Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Verse 7, do you look at things according to the outward appearance?

If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ, let him again consider this in

himself, that just as he is Christ, even so we are Christ.

So, again, he's continuing what he's saying.

Do you just look at the outward appearance of things?

Well, anyone who did that would be an idiot.

Right?

This isn't just don't judge a book by its cover.

Right? Like if you just looked at a horse and

didn't inspect it and bought it somebody would say you were dumb right or if you bought a house

without going inside right everyone would say well and you went inside and the place was destroyed everyone would say

well that's your fault why didn't you right so what st paul is saying here is proverbial to like

no one does that right so he said why are you doing that with st paul and with his ministry

why are you just looking at it from the outside and not seeing what it's actually about

and what he's actually doing?

Right?

Because from the outside, according to the flesh, as he said before, yeah, he's traveling

from city to city.

He's converting people to Christianity from paganism.

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