me take a26:59 look at this passage together with you. Verse 10. Well, verse 9. What no eye has seen or ear heard or entered into the heart of man, what God has prepared for those who love27:11 him now this this verse 9 is a classic funeral verse. I've even used it at funerals. This is a funeral verse where we say, okay. When the person's going, well, what what God has, you know,27:22 prepared, what I I as a seen ear heard, or no mind has perceived, what God has prepared. And we think this is talking about a reality later. I got news for you. That's not the intention of this text.27:35 It's not. How do I know? Well, the very next verse. These things that eye has not seen or ear heard or or or imagined, these things God has, past27:46 tense, revealed to us. How? Through the spirit. When you become a Christian, your spiritual eyes are27:58 opened to the things that God has given you. These things that God has prepared. Now Paul is in verse 9. He's quoting from Isaiah chapter 64.28:11 And Isaiah was looking forward to the time when Christ would come. 750 years before Christ would come, Isaiah saw Christ. And and he says and and this is what it's gonna be. It's gonna be this glorious kingdom28:22 of all nations, and the Lord will rule over them. And he saw what I'm looking at right now, the church. People from all28:34 nations, all colors, all stripes coming together. Why are you here? You're here because of Christ. He brings you together. And this is not just here in Waters Church and all of our locations. It's it's28:46 in all the churches around the globe right now, in every country, whether they are public facilities where you can gather or private underground facilities like in China and North Korea.28:57 All over the world, people today are coming together from all nations to worship Christ. And Paul is quoting this image that Isaiah saw, and he's saying it's a29:09 reality now. And now you know the things that God has revealed through the spirit. What is that what is that for you? Well, when you come to Christ, you suddenly29:21 realize how much God loves you. When you come to Christ, you suddenly realize that God has truly forgiven you. When you come to Christ, you you you come to the knowledge29:33 that, death is not the end of you, that this life is not all that there is, that that money is not a possession, money is a tool,29:45 that people matter to God. They should matter to you. Right? These are the things that God reveals. And now look look at this next line. For the spirit oh, I love this. Here we go. Let's29:57 scuba dive. Let's scuba dive. Searches what? Everything. Everything. Even the depths of God. To be a Christian is to30:08 always desire to go deeper with God. Where are you right now in your walk? Go deeper. Where are you right now in the understanding of the word? Go30:20 deeper. There's some some of you do this. This is what you do. You make a terrible mistake. You try to open the Bible, and you do this. You say, okay. I'll read. I don't understand. I don't understand. That's why I don't30:31 do it. That's why I don't read. Not understanding is not a roadblock.30:43 Not understanding is an invitation to ask God to help you understand.30:55 Got it? Because a god that you fully understand is a god of your own making. There's always gonna be some31:07 aspect of this walk of faith that you will not understand. And it's not for you to shy away and say, I guess I just have to accept.31:19 No. It's an opportunity for you to ask the Holy Spirit through the spirit that searches, this word means examines everything, the depths31:31 of God that he wants to there's a deeper way to approach the people in your life who are difficult. There's a deeper way to approach the unanswered31:43 prayer. There's a deeper way to handle that person's criticism of you. You understand this? God wants to31:55 reveal these things to you. Where do you go? This is the problem with us. Where do you go when you need to know? I know where32:07 you go. You go to Google. And now you go to chat. Your AI bot, which is programmed32:20 to affirm you. Yep. A couple of months ago no. A couple years ago, I was preaching a message, I shared a story about an author32:33 and what he wrote in his book, and I thought it was true. I literally thought it was true, so I shared it. And we have a social media manager who creates all the reels. I don't do that. I'm not on my Instagram. This32:43 person's on my Instagram. They they know all that's going on there. So don't at me because I won't see it. They see it. And they put it up, and it went viral. And it32:55 was like 100000 views. All kinds of likes, praise hands, wow, cool, amazing. Where did you get this? Source, please. And and wouldn't you know,33:08 the author that I quoted chimed in on the comments and said, not me, but a good story. I'm like, what? This is not true?33:20 I I was wrong, and I was so convinced that I was right. This is what I did. I went to chat GPT, and I said, can you tell me if33:33 this person wrote this in his book? He had just said he didn't. And I'm still thinking he did. Chatty PT comes back. Yes. He did.33:46 He wrote this in his book. And I'm like, there we go. Vindicated. But then I pressed the sources button. And wouldn't you know that the source that Chachi PT used to say that guy said the thing that he actually didn't33:58 say was my real.34:11 This this is what the AI bots are doing. Some of you treat the AI bot the way you should be treating the holy spirit.34:24 Your first inclination. When when your first inclination should34:35 be, holy spirit, I don't know, you know, help me to know as I should know, in Jesus' name. This is God's word.34:49 There's someone in here who needs to read James chapter 1. Just could you please read a little further than you normally read in James chapter 1 for me? Because we love James chapter 1 verse 2. Count it all joy when you35:01 go through various trials of various kinds. Why? Because you know the testing of your faith. It produces steadfastness. Steadfastness has a full effect. You may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Okay, God. So35:13 thank you for the trials. Thank you for the trials. I know the trials. The trials are gonna make me perfect and complete. I know steadfastness is coming my way. Stop it. Keep reading.35:25 If any of you lacks wisdom for what? The trials. That's don't stop don't stop reading. I don't know what I'm gonna do35:37 with this kid. Okay. Ask God. I don't know what I'm gonna do with my husband. Ask God. I don't know how am I gonna how am I gonna get this job done? My boss is on my back. Ask God.35:49 Because he gives wisdom generously to all without reproach. And you gotta love that without reproach line because the36:01 without reproach line means that God does not hold it over your head. That some of the things you need wisdom for are messes of your own making.36:13 And he doesn't say, nope, I told you not to do that in the first place. No. He knows we're of dust. He understands we are weak.36:25 And when we ask him, he gives generously without finding fault. Now it gets deeper. For who knows a person's thoughts except that36:36 person? In other words, only you know what you're thinking. But good news for us, this is the illustration here Paul uses, so also no 1 comprehends the thoughts of who?36:49 God. Except the spirit of what? Of God. And verse 12, and we have received not the spirit of the world, but we have received the spirit who's from37:01 God that we might understand the things given us by God. You've you've got an eternal,37:12 not AI bot. You've got an an internal heaven oriented father who will guide37:24 and direct your steps. But don't stop reading still because Paul says, and we impart this in words. There's a transmission of37:36 God's wisdom through words taught not by human wisdom, but by the spirit interpreting spiritual truth to those who are what? Okay. So37:49 how do I get ahold of God's wisdom? You you you come into the house of the Lord, you receive wisdom. Right now, a mystical reality is happening in the atmosphere of every of our every38:01 single location. Spirit filled man is talking to spirit filled people about spiritual truths, and it is my job to38:12 interpret spiritual truths to those who belong to God. And what happens is there is an unfolding. Scripture says in Psalm 138:24 19 verse 1 30, the unfolding of your word. The unfolding of your word brings light and revelation. So it's38:36 the job of a preacher to open the Bible for people who are hungry for the Bible to understand38:47 more of the bible. We are people of the book. We we are not people of the ecclesiastical authority somewhere.38:59 We're we're we're not people of the structure. We're not people of the building. We're not people of the denomination. We are people of the book. And and and so we go to the book, this book, our hearts,39:11 because we are born again. Our hearts long for the word of God. Peter Peter says this, first Peter39:23 chapter 1 verse 10. No. No. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 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