Introduction

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Hello, and welcome to the West and Church's special Monday morning coffee high. On this ICA, preacher, Mark Rubber, we will help you get your weaker one with the back of the weekend. So that weekend and watch more. He may have some extra bonus card from time to time. So grab a cup of coffee and we start the week together on Monday morning coffee with Mark.

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Good morning, good morning. Welcome to the Monday Morning Coffee Podcast for the week of July 12th through the 18th. It's Monday, July the 13th, and I'm Mark. I'm holding a great cup of coffee here in one of my favorite mugs. This is a mug that I got in Oxford, England, touring C.S. Lewis sites there. That was fantastic, and it just brings back great memories when I just hold this little mug in my hands. And everything is fantastic because this is Youth Lectures Week. It is the best week of the year, hands down, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. This is it. This is the week. Looking forward to youth lectures Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday. But, well, we still need to look back at yesterday's sermon and we still need to pull some things together into our daily Bible reading as we get ready for a tremendous week that ends in the very best weekend of the year. I'm Mark, and you know what you need to do. You need to grab your Bible, you need to grab your coffee. Let's grow together.

Sermon Notes

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So let's start the week by thinking about yesterday's sermon. Maybe a very unexpected kind of sermon to say that raising kids in the faith is a little bit simpler than we think. But I really hope this sermon gave parents and grandparents and friends, aunts, uncles, all of us a lot of hope. The idea is to show that living as a disciple should, where faith is at the center of our lives, that's what makes the difference. And sometimes when I talk with parents, what I hear is a ton of fear. And I get that. Dean and I raised two daughters, it's scary. And the world's gotten scarier since we were in the child raising business. But what we want to do is have confidence in God and in God's word. Remember, this is God's work, not ours. In the parable of the sower, the one who gives the growth isn't the sower, it's God. And what causes growth isn't necessarily the skill of the sower, it is the seed, the living word of God. So, yes, we want to prepare the soil and we want to get the weeds out of our children's hearts, and we want to make sure the word is getting into their heart in more than just Bible classes and sermon on Sunday. But God gives the increase and we need to remember that. So pray, mom and dad, and build your marriage strong and love your kids and teach and talk about God and His Word and all the ways that that integrates into our lives, like Deuteronomy chapter 6 really instructs us. And yes, use the church to support your efforts in every way. The church does all kinds of amazing things like put on youth lectures. But it's not that complicated. It's not that complicated. May God bless you this week as you raise your children to become his children. Now let's talk about daily Bible reading, because we're starting in a new book of the New Testament.

