1 Corinthians 1 - Part 1 (v. 1-9)

Today we're starting a new series where we're going through the book of 1st Corinthians. There's a ton packed into just these first nine verses! It talks about how we are (already done) sanctified, we're called saints, how we've been enriched in everything by Jesus, and more. I pray that you catch the powerful truths that I did by the Holy Spirit through this first passage in 1st Corinthians.

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Hey, are you ready to study the Word today? I hope so. I hope you have your Bible. I hope you have a notepad or something. And if you don't, no judgment. You know, sometimes you got to just listen. You're driving or you just don't have that stuff. But I would encourage you, if you could, pause for a second. Get a Bible. Get a physical Bible. Something that, I mean, I use my phone Bible sometimes, you know, but sometimes as I'm taking notes on it or whatever, a text pops up or one of the other thousand notifications that I might get on my phone. And before I know it, I am not doing Bible study anymore. So I would encourage you, get out your Bible, get out a notebook if you could, and go through 1 Corinthians with me. This is the first teaching, if you will, on this topic. New topic. I've been teaching on healing for a long time, but now we're going to go through the book, the letter, the first letter specifically to the Corinthian church, 1 Corinthians. So go ahead and turn there. I'm imagining we're going to get through nine verses today. I imagine that because that's what I prepared for. I brought this before the Lord, spent some time going over this, meditating on it and asking him for clarity. And I feel like he's brought some things to light for me that I would like to share with you. There's so much in his word, even in these nine verses, if we do indeed get through them today. And I will only be bringing out what I sense the Holy Spirit showing me right now. So by no means is... What I'm saying, the totality of what could be found in these nine verses today. But that's what's so awesome about God's Word. It's living and it's powerful. He is living and powerful. Jesus is the Word, really. But it's kind of hard in our natural minds, right? Because we need to shift from a natural perspective into a spiritual one and realize this is actually Jesus. And he's speaking to us. The Holy Spirit is involved in this ministry. He's the one who leads us into all truth. He helps us understand what Jesus is saying. And then the Father is the one blessing all of this. He's the one that sent Jesus. He's the one that said, I will pour out. There's a promise. And when Jesus said, goes through everything that he did which we just celebrated yesterday yesterday was easter 2025 if you're curious and this is later in the future you're watching this but uh yeah when when jesus got back to the father the father had a promise for him and it was that he would pour out the holy spirit so god and specifically him represented in these three unique persons the father jesus the son and the holy spirit they're all involved in this and As we approach his word right now, I want to ask that we would be opened up, that we would have ears to hear, that we would have eyes to see, that we would have hearts to understand, and we would receive from him today, this morning, this evening, this afternoon, whatever time it is for you. For me, it's mid-afternoon. Lord, we love you, and we thank you for your word. We thank you for this letter to the Corinthian church that we're going to read right now, and I pray. that you would cause us to see and understand things that we have never seen or understood before. Lord, and for the things that we have, that you would breathe a breath of freshness of life on these things. Lord, cause us to catch what you're saying, to get excited about your word, to get excited about the fact that you have things that you are speaking to us right now, today. as we go through this. We love you. We thank you for the ministry of the Holy Spirit. We thank you for sending Jesus and continuing to use him to speak to us, to know your heart, Father, to know your will for us, to walk this life according to your will, in power, in confidence, in peace, and in joy. We love you, Lord. We pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Man, I have been getting tongue-tied recently. And I just had one of my closest friends, Cody, pray for me. And I'm still getting tongue-tied a bit. And I feel like the Lord's telling me to drink more water, so... I, uh, sometimes when we pray for things, for example, that this issue that I'm dealing with right now, the Lord will give us some very practical things like, Hey, um, make this adjustment. It's like, okay. All right. Awesome. So I apologize if I take several sips of water today, but that is the story behind it. All right. First Corinthians chapter one, Let's read verse one, and then I want to share, and we'll continue all the way through to verse nine in that fashion. First Corinthians chapter one, verse one says, Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and Sothenus, our brother. So typically in my daily reading, you know, I'd read that and be like, all right, let's get past this intro stuff and into the meaty stuff. the needy greedy into the meat, right? Well, there is some interesting stuff right here that I want to point out. And there's, again, multiple things, but the one thing I want to point out is, and Sothenus is, I believe how you pronounce it, but whatever, that name right there. Notice this letter isn't just from Paul. It's from someone else named Sothenus. And you've probably heard this a