Looking for Paul

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Remember that:

• Paul received a good education according to Jewish tradition!
• His parents were Pharisees!
• Paul honestly thought he was right!
• But he was wrong because of corruption!
• When Jesus opened his eyes, he went straight away!
• And nothing or no one could stop him from walking on Jesus’ side!
• And he became the apostle of the nations!
• And he did it alone without the help or the control of the other apostles!
• Such an incredible choice from Jesus!
• And such an incredible example to follow!

______________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

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Looking for Paul
Where does it come from?
How does it grow?

Thessalonians Chapter 2 - For the exhortation we give does not spring from error or from uncleanness or with deceit, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak to please, not men, but God, who examines our hearts.

- No error! - No uncleanness! - No deceit! - Because we must be entrusted with the good news! - And it is an important responsibility! - And we can’t leave it to others! - We have to do our share! - When we speak about God’s word it is to please God not men! - And we must be careful because he examines our hearts! - We can cheat men but not God!

 

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Remember that:

• Paul received a good education according to Jewish tradition!
• His parents were Pharisees!
• Paul honestly thought he was right!
• But he was wrong because of corruption!
• When Jesus opened his eyes, he went straight away!
• And nothing or no one could stop him from walking on Jesus’ side!
• And he became the apostle of the nations!
• And he did it alone without the help or the control of the other apostles!
• Such an incredible choice from Jesus!
• And such an incredible example to follow!

______________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

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Where does it come from?
How does it grow?
1 Timothy Chapter 1

- I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who imparted power to me, because he considered me faithful by assigning me to a ministry, although formerly I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent man. Nevertheless, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and with a lack of faith.

- Paul speaks about his past life! - He says he was a blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent man! - He doesn’t make any difference between others and himself! - When he has to speak about his past life, he employs strong words! - He doesn’t look for excuses! - Then he speaks about his ignorance and his lack of faith! - In fact, he didn’t have the right knowledge! - He was under influence! - He used to follow man’s tradition rather than God’s word!

 

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Remember that:

• Paul received a good education according to Jewish tradition!
• His parents were Pharisees!
• Paul honestly thought he was right!
• But he was wrong because of corruption!
• When Jesus opened his eyes, he went straight away!
• And nothing or no one could stop him from walking on Jesus’ side!
• And he became the apostle of the nations!
• And he did it alone without the help or the control of the other apostles!
• Such an incredible choice from Jesus!
• And such an incredible example to follow!

______________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
  • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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Where does it come from?
How does it grow?

Titus Chapter 2

- You, however, keep on speaking what is consistent with wholesome teaching. Let the older men be moderate in habits, serious, sound in mind, healthy in faith, in love, in endurance.

- Keep on speaking! - Paul speaks to all the disciples without exceptions! - All have the same responsibility to speak! - They can’t shut up! - About the older men he says! - Moderate habits: it seems to be good for everybody! - Serious: we all should be serious! - Otherwise how can we defend our faith! - Sound in mind: to have a healthy mind which means being well educated! - Healthy in faith: we must build up our faith! - Our faith must be alive, meaning we must be active and not passive! - Healthy in love: we must show our love to others! - Healthy endurance: we must keep maintaining our faith and a good spirit !

 

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.


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Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

Remember that:

• Paul received a good education according to Jewish tradition!
• His parents were Pharisees!
• Paul honestly thought he was right!
• But he was wrong because of corruption!
• When Jesus opened his eyes, he went straight away!
• And nothing or no one could stop him from walking on Jesus’ side!
• And he became the apostle of the nations!
• And he did it alone without the help or the control of the other apostles!
• Such an incredible choice from Jesus!
• And such an incredible example to follow!

______________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
  • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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Where does it come from?
How does it grow?

Hebrews Chapter 2

- That is why it is necessary for us to pay more than the usual attention to the things we have heard, so that we never drift away.

- We must pay attention to God’s word! - And for that we need to read it and study it and speak about it! - That’s the only way to keep it alive! - If we don’t pay attention to it, we are going to forget it! - And Thus God will also forget us! - If we care for it constantly, God will do the same with us!

 

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.


