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[cimi]

October 3
Saturday


DISTORTION

READ:
1 Corinthians 2
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Your faith should not
be in the wisdom of
men but in the power
of God.
__1 Corinthians 2:5
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Cartographers (mapmakers) deal with the problem of distortion when they display the round shape of the earth on the flat surface of a map. Since there is no perfect way to do this, some world maps depict Greenland as larger than Australia.

Christians have to deal with the problem of distortion as well. When we try to understand the spiritual realm within the limitations of the physical world, we can end up exaggerating minor things and minimizing important things.

The New Testament often addresses the distortion that results when the ideas of popular teachers become more important to us than what God says. God's purpose, said the apostle Paul, is "love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith" (1 Tim. 1:5). sound teaching does not distort God's Word or divide the church. Rather, it unites believers and builds up the body of Christ to care for one another and to do the work of God in the world (1 Cor. 12:25).

All human attempts to explain God are inadequate, and can even distort our priorities, confuse our thinking, and flatten our understanding of the spiritual life. To keep from distorting God's truth, we must rely on God's power rather than man's wisdom (1 Cor. 2:5). __Julie Ackerman Link
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```````````````````This mortal life is far too brief,`````````````````
``````````````````````````Eternity too vast, ````````````````````
`````````````````````To follow human sophistries`````````````````
`````````````````And lose the soul at last. __Clayburn`````````````
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To detect error, expose it to the light of God's truth

***************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 Corinthians 2************

1 And I, brethren, when I
came to you, did not come
with excellence of speech or
of wisdom declaring to you
the testimony of God....

4 but in demonstration of
the Spirit and of power, 5 that
your faith should not be in
the wisdom of men but in the
power of God....

9 But as it is written: "Eye
has not seen, nor ear heard,
nor have entered into the
heart of man the things which
God has prepared for those
who love Him.


10 But God has revealed
them to us through His Spirit,
For the spirit searches all
things, yes, the deep things of
God. 11 For what man knows
the things of a man except
the spirit of the man which is
in him? Even so no one
knows the things of God
except the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received, not
the spirit of the world, but the
Sprit who is from God, that
we might know the things
that have been freely given to
us by God.

13 These things we also
speak, not in words which
man's wisdom teaches but
which the Holy Spirit
teaches, comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. 14 But
the natural man does not
receive the things of the
Spirit of God, for they are
foolishness to him; nor can
he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.

15 But he who is spiritual
judges all things, yet he
himself is rightly judged by
no one. 16 For "who has
known the mind of the LORD
that he may instruct him?"
But we have the mind of
Christ.

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It must have been disappointing to Paul, who planted the church at
Corinth, to be forced to continually defend his apostleship to the
believers there. This occurs in both of his Corinthian letters (see
1 Cor. 4 and 2 Cor. 4; 10). __BILL CROWDER

[Lani]

we can end up exaggerating minor things and minimizing important things.

This is SOOOOOOOOOO true!!!!

It is a constant reminder (for all) to focus on His will and remember no matter what we face here, it means nothing compared to the Mercy and Grace that await us upon our return Home.

Thanks Cimi!!!

Lani