lot of times. Hey, Paul, you know, Paul, he wrote The majority or two thirds or people say it different ways because they mean it differently. If you weigh in the gospels, they take up so much that you can't really say that Paul wrote the majority. But from an author standpoint, he wrote the most books of the Bible in the New Testament. But there was other people involved. So this letter isn't... purely or only a, what some people will call a Pauline epistle. This is a Sothenus epistle as well. And what does that matter? What's the point? There can be this tendency in the body of Christ to do one of the very things that this book talks about. We're not going to hit this up today. It's probably going to be next week because it's after verse nine, but we get factions and man, I have some, some friends that love the Lord. And I personally believe they're confused on some of these things, but they've been burned by people who have twisted some of the things that Paul has said. And as a result, they're red letter only Christians. Have you ever heard that? Where they say, I just believe the words that Jesus said, like, you know, in the gospels, the book of Revelation, but like this These Pauline epistles, yeah, I don't know if they're to be trusted. And the reason why that's even happened is because there have been people who have perverted the gospel and they take a lot of what Paul has said in his letters, but notice it's not just Paul, and twisted them to their own destruction, but also to the destruction of the hearers. And man, it's caused a lot of confusion, a lot of The undoing of that, I believe, is going to get to come up as we read through 1 Corinthians. So I'm excited about that. But just want to note here, Paul did not in and of himself write 1 Corinthians. There was another author involved. In 2 Corinthians, there's another author involved. It's Timothy in that one. And as you read other epistles in the New Testament that many just attribute to Paul, that's not true. It should not only be attributed to Paul because in verse 1, typically, it is explained who's involved in that letter. Some of them have more than two authors involved. And it gets confusing for some people because Paul will speak in the first person. Or whoever is writing that portion will speak in the first person. Sometimes he will use his own name, Paul will. But the letter, you'll see we several times. And just even the heart behind the whole letter isn't just coming from Paul. It's coming from another human being. And the real truth is, who's it really coming from? The Bible tells us that all scripture is God breathed. The Holy Spirit is really the author behind all of this. So don't get caught up in the I'm of Paul or I'm of Cephas or I'm of It's very interesting. Someone who's a red-letter-only Christian will be like, yeah, Paul wrote that. He's trying to get us to not listen to just Christ. Well, we have to remember the words that Jesus spoke, he only spoke what he heard the Father speak, right? So it all comes back to the ministry of the Holy Spirit speaking through Christ. Jesus as he walked the earth, through Paul as he was writing these epistles, through Peter, and through others as we read in the New Testament. So this point that I want to make is it was not just Paul, okay? It was Sothenus in this particular epistle. Look at verse 2. It says, To the church of God, which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints... or called saints, depending on whether or not you include those italicized words there, which all who in every place call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord, both theirs and ours. What I mean by the italicized there is in my New King James Bible, in the beginning of it, or in the, like near the table of contents, there's some explanatory, yes, things on what different fonts mean and all that, footnotes and whatnot. Anything italicized is not found in the original Greek. Those words were added when converting from Greek to English to help give clarity to the reader. But they're saying, hey, these are not there in the original Greek. So what does that mean? It means you can either read that to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints, like it says with the italics, or you can read it called saints, just called saints. So why does that matter? Well, when you hear called to be saints, many people automatically think, yeah, someday, someday we'll be, someday we'll be saints. But you know, right now we're just rotten, stinking sinners and we're getting through this life by the skin of our teeth and whatever. But Called saints sounds very different. So which is it? Are we called to be saints eventually? Or are we called saints now? Well, a quick look at just one other passage, but man, there's so many on this. If you go to Colossians chapter one real quick, it says, uh, In verse 1, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God and Timothy, our brother. Here's another example of two authors. To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus who are in Colossae. Did you hear that? Not to those who one day will be saints. It says to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ. We are, this is a theme that we'll see as we read more and more through this passage. And as we continue on through the word in the future, we are now saints. So you can say called to be saints because yes, you were called to be a saint and now you are. So even with the to be, you still can see it correctly, if you will. But if you just read it as called saints, it kind of hits home a little quicker, like called saints. Wow, that's crazy. But let's back up a little bit here. Look