Pastor John, we as humans like to share things, were wired to share and rejoicing great things,

but what would you say to someone who has a favorite Bible teacher and they love to

boast and brag about that certain Bible teacher?

What would you say to someone who has this tendency?

First Corinthians 3, 21 to 23, stopped me dead in my tracks for live in my tracks again.

As I was meditating the other day, it's simply staggering.

I mean, I don't think there may be, but I can't think of another passage of the Bible concerning

the standing or the position or the wealth or the privilege of the children of God in the

universe than this one.

But before I read it, let me set the stage that I was reading it in.

I know, and it reminded every time I read through first Corinthians, which I am again

right now, that what got this book started was that the church was being divided by boasting

in their favorite teachers, chapter 1, verse 12.

I follow Paul, I follow Paulist, I follow Cephas, I follow Christ, I'm better than all

you, jerks who only look at human teachers.

And Paul spends the first four chapters at least working against this boasting, this pride

that he sees in these factions that are breaking out, and he gives numerous arguments.

For example, chapter 3, verse 6, I planted a Paulus watered, but God gave the growth.

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

So why are you picking up on Paulus and Paul and exalting us and yourselves in us when

God is the one who's giving the growth?

And if we have any fruitfulness or effectiveness that's different from the other, then it's

...