 Hey, good morning, everyone. Welcome to a week. Let's just begin this time with the word of prayer So maybe one of us can please lead in prayer any one of us Nikhil you like to lead in prayer I suppose you want to lead in prayer Thank you Nikhil Okay, so we've been talking about a lot about governance over the last few weeks So we've come to the part where we talked about last week the contrast between the old covenant and the new covenant And we saw that how the old covenant had certain blessings But the new covenant Has greater blessings, right? It's much more than what the old covenant had Right. So right now you and I as believers must understand that The old covenant is removed. We don't follow the practices of the old covenant yet There are principles that we apply in our lives But the new covenant is right now in force because the new covenant is a much more Glorious and everlasting covenant than the old one Right. So then we also looked at why do we still read the old covenant, right? No, we keep saying, okay The new covenant is better with better promises and better You know better Blessings and all of this but why you read the old testament? So we looked at that, right? What has not changed and God has God is still the same, right? It's the same God too we learn from God's working and dealings and Three we look we get inspiration from the people in the old covenant and how they were able to Do so much for God's kingdom and another very important point. We looked at was the old covenant Points to Jesus Christ, right? So it's not like the old covenant is Yes, there are a lot of laws and practices and offerings and all of that But all those point to Jesus Christ, right? So What is the old covenant practices that still remain we closed with this in Romans 13 verse 9 he says you shall not commit adultery You shall not murder. You shall not steal. You should not bear false witness. You shall not covet and There is You shall not covet and if there is any other commandment are all summed up in this saying namely You shall love your neighbor as yourself Right. So basically Paul is saying if you want to follow the old covenant You have one thing to do that one thing is Love yourself as you love your neighbor Love your neighbor as you love yourself Right, and when we do that will be you know following all the commandments of the Old Testament, right? So we stopped here. Oh Let's look at the next chapter the new covenant in daily so You and I are part of this new covenant now being part of this new covenant What effect does it have in our lives? Okay, is it like okay? Oh, you know, for example, if somebody is in the army You know, what's the big deal? You never know, right? If they're wearing a colored uniform colored dress This casual dress and they're moving around you may not know it but you may not know this person is in the army and he's well trained and He knows how to survive. We may not even know it But the moment he wears that army dress the army clothes the attire What happens our mind said the way we look at that person changes completely. Oh This person is in the army. So I'm sure he's gone through vigorous training gone through, you know Lot of challenges in his life. Maybe he has seen a lot of you know war that has happened so The mindset completely changes now. What about you and I as new covenant people Everything that we do everything that we think everything that we say In our daily life must be aligned to God Like what is what does Jesus say you are the light of the world and You are the salt of the earth the light when you go into darkness You will be the light when you go into places where there is Bitterness anger jealousy when you go there's the salt you will add saltiness All right, he says you are the aroma of Christ Right now. What is it? That we must understand as New covenant believers. What what is it first thing? We are his own special people No matter what language the matter what race doesn't matter what How much how intellectual it doesn't matter of our wisdom or understanding all of these things don't matter The moment we believe in Jesus we accept him as our Lord and Savior. Here's the thing. We are his own special people Remember we looked at it a few classes before God draws a contrast between his people and those who are not his people Now that contrast doesn't mean that God is Separating them. No, it only means that there is a certain kind of blessing for those who are in his kingdom But the gates are always open. Anybody can believe and enter and believe in God's prayer God as You know believe in the Lord Jesus Christ Look at this was Titus chapter 2 and verse 14 Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from every lawless deed and Purify for himself his own special people zealous for good works Right that he might redeem us from every lawless deed which means what Redeem is to bring us out of every lawless deed things that that that have Taken us away from the course of living a holy and a righteous life he can redeem us from that and Purify us for himself to do to be what his own special people Isn't that wonderful Oh, you know if you look at We all have these special days, right? You have your birthday Now and when it's somebody's birthday, they feel special on that day right, maybe their friends and a family and their loved ones give them gifts and Celebrate their birthday cut cake and call friends They feel special Right or if somebody has, you know done well in their school, right? They've done well. They've got the first rank in their class What happens the the teacher makes them feels okay? This boy or this girl has got the first rank in the class. Let's appreciate him or her Right, what are we doing? We're making them feel special and it's a nice feeling None of us can say no, I don't want to feel special I We like to feel special We like it when