THE LIVING WORD TRANSCRIPT
PROGRAM AIR DATE: 12-9-18
LESSON TITLE: "WORLDLY WISDOM"
WELCOME
TODAY WE ARE BLESSED WITH A WONDERFUL GIFT FROM GOD, THE BIBLE. THIS BOOK IS GOD'S LIVING WORD. IN ITS PAGES, WE ARE TOLD "FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD." IT IS IN THIS BOOK OF BOOKS THAT WE FIND THE ANSWERS TO ALL OF MAN'S QUESTIONS AND NEEDS. THIS MORNING YOUR AREA CHURCHES OF CHRIST WELCOME YOU TO A PROGRAM COMMITTED TO THAT PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY AS WE PRESENT THE LIVING WORD. NOW HERE IS YOUR HOST, RAY SULLINS.
GOOD MORNING! THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY FOR GOD'S LIVING WORD. I HOPE EVERYONE HAD A GREAT WEEK, AND I HOPE YOUR WEEKEND WAS A PROFITABLE ONE ALSO. NOW, HERE WE ARE ON ANOTHER GLORIOUS LORD'S DAY MORNING. WHAT A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE AGAIN TODAY TO JOIN TOGETHER IN THE WORSHIP OF OUR REDEEMER. I HOPE YOU ARE READY TO BEGIN THIS NEW WEEK WITH A DAY OF SERVICE AND OFFERING TO YOUR GOD. AS ALWAYS, IT IS OUR COMMITMENT THROUGH THIS PROGRAM TO PROCLAIM THE SIMPLE TRUTH OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST WHICH IS CONFIRMED FOR US IN THE BIBLE. I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE YOUR BIBLE'S HANDY AND I HOPE YOU ARE READY TO WORSHIP GOD TOGETHER AS WE SING PRAISES TO HIS NAME AND STUDY FROM HIS WONDROUS WORD. NOW LET'S BEGIN BY TALKING TO OUR FATHER IN PRAYER!
PRAYER: OUR GOD AND FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE'RE SO THANKFUL FOR THIS DAY AND EVERY DAY OF LIFE; THE PRIVILEGE THAT WE HAVE TO BE CALLED YOUR CHILDREN AND TO BE SERVANTS IN YOUR KINGDOM. HELP US TO ALWAYS SERVE YOU IN SUCH A WAY THAT LIFTS UP YOUR NAME AND PROVES HOW MUCH WE LOVE YOU FATHER. AND MAY WE ALWAYS RESPOND TO THE GREAT LOVE YOU'VE SHOWN US CONCERNING THE GIFT OF JESUS AND KNOW THAT WE SHOULD ALWAYS DO AND RECIPROCATE THOSE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE SHOWN TO US IN THAT LOVE AS WELL. FATHER, BE WITH US THIS DAY AS WE WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH. IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.
AT THIS TIME, WE WANT TO SING OUR FIRST SONG OF THE MORNING. WON'T YOU ALL JOIN IN WITH THE CONGREGATION AT THIS TIME AS WE PRAISE GOD TOGETHER WITH THE HYMN, "THE LAST MILE OF THE WAY."
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS
THINK FOR A MOMENT ABOUT WHAT A PRIVILEGE WE HAVE AS CHRISTIANS TO SERVE GOD. AS HIS CHILDREN WE MUST TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THAT HIS WILL IS CARRIED OUT. ONE COMMAND THAT STANDS OUT AMONG MANY IS THE FACT THAT WE ARE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD. REMEMBER WHAT THE LORD HIMSELF SAID IN MARK 16:15-16? THERE WE READ, "AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. HE WHO BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED WILL BE SAVED; BUT HE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE WILL BE CONDEMNED.'" PAUL SAID IT WAS THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH TO MAKE KNOWN THE MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD TO ALL, EPHESIANS 310! AND PETER PROCLAIMED THAT WE MUST ALL BE READY TO GIVE AN ANSWER, AT ANY TIME, FOR THE HOPE THAT LIES WITHIN US, ONE PETER 3:15. THE REALITY IS, WE ALL HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO AS FOLLOWERS OF GOD TO SEE THAT EVERYONE ON THIS EARTH HEARS THE PRECIOUS MESSAGE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHICH IS ABLE TO SAVE ANYONE FROM THEIR LOST STATE IN THIS WORLD.
