APE-PAUL (1 cor 4:3) I care very little if I am judged.
(1 Cor 6:12) “Everything is permissible”—but not everything beneficial. “Everything is permissible”—but I will not be mastered—
TAPE-JACOB ALLEN: (Acts 26:24) Festus shouts, “You are out of your mind, Paul!” “Your great learning is driving you insane.”
TAPE-PAUL: “Everything is permissible” but I will not be mastered by anything!
TAPE-PAUL: (Phil 3:12) so I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I have not yet taken hold of it.
TAPE-PAUL: (Acts 20:31) Be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each you night and day with tears!
TAPE-PAUL:(1 Thes. 5:19) Do not put out the Spirit’s fire.
TAPE-PARIS BROWN: (Romans 16:18) By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naïve people.
TAPE-MARYL MCNALLY:(Eph 6:12) For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
TAPE-PAUL: (Gal 3:13) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us,
TAPE-PAUL:(Gal. 4:12-16) I plead with you brothers, become like me, for I became like you. What has happened to all your joy? If you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
TAPE-EMMA SWEET:(Gal 5:7) You were running a good race.
TAPE-ANNELIESE DEDIEMAR: Who cut in on you?
TAPE-CHARLIE CHRISTENSON: (Gal 3:1)Who has bewitched you?
TAPE-PAUL: (Gal 5:15) You bite and devour each other. You bite and devour each other and serve your own appetite.
TAPE- BRENDAN MARSHALL-RASHID: Where are we without God?
TAPE-ARAM MONISOFF: The most powerful man will one day be dust.
TAPE-MARYL MCNALLY: The highest mountain beneath the torrent ocean.
TAPE-ARAM, MARYL: The highest mountain beneath the torrent ocean.
TAPE-ARAM, MARYL, BRENDAN: The highest mountain beneath the torrent ocean.
PAUL: (1 Corinthians 4:8ff) Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have become kings—and that without us!
How I wish that you really had become kings so that we might be kings with you! For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of a procession like men condemned to die in the arena…like men condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men. We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ!
We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you, as my dear children. Even though you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. Therefore I urge you to imitate me, for this reason I am sending to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus.
Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a whip… or in love and with a gentle spirit?
Jonathon MT Roberts is a composer and performer inspired by biblical text with a background in classical, jazz and, pop. He
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