Monthly Archives: May 2011

Marriage.

Posted on May 31, 2011 | Leave a comment

Genesis 2:18-25 (ESV)

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” [19] So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. [20] The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. [21] So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. [22] And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. [23] Then the man said,

“This at last is bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called Woman,

because she was taken out of Man.”

[24] Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. [25] And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Yesterday was our 30th wedding anniversary. It is hard to believe that my wife and I have actually been together for thirty years. It has been and continues to be a great ride and this is testimony to a great God whose grace does far more than we could have asked or thought.

Yesterday, we went to Centre Island, ate at a nice restaurant, walked forever and ended the day at a Second Cup for a coffee and a piece of chocolate cake. Marriage is a good thing. It was not good that the man in the garden was alone and God’s good solution was marriage. It is still a good solution. It has turned into something far less than what God intended because of sin.

There is no marriage not marred by sin. And there is no marriage that the grace of God cannot remedy. The Bible talks much about marriage and we ignore its teachings at our peril. The Bible talks much about marriage and we follow its teachings about marriage to our great good and the good of the culture. Of course, the Bible is not primarily a marriage manual. The Bible is about who God is, what we are, and what God has done to bring us back to Him. It teaches us how to live here and now for His glory and that includes our marriages.

Over at Desiring God there are over 600 resources related to marriage. You can find them here . Have a look. They cannot hurt you and they may do you some great good. Perhaps some of them will help your marriage. Perhaps you might find something that can help someone you know.

Marriage is a good thing and it is a tragedy that so many find that theirs is not. How we need love in the home more than we need it anywhere else. And it is possible, because our God can do impossible things.

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Genderless

Posted on May 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV)

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

[27] So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

We are created as male or female. The attempts at running away from God now include denying that. This story from the Toronto Star last Saturday. A couple are seeking to raise a “genderless” baby. I am sure even they know that their baby has a gender. But they don’t want it to be known. Read a bunch of responses there as well, both in support and criticism.

Read a Christian critique here

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Unless You Repent

Posted on May 26, 2011 | Leave a comment

Yesterday, a news reporter, reporting on the tornadoes in Missouri made the comment “God must be angry at the people of Joplin Missouri …” This put me in remembrance of this account from the life of Jesus

Luke 13:1-9 (ESV)
There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.  [2] And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way?  [3] No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.  [4] Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?  [5] No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
[6] And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.  [7] And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’  [8] And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure.  [9] Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’ “

Do you think that the people of Joplin, Missouri, were worse sinners than all other Americans, or North Americans, because they suffered this way? No, but I tell you, unless people repent they shall all likewise perish.

Suggesting that God is angry at the parts of the world that suffer great calamities is to reveal an understanding of God and theology in general that is absent of Gospel truth. There is not a corner of the world that does not deserve to be destroyed today. The fact that most people in the world wake up this morning in relative peace, absent of major natural or other disasters, is testimony to God’s mercy. The fact that the sun rose is a testimony of His mercy. We come to think that the good things that happen to us are what should happen to us and that God is mistreating us when He allows the bad.

The people of Joplin are not worse sinners than we are. God is not angrier at them than He is at others. God could have stopped the tornado, but He did not, for reasons that no human being is competent to answer. In Luke 13 Jesus does not tell us why the Galileans upon whom a tower fell, were not spared that fate while others were.What He does tell us is that none of us are guaranteed a long peaceful, tragedy free life and we had better be ready to go when our time comes. None of us can say with certainty that we will live out the day. Our lives are in God’s hands and the judge of all the earth shall do right. He knows what He is doing and it is better that His will be done than not, even when it involves horribly hard things.

The question is not “Will God let me live a long peaceful life?” The question is “Am I ready to die?”

Suggesting that Missouri is under the anger of God in ways that the rest of us are not suggests that we are not in God’s bad books. “He may be angry with them but not with us!” But the reason people wake up in safety anywhere is because God is patient and is offering chances for people to repent of their sins (II Peter 3:9). And unless we do repent we shall likewise perish. They are not worse and we are not better. Do not presume upon the mercy of God. Life is fragile and the future is unknown. Be ready to die.

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Still Here by Grace

Posted on May 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

Too much has already been said about Harold Camping and his foolish prediction that his view of the rapture would happen last Saturday. Perhaps I will write about my understanding that Camping’s understanding of the rapture will actually never happen, but that is for another time. But allow this one last thing.

