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I recently this summer had the opportunity to reread a book called David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell.

Some of you may have heard it.

It's a popular book.

It was a New York Times bestseller, but in that book, he tells the heart-rending story of doctor free, right?

Who is a medical scientist, but grew up in Chicago during the 1930s.

And if you know anything about that.

That was during the Great Depression.

During that time as a child.

He recalled that there was no money.

And as a result, there was no food and all of this, because there were no jobs during that time.

He grew up in severe poverty.

And to make matters, worse says if matters.

Couldn't get any worse.

His father died.

When he was very young.

His mother was then forced to go back into the workforce and she began to work at a sweatshop in through that trauma through childhood.

And the experience that he faced you would think that it would dictate emile's face.

However, Emil was not restricted, even though he was surrounded by poverty.

But in fact, he wanted to take the wrongs that he experienced in life and make them right.

He dedicated his life to Healing others and as a result, he developed a Leukemia treatment to improve the lives of suffering and eventually this treatment was so successful with childhood with childhood leukemia that he developed, the Cure that had a 90% success rate.

Similarly, just as a meal went through great tragedy in his life events, in a life, seek to bring us down through sin yet by the grace of God, and through his forgiveness, even though we are cursed down, we are not cursed out a man.

The title of my message.

This morning is simply down, but not out down, but not out this morning.

I wonder if there's any people in church that have been knocked down.

Maybe you've been knocked down because you got a doctor's report that you didn't expect.

Maybe you've been knocked down because you got a bill that you can't afford to pay.

Maybe you've been knocked down because your company has been downsizing and it was your job that was sacrificed.

Maybe you've been knocked down through death of a loved one, or maybe you've been knocked down by the voice and betrayal.

Maybe you've been knocked down by a poor perception, and pull decision-making.

Everyone told you this person was no good for you, but you stayed with him.

Anyway, even though it was dysfunctional.

You've been knocked down knocked down by a daughter or son that no longer visits you.

Knock down by fear knocked down by lost, knocked down by on anger knocked down because of poor decisions with me.

Knocked down, but God wants to tell us this morning.

You are not knocked out through his forgiveness.

You can get up.

Again, the person next to you may knock knock down this morning.

The person don't look too quickly.

The person next to you, may look like they've been through something.

They've been knocked down through life.

But I want to tell you so long as God sits on his throne so long as the sun still rises and sit so long as this angels in heaven saying, holy holy.

Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

The whole earth is full of his grow Glory.

So long as Jesus is resurrected and he intercedes for us.

We may be knocked down, but we are not knocked out this morning.

Amen.

We serve a god that is able to lift us up even when we've been knocked down.

So therefore in this epistle, that Paul writes to the Corinthians, we discover that he is facing difficulty, but he's difficulty does not determine his destiny.

I want you to know this morning that whatever difficult to your facing.

It's not going to determine your destiny.

Paul here has been knocked down by untrue accusations.

Have you ever been accused falsely?

He's been knocked down.

He's been accused by the Corinthian Church of a number of things.

He's been accused that he is worldly because he changed his travel plans.

He's been accused of lacking ministerial credentials have been accused of favoritism because the Corinthians believed he loved the macedonians more than them.

He's been accused of lacking personal Charisma, and last but not least.

He's been accused of being a thief.

All of these accusations from one church that he planted in Corinth.

Paul is being knocked down.

And so he writes this letter to the Corinthian Church and he writes almost a defensive letter that can make people feel uncomfortable from chapter 12, Midway during chapter 2. He's seeking that there to defend himself but from 2:14 to about 7:30 about reconciliation with God.

A man who has been knocked down and falsely accused ends up turning the conversation and talkin about reconciliation with God.

The question is why why would he do that?

Could it be that pole understood that relationships with human being relationships?

With others is not linear.

It is triangle.

What do we mean by that?

It means that my relationship with someone else?

Is dependent on my relationship with God.

That I can put another person first.

If I cannot put God first, in a sense, if I'm not reconciled with God, I can truly be reconciled with someone else.

You remember the story of Jacob.

That he needed to be reconciled with his brother, Esau.

But before he met with Esau, he needed to struggle and reconcile with God.

Amen.

That before he could be reconciled to his brother.

He needed to be reconciled to the heavenly father and so before any better than he held on all night.

Because our relationships with others is not human to human our relationships with others.

In a biblical.

Sense is human to God's human.

Amen.

So if I truly want to be reconciled with you, I need to be reconciled with God first, so it's in that context.

That pull here, talks about how to be reconciled with God.

We pick that up in 1st, gear, 2nd, Corinthians chapter 5, and verse 19.

2nd, Corinthians chapter 5, and verse 19 in the Bible says that God was reconciling the world to himself in who in Christ.

Not counting people's sins against them and he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

There is some of you this morning at church today who were holding on to something that is against them.

You've asked God, for you've repented, you've asked God for forgiveness.

But some of us still feel like we are unforgiving.

And God says, when you've asked me for forgiveness, when you've reconciled with me, I no longer hold this thing against you.

I no longer hold it against you, aren't you?

Glad that we serve a God that doesn't hold things against us.

Have you ever made one mistake and someone never forgot it.

They've held it against you for so long.

The Bible says that God does not hold our sins against us.

But this morning I want to take this principle a little deeper.

Some of you are holding on to a posthumous take I-Pass decision that is against

And it's working its way through your life.

Have you ever had something work against you?

You know, that those things that take place that are trying to crush?