S&S Ep. 6 - The Simplicity of Following Jesus

Cooper Stuff Podcast

Jennifer Fleming

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Today's Sword and Shield passage is from 2 Corinthians 1:12. Following Christ is about the simplicity of obedience. You don’t have to be intellectual, academic, or impressive according to worldly standards. Today Cooper Stuff reminds you that you have a testimony! Obey Jesus, share your testimony, and live in godly sincerity.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to Sword and Shields, today's scripture reading so you get your Bible.
0:15.6	Second Corinthians, chapter 1 verse 12.
0:19.0	Grab your Bible.
0:20.0	What is Sword and Shield?
0:21.0	It is very quick Bible study so that you understand how to live for Jesus,
0:25.0	encourage you in your faith, and get you ready with you the sword of the spirit, right,
0:30.0	to do battle against the evil one,
0:32.7	to battle against your own flesh, so forth.
0:36.5	Start with the scripture, very simple.
0:39.3	Verse 12, for our boast is this,
0:42.0	the testimony of our conscience that we behaved in the world with
0:46.3	simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom, but by the grace of God and supremely so toward you.
0:55.0	Let me tell you something quick, you may have heard this before when my podcast.
0:58.5	It was in 2013, 14 is the first time in my Christian life, let's just say since college.
1:05.0	Since living for Jesus and reading the Bible and going to church and loving God and
1:11.3	wanting to follow his commands for the first time in 2013 is when I thought
1:16.2	oh my gosh the world is becoming so complex I don't know how to live for Jesus it
1:21.9	wasn't that I didn't want to live for Jesus.
1:24.5	It wasn't that I was saying no, I don't want to follow Jesus' commands because I just, I love
1:28.8	my sin too much and I love the flesh too much and I'm not going to be cool.
1:33.2	It wasn't that.
1:34.5	I didn't know how, why?
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