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Series A – Sixth Sunday of Easter – Sunday, May 14, 2023 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough

Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough:

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0:22	The holy Gospel
0:29	According to Saint John the 14th chapter [Music]
0:37	said if you love me you will keep my Commandments and I will ask the father and he will give you another helper to
0:43	be with you forever even the spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows
0:50	him you know him for he dwells with you and will be in you I will not leave you as orphans I will come to you yet a
0:56	little while and the world will not will see me no more but you will see me because I live you also will live in
1:03	that day you will know that I am in the father and you in me and I and you whoever has my Commandments and keeps
1:09	them he it is who loves me and he who loves me Will Be Loved by my father and
1:15	I will love him and manifest myself to him this is the gospel of the Lord in
1:20	the name of Jesus over and again I am impressed in a very like horrifying way that sin has like
1:28	horrific consequences so horrific that we as human beings don’t even know where
1:35	we’ve come from we don’t even know how we got here in fact we invent all kinds
1:42	of strange ideas and on top of it we don’t even know who the God is who made
1:48	us so what do we do we make up our own in fact a good way to think of it is is
1:53	that we play the devil’s game and we play it really well because because of sin and our fallen to sin we well we are
2:01	our of our like our father the devil and so you’ll note the devil pretends that
2:06	he is God he self-identifies as deity okay self-identifying we all know about
2:13	how that works nowadays you can self-identify as anything if I wanted to self-identify as a birch or a pine I
2:20	could right but that doesn’t mean that orange are going to look good on me at Christmas time but this is all part of
2:26	the devil’s game the devil self-identifies as deity his pronouns are the almighty one and he teaches us
2:33	to do the same we lose track of reality and as a result of it we create realities for ourselves but let me
2:40	remind you what the scripture says of our origin on the sixth day of creation
2:45	yeah that’s right it doesn’t say in the six millionth year of evolution it says
2:50	in the sixth day of creation God the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit had a
2:56	little conversation among themselves and said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion
3:03	over the fish of the sea over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all of the earth and over every
3:09	creeping thing that creeps on the earth so God created man in his own image in
3:15	the image of God he created in male and female he created them scandalous words
3:21	nowadays one has to wonder how long before the government decides to have that removed from our Bibles or forbid
3:27	it from being preached right that’s the trajectory that we’re on and that’s not hyperbole to say that but the reality is
3:35	this is that sin is its own consequence but God you’ll note because of our sin
3:41	and Rebellion against him all the way from the Garden of Eden has basically
3:46	decided that he’s going to let sin run its course and When sin runs it runs its
3:52	course it really gets scary as to just how bad things are this is described for
3:59	us by the way in the Book of Romans chapter 1 the Apostle Paul writes starting at verse 18. the wrath of God
4:06	is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and the unrighteousness of
4:12	men who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth
4:17	that’s what Sinners do they suppress the
4:22	truth you speak truth to somebody who’s dead and trespasses and sins and you you
4:28	may risk losing your life or you might risk having yourself canceled yeah he’s
4:35	just kind of how this all works so what what can be known about God it says in
4:41	scripture though is plain to them because God has shown it to them his invisible attributes namely his eternal
4:46	power his divine nature they have all been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world and the things
4:51	that have been made so that men are without excuse although they knew God they didn’t honor him as God or give
4:58	thanks to him but they came became futile in their thinking I like this
5:03	phrase feudal in their thinking when I hear this phrase here’s kind of what I think about did any of you ever learn
5:09	how to drive a manual transmission car man I love manual transmission cars
5:14	they’re just the bomb diggity but to Alas everything is automatic here if I
5:20	want to drive a manual transmission car I’ve got to travel to Europe Europe is just chock full of manual transmission
5:25	cars but all that being said to become futile in your thinking is like having a