at what else it says. It says to those who are saints, sanctified in Christ Jesus. Not those who will be, not those who eventually, once they earn some level of holiness in this life, not once they get to heaven. No, those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints. Do you realize that the way that God sees us once we're born again is we are, past tense, sanctified? We are past tense or we are become or have become saints. It's our new status. And that's really confusing for some believers because they're like, well, I still have these issues in my flesh and we're going to get to that as we continue through this book. I don't want to jump too far ahead because these nine verses I want to get through are going to escape me real quickly in this amount of time I'd like to keep this in. But we will get there. Be patient as we go through this. And even on this part, God's real and his Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is real. And if you ask him, Father, I see this here in the word, it's saying are sanctified, past tense, and called to be saints. Like it's already a done deal. Like, yeah, in Colossians chapter one, it calls them saints and faithful brethren. Like, Help me understand that. He will give you understanding. He will open your eyes. Ask him to, and he will. What's really fascinating about this is the letter starts like this, calling them sanctified past tense, saints. They are now saints. Yet in a few chapters, they're going to get rebuked for sexual immorality in the church. They're going to get rebuked in the same chapter for about division and sex. Sex. S-E-C-T-X. Or T-S. Right? Not reproduction and all that. Or defining male or female. But sects. Right? There's divisions. There's these clicks and things. And that's all going to get brought up later. But notice he starts with saying, but you guys are, past tense, sanctified. And you are called saints. Right? Called to be saints. Powerful stuff. In verse 3, it says, Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Man, I got kind of emotional when I was reading this recently, prepping for this. And just kind of reminded in my own heart, like, man, the Lord has to constantly remind us, don't be afraid. I love you. I've given everything for you. I have grace for you. I have peace. Look at that. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. God got a bad reputation in the Old Testament. And what it all goes back to is The fact that sin needed to be put in check. It needed to be stopped. It needed to be put at bay. We read about the evil on the earth getting so bad before God got involved, while his hands were off. It got so bad that every thought and intent of man's heart was only evil continually. And as a result, there was only one guy Only one guy left that God could work with. There was no one else, nobody else. And we know the story of Noah and the flood and all that. Basically, there was a reset. And then shortly after, God cut a covenant with a guy named Abram. But in that short amount of time, it had gotten real evil on the earth again. And then not many years after that, it had gotten real, real evil again to the point where the land that God wanted to give to the man and his seed, his children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, everything, from Abram, later called Abraham, it had gotten so bad that the land he wanted to give them was filled with people who were sacrificing their own kids to false idols, who were practicing sorcery, who were committing all kinds of terrible crimes acts that were doing the same thing that was happening in the days of Noah all over again. But it wasn't accelerating as fast because God was working on the earth through his people, Israel. In fact, they were used as a way to drive out the inhabitants of the land that were doing those evil things. And sadly, because they didn't obey the Lord and drive everyone out like they were supposed to, those people became thorns in their sides, as the Bible says. I just listened to this this morning in the Old Testament as I was doing some Bible listening this morning. And they didn't heed the voice of the Lord. And as a result, man, they ended up falling into a lot of the same things that the people that they drove out initially did. were doing and practicing. And as a result, man, all kinds of bad stuff happened to them as well. So, so God's heart was never and never has been to destroy people. In fact, it says, I believe in Ezekiel 33, uh, Ezekiel 33, 11, it says, I have the Lord speaking. I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that he turns from his way. There is nothing in the heart of God that, uh, likes to bring destruction to someone who's in sin or caught up in sin. So all that to say, there was this, and there is still today, this idea about God that he's just out to get us. I heard a pastor that I love, Jerry Dierman. He's a pastor of The Rock in Anaheim, California. And Jessica and I attended there for several years. We're still very connected. Anyways, he said, and I heard this years ago, he said, a lot of people feel like God's out to get them. And he said, let me tell you what, God is big enough, powerful enough. If he wanted to get you, you would have already been God. So you got to shift your mindset of this idea that God's out to get me. God has grace and peace for you. As a born again believer, all of your sin has been put away. This goes back with the previous verse where it says, those who are sanctified, those who are called to be saints. God sees you that way. That's why the Holy Spirit inspired these words to be written. However, many of us don't see ourselves that way because