WITH THIS IN MIND THINK OF THE MANY WAYS THAT WE CAN REACH OUT TO ACCOMPLISH THIS GREAT TASK FOR OUR GOD. MANY OF US HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO COUNTRIES THROUGHOUT THIS WORLD TO PREACH THE MESSAGE OF GOD. OTHERS REACH OUT IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES THROUGH VARIOUS OPPORTUNITIES TO ALLOW OTHERS TO SEE CHRIST IN THEM. IN FACT, THIS PROGRAM IS CENTERED AROUND ACCOMPLISHING THE VERY THING WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS MORNING. HELP PEOPLE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT JESUS, HIS WILL, AND TO PROVIDE US EACH WITH ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE GOD.
BRETHREN AND FRIENDS, I HOPE WE WILL ALL CHOOSE TO KNOW GOD, FOLLOW GOD AND TO DO ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO HIS WILL IN THIS LIFE. NOT ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF OUR OWN SOULS, BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THE MANY SOULS AROUND US EACH AND EVERY DAY. THINK HOW WONDERFUL IT WILL BE TO NOW ONLY SECURE OUR OWN SALVATION THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD, BUT TO HELP OTHERS TO DO THE SAME AS WELL. FURTHERMORE, MAY WE SEEK MORE EVERY DAY TO FIND THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES TO SERVE GOD BY HELPING, TEACHING AND SERVING OTHERS. KNOWING THAT SUCH IS ACCORDING TO THE WISDOM OF GOD AND NOT THE WORLD. WE ARE TRULY A BLESSED PEOPLE OF GOD.
THIS MORNING, MY FATHER, JERRY SULLINS, IS OUR GUEST SPEAKER. BROTHER JERRY IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF MISSOURI HERE IN SPRINGFIELD. TODAY WE WILL BEGIN A NEW SERIES OF STUDY ENTITLED, "GOD MADE FOOLISH THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD." OUR SPECIFIC TOPIC OF THE DAY WILL DEAL WITH, "WORLDLY WISDOM." SO PLEASE CONTINUE WITH US THIS MORNING AND AFTER OUR NEXT SONG TOGETHER, BROTHER SULLINS WILL RETURN WITH THIS LESSON FROM GOD'S WORD. IT'S NOW TIME TO JOIN IN OUR SECOND HYMN OF THE MORNING, THE NAME OF THE SONG, "SING HALLELUJAH TO THE LORD."
LESSON
BY JERRY SULLINS
WELCOME AGAIN TO THE LIVING WORD BROADCAST. WE'RE SO THANKFUL THAT YOU HAVE CHOSEN THIS TIME TO BE WITH US IN THIS TELECAST TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD WITH US. YOU KNOW THAT IT IS OUR PURPOSE TO PRESENT GOD'S WORD AND TO GIVE EVERYONE AN OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY IT FOR HIMSELF OR HERSELF AND DETERMINE WHAT GOD'S WILL IS FOR YOU IN THIS LIFE. THIS MORNING WE'RE BEGINNING A NEW SERIES THAT IS BASED UPON FIRST CORINTHIANS CHAPTER ONE VERSE 20 WHERE WE WILL BE STUDYING THE WISDOM OF GOD VERSUS THE WISDOM OF MAN. AND THROUGHOUT THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WE'LL BE STUDYING IT FROM EVERY ASPECT THAT WE SEE IN THE WORD OF GOD.