______________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

Remember that:

• Paul received a good education according to Jewish tradition!
• His parents were Pharisees!
• Paul honestly thought he was right!
• But he was wrong because of corruption!
• When Jesus opened his eyes, he went straight away!
• And nothing or no one could stop him from walking on Jesus’ side!
• And he became the apostle of the nations!
• And he did it alone without the help or the control of the other apostles!
• Such an incredible choice from Jesus!
• And such an incredible example to follow!

______________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
  • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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Romans Chapter 1

- disgraceful sexual passion

1 Corinthians Chapter 1

- For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks look for wisdom

Galatians Chapter 1

- Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and I stayed with him for 15 days. But I did not see any of the other apostles, only James the brother of the Lord.

Ephesians Chapter 2

- God and Jesus are busy preparing the coming systems of things!

Philippians Chapter 1

- True, some are preaching Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill.

Colossians Chapter 1

- continue in the faith

Thessalonians Chapter 2

- speak to please, not men, but God, who examines our hearts.


1 Timothy Chapter 1

- He considered me faithful by assigning me to a ministry, although formerly I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent man.
- I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and with a lack of faith.

Titus Chapter 2

- keep on speaking what is consistent with wholesome teaching.

Hebrews Chapter 2

- We must pay attention to God’s word!

 

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.


______________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

Remember that:

• Paul received a good education according to Jewish tradition!
• His parents were Pharisees!
• Paul honestly thought he was right!
• But he was wrong because of corruption!
• When Jesus opened his eyes, he went straight away!
• And nothing or no one could stop him from walking on Jesus’ side!
• And he became the apostle of the nations!
• And he did it alone without the help or the control of the other apostles!
• Such an incredible choice from Jesus!
• And such an incredible example to follow!

______________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
  • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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- Disgraceful sexual passion: nothing has changed!
- This world is completely away from Yah.weh!
- It is completely corrupt!
- Man will never understand!
- That’s why Yah.weh must clean it!

- The Jews ask for signs and the Greeks look for wisdom!
- But who looks for Yah.weh’s wisdom?

- When we think Paul was chosen by Jesus for a special mission and he did it alone without having anything to do with the 12, he shows us the way!
- We must not wait for others to do the job, we must do the Job!
- Remember: Yah.weh needs active people, not passive ones!

- God and Jesus are busy preparing the coming systems of things!
- they are always busy!
- And they want us to be busy!
- There is no other option!
- We must please Yah.weh, not men!
- If we don’t understand that, we can forget it right now!

 

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• Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
• Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
• In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
• THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
• I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.


______________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

Remember that:

• Paul received a good education according to Jewish tradition!
• His parents were Pharisees!
• Paul honestly thought he was right!
• But he was wrong because of corruption!
• When Jesus opened his eyes, he went straight away!
• And nothing or no one could stop him from walking on Jesus’ side!
• And he became the apostle of the nations!
• And he did it alone without the help or the control of the other apostles!
• Such an incredible choice from Jesus!
• And such an incredible example to follow!

______________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
  • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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Where does it come from?
How does it grow?

Romans Chapter 1

- Just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a disapproved mental state, to do the things not fitting. And they were filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and badness, being full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice, being whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, schemers of what is harmful, disobedient to parents, without understanding, false to agreements, having no natural affection, and merciless. Although these know full well the righteous decree of God—that those practicing such things are deserving of death—they not only keep on doing them but also approve of those practicing them.

- If we want to please God we must turn away from: - Unrighteousness! - Wickedness! - Greed! - Badness! - Envy! - Murder! - Strife! - Deceit! - Malice! - Whisperers! - Backbiters! - Haters of God! - Insolent! - Haughty! - Boastful! - Schemers of what is harmful! - Disobedient to parents! - Without understanding! - False to agreements! - Having no natural affection! - Merciless! - Such a long list! - Human history is full of that! - Better prepare oneself! - Because with God’s kingdom, there won’t be any Moses to avoid destruction!

 

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• Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

• WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST

ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

• BUT 24,000 DIED!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

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• Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!
• THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!
• IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!
• YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!

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• In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
• An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
• To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
• When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
• According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
• BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
• And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
• SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
• BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
• What about you?

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• Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
• Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
• In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
• THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
• I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.


______________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

Remember that:

• Paul received a good education according to Jewish tradition!
• His parents were Pharisees!
• Paul honestly thought he was right!
• But he was wrong because of corruption!
• When Jesus opened his eyes, he went straight away!
• And nothing or no one could stop him from walking on Jesus’ side!
• And he became the apostle of the nations!
• And he did it alone without the help or the control of the other apostles!
• Such an incredible choice from Jesus!
• And such an incredible example to follow!

