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In this series from 2007, Pastor Mark is taking us on a 33-week journey through First Corinthians verse by verse.

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Thank you again and enjoy this message from First Corinthians.

Father, we thank you for this great day.

Clisiasi says that light is sweet and it pleases the eye to see the sun.

God, we appreciate this time of year when the sun comes out for us.

And God, we acknowledge that you are a good God, you are our God, you are the only God.

And we come together and your name is your people to open your word and we ask that we would see Jesus and we would acknowledge who he is and what he has done and that would change us.

And for that to happen, we ask that the Holy Spirit who is inspired the writing of Scripture would come to illuminate our understanding of Scripture so that what the Bible teaches would make sensuous tonight.

So we ask all of this in Jesus' good name. Amen.

Here is my preface.

History is something that can be studied from a multitude of angles.

Some people will tell you to investigate history from the perspective of particularly important people.

Others will tell you of events that occurred. Some will tell you to look at ideas and the transition of ideas from one.

Season two, another. Christians will break history down into covenants or dispensations which are periods of time or promises that God makes and means by which he fulfills those promises.

And I would submit to you that one additional way of looking at history and putting all of human history together is by looking at it through the subject and the theme of meals of eating with or without God.

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