people appreciate us When people, you know encourage us they We like it when people are You know blessed by you know the things that we do or say it's a nice It's a special feeling now. God is saying You and I are his special people Right so in God's eyes We are special So every victory that we That we win God is celebrating that You know, there were time there are times we may fail I Remember that because we are God's special people. He's always there with us right When we when we succeed when we do things and and we are successful in our workplace or in the ministry Is God is celebrating with us even though it is God who gives us the grace God is celebrating us Because we are his special children This is Something that should not stop us From doing what is best For God and because they're glorifying them and he says His special people look at first Peter 2 9 But you are a chosen generation of royal priesthood the holy nation His own special people that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light Chosen nation a royal priesthood a holy nation a special people Now these four things we may not even feel it in our life. Maybe we are praying and We're feeling You know, we're praying and say God, you know, I'm going through the season and They may not even feel like a chosen generation We may not even feel the royal We may not even feel as a holy person or a special person in God's eyes But here's the spiritual truth. It's not based about our feeling Our feelings change one day. We're happy said God's the way God looks at us. It's the same So it's not about how we feel But some days we want to get up. We want to pray some days if we get a headache Oh, I don't I don't want to read. It's all right But doesn't change. God is not saying, okay, now we are not my special We are still the same We are kings and priests In as God's covenant people Then we we are living differently in Ephesians 4 all talks about that wonderful chapter And how we are in the body of Christ and in the body of Christ God has called us to live Separated You know the word church ecclesia, which means called out. He's saying we are living. We are different We don't live like the world, but we are called to Impact the world the church has called to impact the world So we live differently But we should also talk about the five-fold ministry and how You know through the five-fold ministry we can live differently We live with a new covenant culture Right meaning what our culture are thinking changes It's no longer okay only Only the Jews or only You know only they can enter into those presence. No, it is everyone A culture in the new covenant where all of us are equal in the eyes of God We all stand on level ground We walk in new covenant community walking in love Right now. We talked about this in When you look at Corinthians Paul is writing to the church and he's saying You all have all kinds of gifts You're flowing in the gifts of prophecy the gifts of the spirit wonderful But as new covenant believers walk in love And he ends that entire chapter first religion 13. He says Faith hope and love and the greatest of these is love He doesn't say the greatest of Jesus prophecy Or the greatest of these is working on miracles or the gift of faith. He says the greatest Of these is love So as new covenant people we are called to walk in love. This is our foundation Another aspect here is walking in the provisions and blessings of the new covenant right Abraham's blessings included we are The daughters son and daughters of Abraham. We go beyond the promises of the old covenant and we talked about that, right? More than what the old covenant is doing giving us the new covenant has greater promises And finally by faith Jesus taught us about faith. He taught us About how to walk in faith right Remember he tells the disciples You know, you go into the boat You'll go on i'll meet you on the other side Jesus walked on water and he tells peter peter says Jesus said that's really you called me also into the water. I want to come into the water Jesus says come right and Peter came into the water. He was teaching them about faith Now peter knows he is a fisherman for many years. He knows The seas in those areas in those localities the sea of Galilee and He knows Those are not just rivers, you know, there's small rivers and ponds. Those are seas When and seas can roll up a storm at any time So peter knows probably in his entire life. He's never thought of this He knows that if you jump into water, you'll go deep down If you don't know how to swim But he walked on water. Jesus I loved peter to express his faith And he did that so many times. He tells the disciples how many people are there Maybe about five thousand people. Okay. Go. What do we have to eat now five loads and two fish? Okay, take that five loads on two fish and bring it to me He prays he gives it to the disciples and he says go and give it to everyone Now we'll look at the faith of the disciples I says, uh, but there's only five loads and two fish. I can eat that alone But the disciples don't say that maybe they thought it that they never said it But even as they began to express faith God worked on their behalf right and so By faith we can walk in the steps Like how Abraham walked and that amazing faith That great faith Right. So we end with this on section one, which is the covenants Right. Um, what I like to encourage you is continue to you know, whenever you have time read it Go through the covenants the covenants that God established in the old testament and Really begin to dwell into that, right? Uh, though David a covenant the Abrahamic covenant the Messiah covenant and and you can also learn about the sacrifices and the feasts and It really, you know, just expand your understanding on how all of this Pointed to Jesus Christ and gives us a better understanding of the scriptures