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You take your Bibles and open up to 2nd Corinthians chapter 1.

We will continue on this morning.

Well, as we were saying, a little bit ago, we've had to make some changes this morning and it's been a reminder that we are not in control.

Here I am not in control, you are not in control of what is going.

On course, we are responsible for how we respond to things and how we respond to in circumstances and life changes.

But we're not in control and it's something.

I think often we eat, we have to be reminded of that.

In our life, we're going to make plans.

We're going to have things in mind.

We're going to have intentions, and those are going to get turned sideways upside down or all together.

Totally destroyed.

And in those moments, we always have a choice and our choice is simple.

We're either going to trust in the sovereignty and reliability of God and continue to walk with him in that or we're going to wrestle with that.

And we're going to want to somehow bring things under our control and we're probably going to end up.

If we go down that path, we're going to end up flustered and discontent.

That's what we always have before us, when difficulties come our way.

And it's easy for things to come into our life, like a change of plans and and to threaten to steal our joy from us.

Because in the moment, we're trying to make it, right.

We're trying to trying to bring it back under our control and we're going to get flustered.

Plans change.

Let me come to 2nd Corinthians chapter 1.

We're dealing with changed plans and the results of Paul having to change plans how he handled it and how other people handled it.

What happened with the Apostle Paul is he had planned to visit the Corinthian Church, a couple of times on a trip, he was going to take, he laid it out for them.

He said here's what I'm planning.

Here's what I want to do and then things changed.

The Lord intervened and his life in a different different circumstances came about and he had to make a change.

And I think his perspective on that is he just simply rested in got enrolled with the change and said, okay will do it this way.

And we'll move on with the Corinthians grabbed.

Hold of his changed plans and turned it into an accusation.

We talked about this already and our time and 1st Corinthians, excuse me, 2nd Corinthians chapter 1, they begin to build a case because his plans change and he didn't come when he said he was going to come some of the church.

You were probably already frustrated with him began to use it as a way to question him.

Well, he's not very reliable.

He says, one thing does another.

I hate when he says, yes.

He means no.

When he says, no, he means.

Yes.

Know, if your plans change.

And somebody begin to accuse you that way and say where you don't keep up your Bargains, you don't keep up your promises.

You, you change your mind.

You're like, you're fickle.

That might steal your joy, right.

If somebody came at you with that kind of a pointed finger and saying those things about you and we would probably tend toward anger and wanting to defend ourselves and and and and maybe go beyond that.

But again, what we find with Paul hear it's really a testimony about he, he knew who he was in the Lord, his security, his faith was not dependent on what was going on and what everybody else was doing, he was able to rest in God when things changed, he was able to rest in God when people pointed the finger at him, wrongly and walk through it and patience, love kindness.

And he continues in our passage to be an example of godliness lived out.

And we're going to go walk through verses 15 through 24 this morning and there's so many things we can highlight In this passage.

But what I called, it is a joyful servant of God.

A joyful servant of God, that's who Paul remained in the light of changing circumstances and people problems.

He remained joyful in the Lord and just kept the mentality of I'm here to serve God.

I'm here to walk with him and I'm just going to keep doing that and he didn't let the waves of Life possum up to and fro everywhere.

Steelers Joy, getting upset, getting flustered to where all you know, this is real, this is ridiculous.

I'm done with you.

I'm not doing that anymore.

I don't have had enough of you and those kinds of things, right?

We're going to walk through this passage again.

We're going to try to highlight three things here that that I see in the passage.

The first thing we talked about is the sovereignty of God.

I think Paul rested in the sovereignty of God.

God is working.

Providentially in the world, I can trust his work.

I don't have to be the one in control here.

Ested in the reliability of God.

He's going to go into a series of statements about how how certain we are of God's promises.

His word is always true.

God is faithful, Jesus Christ is certain and he calls everyone to have that mentality.

Know we can all trust in God, plans may change, but God does not change and you need to rest in that the reliability of God.

And then I think through his own actions toward the Corinthians and what he says, we see the humility of God's people especially obviously within the Apostle.

Paul humility.

It's not about me, it's about Christ.

And I'm just going to continue to preach Christ and they said that the end of this passage will get to it.

I'm just here.

To work with you towards your own Joy on fellow workers of your joy.

He says, at the end of the chapter, that's I'm here to encourage you and bless you.

That's all my aim is and he has to explain that with all the accusation was coming.

His way.

He had to take some time and explain this.

Again, I don't know if I've ever been in a, quite a situation that he was, it where people were making just totally wrong accusation.

But I've certainly had things kind of come my way that were on 100% true and I had to clarify and get contacts and give understanding and we see the Apostle continue to do that here.

Listen to come to the passage here.

Let's look as Paul begins to explain what happened.

Look at verses 15 through 17.

Are Paul rights.

And in this confidence, I intended to come to you before that.

You might have a second benefit to pass my way to you, to Macedonia to come again from Macedonia to you, and be helped by you on my way to Judea there.

For, when I was planning, this did I do it lightly or the things I plan do?

I plan according to the flesh.

That with me, there should be yes.

Yes, and no.

No.

And he's simply communicating my plans changed and I think he's indicating some things are out of his hands now.

Paul, He didn't plan things lightly as he says, and we're going to draw that a point here.

Under the, the understanding of the sovereignty of God.

And it's ultimately, God is in control.

We are to seek God's will in making our plan, and that's what Paul did.

He didn't make his plan slightly, he didn't just say what, what's easy I'm going to do that.

I'm going to do what's most comfortable for.

My flashy didn't do that.

He had a heart to bless others and happen is back in 1st Corinthians.

When he wrote the Epistle of 1st Corinthians to this church.

He said he hoped to come to them and he laid out a little bit of a plan.