I WANT TO BEGIN THIS MORNING BY THANKING YOU AGAIN FOR VIEWING THIS BROADCAST AND HOPEFULLY SOME THINGS CAN BE SAID THAT WILL LEAD YOU CLOSER TO GOD. AS WE LOOK AT THE SCRIPTURE TODAY I WANT US TO BEGIN IN FIRST CORINTHIANS CHAPTER ONE AND PUTTING IT IN ITS CONTEXT BEGINNING WITH VERSE 18 WHERE IT SAYS, "FOR THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS IS FOOLISHNESS TO THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING, BUT TO US WHO ARE BEING SAVED IT IS THE POWER OF GOD." WE SEE BASICALLY TWO CLASSES OF PEOPLE HERE: THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING, THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS, AND THOSE WHO ARE SAVED BY THE POWER OF GOD THAT ISAIAH PROPHESIED IN ISAIAH 29 VERSE 14 WHICH IS MENTIONED HERE IN VERSE 19 OF FIRST CORINITHIANS CHAPTER 1. "FOR IT IS WRITTEN: 'I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND BRING TO NOTHING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRUDENT.'" NOW, IT'S NOT THAT THE WISDOM OF THE WISE IS SOMETHING THAT IS NOT WISE IN IT'S OWN WAY BUT WE'RE DISCUSSING SPIRITUAL THINGS HERE NOT THINGS OF THIS WORLD. AND SO BASICALLY THAT IS THE CONTEXT OF THIS WHOLE MATTER. BUT THEN HE GOES ON TO SAY IN VERSE 20, "WHERE IS THE WISE?" THAT IS THE JEW OR THE GENTILE IN THIS LIFE AS IT WAS BACK THEN WERE EITHER A JEW OR A YOU WERE A GENTILE, ONE WHO WAS NOT A JEW. "WHERE IS THE SCRIBE?" THAT IS THE INTERPRETER OF THE LAW OF MOSES. "WHERE IS THE DISPUTER (OR DEBATER) OF THIS AGE?" THAT IS MAKING REFERENCE TO MAYBE THE PHILOSOPHERS OF THE GRECIAN WORLD. THOSE LIKE PLATO AND ARISTOTLE AND SOCRATES, THE EPICUREANS AND THE STOICS, PEOPLE LIKE THAT. THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE GIVING PHILOSOPHY AS FAR AS THIS LIFE IS CONCERNED. AND HE GOES ON TO SAY, "HAS NOT GOD MADE FOOLISH THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD?" NOW FOOLISH, AS IT RELATES TO THE SALVATION OF ONE SOUL. I WOULD LIKE TO EMPHASIZE AGAIN THAT GOD IS NOT CONDEMNING PEOPLE FOR BEING THOSE WHO MIGHT BE CONSIDERED TO BE WISE BUT IN THEIR WISDOM THEY SOUGHT NOT TO SEEK GOD.
NOW WE SEE THAT IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY BECAUSE AMONG US ARE THOSE PEOPLE WHO REFER TO THEMSELVES AS HUMANIST. HUMANISM IS BASICALLY A DOCTRINE THAT WAS STARTED IN 1937. THAT IS WHEN THE FIRST HUMANIST MANIFESTO NUMBER ONE AND IN 1977 THE SECOND MANIFESTO WAS WRITTEN BUT BASICALLY IT IS BASED UPON GODLESS ATHEISM. WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR SOCIETY TODAY WE SEE THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD. AND THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD AS IT IS BASED UPON HUMANISM IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY IS NOT THE WISDOM THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US CONCERNING OUR OWN SOUL SALVATION. IT WAS THROUGH THE GOSPEL THAT THE LORD GOD WOULD SAVE US, THAT IS THE GOSPEL AS IT RELATES TO JESUS CHRIST AND HIM BEING CRUCIFIED. GOD SENT HIS SON TO THIS WORLD TO DIE UPON THE CROSS TO GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE SAVED. THE APOSTLE PAUL SAID, AND HE WAS SPEAKING TO THE PEOPLE AT ROME WHO WERE CHRISTIANS BUT YET HE WOULD SPEAK TO ALL ROMANS SAYING THIS IN ROMANS ONE VERSE 16, "I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, FOR IT IS THE POWER OF GOD TO SALVATION FOR EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES, FOR THE JEW FIRST AND ALSO FOR THE GREEK." NOW TO THE WORLD IN THAT DAY AND TIME THAT WAS FOOLISHNESS. WHY WOULD SOMEONE HAVE TO BE SAVED BY A GOD? WHEREAS THE WORLD BELIEVED IN THAT DAY AND TIME AS WELL AS THE WORLD BELIEVES THE DAY EVEN CONSIDERING HUMANITY ITSELF, EACH INDIVIDUAL BEING THEIR OWN GOD. THE WORLD TODAY, AS WELL AS THE WORLD THEN, ACCEPTED THE GOSPEL AS BEING SOMETHING THAT WAS FOOLISH. NOTHING TO OBEY, NOTHING TO RECOGNIZE, THAT IS AS FAR AS A LIVING GOD IS CONCERNED. BUT YET WE KNOW FROM THE SCRIPTURE IN SECOND TIMOTHY 3, 16 THROUGH 17, THAT, "ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT THE MAN OF GOD MIGHT BE COMPLETE THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK."
