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I don't know.

Thank you to the worship team for leading us, musically and worship today.

Is good to gather together to Worship in the house of the Lord today?

Let's, let's go before the Lord now in prayer as we begin.

Heavenly Father, we do submit ourselves to the truth.

Have your word.

We recognize its.

Supremacy over our human words that we have to govern Our Lives.

Because we recognize them as your words and you are Supreme Over Our Lives.

God, for some of this, that's a reality for others of us.

That's a hoping for some of us.

That's a far off.

No way.

God made each of us today come closer to the place where we can say you are Supreme Over Our Lives over the things.

I think, say, do over my motivations.

And against my sinful habits.

God, we lift up the needs within our congregation to you today.

There are many.

Many many are struggling with health this week in in the last several weeks.

I pray that you will grant them good health and through their hard times.

I pray that you will draw them closer to you.

God, we lift up our Communications meeting.

We pray that that will be an encouragement to all of us as a body, that we will be encouraged to look back and say, look what God has done and to look forward and just say what my god do next.

And I was we go to your word.

We pray that you will reveal Your Truth, through your words.

And may I not get in the way in Jesus name?

Amen?

We're going through the book of 1st Corinthians.

If it's your first week back with a first, be back in a little while, or if you're joining us for the first time so welcome.

My name is Pastor Benjamin Jordan.

I'm the senior pastor here, Grace Community, Bible Church.

We are excited to be able to see people and Kirksville in around the world come to Christ grow in Christ in to serve our savior together.

It's our mission is what we are on call together to do.

And it is a joy to be able to do that with you.

1st Corinthians.

Become who you are is the sermon series become who you are.

When you are in Christ.

It is your identity.

It is who you are and yet so much of the time.

We don't live like it.

First Corinthians is Paul writing to the church in Corinth reminding them to live like it.

And it's kind of a Nepal vs. Sort of an argument that Paul's Authority, is questioned as an apostle and therefore, the gospel.

He preached was questions and Paul writes them to Correct them.

We're going to be in 1st Corinthians 1:18 through the end of the chapter today.

So I heard you to flip over there.

If you have your first Corinthians Turtles, pull those out, take some good notes today.

Maybe do some underlining, some circling, some drawing of symbols.

However, you can best learn and remember so that when you go through a hard time that you need this text in your life.

Maybe it's today, maybe tomorrow.

Maybe it's in five years.

You'll be able to go back and remember what you've studied.

My life is kind of I kind of grew up in a hard time and in the United States history.

I grew up at a time with mediocre.

Christian, hip-hop.

At best.

Mediocre Christian hip hop.

I mean we had we had the likes of We don't even talk about it, to be honest.

We just, we just don't go there and so is with great excitement, enjoy that.

And I don't know about 2006.

Give or take.

I found the album rebel by Lecrae.

Lecrae raise your hand if you know who Lecrae is.

Some more like I know who he is.

I would never listen to his stuff.

That's fine.

That's fine.

I'm not going to play you much today.

Actually not going to do you any?

I like my face the way it is.

Such as it is and I don't want it to be rearranged by having rocks thrown at it.

But do you allow me to read something to you as a little bit of a jumping off point today, from from from Rebel and it's hip hop, right?

If you don't know a hip hop is it's like rap mixed with music.

We just won't go there.

You're in the dark.

I'm sorry, but that's okay.

I know what RJ Rebel means sinner.

The hook says, I know toward a rebel means dinner, but everyone is sitting so it's no longer rebellious to send.

Jesus was a rebel, who is countercultural.

You're just a conformist if you're drunk and naked and driving around in a loud motorcycle smoking, cigarettes and breaking Commandments getting Predator pregnant out of wedlock.

Everyone's done that.

It's so tiring.

If you really want to be a rebel read your Bible because no one is doing that.

That's Rebellion.

That's the only Rebellion left.

I remember hearing those words in in really enjoy them, especially because they have a a great beat behind them.

And of course some wonderful lyrics before and after is well, and it was in a time and place where I was really beginning to enjoy the culture in Chicago, which is in many ways, a hip hop culture at least some of the people I was with which we would just won't even go there today.

But let me dry you to attention to a false reality is that false reality is that Rebellion is following the rules?

Rebellion is when you reject the rules and go in the opposite direction.

Rebellion is in fact completely the opposite of what Lecrae put into his song.

Completely the opposite meaning with a completely great motivation.

And today we look to the Apostle Paul and he does something a little bit.

Similarly in his text to the Corinthians are the sermon Siri of the sermon title.

Forgive me is Wisdom leads away from God. Wisdom leads away from God.

But you've heard the Lecrae stuff now, you know, that that's not exactly what that means.

Right.

Let's stand for the reading of God's word were in 1st Corinthians, 1:18 and following today.

Read along with me.

I'll read aloud.

You read silently.

Let's read together to be on the screen.