 Does 1 Corinthians 9-27 teach you to lose your salvation? No, it does not. Let's go to it. He says, but this is Paul speaking, but I discipline my body and make it my slave so that after I preach to others, I myself will not be disqualified. And so some will have the natural tendency, I don't know if it should be natural, but the tendency to think that disqualified means that Paul is worried about losing his salvation. This word that's used here is the Greek word, adakimas, and so it means to, it can mean to be disqualified, unappealing, unappeasing, failing, unacceptable, useful, or unuseful. The question is, does Paul think that he is in danger if he doesn't do what he's supposed to do to lose his salvation? Remember what Paul's goal is? Paul is talking in 1 Corinthians 9-1 about his apostleship, and so Paul's goal is to bring us to Christ. He's Gentile Believers of Christ. That's what Paul's first focus is, trying to prove that he is an apostle. And he says, are you not my workmanship? Am I not your apostles? What Paul is trying to prove? And he goes here to verse 27 to show that he is doing everything he can to keep himself prepared, his body, mentally, all of that intact so he can do just that. Otherwise, if he doesn't, he will be unuseful. Now, if you think that Paul is concerned about losing his salvation, notice this word that's used here. Again, let's put it back on the screen. This word, adachimus. Now, I want to go to another passage, just a few pages later. I'm sorry, not a few pages later, but in another, the next letter that Paul sends to the Church of Corinth. In 2 Corinthians 13-15, let's go there. 2 Corinthians 13, is it 15 or 5? Let's put 15 on. I think it's 15. Uh-oh. I need to at least spell it right. So 2 Corinthians 13, I think it's 15. If not, we'll move. No, it's 13-5. 13. There's no 15. It's 13-5. Yeah, there it is. I want you to notice what Paul is saying. Paul says, test yourself to see if you are in the faith. Huh. Okay. This is when Paul is warning of someone not being saved. Examine yourself, or do you not recognize this about yourself, that Jesus Christ is in you unless indeed you failed the test. What's the word here? The same Greek word, adakamas. But I trust, look what he says, I trust you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test. Look what he says. Because, hate esmen uke esmen adakamo. So Paul says that we are not disqualified for using that same word. Paul has just come back and said that that's not me. If you think that Paul is saying in 1 Corinthians 9-27 that he's trying to not be disqualified, Paul is saying, I'm not disqualified. I won't be. He says, that's what I am. I am qualified. That won't be me. So therefore, by the way, this is an example where sometimes the Greek does help. A lot of times it helps. In this case it does. So know what that word is and then how it's used. Amen.