The Beginning of Wisdom

Crazy Love Podcast

Crazy Love Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this week’s episode, Pastor Francis Chan poses a sobering question to all Christians. Do you believe the truth of Scripture above your own thoughts and feelings? And if so, do your actions reflect it? In a culture that is drifting further and further away from God, Pastor Francis reminds us that now is the time to simply, and lovingly, speak His truth to the world. This message is from the Azusa Pacific University Chapel on December 9, 2019.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast.
0:08.2	In this week's episode, Pastor Francis Chan poses a sobering question to all Christians.
0:13.6	Do you believe the truth of Scripture above your own thoughts and feelings?
0:17.7	And if so, do your actions reflect it?
0:20.9	In a culture that is drifting further and further away from God, Pastor Francis reminds
0:26.6	us that now is the time to simply and lovingly speak his truth to the world.
0:32.3	This message is from the Zuse Pacific University Chapel on December 9th, 2019.
0:38.6	Okay, sink in this morning.
0:54.5	I have been preaching at APU Chapel before a lot of you were born.
1:00.2	Like literally every year for the last 20 years or so, I think it's a record.
1:05.9	I expect something for that.
1:09.6	There was a passage that convicted me a few weeks ago, 2 Corinthians 4 verse 2, where
1:18.7	Paul says we have renounced disgraceful and underhanded ways.
1:22.9	We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement
1:30.4	of the truth, we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
1:36.1	And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
1:41.2	In their case, the God of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers to keep them from
1:47.2	seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.
1:55.2	So Paul says in this passage, he goes, I refuse to be clever.
1:59.9	I refuse to practice cunning.
2:02.8	He goes, but instead I'm not going to tamper with God's word, but instead I'm going to
2:09.2	give an open statement of truth.
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