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🗓️ 30 November 2020
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.2 | Today Paul continues his letter to the church he started at Corinth. |
0:16.2 | You may notice that every time he rebukes him for something or addresses a problem they |
0:19.3 | have, he presents the gospel in response to it. |
0:22.7 | One of the things that shows up frequently is that those who follow Christ should view |
0:26.3 | every aspect of their lives through the lens of the gospel and live it out empowered |
0:30.0 | by the work of the Spirit. |
0:31.8 | This is not what the Corinthians are doing. |
0:33.9 | They're not only living lives of sexual debauchery, but they're praising it. |
0:37.5 | They do things not even the pagans do and they try to use God's grace as an excuse for |
0:41.8 | why it's okay. |
0:42.8 | It's an abuse of grace. |
0:44.4 | We're free in Christ, they say. |
0:46.6 | But freedom in Christ isn't freedom to sin. |
0:49.1 | Freedom in Christ is freedom from sin. |
0:50.8 | It means we're no longer enslaved to sin and we actually have the power of the Spirit |
0:54.8 | to help us obey God. |
0:56.8 | Any version of God's grace that treats sin as no big deal is a crude misrepresentation. |
1:02.4 | Grace is an agent of change. |
1:04.6 | It's God's favor on us to help us walk according to his ways. |
1:08.3 | It redirects us away from the works of the flesh and toward the fruit of the Spirit. |
1:13.0 | On the other hand, anything that lets us continue in sin unchecked and carefree isn't grace, |
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