we still have these issues in our flesh and we identify more with those than we do with the born again spirit inside of us that's been made brand new. And instead of there being no condemnation for those of us who are in Christ Jesus, we cower and we're always worried that God's going to get us or he wants to at least. And the Holy Spirit is saying here, grace to you, peace. From God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. God our Father. Not just Jesus who was here and people are like, well, yeah, Jesus was real nice and he was compassionate. But man, like God the Father, he's a bit ticked off. No, no. There is grace and peace. And they're in unity. They're in agreement on that. This reminds me of in John chapter... or excuse me, Luke chapter two, verse 14, the angels come and speak to the shepherds and they say, glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace and goodwill towards men. You know, we hear that. And to me, even as I say, it's kind of like in one ear and out the other, but that was like revolutionary when that was first spoken to them. Because the idea was God had given up There was this silence from Malachi to the New Testament when Jesus showed up. And there was this sense that, man, God has forsaken his people. God is... He was very ticked off. Look at all of the destruction that happened. The people were led into Babylon. Yes, there was the rebuilding and all that stuff that took place. But look at us now. We're under Roman rule. We're not really... In the promised land and all that, like we were supposed, like this, all of this good stuff that was supposed to happen to us isn't happening because God just, he's ticked off at us and he doesn't like us. And what they were getting revelation of was there's someone named Jesus, the son of God, whom God has sent because he loves you all so much that Because of him, and not because of you, because, man, you guys can't get it right. The flood, there had to be a reset. Even when God chose a certain people, oh, they barely got by. I mean, think about this. The lineage of those people who Jesus came through, you think about Abraham, who had to marry his stepsister. You think about Judah, who Jesus was of the line of Judah. Judah Is it Reuben or Judah? I might be mixing them up. I'm sorry. But I think Judah slept with one of his stepmoms. But if it wasn't him, it was Reuben. I'm sorry. But move a little bit further. Judah, who Jesus was from, ended up sleeping with his daughter-in-law on accident. I mean, he went to sleep with a prostitute. So there was that massive mistake, but that prostitute was actually not one. It was his daughter-in-law who was trying to hold him true to his oath. Crazy stuff. Then you have Rahab, the harlot from Jericho, the city that was supposed to be fully wiped out. But there was one woman in her family that was spared because she lied and protected or hid the spies, the two spies that Joshua sent out. And Jesus came from that lineage, right? And it goes on. You have David and Bathsheba, the woman that he cheated on with and then had her husband killed out in battle. Jesus came from all that. I'm getting off track here a little bit, but my point is Jesus had to come through a crazy line of people just to get here. So, of course, as a result of all of the judgment, the punishment, the fulfillment of what God said when he first cut a covenant with Abraham and the things that he said to Moses in the law and everything. Like, hey, yes, I will bless you and all these blessings will overtake you and no one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. He said to Joshua, right? There's all these great promises, but there were contingencies on them. And man, Mankind has not been able to measure up to them. So when the angels came up or came to talk about Jesus who was to come very soon after, they were revealing something that was brand new, unheard of, you could say, that there was now to be peace on earth. This means between God and man. The division, the impossible division situation of this relationship between God and man being reconciled again, that situation was going to be reconciled because of this savior that was to come, Jesus. And all the way back in Luke chapter two, verse 14, you have that mentioned. In John chapter 20, in verse 19, verse 21, and verse 26, Jesus says, he comes into their presence and he says,"'Peace.'" He says either peace to you or peace be with you. And he had to do this because even though this was said by the shepherds even before him, there's still this like, oh my goodness, like we've messed up. Like this person that we are following, he's dead now. And now there's really no hope. What's going on? No, Jesus had to come again and say, peace. There's peace because of me. There's peace. Remember, he told them, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. There's no other way to the Father except through me. In fact, I think I wrote that down somewhere. I think it's John 14, 6. Like, there's grace that's been given to you, and I'm the reason for that. I'm the only way to the Father. So because I'm here and because what I just accomplished there, there's, I can come and say peace, even though you all abandoned me in the garden and you probably feel like you should all get like destroyed now. Like I should come and smite all of you. You don't understand. That's all. Even that sin itself has been paid for peace, peace. And here years later, We have this letter to the Corinthian church and the Holy Spirit is saying the same thing to you and I today through this. And he was saying it to them back then. Grace to you, peace from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at