5:31	manual transmission car and doesn’t matter which gear you put it into the car still remains in neutral okay you’re
5:38	going nowhere and that’s the problem sin doesn’t make us smart
5:45	sin doesn’t make us brilliant sin makes us futile our thoughts become
5:52	worthless and as a result of it the scripture says our foolish hearts are then darkened
6:00	you’ll remember it’s the fool who says in his heart there is not there is no God now those of you young kids here
6:07	keep and keep an eye out when you get to college and you’re required to take philosophy 101 you got to think of
6:15	philosophy 101 professors the way you think of like old school bad guys in the
6:21	western era okay they are they they’re slinging their lead at Christians and
6:26	they like to put notches in their belt for every Christian they can knock Faith out of all right when you when you get
6:32	to that point and you have that Professor come see me we’ll we’ll bring we’ll bring the law to town okay because
6:38	these Gunslingers don’t really know what they’re doing they think they’re so smart they think they’re so wise but
6:44	scripture is clear they are foolish so claiming to be wise
6:50	they became fools and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man Birds animals
6:59	creeping things right we’ve all seen people who worship little statues and
7:04	things like this we’ve all seen photographs or even seen it in person and we all just scratch our heads and go
7:11	what is going on here consequences of sin does it make you smarter it makes
7:18	you really foolish and futile in your thinking and then it gets worse therefore God gave them up in the lusts
7:25	of their hearts to impurity to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the
7:31	truth of God for a lie and they worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who has blessed forever
7:37	amen for this reason then God gave them up to dishonorable passions their women
7:43	exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to Nature and Men likewise gave up natural relations with
7:50	women and were consumed with passion for one another men committing Shameless acts with men and receiving themselves
7:57	the due penalty for their error scripture is very clear the lgbtq thing
8:02	is a curse it’s a punishment from God you don’t want to worship God fine I’m
8:09	going to send you down the road of a debased mind and and have have within
8:15	you come up dishonorable passions this is all a punishment from God and since they didn’t seem fit to to acknowledge
8:22	God God then gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done and now here this describes Twitter by the
8:29	way if you haven’t been following me on Twitter it’s this is this is all over the place right now on my Twitter feed
8:35	they were filled with all manner of unrighteousness evil covetousness malice they’re full of Envy murder Strife
8:42	deceit maliciousness their gossip slanderers haters of God insolent haughty boastful inventors of evil could
8:51	you imagine having a patent on something evil okay that’s that’s a form of evil
8:57	we’ve never seen before and you’ve got the patent on it and you get all the proceeds and the royalties from it yeah
9:03	inventors of evil disobedient to their parents foolish faithless heartless
9:08	ruthless though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only
9:15	do them they give approval to those who practice them and I would add and cancel
9:20	those who disapprove of them right this is the world that we live in and you’ll note that in our first reading today the
9:28	Apostle Paul is in the city of Athens and if you know your if you remember when you were required to take Western
9:34	Civilization Nation the Greeks were the ones who gave us what philosophy in
9:41	human history the Greeks were considered to be the smart Guys these were the ones who had their mental act together and
9:49	over and again the ancient Greeks are held up to us as of a model of wisdom of
9:55	the love of knowledge and things like this but when Paul arrives in Athens
10:01	they aren’t filled with knowledge they’re completely blind
10:08	and that is the nature of sin and it’s absolutely terrifying and frightening because through all of ancient history
10:15	only a few of these Athenians ever heard the truth of the God who really created
10:23	us they were utterly ignorant of our true history and they were believing all
10:28	kinds of well how do the kids say it not to say it my way poppycock they were just filled with all kinds of
10:35	weird stories and in our day well it’s the scientists now they tell us that God
10:41	didn’t create the world no no no no no no no there was an explosion and then mama and Grandpa amoeba they got
10:49	together jumped out of the water climbed up a tree became monkeys and then human
10:54	beings dropped down right this is this nonsensical story and as a result of it
10:59	you’ll note that we are just as blind as these Athenians and so now the gospel
11:06	is going out Christ Jesus our great God and savior God in human flesh born of