In all that the secular media have had to say about Camping’s prediction, they always get one thing wrong. They all talk about the “good” people being raptured and the “bad” people being “left behind”.

One Toronto magazine put it this way:

“The gang’s all here, which means one of two things: we are all horrible, horrible people who were deemed unworthy of Rapture, or—and this is more likely, we hope—Christian radio host Harold Camping lied about being a prophet on his résumé”

Thet got the part right about Camping not being a prophet. But they couldn’t be more wrong about who gets to be with Christ when He comes. We believe that Jesus will one day return in power and glory. We do not know when. It may not be for thousands of years yet. But it will not rescue the good and damn the bad. There is not a person on the planet who will be deemed worthy of seeing Christ.

The saved are not “worthy” of anything. Hear Paul in Romans 3.

Romans 3:10-18 (ESV)
as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
[11] no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
[12] All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
[13] “Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
[14] “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
[15] “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
[16] in their paths are ruin and misery,
[17] and the way of peace they have not known.”
[18] “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

This fundamental Christianity. It is one of the most basic, most emphasized, most preached truths of the Gospel. But those outside the faith still do not hear it. They still hear that the good will live forever and hell is for really really bad people.

Christians are called to give the Gospel. Let’s make sure we get it right. We are not saved because we are better than anyone else. We do not believe because we are smarter, more spiritual, more holy, more good or more anything. We do not deserve to be saved. We do not deserve to live. We did not deserve to wake up this morning.We are saved, not because we are good, but because God is merciful. We believe because God has given us faith. We did not choose Him, He chose us. Salvation is a work of God, not us. The New Testament compares the act of God in saving us to His creative work of bringing light into the world.

2 Cor. 4:6 (ESV)
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Salvation from sin is an act of grace. It does not come because of us but because of Him. It is appropriated by faith, not works. We simply trust Jesus Christ to do for us what we cannot do.

We are still here on planet earth, not because we are all so bad that we don’t deserve heaven, but because God is patient with people and still calling people to faith in His Son. This message is foreign to the thinking of the unbelieving world. That is why it needs to be delivered by those who have come to see its truth.

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Been Wrong Lately?

Posted on May 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

A good holiday weekend. The weather wasn’t horrifying, at least not in the part of the world where we are. A few fire works sounded off on Saturday and Sunday evenings. People enjoyed an extra day off. And the world did not end. The predicted “rapture” scheduled, according to Harold Camping and his followers to take place on Saturday, did not occur. Now he is saying that there was a spiritual return of Christ on Saturday and the more physical event will take place on October 21.

It strikes us as unbelievable that being proven so terribly wrong that the man wouldn’t just ‘fess’ up and admit it. And we can only pray that his followers will come to their senses and abandon the man and his teachings. But there will be those who will remain faithful and there will be those who will stick with him no matter what. And he will not fess up.

Matthew 24:23-27 (ESV)

Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. [24] For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. [25] See, I have told you beforehand. [26] So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. [27] For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

None of us like to admit when we are wrong and one can only imagine what kind of responses went on in the heads of those who were convinced that Saturday was day last when they woke up Sunday morning. But the way this false prophet is reacting to his own failed prophecy is not that different from the way we all try to make excuses for ourselves when we are proven to be wrong.

We will say things like “What I really meant was …”, or “that wasn’t exactly what I said …” It is the rare human being who we hear say “I was wrong. I said it, did it, and I was wrong. I am sorry for any pain or suffering I may have caused.” This is rare and the sad thing is that it is rare even among Christians.  We can wax eloquent about only God never being wrong and how we are unworthy creatures deserving of nothing more than judgement, but as soon as someone challenges us about something we have said or done we start defending ourselves and offering excuses for what we did. Christians we may be but we are the perfect descendants of our first parents. Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the snake.

We are going to be wrong. We are going to misinterpret sections of the Bible. We are going to believe things that are not so and will not happen. And when we are proven to be wrong we should just admit it, thank God that He showed us what was right and make the necessary changes. But far too often we want to defend our reputations, let others suffer for our mistakes or put the blame where it does not belong.

We will not make mistakes in the magnitude of the Doomsday sayers of last week. At least I hope we will not. But we will be wrong about things. As believers let us show that Jesus has saved us from dishonesty and self promotion and admit when we are wrong and change appropriately. There is a testimony in such behaviour that is powerful. Far more powerful than the ridicule those who now say that they missed the date by six months are justifiably receiving.

