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And now, here's Gary.

Now, to review a little bit in 1 Corinthians, this is a, if you will,

a dissertation upon foolishness versus wisdom. And we're all wise, we're all smart, we're all cool,

right? You got it all together. We pretty much know everything. At least that's what I hear

every time I flip on the TV. But Paul says, referring to

the man of the world, the natural man, receiveth not the things the spirit of God, for they are

foolishness unto him. And every week I like to mention the Greek word for foolishness. And I'm

kidding you not. I'm looking right at the Greek text right now. Greek word for foolishness is mor'm kidding you not I'm looking right at the Greek text right now Greek word for foolishness is moron that brings it right down to

where we can understand it moronic the things of God are moronic to the

natural man kind of stupid really and Paul continually refers to himself as a

fool he says I speak as a fool. And by the way,

that's the way the world regarded him. When he went into Athens and spoke to the peripatetic school of

Athens, they all said, who is this, Goober? Actually, the Greek word for Goober is spermatos,

which means seed picker. But it translates into modern

English as goober. Who is this goober? And he says, boys, I came in here today and I walked

past a statue that says, to the unknown God. And he says, I know him. And they said, you're crazy. You can't know him. Well, I do.

And he began to tell him how he did know the living God, the resurrected Christ, and had been

directly taught by him. He says here in 1st Corinthians, we have the mind of Christ. And this is the

beauty of being born in the spirit. It's the mind of Christ. This is the beauty of being born in the Spirit.

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