11:12	the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate crucified died buried risen
11:17	ascended he has commissioned his Apostles to go and Proclaim that in him
11:24	is the Forgiveness of sins and that the resurrection that he that he performed
11:30	that he rose from the grave bodily on the third day was the proof that not only are we forgiven in him but there is
11:37	a day coming when he will return in glory to judge the living and the dead the gospel is now going out and it’s
11:43	reaching parts of the world where they have never even heard of the one true God at all
11:50	and the condition that they are found here in this account is terrifying
11:56	because you’ll note that as the darkness continues to increase in our days and it
12:01	is we’re going back to this in fact we’re practically there now but let me
12:07	give you a little bit of background on this one because I think it’s kind of fun to kind of set the stage here the
12:13	Apostle Paul is on one of his missionary Journeys and he’s wandered into the city
12:18	of Thessaloniki that’s actually how you pronounce it I’ve had some rip roaring debates with people about how to
12:25	pronounce this Thessaloniki is apparently the right way of saying this and we we know that we have a letter we
12:32	have two letters to the Thessalonians but when Paul had got there and he preached the gospel to the Jews in their
12:38	synagogues things didn’t really go so well they weren’t really keen on this idea that Jesus was the Messiah and as a
12:45	result of it they stirred up stirred up some trouble for Paul and so Paul had to
12:51	slink out of town so next stop on his missionary journey is a town by the name
12:56	of Berea and it says they sent Paul and Silas Away by night they had to skedaddle By Night cowardly thing to do
13:03	if you’re thinking in manly terms but better to be alive than to uh you know than to just do the stupid male bravado
13:10	thing so they selected Away by night to Berea and when they arrived they went
13:16	into the Jewish synagogue and now these Jews the Jews of Berea were of a more noble character than those of the
13:21	Thessalonians they received the word with eagerness Examining the Scriptures
13:27	Daily to see if these things were so what a stark contrast here you’ll note
13:33	the Apostle Paul true eyewitness of the resurrection of Christ he is the one who
13:38	Jesus knocked down blinded drug him into his kingdom made him an apostle and also
13:44	gave him the gospel directly via a revelation from God this guy I mean if
13:50	anybody can claim that he’s got Apostolic muscle and conflicts it you’ll note that in the book of Corinthians he
13:56	he makes distinctions he says this is a command of the Lord you need to acknowledge this is a command of God
14:01	that I am writing to you that he has that kind of authority and he can also say well this isn’t a command of the
14:07	Lord this is just my opinion he has to kind of like flip the switch to let you know which it is that’s the authority
14:12	that this guy wields as an apostle of Jesus Christ and when he gets to Berea
14:18	the bereans listen to his presentation they hear him open up the scriptures him
14:24	proclaiming Christ and him crucified for our sins that in him we have reconciliation with God and they are
14:30	listening to this with all eagerness and then they go whoa whoa whoa okay Paul we need a little bit of time here we’re
14:37	going to grab our copy of the Old Testament here and we’re going to check the receipts on what you’re preaching
14:42	here to see if this is really what the Bible teaches because we can trust the
14:47	word of God and what do they do they fact check the Apostle Paul and you’ll note he didn’t have a hissy fit like
14:53	today is false Apostles do today’s false Apostles you question them ah how dare
15:00	you touch God’s anointed right and and so as a result of that you you’re not
15:05	you’re not allowed to question any of today’s luminary Apostles which aren’t really Apostles anyway they’re false
15:11	Apostles the Apostle Paul true Apostle of Jesus Christ it is noted in Scripture that the bereans had a far more noble
15:19	character why because they fact-checked Paul so that means that everybody in the
15:25	Kingdom of Christ should be fact check from Joel Osteen to Ken Copeland to
15:31	Chris Rose bro right everybody gets fact checked because the Bible is true God’s
15:37	word be true and let men be Liars if they are found twisting and manipulating God’s words well the folks from
15:44	Thessaloniki got wind that Paul was in Berea they showed up and stirred up trouble and so Paul again has to slink
15:52	away this time they send him to Athens and you’ll note what Paul doesn’t do in
15:58	Athens all right he doesn’t do the tourist thing he doesn’t find a nice five Diamond Resort on the Aegean Sea he
16:06	doesn’t sit in one of them Shea’s lounges while tanning himself drinking drinking some uzo you have to go with
16:12	the drink of the of that area if you haven’t had uzo if you don’t like black licorice you won’t like it but if you do