______________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
  • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

__________________________________________________________________________

 

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Where does it come from?
How does it grow?

1 Corinthians Chapter 1

- However, to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because a foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and a weak thing of God is stronger than men.

- Christ is the power of God! - Christ is the wisdom of God! - He acts according to his Father’s will! - In comparison, man is nothing! - Today’s world is the evidence! - And the evidence is growing and growing! - Nothing to be proud of! - On the contrary!

 

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Where does it come from?
How does it grow?

Galatians Chapter 1

- After that I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. But I was personally unknown to the congregations of Judea that were in union with Christ. They only used to hear: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now declaring the good news about the faith that he formerly devastated.” So they began glorifying God because of me.

- Paul’s reputation was preceding him! - And what a reputation! - Because when people know you in such a way, it is hard to accept the idea that someone has gone the opposite! - It means that Paul was doing an incredible job at the service of Jesus! - It also shows the importance of a good reputation even if the world is crazy! - But above all a good reputation in front of God, that’s what is more important! - A good reputation in front of men is secondary!

 

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Where does it come from?
How does it grow?

Ephesians Chapter 2

By this undeserved kindness you have been saved through faith, and this is not of your own doing; rather, it is God’s gift. No, it is not a result of work, so that no one should have grounds for boasting. We are God’s handiwork and were created in union with Christ Jesus for good works, which God determined in advance for us to walk in them. Therefore, remember that at one time you, people of the nations by fleshly descent, were the ones called “uncircumcision” by those called “circumcision,” which is made in the flesh by human hands. At that time you were without Christ, alienated from the state of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the promise; you had no hope and were without God in the world. But now in union with Christ Jesus, you who were once far off have come to be near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, the one who made the two groups one and destroyed the wall in between that fenced them off. By means of his flesh he abolished the enmity, the Law of commandments consisting in decrees, in order to make the two groups in union with himself into one new man and to make peace, and to reconcile fully both peoples in one body to God through the torture stake, because he had killed off the enmity by means of himself. And he came and declared the good news of peace to you who were far off, and peace to those near, because through him we, both peoples, have free access to the Father by one spirit. So you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the holy ones and are members of the household of God, and you have been built up on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, while Christ Jesus himself is the foundation cornerstone. In union with him the whole building, being harmoniously joined together, is growing into a holy temple for God. In union with him you too are being built up together into a place for God to inhabit by spirit.

- The Israelites had God but they didn’t deserve him! - Now all men can have God but they must deserve him! - Otherwise we can’t have him! - If we walk according to his ways not to man’s ways! - We can be blessed thanks to Jesus because he died for us! - That’s why we must not turn away from him because he will also turn away from us like the israelites!

 

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Where does it come from?
How does it grow?

Philippians Chapter 1

- This is in harmony with my eager expectation and hope that I will not be ashamed in any respect, but that with all freeness of speech Christ will now, as always before, be magnified by means of my body, whether through life or through death.

- Paul was working for Jesus! - He was entirely working for Jesus! - He was filled with Jesus’ mission both in his heart and mind! - he had no other desires! - His life was complete with it! - It was not a part-time job! - It required a lot of energy! - A lot of concentration!

 

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Where does it come from?
How does it grow?

Colossians Chapter 1

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and I am undergoing the tribulations of the Christ that are yet lacking in my flesh in behalf of his body, which is the congregation. I became a minister of this congregation in accord with the stewardship from God that was given to me in your behalf to preach the word of God fully, the sacred secret that was hidden from the past systems of things and from the past generations. But now it has been revealed to his holy ones, to whom God has been pleased to make known among the nations the glorious riches of this sacred secret, which is Christ in union with you, the hope of his glory. He is the one we are proclaiming, admonishing everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present every person complete in union with Christ. To this end I am indeed working hard, exerting myself with his strength that is operating powerfully within me.

- We must be worthy of the sacred secret which is Christ in union with us, the hope of his glory! - And we must reveal it! - We must proclaim it! - We must teach everyone! - Because the workers are few and the harvest is great! - And we must work hard! - And not be lazy! - There is no room for laziness!