NOW HERE'S ANOTHER FOOLISH STATEMENT AS SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT AS IT RELATES TO GOD IN ROMANS 10 VERSE 13 WHERE IT SAYS, "FOR 'WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.'" IT SEEMS LIKE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD TODAY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN BEING SAVED. AND SO WE APPEAL TO ALL OF THOSE OF THIS WORLD WHO FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST TO CONSIDER THE WISDOM OF GOD TODAY VERSUS THE WISDOM OF MAN. IT WAS THROUGH PREACHING, YES THROUGH PREACHING, THAT GOD WOULD SAVE THIS WORLD. I CALL YOUR ATTENTION AGAIN TO FIRST CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 1 VERSE 21 WHERE IT SAYS, "FOR SINCE, IN THE WISDOM OF GOD, THE WORLD THROUGH WISDOM DID NOT KNOW GOD, IT PLEASED GOD THROUGH THE FOOLISHNESS OF THE MESSAGE PREACHED TO SAVE THOSE WHO BELIEVE." THE WISDOM OF GOD DID WHAT? IN THE WISDOM OF GOD HE WANTED THE WORLD TO HEAR THE MESSAGE OF HIS SAVING GRACE THAT WOULD COME THROUGH JESUS CHRIST HIS SON WHO WOULD DIE UPON THE CROSS. NOW THE WORLD SCOFFS AT THAT, THAT IS THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD. THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHO DO NOT BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST. HOW SAD THAT IS! FOR THEY ALLOW THE PHILOSOPHIES OF MEN, THEY ALLOW THE THEORIES AND THE DOCTRINES OF MEN TO LEAD THEM AWAY FROM BELIEVING IN THE TRUE AND THE LIVING GOD WHEREIN THEY CAN FIND SALVATION. TO THEM IT'S A BUNCH OF FOOLISHNESS. THAT'S VERY SAD FOR THOSE PEOPLE BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT IT WAS THROUGH GOD AND HIS MERCY AND HIS GRACE THAT WE ALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A LIFE BEYOND THIS. A BLESSED LIFE TO BE WITH OUR CREATOR AND THE LORD JESUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT AND TO DWELL WITH ONE ANOTHER IN A PERFECT STATE WITH PERFECT PROVISIONS IN THAT WONDERFUL PLACE THAT WE CALL HEAVEN ITSELF.
NOW WHEN CHRIST WAS PRIEST, AS WE GO ON TO SEE HERE IN FIRST CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 1 VERSE 22, IT SAID, "FOR JEWS REQUEST A SIGN, AND GREEKS SEEK AFTER WISDOM." NOW THAT SEEMS KIND OF FOOLISH TO ME, DOES IT NOT TO YOU? FOR DID NOT THE JEWS ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE A SIGN FROM GOD? PROVEN TO BE THE SON OF GOD HISTORICALLY AND PROVEN TO BE THE SON OF GOD THROUGH THE SCRIPTURE. WE UNDERSTAND BY THE MIRACLES THAT HE PERFORMED, BY THE MIGHTY WORKS THAT HE DID AMONG THE PEOPLE IN THE 3 1/2 YEARS DURING HIS MINISTRY. SO MANY PEOPLE, JEW AND GENTILE ALIKE, BELIEVED AND OBEYED JESUS CHRIST RECOGNIZING THAT THIS, THIS JESUS OF NAZARETH, WAS ONE WHO WAS ABLE TO DO THINGS EVEN AS FAR AS CHANGING NATURE ITSELF AND HEALING PEOPLE OF DISEASES. AND TALK ABOUT IT ANY WAY YOU WANT TO BUT JESUS PROVED THAT HE WAS THE SON OF GOD. HE DID THINGS THAT A MERE MAN COULD NOT DO. THEREFORE MANY JEWS, IN FACT MULTITUDES OF JEWS AND MULTITUDES OF GENTILES, SAW THAT SIGN AND BELIEVED. BUT OTHERS WERE STILL SEEKING A SIGN FROM HEAVEN. THAT SIGN WAS GIVEN BY GOD HIMSELF THROUGH THE GIVING OF HIS SON ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY AS WE READ ABOUT IN THE BIBLE.