16:18	like black lurchers you’ll love uzo it’s a fascinating drink but anyway he’s not sitting there drinking uzo what is he
16:24	doing he’s doing a little wandering around the city and he’s finding idle
16:30	after Idol after Idol and Paul can’t remain idle when he sees Idols he’s got
16:36	to get to work because he’s an apostle of Jesus Christ the place is a complete and utter mess of Darkness idolatry it
16:46	is a stronghold of Satan himself and so what does he do he reasoned in the
16:51	synagogue with the Jews first stop let’s go find a synagogue let them know that Jesus is the Messiah and that he’s risen
16:58	from the dead and there’s forgiveness in him and then he sets up a shingle I’m not sure if he had what is that
17:05	hey I’m not sure if he had to go out and get a permit to be able to preach that we we
17:12	don’t know but he ends up in the Agora the marketplace and he is preaching
17:19	Christ he’s preaching Jesus and him risen from the dead and he gets the
17:24	attention of the Epic that’s getting my attention
17:34	[Music] let me back out just a little bit okay
17:39	the Apostle Paul is in Athens he’s now preaching the gospel in the marketplace
17:44	and he gets the attention of the epicureans so philosophy it’s important to note this here these are men who are
17:52	going to be embracing a kind of a prototype form of gnosticism they’re
17:57	philosophers they don’t really have am a love for the flesh when they see value
18:03	in it at all and so as they’re talking with Paul one of them says what does
18:09	this babbler wish to say the Greek word for battle is actually kind of interesting the Greek word for battler
18:16	is seed picker let me just go with that translation for a minute what does the
18:22	seed picker wish to say now if somebody were to say that to you you’d make it basically sound like
18:29	you’re not the smartest tool in the box right that’s kind of the
18:35	point here by saying hey they’re not saying he’s just babbling incoherent by
18:40	calling the seed picker what they’re basically saying is that the Apostle called the same words but it’s clear
18:47	that he has not been able to attain to the levels of wisdom that these
18:52	Epicurean philosophers have attained to so others said Well he seems to be a
18:59	preacher of foreign divinities what a strange statement
19:04	the one true God is a foreign Divinity to you that’s the consequences of sin
19:12	and the reason why they were thinking he was preaching a foreign Divinity is because he was preaching Jesus and the
19:18	resurrection we know what Paul was preaching he was preaching that message the gospel let me remind you of the
19:24	Gospel that I preached to which you stand right and and that is the gospel that Christ died for our sins he was
19:32	raised on the third day according to the scriptures he’s ascended into heaven this is the good news that Christ that
19:38	Paul is preaching and they took him and then brought him to the areopagus
19:43	fascinating venue if you would it’s in this Little Rock outcropping just below
19:49	the same Mountain where the um where this Temple complex is in in
19:55	Athens and so there he is he’s going to preach to them and he said you bring
20:01	some strange news we we would like to know what this new teaching is that you’re presenting we wish to therefore
20:08	know what these things mean they’ve never heard anything like this now all
20:14	the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there they would spend their time in nothing except for telling and
20:21	hearing something new it kind of invokes if you would that that famous passage
20:26	from the prophet Isaiah where God says behold I am doing something new and the
20:32	new thing that God is doing is that he’s forgiving sins and we’ll note something here that Paul now begins his address by
20:40	pointing out that they are very religious men of Athens I perceive that in every way you were very religious and
20:46	I passed along I observed the objects of your worship I found also an altar with this inscription to the unknown God
20:54	now Paul as he’s wandering through Athens he would have seen temples and
21:00	well little grottos and places and shrines set up to the different deities
21:05	of the Greco-Roman Pantheon including Zeus and Poseidon and Athena and
21:13	Persephone and Demeter and you know Dionysus and all these deities and what’s really fascinating is when you do
21:20	the research on all of these deities there isn’t a single one of them that
21:25	the Athenians could have prayed to for the Forgiveness of their sins not a single one
21:30	they all had special reasons in which they existed in fact the the Greco-Roman
21:36	Pantheon of deities was so broad that they practically had a deity for
21:42	everything are you struggling in a in a romantic relationship are you pining for
21:49	her but she doesn’t seem to be interested in you well there’s a deity for that okay the the proper offering
