It's all too easy for Christians and churches to seek to serve God apart from the power of his spirit.

Yet scripture teaches us that the spirit is the one who reveals God's truth and empowers God's people.

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This message from 1st Corinthians chapter 2.

Pastor David reminds us that our only hope of believing,

obeying, and proclaiming God's word comes through the power of God's spirit.

That's why our lives and our churches should be marked by desperate prayer for the spirit's help.

Here's David Platt with a sermon titled Desperate Prayer from 1st Corinthians Chapter 2 verses 1 through 16.

You can have a seat where you are.

Good morning.

This is the point and this morning service where I'm supposed to ask you guys to

great those around you and then we sing a few more songs and then I say if you have your

Bible and I hope you do and you pull out your Bibles and we study the word together and then we have a song to respond and we pray and we go home.

That's the way the schedule is supposed to work today, but I'm going to switch it up completely.

I believe God wants us to take a different direction altogether in our time to go this morning.

Based on some things he has been teaching me in my life this last week in a very real way and a pretty deep conviction about how that looks in the church that God in his

grace has entrusted me to lead And so if at any point during our time together this morning,

you feel uncomfortable with things being switched up some,

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