Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000408
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00:16 Hi, and welcome to HIS WORDS ARE LIFE
00:19 I'm Kelly Mowrer, as I was getting ready this morning I was 00:22 thinking about the title of the program - HIS WORDS ARE LIFE 00:25 If you leave out the word "life" there's a lot of clichés 00:28 attached to that word, there's "where there's life, there's 00:32 hope" and there's a - "oh, she's full of life," and I thought 00:36 about the meaning of those, you know "His Words are Hope", 00:39 "His Words are energy, and enthusiasm," 00:42 and so for any of you that are joining today, 00:45 and things are going on in your life right now that seem 00:49 hopeless, or seem draining, you can come to the Word of God, 00:53 and find not only wisdom, but you can find hope, 00:56 find energy, and enthusiasm to continue on in His grace. 01:00 Let's pray before we start. Dear Jesus, thank you so much 01:04 for coming to give us life, life more abundantly. 01:07 Please take your words, that you have prepared for us to read 01:11 today, and plant them in our heart. We love you. Amen. 01:14 I'm reading today from the King James Version. 01:18 I Corinthians, chapter 3, and we're starting with verse 10 01:22 According to the grace of God which is given unto me as a 01:26 wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another 01:31 man buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed 01:35 how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man 01:39 lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 01:43 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, 01:48 precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work 01:55 shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, 01:59 because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try 02:04 every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide 02:11 which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 02:14 If any man's work shall be burned he shall suffer loss: 02:19 but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. 02:23 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the 02:28 Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple 02:32 of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, 02:38 which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. 02:43 if any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, 02:47 let him become a fool, that he may be wise, for the wisdom of 02:52 this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, 02:56 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord 03:00 knoweth the thought of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore 03:05 let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 03:09 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, 03:14 or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 03:18 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's 03:22 We're reading from 1 Corinthians chapter 4, beginning in verse 1 03:26 and this is the King James Version. 03:28 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and 03:34 stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required 03:39 in stewards, that a man be found faithful. But with me 03:43 it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, 03:46 or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. 03:50 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: 03:56 but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing 04:02 before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring 04:05 to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest 04:09 the councils of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise 04:14 of God. And these things, brethren, I have in a figure 04:19 transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; 04:22 that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which 04:27 is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against 04:31 another. For who maketh thee to differ from another? 04:36 and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? 04:39 now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, 04:43 as if thou hadst not received it? Now ye are full, 04:47 now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would 04:52 to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 04:55 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, 05:00 as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle 05:04 unto the world, and to angels, and to men. We are fools 05:07 for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; 05:11 we are weak, but you are strong; ye are honourable, 05:17 but we are despised. Even unto this present hour we both hunger 05:20 and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, 05:23 and have no certain dwellingplace; 05:24 and labour, working with our own hands being reviled, 05:29 we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: being defamed, 05:34 we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, 05:38 and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. 05:42 I write not these things to shame you, 05:45 but as my beloved sons I warn you. For though ye have ten 05:50 thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: 05:54 for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 05:58 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 06:02 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, 06:05 but as my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, 06:08 who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways 06:12 which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. 06:15 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. 06:20 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, 06:24 not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. 06:28 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 06:32 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, 06:37 and in the spirit of meekness? We're reading from 1 06:41 Corinthians, chapter 5. It is reported commonly 06:45 that there is fornication among you, and such fornication 06:49 as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, 06:51 that one should have his father's wife. 06:54 and ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that 06:59 hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 07:02 For I verily, as absent in body but present in spirit, 07:08 have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him 07:12 that hath so done this deed, in the name of our Lord Jesus 07:16 Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, 07:19 with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such 07:23 an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, 07:26 that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 07:30 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven 07:35 leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, 07:40 that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ 07:44 our passover is sacrificed for us: 07:47 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither 07:52 with the leaven of malice and wickedness; 07:55 but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 07:58 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 08:03 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, 08:07 or with the covetous, or extortioners, 08:09 or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of 08:12 the world. But now I have written unto you not to 08:16 keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator 08:20 or covetous, or and idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, 08:25 or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 08:30 For what have I do to judge them that are without? 08:34 Do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are 08:40 without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves 08:44 that wicked person. We are reading from 1 Corinthians, 08:48 in the King James version, and now moving to chapter 6. 08:51 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law 08:57 before the unjust, and not before the saints? 09:00 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? 09:04 And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge 09:08 the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? 09:12 How much more things that pertain to this life? 09:15 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, 09:19 set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 09:23 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man 09:28 among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between 09:32 his brethren? But brother goeth to law with brother, 09:36 and that before the unbelievers. Now therefore there is utterly 09:41 a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. 09:44 Why do ye not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer 09:49 yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, 09:54 and that your brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall 09:59 not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: 10:03 neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, 10:06 nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10:10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, 10:14 nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 10:18 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, 10:22 but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name 10:25 of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 10:28 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient 10:33 all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought 10:37 under the power of any. Meats for the belly, 10:41 and the belly for meats: But God shall destroy 10:44 both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, 10:49 but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 10:52 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise 10:57 up us by his own power. Know ye not that your bodies 11:02 are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members 11:06 of Christ, and make them the member of an harlot? 11:09 God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined 11:14 to an harlot is one body? for two saith he, shall be one flesh 11:18 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 11:23 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without 11:28 the body; but he that committeth fornication 11:30 sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your 11:35 body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, 11:38 which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 11:42 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God 11:47 in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 11:50 We're reading from 1 Corinthians chapter 7. 11:53 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: 11:58 It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 12:01 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, 12:04 let every man have his own wife. 12:06 and let every woman have her own husband. 12:08 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: 12:12 and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 12:15 The wife hath not power of her own body, 12:19 but the husband: and likewise also the husband 12:23 hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 12:25 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent 12:30 for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting 12:33 and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not 12:38 for your incontinency. But I speak this by permission, 12:41 and not of commandment. For I would that all men 12:45 were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God 12:50 one after this manner, and another after that. 12:53 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, 12:56 It is good for them if they abide even as I. 13:00 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: 13:03 for it is better to marry than to burn. 13:05 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, 13:10 Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, 13:15 let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: 13:19 and let not the husband put away his wife. 13:22 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: 13:26 If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, 13:29 and she be pleased to dwell with him, 13:31 let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband 13:35 that believeth not, and if he be please to dwell with her, 13:38 let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband 13:42 is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife 13:44 is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; 13:48 but now are they holy. But if the unbelieving depart, 13:52 let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage 13:56 in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. 14:00 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy 14:04 husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save 14:08 thy wife? But as God hath distributed to every man, 14:12 as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. 14:16 And so ordain I in all churches. Thank you for coming to read 14:23 with me today the beautiful words of God, and until 14:25 we're together again, may the God of hope, keep you with all 14:29 joy and peace through your faith in Jesus Christ our Lord, 14:33 by the power of His Holy Spirit. Goodbye. |
Revised 2014-12-17