21:56	made to get that deedy’s attention and that deity can all of a sudden get that girl to be interested in you right do
22:03	you have mold in your house there is a d there’s a deity from old too all right I
22:09	was wondering if there was a deity for clogged up toilets you know it just makes you wonder the deity for
22:14	practically everything except for what they really need the Forgiveness of their sins
22:19	but you’ll note every one of these false gods are exactly that they are demonic
22:26	in origin and human beings have now abandoned the true God and God has
22:33	handed them over to their wickedness and now they’re worshiping stones and gold
22:38	and silver and nonsense all the art and Imagination of a human being
22:45	but Paul finds in the midst of us a deity that they were kind of hedging
22:52	their bets if there’s a deity we’ve forgotten about the unknown one well
22:57	we’ll we’ll worship that one too and that’s the one that Paul zeros in on
23:03	what therefore you worship is unknown this now I Proclaim To You Paul says The
23:08	God Who made the world and everything in it being Lord of Heaven and Earth does not live in temples made by man nor is
23:18	he served by human hands as if as if as though he needed anything since he
23:23	himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything
23:29	and for the first time in these people’s lives they are hearing the truth of where they
23:37	came from and it has nothing to do with the the
23:42	pantheon of deities that they’re worshiping no it has to do with the one true God the one true God of Israel
23:49	Yahweh himself and so Paul beginning with the creation says here’s the truth
23:54	of where you came from and he then notes that God is not served by human beings instead God serves human
24:01	beings he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of
24:07	the Earth the story of Adam and Eve is referenced here having determined Allah had periods and the boundaries of their
24:14	dwelling place that they should seek God perhaps feel their way toward him and find him yet he is actually not far from
24:22	each one of us we’re in him we live in him we move in him we have our being
24:29	he’s quoting now from one of their own poets this is epimenities of Crete and so he knows their pop culture a little
24:36	bit and as even some of your own poets have said we are indeed his offspring
24:42	quoting for from erraticus poem final Mena it’s a fascinating thing that Paul is
24:49	doing here but you’ll note that at no point despite the fact that he’s trying to build some common ground where he can
24:57	preach Christ from at no point does he compromise and say well it’s okay if you want if we we just need to coexist what
25:04	we need to do is you know you guys have your deity and God is going to recognize the worship of these deities as worship
25:09	of him it’s all good by proxy Paul doesn’t talk this way and you’ll note Paul very
25:16	uncompromisingly puts them in their place and lets them know that their
25:21	beliefs are not as wise as they think that they are instead he notes that
25:27	being God’s Offspring then we ought not to think that the Divine being is like gold or silver or an image formed by the
25:34	art imagination of man and you can only wonder what some of them were thinking at this point are you
25:41	kidding me this is Athens this is the Seat of
25:46	Wisdom in the ancient world and you’re telling us that because we are God’s
25:52	offspring that therefore we shouldn’t think the Divine being could be worshiped as gold or silver or an image
25:58	formed by the art and Imagination of man are you out of your mind Paul everybody knows this is how religion is supposed
26:05	to work and you’ll know in our day man a bunch
26:10	of people have invented all kinds of crazy things I was reading one of these these liberal college professor types
26:18	who was arguing for that we we need to get away from looking at how nature
26:24	works so that we can embrace our own reality and she she specifically took
26:30	issue with the fact that electricity you have a positive charge and you have a negative charge she said this is a
26:36	dangerous way to think because it starts getting people thinking in terms of things that are binary you know binary
26:42	like male and female and stuff laughs it’s the same thing this is just
26:50	nonsense but then he says this the times of ignorance God has
26:58	overlooked in the past he’s overlooked all this but now now that Christ has
27:03	come now that Jesus is crucified risen ascended he God is commanding all people
27:11	everywhere to repent this nonsense that you guys have come up
27:17	with it’s futile thinking it’s a result of your sin it’s a consequence of it and
27:22	God is telling you to change your mind the world’s wisdom is foolishness only
27:30	the true worship and knowledge of God leads to real wisdom so God is calling
27:36	all people everywhere to change their mind to repent and here’s the reason why
27:42	there’s a day coming when God will judge the world in righteousness a