Monday 1st Corinthians 1

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We're beginning the book of 1 Corinthians. The reading for Monday is 1 Corinthians chapter 1. If you want to know about this church's founding, it's out of Acts chapter 18, and it does come sort of after Paul fails in Athens. Maybe that's too harsh, but Paul's preaching in Athens certainly doesn't result in big things. And so he moves on to Corinth and ends up founding an important congregation that is very, very significant in the New Testament. In fact, he stays there a long time, 18 months. And this is a thriving church. Yes, it has a lot of problems, but it's a great church in a very difficult location. Corinth was a very wealthy town. Population's estimate would be somewhere around 600 to 700,000. It's a major commercial center because if you look at your map, it's on an isthmuth. Now there was not a canal cut there, but there was a trolley system where you could drag boats across the isthmus. And so there was lots of sailors in town, lots of trade, lots of commerce. There was a banking center going on there. Pottery was world famous, and Corinthian brass was world famous coming out of Corinth. The city had two theaters, one of which seated 18,000 people. And they even hosted the Isthmythian Games, which I cannot say without more coffee, held every two years. And it was a huge draw for people to come there and see these athletic contests. We're having the World Cup right now. Tomorrow there's a World Cup semifinal being played in Dallas, and people are coming from everywhere. Well, that's Corinth. And here you're trying to be a Christian in the middle of what is a very immoral city. There were 26 temples there, and its reputation for vice and sexual immorality was very well earned. The church itself, great diversity there, Jews, Greeks, slaves, free, lots of different kinds of people there trying to serve the Lord. And the purpose then for why Paul writes this church is because they have some questions and there are some problems. That makes it what is known as an occasional letter. Paul is writing about a certain occasion. They need this. And that takes us right to chapter one. I'll try to move through some of these introductory things pretty quickly and get to the heart of the matter, which really starts in about verse 10. But we don't know, for example, much about this Sosthenes fella. He might be the Sosthenes who opposed Paul in Acts 18. That would be wonderful, but we can't be certain of all of that. And this is a very typical kind of opening. Lots of the standard letter form stuff here. Note particularly verse 9: God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. There's a heavy emphasis here on the faithfulness of God. Even a place like Corinth can have Christians and can have Christians who can be assured of their salvation because of God's faithfulness. And I love how Paul starts talking about the faithfulness of God before he starts talking about all the problems they have. And there are some problems here. The problem of division begins in verse 10. And there's a lot of things contributing to that. They think way too much of preachers. They didn't understand the nature of the gospel message. There's some pride going on, they're not respecting Paul appropriately. And maybe a lot of this is just cultural appropriation. In that time, it was very common for a philosopher to come to town and form a school around him, to form a party around him. And that division is working, that idea is working in the church. So you've got some people who are forming a party around Paul, and another about Apollos, and another Cephas, and another even Christ, verse 12. And Paul says, this is nonsense. This is nonsense. Is Christ divided, verse 13? If Christ's physical body is not divided, how can his spiritual body be divided? Now, I'll just I'll just put in a quick plug here. Most everybody knows that religious division is bad, but so many of the cures for that are simply just as bad. For example, the ecumenical approach, where we pretend that differences don't matter. We're really all united, even though we're not. Or what about the super organization approach, where we get some giant organization that rules over everybody and decides what is right, what is wrong, what's important, what's not, what's a matter of faith, what's a matter of doctrine, and just straightens everybody out on everything and everybody get in line with what the organization says. There's no basis for that in the New Testament either. The right approach to curing division is to get in the Bible, study the Bible, and do what it says. That's the answer. And we know that's the answer because that's what Paul is telling the Corinthians. He's writing scripture to them and he says, pay attention to this. Do what I tell you. This is what this is all about. And I am aware, you may be aware, if you've talked with anybody at any length about baptism, verse 15 is coming up where somebody says, Oh, it's just not that big a deal. Or Paul, Paul wouldn't say, you know, I'm glad that I wasn't baptizing, so forth and so on. But notice the whole argument here, the whole argument stands only if everyone in Corinth has been baptized. Otherwise, the thing falls apart. And someone says, Well, what are you talking about? I'm not part of that. I don't, I don't know. Do you have to be baptized to be in the party of Paul? No, that's not where Paul is, of course, at all. Verses 14 and 15 should not be taken to mean baptism is insignificant. It just means that Paul doesn't want a party built around himself. My good friend Warren Berkeley was on a Philippine mission trip many years ago, and he refused to baptize Filipinos because they wanted to be baptized by an American. In fact, baptism with white hands was a phrase that was being used. So Warren said, I'm not baptizing you. I'm not, that's a wrong emphasis. That's a wrong understanding. I won't do that. Somebody comes home and says, Oh, Warren Berkeley doesn't believe in baptism. That's outrageous. That's outrageous. But there are times, there are circumstances where baptism needs to be approached carefully with a right understanding. And that may mean, those circumstances may mean that I don't do the baptizing. It may mean that somebody in Corinth, Paul would say, needs to do the baptizing so that it does not contribute to this party spirit. And of course, what you've got, it seems like, as we move further into chapter one, is somebody, is somebody setting up a wisdom party? We're all about the wisdom of this world. And Paul says the gospel divides people into camps, starting about verse 18. The word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, says the King James. Really, the word of the cross is not foolishness or folly. It's perceived that way by the people who don't get it, who don't understand. And maybe people listening to uh Daily Bible reading podcasts, maybe we just need to step back for a minute. It is foolishness. If you've never heard this before, if you don't understand it, someone died and rose again. Seriously, nobody rises again. And somebody dying for me, why would somebody do that for me? All of that just sounds like uh utter fabrication until you study it, look at it, see the evidence, begin to examine what's going on, what it means, why these things were done. So that's where Paul is with all of that. And he points out that God does not need the wisdom of human beings. In verse 19, this is a quote out of Isaiah. Instead of using the wisdom of men, God just sends an angel to destroy the Assyrians. That's the context there. The wise person is the person who thinks he can solve it all by human reason. We can figure this out on our own. And human wisdom would never figure out salvation, and God does not need human wisdom to save sinful men. Now, that doesn't mean education is useless and unimportant. Of course not. God made your mind. Solomon is exalted for wisdom and learning, but it is to say that our wisdom will not discover God's ways and we'll be wiser than God. We need to trust the Lord. That's where Paul is. And preaching, verse 21, is the means by which people will be saved. Learning, teaching, that's part of God's way, but it is God's way, not man's way. And I would emphasize, notice again, it's what is preached that saves people, not a mystical experience, not an emotional experience, not pizza and outings or a wonderful coffee bar. You know how I feel about coffee. Churches today are offering everything but the preaching of the New Testament gospel. And people aren't being saved. They're not. They need the gospel, the plan of salvation, the power of God unto salvation, Romans 1.16. So notice verse 28, the response to the gospel shows it's not a humanly devised system of philosophy and wisdom. Nobody would come up with something that attracts the lowly, the people who are powerless, who have no financial status. So in chapter one, Paul moves deliberately and quickly to deal with the problem of division. And that ought to tell us something about what matters, because there's some craziness going on in this Corinthian church, and Paul starts with division. Unity is important, and we should do everything we can to maintain unity, and we should stop division, just like Paul stops division in 1 Corinthians chapter 1. The reading for Monday, 1 Corinthians 1. Welcome