We laugh at the folly of Camping and his disciples. But let us not forget that while we will not likely make the same error we can respond to ours in the same way. Let’s show that we really are a saved, changed, repentant people. Let us pray “Forgive us our sins” with brutal honesty and rejoice that God’s grace in Christ does just that.

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Modesty

Posted on May 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

1 Tim. 2:1-15 (ESV)

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, [2] for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. [3] This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, [4] who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. [5] For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, [6] who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. [7] For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle ( I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

[8] I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; [9] likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, [10] but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. [11] Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. [12] I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. [13] For Adam was formed first, then Eve; [14] and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. [15] Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

A controversial text these days which is a comment on its own about our culture and its influence on the church.  One of the striking things about this text is Paul’s instruction to women to dress with modesty. It is striking because there is no long explanation regarding what is modest. Modesty today is a hard word to pin down. Tell someone to act or dress modestly and you just might end up in a conversation regarding what modesty is and how no one can tell someone else what is modest and what is not. But Paul does not need to go into great explanations here. He knows what he means and apparently, so did Timothy. No great explanations required.

Ah, but we have lost a good bit of that. Modesty is considered old fashioned; a by gone concept from a bygone age and good riddance too is quite often the attitude to it. But this verse is still in the Bible and it still applies and it is still relevant for women to consider.

Have a look at this article in Girls Gone Wise and pass it on to others who just could benefit from it.

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One Gospel

Posted on May 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

Galatians 1:6-9 (ESV)
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— [7] not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.  [8] But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.  [9] As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

There is only one Gospel. Yet Paul can take the Galatian Christians to task, in verse 6, for deserting Christ and turning to another gospel. He explains what he means in verse 7: we believe in another Gospel when we distort what the one true Gospel is. This is very sobering. Many more aberrant belief systems distort the Gospel while claiming to be the Gospel they distort. Recently, the blogosphere and even the mainstream media has been busy discussing whether Jesus is necessary for salvation or not. When the Bible talks about the triumph of grace, God defeating all His enemies, evil being killed … does it mean that all people eventually go to heaven? Not if the Gospel message of the Scriptures is true.

Paul is not shy to say what should happen to those who distort the Gospel (vs. 8-9). The response to what Paul says here in verse 7 – 9 is to take great care to know the biblical Gospel and to believe and  preach nothing else but the biblical Gospel. Those who maintain that different beliefs should just get along and agree cannot maintain their argument in the light of Galatians 1. The different belief systems do not agree. We can love those who believe a different Gospel, but we cannot say that their Gospel is true. We must either hold tenaciously and lovingly to the one true Gospel because of what Paul says here, or we must abandon what Paul says here and deny its truthfulness. The latter is simply not an option. We must recognize that there is only one Gospel. We must know it. We must preach it. And we must never surrender it no matter what the pressures on us are.

There is no better Gospel than the one we have received. We cannot make it better. We cannot come up with something else. We can rejoice in it and seek to tell it and demonstrate it to all whom God puts in our pathway.

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May 22 is Coming

Posted on May 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

What are you doing next Sunday? According to a well known preacher in the U.S. you don’t have to make any plans at all. According to him, the second coming will take place this Saturday. This isn’t the first time he’s predicted a date regarding the second coming. Jesus was supposed to come back in 1994 as well. In the Old covenant someone who made false prophecies wouldn’t be around long enough to make another.

Deut. 18:20-22 (ESV)

But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ [21] And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— [22] when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

This is not to say that this is what should happen to this man, but it is to say that we should not pay him any attention whatsoever and certainly not lose any sleep over anything he says at all.

Consider this exchange between the man and New York magazine:

How certain are you that world is going to end on May 21 — do you have any doubts?

God has given sooo much information in the Bible about this, and so many proofs, and so many signs, that we know it is absolutely going to happen without any question at all.

You can read the whole interview here.

The best way to respond to this kind of nonsense is to simply say hello next Sunday, the day after Jesus is supposed to return, and go about your business. In the meantime, meditate on this:

 1 Thes. 5:1-11 (ESV)

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. [2] For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. [3] While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. [4] But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. [5] For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. [6] So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. [7] For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. [8] But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. [9] For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, [10] who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. [11] Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Since Jesus is returning when He sees fit, our response is not to try to determine dates and times. It is to live as children of light (verse 5) stay alert and live soberly (verse 6), live soberly, by faith in a great hope (verse 8). And we are to encourage other believers (verse 11). Let such things be evidence that we believe in the return of Christ.