this in verse four. I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God, which was given to you by Christ Jesus. There's this continual thankfulness. Lord, thank you for your grace. Because without it, without you, Jesus, we would have no hope. We would be lost. And there's something powerful to just having an attitude of thankfulness, of, yeah, just continuing to thank him for his grace. It's not this elementary thing. Just a second. It's a powerful thing that we can never, Paul tells Timothy in one of his letters to Timothy, grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Like, what do you mean? Isn't Timothy like pretty far along in the faith? You guys, we can never exhaust his grace for us because everything that we receive from him is by his grace and we receive it through faith. From the salvation of our souls to believing Him for the prayers that we bring to Him, to trusting Him in the midst of trials and tribulation, it all comes from His grace. In verse 5, it says, it's a run-on sentence, right? It's actually pretty long, but it's... From verse four, which I'll read again. I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God, which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in everything by him in all utterance and all knowledge. This is a powerful statement because by his grace that he's given us, kind of like what I was just saying, we have been enriched in everything by him. In everything. That can be really easy for us to be like, oh yeah, that's by everything. Okay, let's read on. Let's get to the meat. That is meaty right there. Do you believe the words of God? Do you believe that he means what he says? Well, he says that by the grace of God that has been given to us through Jesus, you and I were, past tense, were enriched in everything. It's funny in our minds, we can quickly go, well, in most things, not in, you know, everything, everything, because, you know, I have, I'm going through this right now and I'm, I'm going through that. And there's, there's this tough thing ahead and I don't really know what to do in this situation. So, you know, he hasn't enriched me in everything. Notice what he goes on to say in all utterance. That means in all speech and in all knowledge. This reminds me of, uh, Next chapter in chapter two, verse 16, it says, we have the mind of Christ. This is kind of back to what I was saying earlier, a spiritual truth that we have to ask God to help us understand. But do you realize through the grace of Jesus, through what he's done for us, we have been enriched in everything. And that includes in all knowledge. You and I, by the Holy Spirit, have the mind of Christ. It says in 1 Corinthians 2, verse 16. Look at this in Ephesians 1, verse 3. It says that we have been, past tense, blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies. You and I have been blessed. It's a done deal. And you might ask, well, Why am I lacking in these areas? Why am I... I feel like he hasn't enriched me in everything, literally, so I need to reinterpret that to mean something else. Remember, the authors here are praying for the Corinthian church that this would be a reality in their lives. Look at what it goes on to say in verse 7. So he's, or in verse six, it says, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. These leaders to the Corinthian church, Paul and Sothenus, they're saying, we thank God for the grace that's been given to you. And look at, this is a long run on sentence. Verse seven, so that you come short in no gift. So God has given to you and I all knowledge. You and I have the mind of Christ. I think of first John chapter four, I think it's verse 17. I'm not positive, but it says that just as he is speaking of Jesus, just as he is, so are we in this world. That means just as Jesus's mind is, so is our mind in this world. And you might go, that doesn't make any sense at all. Well, they are praying here for this church and they're not, notice they're not saying, God, please give them this. They need this. They're praying for them to not be short in any gift or to not come short in any gift by giving thanks to God for the grace that he's given them. Sounds kind of backwards, right? Let me give you an example. Instead of saying, Lord, please help me to understand what you're saying. Lord, please help me to know what to do in this situation. Lord, please. It's stepping back and going, wait a second. The word of God right here is saying that through the grace of Jesus, I have been already, past tense, enriched with everything that I need. Everything. So I should follow the example of what the Holy Spirit's laying out here. And instead of begging God for it, I'm just, Lord, I thank you that you through Jesus have bestowed this endless grace on me. And in that grace, I was enriched in everything by him. Thank you, Lord, that because of that, I fall short of no spiritual gift. I thank you, Lord, that whatever I need because of your love, your grace for me, it's supplied in my life. Lord, help me to hear your voice so that I can make the right decisions in this situation. Thank you, Lord, for helping me hear your voice. Right? It shifts from this position of begging God to do something to realizing, wait, he's already... I'm already sanctified? I'm already called to be a saint? I've... The grace has already been given and I've already been enriched in everything, in all knowledge so that I come short in no gift. Like it's this, this is how we catch revelation from the word of God. And it becomes not just words on a page, but like, oh my goodness, this is really something for me right now. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. In fact, I'm just like saying these things out loud. My heart's getting stirred up about certain things in my life that I'm believing God for, that I need direction on. And faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word. It says in Romans 10, 17. And as I am speaking out loud, as I am preaching, I'm preaching to myself and I'm getting stirred up. Look at verse seven again. So that you come short in no gift. Eagerly waiting, and by the way, the word there is charisma. It's the same word used in chapter 12 when the nine manifestations, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are listed. And no gift. Eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 8, who will also confirm you to the end that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. Notice in verse six, he says, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, meaning there was something that happened from the outset of your walk with Jesus, but he's going to continue to confirm in you. By what? By gifts. He wants, look at verse seven, sandwich in between there, so that you come short in no gift. He wants us to continue by his grace to bear witness fruit of his gifts in our life. And you might think like, well, how am I supposed to do that? Like I, what do I do? It's, it's this position of realizing what has already been done. We're already sanctified. We are saints. We have been enriched. It's thanking him for it. And then as a result, there's this attitude, this spirit of expectancy, like, wow, God's going to move in this situation. Why wouldn't he? He's, it's already, it's already done. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. And this whole like almost beginning part of this chapter is like a prayer or he's telling them about his prayer of thankfulness. Him and Sothenus are telling the Corinthian church about their prayer of thankfulness. And then look at this. Who also, verse 8, who also will also confirm you to the end. And look at that you may be is italicized. So it may help for us to understand the Greek a little bit more. But if you just take that out for the purpose of seeing what words are just there in the Greek, it says, who will also confirm you to the end blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. Not that you may become blameless, it's already a done deal. Again, I refer to Colossians chapter one and More of this language, we will see it as we continue to go through 1 Corinthians. It's already a done deal. We are past tense. It's already been done, sanctified. Verse two. Now look at verse nine says, God is faithful by whom you were called into the fellowship of his son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. What's that all about? Well, it's the last thing I want to touch on. God is faithful. Everything we just mentioned today, This idea that he's already enriched us, this idea that he has given us through Jesus all knowledge that so, you know, so that we will be short and no spiritual gift. You might think like, man, I'm, but I am short in spiritual gifts and I don't have all knowledge. I don't even understand the Bible. Maybe I'm not saying that to you, but you know, some people might think that, or I'm, I'm really confused about this or that. Um, I don't feel blameless. I'm definitely not blameless. I'm actually struggling with like, you know, some issue or some sin or whatever. I love verse nine. God is faithful. That means all of these things have the potential, the power to not just be words on a page or truth in the word of God, but truth that sets us free. Jesus says, you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free. Notice, he didn't say, and the truth will just, it'll automatically set you free. No, we have to know his truth. And that's why these words are penned here. So that we can take in the word of God. We can realize like, wow, I'm sanctified. I'm blameless according to the word of God if I'm born again. The grace of God has enriched me in everything. Man, that, that, portion itself is probably the part that's blessed me the most from these nine verses. I have been enriched in everything. Everything. Everything. Wow. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. But when it doesn't make sense, when the mind starts to counter all that, I love verse nine. God is faithful. Meaning this isn't just fluff. This isn't just, uh, Too good to be true. God is faithful. By whom you were called into the fellowship of his son. Like, he's brought you in to the family. He's actually placed the spirit of his son into you. Who cries out from you, Abba, Father, the Bible says. Into the fellowship of his son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Wow. Well, I didn't touch on everything that I wanted to, but I got to verse 9 and I hope that you got something out of this today. We'll pick up on verse 10 next week and continue to unpack this powerful letter to the Corinthian church. Lord, we love you. We thank you for your word. I pray that as I encouraged earlier, people who are listening, that they would ask you, Father, in the name of Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, to open up their eyes in ways that have not been opened before, to cause their heart to understand the things that we have just gone over in your word. These powerful truths that are just mentioned in the intro of this letter, this book of 1 Corinthians. Lord, have your way in our lives. Cause us to just be able to receive all that you have for us and to not be a limiting factor anymore. We love you, Lord. We praise you and we thank you. We pray this all in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. God bless you. See you next time.