Tuesday 1st Corinthians 2

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to Tuesday. It is Tuesday, and our reading today is 1 Corinthians chapter 2. The reading is 1 Corinthians, the second chapter. We will have Zoomed Bible study tonight, West Cider's looking forward to talking more with you about these 16 verses. I do think the first five verses need to fit in with what just went on in chapter 1 yesterday. Notice verse 5, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men. We're still talking about the wisdom of men versus the wisdom of God. And Paul is very careful in how he preaches the gospel and presents the gospel. He doesn't dress it up, lure people in with the wrong ideas and the wrong kinds of enticements, because Paul never wanted their faith to rest on men and men's ways, but on the power of God. Then beginning in verse 6, Paul starts talking about the wisdom of God as given by the Holy Spirit. And this material really runs from 2-6 to about chapter 3, verse 4. And Paul begins to discuss some things about secret wisdom. And that makes me wonder, maybe I'm cutting this too much off from the division material. If somebody's running a wisdom party back there in Corinth, is there some secrets being told there? We know some things that not everybody knows. We got a secret handshake, and we know better than the rabble down there. That is something that is so appealing to some people for some reason. If somebody says, I know something you don't know, then they just have to sidle up to that guy and they'll let that kind of leader lead them into every kind of error and every kind of false teaching because he promises higher learning and oh, those simple people over there with their simple gospel. Let me just show you, I know something better than them. Don't get sucked into that, because the secret wisdom here in verse 7 is not some deep mystery that most people don't know. The secret wisdom here is the wisdom of the gospel, the wisdom we could not know by human means of discerning and finding out. And so Paul says, God's way is just different than our way. Verse 9, it's not anything that we would have discerned on our own. That quotation in verse 9 is probably a combination of some material in Isaiah 64 and Isaiah 65. And then he says, the way that we got the wisdom that we have, it comes from the spirit. And nobody knows the spirit of God, but the spirit of God knows. And you can't discern that on your own. Just as nobody knows verse 11 your thoughts except your spirit, no one comprehends verse 11 the thoughts of God except the spirit of God. There's no ESP. Nobody can read your mind. Cannot, will not, nope, nobody can do that. Paul says nobody knows your thoughts. And in the same way, we cannot discern the thoughts of God without the Spirit of God telling us. By the way, I think that has some implication and application when the Bible is silent about something. When the Bible is silent about something, we have a tendency to just decide we're going to charge ahead. Bible doesn't say anything about instrumental music. How many times have you heard that? It doesn't say you can't. Well, what does God think about instrumental music in the New Testament church? Answer: We don't know because the Spirit of God has not told us that. So it seems to me that the best thing for us to do is to do what the Spirit of God has told us, sing, Ephesians 5.19, and not plunge ahead and presume to know the thoughts of God when the Spirit of God has not revealed those. I think that's a very fair application. I do think verse 13, which is a difficult verse to translate, teaches verbal plenary Wow, yeah, coffee. You gotta have coffee. Plenary inspiration, which is word for word inspiration, not thought for thought. And this text says, verse 14, that a person who does not accept revelation, who's guided only by his own reasoning, the natural man, he's never gonna get it. He's never gonna get it because he won't listen to the revelation of God. Now, I know Calvinists have a big time here, but these verses simply don't say what they want them to say. Calvinists will say that no one can understand the word of God unless God directly illuminates him, the operation of the Holy Spirit in the heart. But this passage is not about conversion. The Corinthians had already been converted, and there are many passages that would contradict that idea that you can't be saved until the Lord directly opens your heart. This is talking to the Corinthians, and it's talking about how instead of getting all enamored of human wisdom, they need to be enamored of the wisdom of God, the wisdom that the Spirit reveals through inspired people like the Apostle Paul. And we do need to hold this to the idea of disunity and division. That's maybe still working here a little bit. And Paul says when you're a spiritual person, a person who listened to the revelation of God, you can judge or you can examine, you can discern properly the word of God equips us to know how to do, what to do, where to do. We can do what's right. So, 1 Corinthians chapter 2, our reading for Tuesday. We'll have Zoom call tonight. We'll talk about this even more this evening. Rest of you, I'll see you on the podcast tomorrow. But this passage is pushing the wisdom of God. See you tomorrow on the podcast.