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With All Our Hearts – Together

Posted on May 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

Psalm 111:1 – Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,

in the company of the upright, in the congregation.

Two ways to give thanks to God that the Psalmist mentions in this verse: 1) with his whole heart, 2) in the company of the upright.

God looks on the heart and He knows when our thanksgiving is half hearted or half true. It is easy to get excited in a worship setting and sing loud, shout amen and simply feel lifted off the floor in the atmosphere of the moment. Whole hearted does not necessarily mean with great demonstrations of emotion or exuberance. But it does mean with total conviction. We are saved, first of all, not because we found Jesus, but because He found us. We did not choose Him, He chose us. How convinced are we that without Jesus we can do nothing? How much do we really believe that if the Lord does not build the house we will build nothing? Do we really believe that we are utterly dependent on God for everything; that if he does not feed us today we will not be fed, that if He does not keep us from falling into sin we will spend a day in utter debauchery, that if God does not enable us to understand what we read and study that we will benefit nothing from our time in the Scriptures?

This is the way to thankfulness with the whole heart. We simply need to believe what the Bible tells us about our dependence upon a loving, gracious, liberal God. We need to feel just how good God has been to us.

It is amazing how we can read the Bible and believe it and yet not feel the truth of it in our hearts and souls. Cold, hard hearted belief in the Scriptures is a worse testimony than outright denial of the faith. And there is far too much of it in the church of Jesus Christ.

Secondly, this praise to God is to occur in the company of the upright. Private quiet times with God are a valuable part of the Christian life, but they are not a substitute for corporate worship and interaction with others around the Word of God. It is easy to claim to be able to worship God with one’s whole heart when one does not test it by standing next to somebody who just rubs you the wrong way. Conversely, it may be difficult to sing and praise and understand the Scriptures properly when one only encounters such things by himself. We are made for community and real worship must happen in such a setting. Friendly greetings, exuberant singing from others, shouts of “amen”, hearing others pray, listening to a sermon that has been worked over, prayed over and cried over. All these and more that can only happen in the presence of others who are worshipping with us, are fuel for real heartfelt worship.

Absence from the presence of the children of God will not foster real whole hearted worship. It will work against it. We need to worship with others.

We are made for the worship of God. True worship is worship that is done with the whole heart. Wholehearted worship is enabled by meeting with others who also worship from their hearts. Don’t neglect to engage your whole heart through interaction with others who, just like you, need to be in the presence of others – in your presence.

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Were You Away?

Posted on May 16, 2011 | Leave a comment

Well, welcome back. Haven’t posted anything here for over a week. I try to keep the posts and memory verses and Scripture readings and “what’s new” stuff up to date. Last week I went away to the Basics Pastors’ Conference at Parkside Church near Cleveland and chose not to have anyone else keep the website going everyday. So all those things that I try to keep current went a little stale. Today and tomorrow I will get things caught up.

This site attracts a small amount of traffic and I assume most of those who log in are from our church or personal friends. From time to time I hear from a stranger who visits and that is kind of nice. The point of this website and blog is simply to keep people up to date regarding what is going on in our church and to provide some comments from the Scriptures that will be of some spiritual benefit. I hope, but have no idea if those who drop by actually read most of what gets put up. The interesting thing about letting it sit stagnant last week is that it made virtually no difference in amount of traffic to it.  At least that is better than having visits decrease when we are around. We’ll see if that happens this week. In any case, we’ll start putting posts up again and I will pray that it does someone some good and lets others know what we are up to. God is in charge of it all and if our church and any of its ministries accomplish anything of eternal worth, it will be because He saw fit to use it. What a grand thing it is to serve such a grand God and know that He uses the things that are not to bring to nothing the things that are.

1 Cor. 1:20-31 (ESV)

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? [21] For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. [22] For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, [23] but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, [24] but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. [25] For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. [26] For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. [27] But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; [28] God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, [29] so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. [30] He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption. [31] Therefore, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

1 Cor. 3:1-23 (ESV)

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. [2] I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, [3] for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? [4] For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human? [5] What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. [6] I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. [7] So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. [8] He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. [9] For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building. [10] According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. [11] For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. [12] Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— [13] each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. [14] If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. [15] If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

[16] Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? [17] If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

[18] Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. [19] For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” [20] and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” [21] So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, [22] whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, [23] and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

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