as well Right. So any questions before we go into the next section section two any questions Everyone okay able to follow through All right. Okay. Let's get into section two now The first section was the covenants the second section is we're going to be talking about the cross right now we did talk a little bit about it in Our last semester when we talked about lifestyle evangelism, but now we're going to talk about the power of the cross right now without The completed work of the cross without the death burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ The Christian faith would just be another religion Yes And oh, it's just another religion Man came he said something and he died He did some good works. He did a few miracles. He died So that's the end of the story. He's just going to be another religion but The death the burial the resurrection That he's alive right now proves that The Lord Jesus has defeated the works of the devil He has broken every bondage. He was he has broken every You know yoke every evil that the enemy has brought into this work Adam and Eve Through them sin came into the world the first Adam through the second Adam But you know came life and life and abundance First Adam brought death the second Adam brought life so The cross of Jesus Christ is a powerful powerful place It's a powerful encounter because it changes everything it changes History it changes human kind it changes the way people can think of things imagine the entire world Right is talking about this person named Jesus who died 2000 odd years ago in a small city in Jerusalem Now we are talking about him And in India or in different nations The entire globe is talking about this event If it was not If it was not God We won't be talking about it Right But this is something that we see we know that it is the power of God It is God's work And first Corinthians 118 we look at it many times last semester. We just read that But the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing But to those who are being saved it is the power of God This must always be the background And our foundation in our life Right we Whatever we do The message of the cross the cross is our foundation Right, so let's get into the chapter study the centrality of the cross All right, let's read this portion first Corinthians chapter one Was 17 to 25 can one of us please read this First Corinthians chapter one was a 17 through 25. It's only notes Yes, anyone can read this please For Christ did not send me to baptize But to preach the gospel not with wisdom of words Let the cross of Christ should be made of no effect For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing But to us who are being saved it is the power of God For it is written I will destroy the wisdom of the wife and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent Where is the wife? Where is this Christ? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made Fully the wisdom of the word For sin in the wisdom of God the word through wisdom did not know God It pleased God through the foolishness of the message pleased to save those who believe For Jews request a sign and Greeks speak after wisdom But we preach Christ crucified to the Jews as tumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness But to those who are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God because the foolishness of God is wiser than men And the Right. Thank you so much. So Paul is writing to the Corinthians now Right now just a little bit of background about paul I'm sure we all know about him and all his achievements one of the most prominent most Influential leaders in the early New Testament church Boran Tarsis, which is modern day turkey The the apostle You know paul was schooled and trained under the best teachers familial Fathers he of the father see commander of the temple guard Just this great understanding of the scriptures Hebrew or Hebrews He had so much of credentials, but after he Had the encounter on the road to Damascus With the resurrected Lord Jesus his life changed completely Right. He spent several years in the desert And he goes on to say in the book of Galatians in the letter to the Galatians He writes briefly about his own testimony Right. Uh, and he says what I receive from the Lord I give to you That is what his revelations Right in Galatians 1 11 12 he says But I make known to you brethren that the gospel which was preached to be by me is not according to a man For neither received it from a man nor was I taught it But it came to the revelation of Jesus Christ. Look at that. What a powerful testimony The apostle Paul is saying hey, nobody after my encounter Nobody taught me about who Jesus is what he did not nobody taught me There was no disciple Peter James John. Nobody was there What I received from the Lord The revelation that I received Everyone to the Corinthians while we normally say this during the Lord's supper He says what I received from the Lord I give unto you the night the Lord Jesus was betrayed. Was he there the night Lord Jesus has betrayed. He was not there But he received all of it through You know all of these things he received from the Lord directly God the Lord Jesus speaking to him Almost half of the New Testament is written by the great apostle Paul 27 13 out of the 27 books are written by him even if you're given the book of Hebrews and In about 20 years of preaching he planted His four missionary journeys. He planted so many churches In Asia Minor and Europe raised up so many leaders all the way from Jerusalem to everything everything He did You know, there's a writer which says that apostle Paul He alone did what all the 12 disciples Together did he alone did it Such a powerful ministry that he had but Why was this ministry so powerful? What made Paul such a, you know, so Powerful and you see that for 20 years his consistency