Wednesday 1st Corinthians 3

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Welcome to Wednesday. Welcome to Wednesday. It's 1 Corinthians chapter 3 that we are reading. The reading today is 1 Corinthians, the third chapter. Our summer series continues tonight at West Side. Brother Nathan Quinn from upstate New York will be speaking. Looking forward to hearing him. Nathan's a wonderful young man. Always enjoy being with him. Like this chapter a lot. This is the chapter where Paul continues to deal with this division issue. Are you noticing how that's just carrying forward? Look at verse 4. When one says I follow Paul, another I follow Apollos. Look at that. That's still on Paul's mind here. Verse 21. Let no one boast in men, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, verse 22. So this is very much still about the party spirit and still exalting the wisdom of God. Because God is the author of the message, verse 5, not Paul, not Apollos. The preacher doesn't cause the increase. Wow, that is such an important principle in evangelism. So many people think they can make baptisms happen, or that when a baptism happens, somehow that is a notch on their belt, that they're an excellent personal worker, or that that preacher is a great preacher. The word of God planted in men and women's hearts brings forth the increase. That's what we need to see. Preachers are just planting and watering. It's who? Verse 6, God that gives the growth. I've had some disappointing conversations with people who were bragging about their baptisms. That's always very hard. I was in a gospel meeting and had to have a very frank conversation with a young preacher about that. And then I've had some disappointing conversations with people who felt like they failed in evangelism because a person was not baptized, but they had planted and they had watered. They did what God wanted them to do. We're not in the baptizing business, brethren. We're in the planting and watering business. God's in the baptizing business. God gives the growth. Paul says it twice. I love the metaphors that are being used here for the church. You are God's fellow workers, verse 9. You're God's field, you're God's building. And Paul is demolishing the idea that somehow division can possibly be right, building some kind of party spirit. Look at verse 11. You can't have somebody else running the show. Jesus, Jesus is the one who is in charge. And then there is this difficult section. I'll deal with this in the podcast today. What about this someone else's work? And then it's revealed by fire, verse 13, and the fire tested. And what if that work is burned up, verse 15? What is that all about? What does that mean? I think the answer here is that Paul is talking about the people that you convert. The believers are the building. The temple here is the church, and division destroys the church. You are God's field, verse 9. You are God's building. And so Paul says you need to be careful about bragging about your converts. A philosopher. Would come to town and get a bunch of people around him and say, look at me, I have this huge number of followers. Maybe today, look at how many people follow my podcast, look at how many people follow me on Facebook. Oh, I'm such a big deal. Some preachers are still falling into that error. Paul says, that's not what it's about. And be careful about bragging about how many you got because sometimes when a test comes, and I don't think the fire here is hellfire. I think it's the a fire that tasks, then people flake out and fall away. You thought you'd really accomplish something, maybe, and it turns out, turns out maybe those people weren't really converted. They're not really following the Lord. But Paul's real point, and I think verse 18, let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he's wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. We're back to that wisdom theme. We're back to that division theme. And that preachers here are only servants, so nobody should glory in men, and nobody should be raising preachers up and putting them on a pedestal. Need to be very careful about that, brethren. Sometimes we want to make a preacher into a celebrity. That's such a mistake. That's such a mistake. And true servants of the Lord, they're made very uncomfortable by that kind of thing. And false servants revel in it and lap it up. And either that's a disaster. That's just a disaster. But verse 22, the preacher belongs to the church, to the people. The preacher serves the needs of the church. The church doesn't serve the preacher. So all of this helps so much with the ideas of division, not exalting men, continuing to listen to the word of God. And we need to just see how important it is that we focus on the inspired word, the wisdom of God, not the wisdom of men. The reading for Wednesday, 1 Corinthians the third chapter. It's

