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Corey had mention, we are starting a new series and I think of the beginning of the year, we all feel this need for a little bit of a renewal this year to maybe do some things differently than what we did last year, and try some new things live live on The Adventurous side and maybe not be still with held her holding back.

Like we have been is maybe your your challenge in life.

I want to share with you.

A message is we're going to pick up in the letter to the Corinthian Church in 1st and 2nd Corinthians the Apostle.

Paul, during one of his missionary Journeys, goes to this place called corn, and it begins to share the gospel in the church begins to ground, its roots and its roots out of the ground.

If you will, and becomes the body of Christ, one of the many churches that ball and planted during his missionary Journeys, you can find that in the Midway through the book of Acts, which we've already priest through.

But now we're going to look at.

Why did he write these letters?

If you will need Epistles, probably more aptly called letter correctly, the very personal nature, and what was going on.

And I hope we're going to take away.

Over the next couple of days, probably the rest of this year's we work through the Corinthian letters.

I'll Cheryl Pastor Corey there 16 tapper's just in the first letter and I'm not sure I can do that in 16.

Sunday.

Probably not.

You might not like 16 Sundays of the grant, then we might have to spread out a little bit more, but we want to bless you today.

Buy open in God's word, the 1st Corinthians and I want to start off while you're finding your place.

In chapter 1, verses 1 through 3. I want to share with you just a little bit of an image.

Now, when I came to church this morning, I look down at my van.

And this was the image that I saw.

No kidding, not making it up.

Adjust.

The timing of god is perfect.

Right is right rear tire on my van was showing me that I needed to check the pressure.

Not mine was the right rear.

This is all I could find.

However, it was an indicator to my wife, that I had failed to do something right.

Keeping the tires, inflated properly, but in reality what they are for you and I, as we have check engine light to come on in our vehicle from time to time and Supposed to all those are called dummy lights.

They're supposed to tell us when something needs to be serviced or something needs to be done.

Then what the goal is is that we get ahead of it so that we don't have a problem.

Let me share with your problem.

That happens to tires.

The next picture will show you what a tire looks like when your wife put air in it right way too much.

Are what happens that the center gets too inflated, and it doesn't touch the ground properly, in the middle of the tire gets wore out.

We know it's over inflated.

It needs to be the right amount of here, but some of you wrote in the church this morning, and here's what your tire look like.

They look like the next picture.

It should be completely shredded, right?

That's what some of us rode in on.

And you know, how many people are going through life riding on tires.

That look like this.

But that's what's going on in the life of not only the secular world, but I would argue in the life of the church.

And this one is no exception.

Many of us are riding on tires, in our spiritual life, that look like this that there's no retread.

Hope for them.

They're completely flattened or wondering.

How do you hear something?

Right, if you've ever had a tire look like that on your car, you don't have to ask long.

Is there something wrong, you know, because it's immediately pulling to the left or right of your thumb thumb.

Thumb thumb thumb going down the road riding on the rim.

But that's what's going on in the spiritual life of many.

That was what was going on in the spiritual life of the church in.

Corinth is Paul was ministering to them and writing to them while they were the body of Christ.

While they had come to the Salvation knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

They were running on a tire that look like this spiritually in their life and they didn't know that anything was wrong.

There was normal.

It was just going through the motions of normal activity.

They never recognize the signs of the check engine light coming on for their vehicle to our life.

And how do we assess what's going on on our dashboard?

Spiritually.

I want lights may be coming on to give us some indicators of what we need to be looking for.

And that way we can travel the road of our spiritual Walk In Christ with good tires, where the rubber meets the road and we can help others along that journey.

I want to give you a few things.

Let's go to 1st Corinthians. 1 verses 1 through 3, if you're there, Say, Amen.

Picking up in 1st Corinthians chapter, 1, verses 1 through 3. We're going to see what the Apostle Paul writes that his church that he loved going to God's word 1st Corinthians.

1:1 Paul called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus.

And our brothers, often.

He's do.

The Church of God.

That is important to those Sanctified in Christ.

Jesus called to be Saints together.

With all those who won every place.

Call upon the name of our Lord.

Jesus Christ.

Both their lord and ours grace to you and peace from God.

Our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let's pray together as father.

We thank you for the reading of your word and we pray.

Now is there early book of Acts reminds us that the early church devoted themselves to the apostles teaching to Fellowship to prayer.

Lord and we thank you for this blessing.

I thought we pray now that the Holy Spirit, open our minds, and in our hearts, to recognize the indicators of things to come and things to look out for and how we can be the church, you called was to be able to help us to apply the letter to Corinthia our own Hearts right here in pine-bluff, North Carolina and the church across the world.

We thank you.

We ask it in Jesus precious name.

Amen.

So what are we going to do?

I'm going to take you on a trip if you will and I want to share with you five areas of spiritual renewal that we can apply to our daily life.

Our daily walk with Christ Our Life with the church as it applies to us for this year.

And I would argue like God's word.

The lessons are Timeless.

We can take it with us wherever we go.

But if we start today, how many all made New Year's resolutions, right?

That's something people like to do.

I don't care for a resolution to myself or they don't last too long, right?

We all know that that's our nature.

We don't stick with a resolution is too often, but one thing I do find necessary is renewal.

Amen.

We can find something that will give us Search for Renewal as we move forward.

And I want to share five of those with your very quickly.

Number one.

I want us to go to the text and go back to 1:1 and let's look what was going on.

And if you will mature to the church as he's writing to a specific location in the specific people, he uses an interesting word when he refers to the word church.