was this Was you know do the ministry of the Lord. What was it? What was the focus here? He says In first Corinthians one in through 17 to 25. He says Let's look at that a verse 22 right for Jews request a sign Greeks Seek after wisdom but We preach Christ crucified To the Jews a stumbling block to the Greeks its foolishness so Apostle Paul had many many many things to speak about One he could talk about his personal testimony, you know, once I was like this Because he briefly writes to the believers I didn't talk about And he doesn't To he doesn't say or these are the number of churches I planted And three he didn't talk about those great revelations. He must have received from the Lord Jesus himself He doesn't talk about You know how Jesus came and probably sat next to him and told him About this whole this understanding of what he did on the cross And talk about all that What does he say? We preach Christ crucified To the Jews it's a stumbling block because it's not good For the Jews messiah being crucified big no But to the Greeks its foolishness Right, so Paul the apostle made it very clear in his ministry that he will not Preach or teach anything else except the cross of Jesus Christ The cross was his focus Right the central theme Now as a body of Christ Globally, it's very important for us to focus our attention on the cross Our preaching our teaching should be Aligned to the death burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ why Because we see here that there was sustainability in Paul's ministry because Of course, there was also a lot of persecution You know the truth hurts when we preach the truth people will attack And that's what happened here Paul was able to sustain and continually do these plant churches Start ministries and start raise up leaders and travel to places Why because he had one focus to preach The message of the Lord Jesus Christ and no other focus Paul didn't write those letters saying oh one day these letters You know a thousand years later these letters would be in great letters And my name will be written in heaven all those things didn't matter You know when you look at What's happening in the global church right now? It's wonderful to hear about the revival that's happening in Asbury and Which is moving into different colleges. It's wonderful. Praise God for that But what we also see is the church Is getting diluted It was this one time I was listening to a sermon this sort of the topic Just a random sermon on youtube. I leave the preacher unnamed but Clicked on the message about a 40 minute message. So I was listening to the message The first 15 minutes He talked about This preacher a very well-known preacher global Got a mega church or that first 15 minutes he was talking about How he and his wife planned their vacation The next 10 minutes he talked about how Uh their dressing sense You know, what are the clothes they buy where they go shopping So I wasted 25 minutes Listening the first 25 and I'm I was waiting for the message to start Right the message is not even 25 minutes 15 minutes You know and then another 10 minutes on You know dressing sense and all of these things And then we talk talks so that's 25 minutes is gone. Then he begins to Talk about What you know Moses did or Joshua did He probably it was at the 40th minute that he was talking about He brought one worse And he ended with one more story and he closed 45 minutes Thousands of people sitting in the congregation and listening to this full of jokes You know, and now there are times that we hear positive messages people want to hear positive messages. It's good But the cross of Jesus Christ is not positive. It is a it's a life changing message. It's not a positive message Positive messages. It'll be there and we'll go away And the difficult times comes that positiveness will run away but When we have a life changing message the word of God is able to you know Penetrate our spirit and it stays with us even through doing those difficult times Feel good messages positive messages Oh, you know There are there are some places where The congregation is given handouts So they write What would you like the question would be what would you like to hear us preach this coming month at church? and so they The congregation is given the options to write These are things that are happening in the church But what is Paul saying? Hey, whether you like it or not Whether you're a Jew, whether you're a Gentile, whether I'm in Corinth, whether I'm in Jerusalem I will preach The cross of Jesus Christ my message will not change Imagine the Roman saying why don't you just change your message? You're a Roman citizen. You don't have to die You don't have to do this After the Romans would have thought that hey, you're a Roman citizen. You're so brilliant in your mind Why do you want to teach about all these things? Talk about something else Talk about life Talk about how you can, you know do some tent making business No, he doesn't He doesn't compromise. He says no, I'm gonna teach the word. I'm gonna preach the word To the point that he goes into Caesar's palace and even there he preaches She sees the last Potion if you read the last portion of the book of Rome and she says greet those who are in Caesar's household Whenever I read that I get shivers down my spine The Apostle Paul has reached out to people in Caesar's household Through the message of Jesus Christ So you and I each one of us, you know, we will get opportunities We may start our own ministries God may call us to preach and teach in different places Right to remember the focus is the cross You can add, you know, small Testimonies you can add in your preaching you can add you know Examples illustrations all of that is good. I learned that in homiletics Illustrations examples parables you can add them But what is the center centrality of that message that