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… Let me show you where I get that idea. 1 Corinthians 3.21 says, Let no one boast of men, for all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come. All are yours. You are Christ's and Christ is God's. Now boil that down to these three. Death is yours. You are Christ's. Christ is God's. What does that mean? Death is yours. Well, what does it mean that you are Christ's? It means you exist for Christ. You serve Christ. You glorify Christ. You exalt Christ. Well, what does this mean? Death is yours. It exists for you. It serves you. It glorifies you. It exalts you. It blesses you. It is in your service, bound, chained, subdued by God through Jesus Christ's resurrection. Therefore, you are more than a conqueror. It is more than being burned and leaving you alone. It must, by God's design, serve you. Therefore, it was not naive romanticism when Zeke Rudolph called death sweeten days. …
And that means we're not looking so much at morally virtuous behavior. You can do all kinds of morally virtuous things out of a heart filled with fear, pride, and desire for power, or out of a heart that's been actually changed at the root by the grace of God. And so what we're doing is we're looking at the traits of a heart that's really been radically changed by the grace of God. And this particular letter, this passage that was just read to you, it's obviously a letter from Paul to the Corinthians. The Corinthian church was filled with division. The reason for all the references to Paul and Apollos and Cephas was because this church had originally been planted by Paul. But then later on, other ministers came through, other speakers, other evangelists came through. And there's different people that had connections to these different prominent ministers. So one person was mentored and discipled by Paul. Another one was mentored and appointed into leadership by Apollos, another great teacher and so forth. …
When I think about single verses in the Scripture, powerful they are and how full of meaning they are. This rises to the top. Listen to this. And you belong to Christ. And Christ belongs to God. Therefore, if we belong to Christ, we belong to God. And I would ask you, who do you belong to? You either belong to God through Christ, or you belong to the to the devil, one of the two. Some people say, Well, I don't believe in the devil, unwise believe. So, with that in mind, I want us to look at this whole issue of wise and unwise lifestyle and how people are living it. And the Scripture distinguishes it between here. So, let's look at wise living for a moment. And the first thing we want to do is define what do we mean by true, genuine wisdom? Godly wisdom, that's real wisdom. Godly wisdom is viewing things from God's viewpoint. How does He see them? And then responding to those things on the basis of what the Word of God teaches. …
Secondly. The saints shall have greater and more extensive possessions than any earthly monarch. One reason for which the state of kings is admired, is their wealth; they have the most precious things laid up in their treasures. We read of the peculiar treasure of kings. Eccles. ii. 8. “I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts;” that is, the peculiar treasure of other kings. David conquered and subdued many kings, and spoiled their peculiar treasure, which fell to his son Solomon. But the precious treasures of kings are not to be compared to those precious things which Christ will give his saints in another world; the gold tried in the fire that Christ has purchased with his own blood, those precious jewel?, those graces and joys of his Spirit, and that beauty of mind with which he will endow them. King’s possessions are very extensive; especially were they thus, when kings were generally absolute, and their whole dominions, their subjects and their fortunes, were looked upon as their possessions. But these fall short of the extensive possessions of the saints, who possess all things; they are the heirs of God, and all that is God’s is theirs so far as it can contribute to their happiness. Rev. xxi. 7. “He that over-cometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.” 1 Cor. iii. 21, 22. “Therefore let no man glory in men, for all things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours.” …