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Yeah, it's easier for you and I to

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sing with eyes of quartz.

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We're the whole realm of nature, mate.

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I'm afraid we don't do it.

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Love's so amazing, so divine.

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This man had a revelation of God that

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I don't think anybody's had before or since.

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I'm quite sure he quoted with fervency, God

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so loved the world that he gave his

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only begotten Son.

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He sees the great expanse of the world.

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Why, look at this man's staggering life.

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He began his life in the historic capital

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of the world, Tarsus.

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He ended his life in the military capital

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of the world, Rome.

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He went to the intellectual capital of the

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world in the 17th of Acts there and

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they discovered this little undersized man.

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When they saw him, they said his bodily

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presence is weak and discovered he had a

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staggering scintillating intellect.

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They quoted poetry answered with poetry.

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They quoted philosophy answered with philosophy.

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They quoted their history, he answered with their

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history.

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This man is all round, he's a fully

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developed man.

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And they're staggered by this amazing man.

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And then he came to a situation that

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the great Scottish preacher called some years ago.

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I'm trying to think of his name, it

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was James something.

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But anyhow, two years ago he said, they

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listened intently to Paul.

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They were staggered that this little Jew should

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know so much about Greek history, Greek philosophy.

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I'm sure he'd read Plato, all the other

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stuff.

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But then, as the great preacher says, he

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took the trumpet of the resurrection.

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He went down the street and when he

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saw the street, it was lined with churches

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as we would say.

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It was lined with places of worship.

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Oh, this doesn't stagger too many of us,

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does it?

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We just go down the street and say

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there's a Roman Catholic church, that's Jehovah's Witnesses,

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that's the Mormons, where the Hare Krishna meet

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there, and the Moonites meet there, and so

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on.

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Does it stir you that those people have

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been teaching false gods, and they rape people's

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minds just as a man might rape a

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girl's body?

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It says in the Sleepy Elizabethan English that

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when he saw all these people, colossal intellects

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many of them, and yet they were tricked

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and duped by false religion.

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And it says in the Sleepy Elizabethan English

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that his spirit was stirred within him.

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I'm not very fond of the Amplified, except

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where it agrees with me that the Amplified

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doesn't say his spirit was stirred within him.

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He says that when he saw all these

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people tricked, seduced by deceiving spirits, he was

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angry about it.

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Do you ever feel a holy anger?

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Okay, can you push over, there's quite a

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lot of people wanting to come in.

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Would you move that way and let them

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sit at the end here, on the end

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seats if you can.

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Move to the center, and then they won't

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have to move everybody else.

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We're going to have to put a gallery

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up.

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Lewis, there's some seats here.

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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

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Now we'll have to take another offering, they

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came in late.

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We're dealing with 1 Corinthians chapter 3, and

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talking about, at the moment, we're talking about

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the 14th verse of the epistle to the

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Galatians, where Paul says, God forbid that I

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should glory.

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No man ever had a pedigree greater than

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the apostle Paul.

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Of the tribe of Benjamin, of the seed

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of Abraham, he has everything going for him.

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Again, I say, I believe he had a

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colossal intellect, I think he had a very

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brilliant mind.

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He met the philosophers, I said he began

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his life in the ancient capital of the

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world, Tarsus.

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He went to the intellectual capital of the

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world, which was Athens, and he reasoned with

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them there.

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And yet, there is no epistle of Paul

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to the Athenians.

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Why?

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Well, I'm not going to criticize Paul.

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I'm just going to say this, he didn't

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talk about redemption, but he did say, and

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they couldn't believe it, he took the gospel

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trumpet to his lips.

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And he sounded the resurrection.

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You see, they did have an altar to

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an unknown God, and he said, that's the

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unknown God I declare to you.

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He made the heavens and the earth, his

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son died and rose again, and he was

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resurrected.

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And they showed him the gate.

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No, we can't listen to that kind of

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stuff.

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From there, he went from the intellectual capital

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of the world, and he'd been also later

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to go to the religious capital of the

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world, Jerusalem.

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But he steps down from the place where

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they worship the brain, to the place where

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they worship the body, Corinth.

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In the days of the apostle, you didn't

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have to string a hundred adjectives together about

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a man's corruption, and his licentiousness, and everything

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else.

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You just tagged him with one word, he's

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a Corinthian.

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And immediately, you knew he was the vilest

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of the vile.

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And the old German commentator, Meyer, not F

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.B. Meyer, he was English, but F., the

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other Meyer, a German commentator says this, blessed

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and sublime miracle of God, that a church

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of Jesus Christ could be established in Corinth.

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Shakespeare said you can't make a silk purse

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out of a sow's ear.

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God can do better than that.

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He can take the most depraved, despised, and

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rejected men, and make them saints to God.

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It says in the first of Samuel that

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he lifts the beggar from the dunghill, and

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makes them princes unto God.

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I remember about 15 or 16 years ago,

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when we were working with Dave Wilkerson in

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those days, when David was hardly known, and

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yet we had a full house.

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This side of the prayer chapel was filled

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with girls, this with men, and a little

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fellow stood up and he said, Brother Raven,

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let's come to preach for us.

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Little Puerto Rican fellow, his face was radiant,

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and he said before he sang, we stand

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up and sing.

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Sing the national anthem.

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Oh, I thought, but Lord, they sing the

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national anthem right before I preach.

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I didn't get what he said.

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He didn't say sing the national anthem.

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He sang our national anthem.

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He said, we sing our national anthem.

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So I thought the Puerto Ricans must have

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one.

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And he stood up there, and did you

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know he started to sing?

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Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved

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a wretch like me.

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I once was lost, but now I'm found.

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It was grace that taught mine.

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It was grace.

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And you know, before we got to the

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end, when we'd be...