AND THEN THERE WERE THE GENTILES THEY WERE INTERESTED IN LISTENING TO ALMOST ANYONE PROFESSING ANY DOCTRINE AS WE SEE IN ACTS CHAPTER 17 WHEN PAUL WENT TO THE CITY OF ATHENS. THEY EVEN HAD A STATUE, AN IDOL TO THE UNKNOWN GOD, AND THIS IS WHAT PAUL SAID ABOUT THAT UNKNOWN GOD: THIS GOD THAT YOU LISTED AS THE UNKNOWN GOD, HE IS THE TRUE AND THE LIVING GOD. "IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING." NOW THEY WERE GLAD TO HEAR THAT BUT THE GENTILES JUST DID NOT BELIEVE IT. THEY THOUGHT THAT WAS FOOLISHNESS.
NOW, WHAT'S GOING TO BE YOUR SITUATION IN THIS LIFE? IN FACT IN FIRST CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 1 VERSE 24 IT SAYS, "BUT TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED (THAT IS INVITED BY THE GOSPEL THAT IS THOSE OF US WHO'VE OBEYED THE GOSPEL) BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS, CHRIST THE POWER OF GOD AND THE WISDOM OF GOD. BECAUSE THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD IS WISER THAN MEN, AND THE WEAKNESS OF GOD IS STRONGER THAN MEN." WELL, THE WEAKNESS OF GOD, THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD, THAT IS THE GOSPEL, IT'S THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION. IT CAN SAVE YOU FROM YOUR SINS, YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS. YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE IN ANY OF THIS BUT I CHALLENGE YOU TODAY TO CONSIDER THESE MATTERS VERY SERIOUSLY. WHY WOULD WE ACCEPT THE WISDOM OF MAN? DOES NOT THE WISDOM OF MAN CHANGE? DO WE NOT SOMETIMES LOOK UPON THE WISDOM OF MAN AND SAY, 'WELL, THAT WAS A FOOLISH THING TO DO.' ONE THING FOR SURE, YOU CAN NEVER LOOK AND YOU CAN NEVER READ ABOUT THE WISDOM OF GOD AND UNDERSTAND THE WISDOM OF GOD AND SAY THAT WAS A FOOLISH THING. BECAUSE IT WAS GOD WHO EXTENDED HIS GRACE TOWARD US IN THE IMAGE OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD WHO CAME AND LIVED ON THIS EARTH AND DIED UPON THE CROSS AND SHED HIS BLOOD FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF OUR SINS. HOW SAD IT IS TODAY THAT MANY PEOPLE CHOOSE TO LOOK AT THE WORD OF GOD ITSELF AND EVEN PROFANE IT AND WHO DECLARE THAT IT CANNOT BE THE WORD OF GOD. IF I HAD TIME I COULD PROVE TO YOU THAT IT IS WORD OF GOD BUT YET THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE US, MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ALL OVER THE EARTH, WHO KNOW WHAT GOD DID. WHO UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD DID. AND WHO BELIEVE WHAT GOD DID WHEN HE SENT HIS SON TO THIS EARTH. FOR GOD INDEED SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. FOR GOD SENT NOT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD BUT THAT THE WORLD THROUGH HIM MIGHT BE SAVED. JESUS HIMSELF, THE SON OF GOD, SAID, "'NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYETH UNTO ME, "LORD, LORD" (MATTHEW 7:21) SHALL ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT HE WHO DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN.'" JESUS SAID IN JOHN 8:32. HE SAID THAT HE WAS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE AND NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME.
IF YOU SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT THERE IS NO GOD, WILL YOU NOT GIVE THE WORD OF GOD AN OPPORTUNITY TO AT LEAST SPEAK TO YOU? WILL YOU NOT AT LEAST CONTACT US AND LET US DISCUSS WITH YOU THE MOST IMPORTANT MATTER IN THIS LIFE? THAT IS THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOUL, TO AGAIN TO TRY TO CONVINCE YOU THAT THERE IS A GOD IN HEAVEN THAT LOVES YOU! THAT WAS WILLING TO GIVE HIS SON TO DIE UPON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS. YOU KNOW HE DID AND HE ALWAYS WILL! EVEN THOUGH YOU REJECT HIM HE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE HIS CREATION AND WE PLEAD WITH YOU TO ACT UPON THIS MATTER AND TO UNDERSTAND THAT, NO, THE WISDOM OF GOD IS NOT FOOLISHNESS. BUT IT IS ACTUALLY THE TRUTH AND IT IS BY THE TRUTH AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH THAT YOU CAN BE SAVED. SO MY FRIEND, MAY GOD BLESS YOU WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF HIS WILL AND HIS WORD
CLOSING COMMENTS
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