Thursday 1st Corinthians 4

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Thursday. Just one more detail, our youth lectures, and today we're reading 1 Corinthians 4. The reading for Thursday, 1 Corinthians, the fourth chapter. I think Paul is continuing to work with the idea of evaluating preachers and apostles with the wrong kinds of standards. This is verse 1, how one should regard us. So this is all still connected together. People should look at preachers as just the servants of Jesus, not as the originators of doctrine, the heads of parties. A preacher friend of mine told me one time someone came up to him in the foyer and said, What have the preachers decided about marriage, divorce, remarriage? Oh my. Oh my. Please read Corinthians. Don't do that. Don't say that. Preachers are just stewards, verse two, the idea of leaving goods in the hands of another. And the most important part, the most important characteristic in a steward is that he's trustworthy, has integrity. So Paul says, that's how I operate. And your criticism of me, your judging me, verse three, that doesn't mean anything to me because you're not the judge of me. Now that doesn't mean it didn't hurt Paul, but it certainly means that Paul isn't going to change who he is and what he teaches and does, so that the Corinthians will give him more likes on his Facebook page. And he's not, verse five, forbidding all judgment, but he certainly is saying that there are things that we cannot know we have to leave to the Lord. And I think especially what Paul is about to develop is that they are judging the wrong things when, we'll see in chapter five, they are not judging the things they should be judging. And as Paul transitions into verse six through the end of the chapter, there's a lot of strong language here, which I think shows that strong language is appropriate sometimes when correcting sinful attitudes. And there is some serious sarcasm, like in verse eight. I think the sarcasm font is on there for certain. And the apostles here, verse nine, seem to be a greatly degraded position in contrast to how high the Corinthians think of themselves. There's nothing about being an apostle that indicates those guys got carried around in a special chariot or that they had one of those sedan chairs and four big men are, you know, carrying them on their shoulders and everybody's feeding them grapes and a goblet of something cool and refreshing. That's not how the apostles operate. But that is how the philosophers of the day operated. In verse 12, no self-respecting Greek philosopher would have worked with his hands. And that does seem to be a point of contention with some in Corinth. Paul will bring this back up in chapter nine when he talks a little bit about that he worked with his own hands. Some people are saying, well, you're, you're, you're not really somebody if you act like that, because that's not how the somebodies do things. Paul says, You are my beloved children, and I will admonish you and warn you. Paul is setting up his spiritual authority. He is in many ways their father. I became your father in Christ Jesus. Verse 15, for though you have countless guides, the guide there, instructor, is the slave that cared for the child on the way to school. We don't have an equivalent term in English for that slave, but Paul says, I'm your father. And if I have to come, verse 18, maybe this is the don't make me stop the car verse. I'll come. I'll come and get some things straightened out. Don't think that I'm afraid. Is somebody in Corinth saying Paul's afraid to come talk with us? Paul says, I will come talk with you if that's what it takes. The reading for Thursday, 1 Corinthians 4. Welcome to Friday.

