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Two factory workers are talking.
The woman says, "I can make the boss give me the day off."
The man replies, "And how would you do that?"
The woman says, "Just wait and see."
She then hangs upside-down from the ceiling.
The boss comes in and says, "What are you doing?"
The woman replies, "I'm a light bulb."
The boss then says, "You've been working so much that you've gone crazy.
I think you need to take the day off."
The man starts to follow her and the boss says, "Where are you going?"
The man says, "I'm going home, too.
I can't work in the dark!"
Historical/Cultural Context -
Paul preached the gospel in Corinth in the early 50s AD during his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1–18).
When opposition grew fierce there, the Lord Jesus spoke to him in a vision assuring him that he had ‘many people’ in the city (Acts 18:10).
With this encouragement, Paul stayed on for eighteen months, ‘teaching them the word of God’ (Acts 18:11).
God used Paul’s ministry to bring about the birth and establishment of the church in Corinth.
Biblical Text -
-[Prayer]-
Life Principle - No Matter How Long You Have Been A Christian, Remember How Christ Found You and Only Boast In Him.
Life Point- Remember How Christ Found You
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You ever notice that people who lack humility are found in every walk of life?
They take pride in the most ridiculous things.
It helps to remember that we must have humility.
I don’t speak as though I have it all together, but as a fellow sojourner with Christ.
Paul states, “few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you.”
In other words, what state are you in spiritually?
Do people consider you wise now, when they once didn’t, in the world’s system?
What does that matter eternally?
It doesn’t
Are you wealthy now?
Or have some kind of power, in the world’s eyes?
What does that matter?
It doesn’t.
If you find your worth in anything the world has to offer, then you have indeed found nothing.
Is it wrong to have money, power or knowledge?
No, but that is not where you should find your worth.
Your worth is not found in those things, it is found in God.
Why?
Because those things are temporary they are going away.
They will not last.
That money you have?
That nice house, or that nice car, or that nice business.
When we look into eternity it means nothing.
It stands for nothing and if you put your worth as an individual in those things then my friend you are in for a rude awakening.
You may find yourself as one who gets in by the skin of your teeth.
You wanna hear well don my good and faithful slave?
Or you just want to hear, well....
What you put your worth in is where you put your sense of accomplishment of you are.
I am nothing, you are nothing.
Jesus is everything!
Remember, God chose the opposite things of this world to put this world to shame.
God chose the way of the cross which is foolishness to the world to put to shame the wise.
God chose weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.
The world at the time of Christ considered Jesus just another carpenter.
Then they considered Him a cult leader.
Then they had Him put to death because He was overturning their system.
It was their system because they had perverted God’s system for so long it was no longer God’s, but had become their’s.
Nothing but a shell.
It was a form of Godliness but had no power.
But we know that He didn’t stay dead.
He came back and it confounded them.
They didn’t understand it.
The twelve disciples under the empowerment of God turned the world upside down.
So what happened?
We as Christians started making deals with the devil.
We have let the world’s ways come into our lives for so long that we think it is God’s.
When it really isn’t.
The evangelical church today is not evangelizing for Christ anymore.
As a matter of fact, most people in evangelical churches today have no idea what they believe.
They just like the music or the feel good preaching.
The church and indeed the world doesn’t need another preacher making them feel good.
People don’t need to be running after the next spiritual high, as it were.
They need Jesus.
They need the power of God that Sanctifies them to their uttermost, so that when the world looks at them they don’t see Jesus as an add-on to their lives.
No, they see a life that is changed and different than what the lives of the world look like.
They either look at as an scoff at us and walk away or they say, “I don’t know what it is, but I want what you got.”
The more like the world we become the less relevant we become to the world.
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Here are a couple of jokes that the world finds foolish
Two muffins were sitting in an oven.
One turned to the other and said, “Wow, it’s pretty hot in here.”
The other one shouted, “Wow, a talking muffin!”
Did you hear about the guy who invented the knock-knock joke?
He won the “no-bell” prize.
Life Point - Remember To Boast Only In Jesus
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I have said it before, but it can be said again.
Humans have the uncanny ability to take anything and boast about it.
For example, think of the Jeans that students wear today in Middle & High School.
They are ripped and tattered.
They buy them that way.
I never understood that.
I think how this started was some kid was poor and couldn’t afford new clothes and then started to say how awesome they were.
So what happens?
It becomes a source of pride.
All the cool kids have ripped jeans, I need some too!
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