should lead to the cross That should lead to the victory that Jesus did one for us Right So remember that whatever ministry whatever ministry we are doing Always be focused on that right next point Not with wisdom of words First Corinthians 117 for Christ did not send me to baptize but who preached the gospel Not with the wisdom of words. That's the cross of Christ should be made of no effect Water baptism is it important? Very important But Paul is saying here God did not send me to baptize You see the focus there He's saying God Water baptism is good. You know Paul himself writes a whole Potion in one of his letters in the book of Romans. He says when we are water baptized We identify with a death burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ when we go into the water We are signifying his death when we come out of the water. We are signifying his resurrection And when we come out, we are new We are new creation We are you know We are one in him. It's a physical. It's a physical proclamation a public proclamation Of our belief in the Lord Jesus. He talks about it. But here he's saying Water baptism God did not send me to baptize if people come for baptism good I'll do it as he baptized he later on says I baptize a few people but he says God did not send me to baptize, but it preach the gospel of Jesus Christ right The preaching of the gospel now I want each one of us to understand this right? It's very important The preaching of the gospel does not require great oratory skills great eloquence great intellectual reasoning great brilliance of human wisdom It does not require any of that but All of this is important Right The apostle Peter and even Paul says be ready to give a defense for the gospel Paul the apostle gave a defense for the gospel Was he eloquent? Yes. Was he intellectual? Yes. Was he brilliant? Yes But what is Paul saying here you don't you and I don't need to have all these Attributes and only then I will preach no We can be a believer for one week Nobody can stop us from preaching the gospel nobody nobody can say No pastor no prophet nobody can say Hey, only one week in the Lord don't preach about the cross. Nobody can say that Because when we preach we're not preaching with human wisdom We may not know the the greater truths or greater revelations of God's word But if we have accepted the Lord Jesus and we've experienced his forgiveness in our life You and I can you know preach the gospel But here's the here's another important aspect Just because we can preach the gospel doesn't mean that we don't improve ourselves Right Some of the things that I personally do is I I listen to a lot of tip-tops. I'm sure you've heard of it right now the reason I listen to then I listen to these How to over how to speak fluently how to Improve your communication. All these are things You know that I listen to I practical things why it's because I know that you know God's called me for preaching And I have to go on the stage. I have to preach, you know, hand motions of the way we stand the way we You know I contact all of this is important and these are things that we learn over time Right, but that does not take priority To the cross Because it's only through the cross that That you can see lives transform. We can see people change only through the cross Our testimonies right for example, we are sharing our testimony Now we're sharing. It's a powerful testimony. We're sharing, you know, one day I was like this. I was like this and Even our testimony Can stir up people But if our testimony is not pointed to the grace and the love of Jesus Christ and the forgiveness that we can find on the cross That testimony will which be self Exhortation It won't be a testimony for Jesus Christ and what'll happen people will forget that testimony and There'll be no impact Right, so We the Lord has given us right now in the day and age we're living in there's a lot of tools Right methods and props and You know two minute videos and so many things that we can do While we do all this It's good to do it, right? but Let us not turn our attention towards anything not even to ourselves Not even to our testimony. It's not about us It's about the cross Right next one The message of the cross is the power of God Now we've talked about this in lifestyle evangelism as well, you know It may sound foolish to people It may really sound foolish This man in Jerusalem Came he lived he did a couple of miracles he died He died a gruesome death on the cross and now People are preaching about him. It makes no sense That's foolishness to those who are perishing But it's the power of God and to salvation The power to save the power to heal the power to deliver the power to break bondages The power to bring healing into You know the power to Or destroy the works of the devil all of this Is available for you and me you and I because we believe in the message of the cross I Look at the scriptures or such powerful scriptures And you and I have these tools First Corinthians, I think it's first Corinthians 15. I'm not sure But Paul is writing to the Corinthians and he's saying The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. They are mighty and God The mighty and God So our weapons that we have they're not carnal weapons They're not weapons that people, you know that we Have, you know, which which die away and fade away. You know, they are mighty and God But they bring down strongholds Breakdown pretensions and arguments every reasoning is brought down Right, so you and I are to use these weapons Get an Ephesians six in the last chapter. He's writing and he's saying He's writing to the church And addressing the entire church he's saying church you put on the armor of God Put on that helmet of salvation put on the breastplate of righteousness The sword as double-edged sword that is That is the word of God the belt of truth the