Friday 1st Corinthians 5

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Welcome to Friday. Our reading today is 1 Corinthians 5. Let's have some coffee here. 1 Corinthians 5, and it is Youth Lectures Weekend. Tonight we begin at 7 with a half hour of singing. Stephen Russell and Devin Harbour are preaching. The theme is truths that you can stand on, and it will be a wonderful weekend, not just for young people. Hope to see you tonight at 7 at the West Side Church. Let's read through 1 Corinthians 5 as we get the day underway. At least I'm hoping you're reading first thing in the morning. And this is the chapter about spiritual discipline, about what we often call withdrawing fellowship. And Paul is genuinely shocked that there is a kind of sexual immorality among them that is not even going on among Corinthians. And that says something about how terrible this is, because there's a lot of sexual immorality happening in Corinth. Sometimes you hear that there were a thousand temple prostitutes. That quote actually comes from much later than the New Testament era, but there was plenty of temple prostitution and all kinds of wickedness going on. It's a port city. You've got everything happening here that you can imagine. And Paul says, you all are putting up with some things that not even Corinthians put up with. This is probably a stepmother, not a mother. The term is not mother, so it's probably a stepmother. And Paul is condemning their pride. Look at chapter 4, verse 18. See how Paul has talked about the wisdom of God and not dividing. He's moved more and more to talk about God's wisdom and valuing things the way God values things, so that he can come to chapter five and say, you are completely messed up. You're proud that you tolerate this man, and this is a terrible mistake. And Paul ties all of this to the authority of Christ in verse 4. And please notice this is congregational action toward open, flagrant, unrepentant sin. Those are two huge keys in the whole church discipline equation. Sometimes someone disapproves of something that is happening maybe in their family, and they say, we've withdrawn fellowship from them. You can't do that. Withdrawing fellowship is a congregational action done by a church to call one of its members to repentance out of flagrant sin. And Paul then says, Listen, this is terrible, and you should deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, verse five. And I'm going to skip that verse because I know everybody understands what Paul means there, and I don't have to say anything else about that. Okay, maybe not. It is a very difficult verse. What exactly does Paul mean, the destruction of the flesh? Is he talking about the man will die? That certainly might be a possibility, but but how is that remedial and helpful to that man? If he dies, he can't repent. Some have seen this maybe as some kind of physical suffering, slow physical suffering that will torment him and cause him to change. I might go some of that, but that doesn't really seem to fit the context of what's going on. Hey, this man's going to be affected, affected, wow, afflicted, need coffee. That man's espresso machine is going to be on the fritz and he won't have coffee. Is that what Paul? No, I don't think so. I really think he just talks about removing this man from the kingdom of Christ and putting him in the kingdom of Satan. And what we don't get about that is the kind of spiritual protection that we have in the kingdom of Christ. For example, protection from overwhelming temptation, the protection of God's people, the protection of God's providential hand. That's probably where Paul is, at least that's where I am at this moment. And as Paul continues to work through this, he uses some Passover language. And then he says, I don't want you to associate with sexually immoral people. Church discipline is basically social ostracism. That's what this is. And that does not mean if you walk into the mall and there's 18 gazillion people there, and on the other side of the mall, there you see a brother that's been withdrawn from, oh, I gotta leave the mall. No, no, no, no, no. What he means is close, intimate relationships that would say to somebody, I think you're okay. You're okay with me, come in my home and eat with me. And I could tell you a long story about a situation when we were in the Holy Lands, when we were in Israel, where a man showed hospitality to me because I had done a good deed and he respected that, and he served me coffee. And as I was drinking coffee with him, somehow I am telling you this long story, aren't I? As as he as he served me coffee, another person came by and said, Are you having coffee with Sharif? Sharif's a Palestinian vendor. Here I am, a co American. It's like, he's he's drinking with you. And I said, Yes, yeah, yeah, we're having some coffee. And he said, That is a great honor. And it became very clear to me in that moment that in that culture, you don't just have a cup of coffee with just anybody. And so Paul is saying, you need to think about having a cup of coffee with this brother because that would make him think he's okay. And he's not okay. He's not okay. The church doesn't judge the world. Verse 13, think about that in terms of the churches that are involved in every kind of political situation, passing political resolutions on arms control and immigration. Oh, well, that's not our business. Our business is taking care of our own and making sure that we're preaching the gospel, making sure that we're adhering to the gospel and making sure the members of the church are living as Christians should live. Reading for Friday, 1 Corinthians 5. Can't wait to see you at church tonight as we begin the youth lectures. Well, there you go. That's the podcast for the weekend. I certainly do appreciate you listening to it. Please tell others about the podcast. Let me get one more sip of coffee here. And then I'll close this down so that we can be about all the things that we need to do today. Especially, like I said, Friday, it's Youth Lectures Day. It's a joy to open the scriptures with you. I'm Mark Roberts. I want to go to heaven. I want you to come too. Hope to see you at the youth lectures tonight. If not, hope to see you on Monday on the podcast with a cup of coffee, of course.

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