27:48	righteousness defined in scripture by a man whom he has appointed and of this he
27:53	has given Assurance to All by raising him from the dead
27:59	at this point that’s all he gets to say
28:04	stop stop stop you’re done take him down we’re finished with you
28:09	Paul and the reason why is because you’ll note that these Epicurean stoic
28:15	philosophers they don’t have any value in the flesh as proto-nostics they would
28:20	have thought that the spiritual is the thing that really matters and this idea that God would come and take on human
28:27	flesh and then die and Rise Again bodily with human flesh that’s just absurd to
28:35	them and so when they heard of the resurrection of the dead and this is what we all are hoping for some of them
28:43	mocked others said we’ll hear you again about this so Paul went out of their
28:49	midst but some of the men they joined him and they believed faith comes by hearing
28:55	hearing by the word of Christ among them also were Dionysus the areopagite one of
29:01	the fellows of the areopagus of Mars Hill one of the fellows who heard Paul preach this gospel said this is true
29:10	this is finally the explanation of where we came from how evil came into the world and the good news that God so
29:17	loved the whole world including Athenians and Americans that he sent his only begotten son that whoever believes
29:24	in him will not perish but instead will have eternal life this is the good news
29:29	that we have the opportunity ourselves to Proclaim you’ll note that we are all
29:36	ambassadors of Christ we have this same gospel this same hope is it any wonder
29:42	that the Apostle Peter in our epistle text tells us that we should have no
29:48	fear of those people who trouble us slander us who would make us suffer instead we are to regard Christ the lord
29:56	as holy and always be prepared to make a defense in apologia to anyone who asks
30:03	us for the reason for the hope that is in US and that’s the point the reason why
30:09	we’re here today is because we all share that hope we have that hope of the resurrection of
30:15	the Dead ourselves and knowing this that yes it is true that God has appointed a
30:21	day in which he will judge everyone in righteousness we know that we do not measure up we too were born dead in
30:28	trespasses and sins and left to our own ways we would have all turned out
30:34	to be as blind and futile in our thinking as the Athenians in our text today
30:40	and that’s what’s happening in the world around us as God’s word is disappearing fewer and fewer men are preaching it
30:47	more and more are attacking it attacking it from pulpits but note here Peter also
30:52	makes it clear Christ suffered once for sins the righteous for the unrighteous
30:59	you and I the unrighteous ones Christ has bled and died for us and he is the
31:04	one who is now bringing us to God he being put to death in the flesh but Made Alive by the spirit and he has forgiven
31:12	us of all of our trespasses and so you’ll note then the scriptures
31:18	tell us the truth and they reveal
31:23	the world’s idolatry but they also reveal our own idolatry and our
31:29	participation in the works of darkness and what does this call for it calls for repentance even to this day
31:37	the daily life of a Christian is repentance how many things do we look to
31:42	to be our deities we don’t pray to Athena or Zeus or anything of the sort
31:49	but always and again put you into a stressful situation where anxiety is
31:55	running out of control the thing you turn to if it’s not God
32:00	that’s an idol do you disappear into a bottle of booze take a lot of pills or maybe just put
32:07	your pajamas on and put your life on neutral and binge watch Netflix for a
32:13	week right what do you turn to
32:19	decide that you’re gonna go grab your boat head to the lake and disappear and
32:24	just fish and have no communication with any other human being in order to calm yourself down so that you could have
32:31	some good in your life that’s a good chance that’s become your God
32:36	but in our times of trouble we are to call to God ask him to relieve us of our sufferings
32:43	Look to Him for the good that we need in this life but each and every one of us
32:49	because we’re still we still have a sinful nature even though we are forgiven we struggle with this idolatry
32:55	and we are called daily to repent knowing that we are forgiven in Christ
33:01	so brothers and sisters idolatry is run amok it makes you blind and stupid it
33:06	makes you look ridiculously foolish and the worst part is you think you’re wise in the midst of it
33:13	so change your mind embrace the foolishness of the scriptures the
33:18	foolishness of the Gospel itself the idea that Christ is our Lord and savior
33:24	the crucified Risen Lord and Savior well it’s foolishness to Greek it’s a
33:29	stumbling block to Jews but to us it is the power of God unto salvation in the
33:34	name of Jesus Amen

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