shoes with the readiness to preach the gospel Right the shield of faith that will quench every fiery dart of the wicked one. We have to put it on Now when we have so much All we have to do is believe it and use it right The cross is surpassing all the wisdom of the world Even though it is foolishness to people It's surpassing all wisdom of this world Look at this first Corinthians one A read 19 and 20 for it is written I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent That is the vice that is described. Where is the dispute of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? Now is the world full of wisdom? Yes there are a lot of you know Contemporary things that are happening in terms of medicine in terms of media technology In every area We see That there is wisdom right Now, you know with uh, I don't know if you've heard of chat gbt Uh, where it is so it's a wonderful light. Uh, ai responses Uh, where you can just type in Whatever you would like so if you for example, you want to type in, you know about Cycles or you want to type in anything and it will give you a response Like as if somebody is talking to you That's chat jbt So you look at all the wisdom that things are happening around us Right, there's a lot of wisdom, but God is saying I will make all this wisdom of the world foolish right You look at the scientists there they are doing researches And now they've come up, you know, they wanted to find out how many galaxies are there That was never going to happen. They cannot find it The universe is so vast Now Look at the human body. There are so many questions that scientists have no idea what's happening They're not able to No, of course they cracked the dna, but there's so much that is Unanswered A wisdom of the world can be made foolish you know The best example is Remember the the titanic This they built that big ship saying even if God wants this ship will not sink What have gone to? Wisdom of the world was made foolish And so many so and look at the earthquakes that are happening right now in turkey And and and and and it's very sad but What we see here is, you know, man think that they are Humans as human beings. We think that we reached a level of wisdom that nobody can reach but God is saying I will make it all foolish I'll break it down Look at those twins twin towers in the us united states And they will you know, they were so proud of it all with the wisdom of man We built these two towers What happened? It's brought down Because we're not saying God did it but It was the mother world was brought to nothing and God you know Religion has a way of making our approach to God very complex Oh, you have to do this. You have to do this. You know every time I ride after I drop my son from school and I come my heart breaks because I see these small shrines you know Christian shrines and also, you know the shrines of other faiths And I see people there standing and holding hands and crying Maybe they're going through so much of challenges of their life my heart breaks The only verse that comes to our mind is in the book of john when And jesus is talking to this marital woman and he says Time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the father and spirit and in truth Sometimes I feel I just go to them and tell them. Hey, you don't mean this place. It's not about the place It's not about this trying to stand in here. It's not about this It's about him knowing him in spirit and in truth Religion makes things so complicated But religious people often stumble to something that is simple But the simplicity of the crosses you just come to him Humility in our failures Now if we don't need candles, we don't need any works just by faith That the wisdom this wisdom will make the world look foolish It pleases god when the cross is preached first conscience 121 For sins and the wisdom of god the world through wisdom did not know god It pleased god through the foolishness of the message Preached to save those who believe People may ridicule you people may make fun of you people may You know prosecute but We must not stop sharing the message of jesus christ Why That's when we are doing it. We are pleasing god Can you imagine that we are pleasing god? god is pleased So every time you and i are preaching the gospel preaching the message of jesus christ god in heaven Is looking down on us and he is pleased with us Now you may be preaching to 10 people or 10 000 people. It doesn't matter For god you're preaching the message of the cross god is pleased with that He's pleased. He's happy. This is my son. This is my daughter What he's preaching is What is what i did for them on the cross What he's preaching he or she is believing it By powerful The audience can't change the message I quickly will just look at it and we take a break first Corinthians 1 22 and 23 for jews request a sign And greeks seek after wisdom But we preach christ crucified to the jews a stumbling block and to the greeks foolishness To the jews they are very spiritual people so for them A person who died on the cross Is is not somebody who will they will be Even now they're waiting for the messiah. It's a stumbling block Right from this message it is clear that paul considered that the message of the cross Is the central whether you're No, the the audience can be anybody Maybe going to prison ministry Or when you go into prison ministry also the message should be the cross of jesus christ Like it shouldn't be anything else Whether we're going to the richest person in the world or the Or the meekest in slum ministries or for the poor and the destitute The message remains the same the audience does not change the message Right, so this is something that you and I can really believe in and walk it Let's take a break. We'll come back and continue from where we stopped Thank you. Let's take a break. We'll come back at 10 o'clock