MAKING THE EFFECTIVE INEFFECTIVE

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MAKING THE EFFECTIVE INEFFECTIVE

• For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to
  preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest
  the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
  (1 Cor. 117)

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MAKING THE EFFECTIVE INEFFECTIVE

• For Christ did not send me to baptize but to
  preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent
  wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of
  its power. (ESV)

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MAKING THE EFFECTIVE INEFFECTIVE
The Word of God Christ The Cross of Christ The
Promises of God

• Can All Be Made Ineffective

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THE WORD OF GOD

• Lack of faith makes the word ineffective

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Hebrews 42 116

• For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well
  as to them but the word which they heard did not
  profit them, not being mixed with faith in those
  who heard it.
• But without faith it is impossible to please Him,
  for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
  and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently
  seek Him.

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1 Thessalonians 213

• For this reason we also thank God without
  ceasing, because when you received the word of
  God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not
  as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the
  word of God, which also effectively works in you
  who believe.

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THE WORD OF GOD

• Lack of faith makes the word ineffective
• Lack of knowledge makes the word ineffective

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Hosea 46

• My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
  Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will
  reject you from being priest for Me Because you
  have forgotten the law of your God, I also will
  forget your children.

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Romans 101-3

• Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for
  Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear them
  witness that they have a zeal for God, but not
  according to knowledge. For they being ignorant
  of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish
  their own righteousness, have not submitted to
  the righteousness of God.

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THE WORD OF GOD

• Lack of faith makes the word ineffective
• Lack of knowledge makes the word ineffective
• Hard-heartedness makes the word ineffective

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Matthew 1313-14

• "Therefore I speak to them in parables, because
  seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not
  hear, nor do they understand. And in them the
  prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says
  'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,
  And seeing you will see and not perceive

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Matthew 1315

• "'For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
  Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes
  they have closed, Lest they should see with their
  eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should
  understand with their hearts and turn, So that I
  should heal them.'"

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THE WORD OF GOD

• Lack of faith makes the word ineffective
• Lack of knowledge makes the word ineffective
• Hard-heartedness makes the word ineffective
• Traditions of men make the word ineffective

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Matthew 151-2

• Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from
  Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, "Why do Your
  disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?
  For they do not wash their hands when they eat
  bread."

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Matthew 153-4

• He answered and said to them, "Why do you also
  transgress the commandment of God because of your
  tradition? For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your
  father and your mother' and, 'He who curses
  father or mother, let him be put to death.'

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Matthew 155-6

• But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or
  mother, "Whatever profit you might have received
  from me is a gift to God"-- then he need not
  honor his father or mother.' Thus you have made
  the commandment of God of no effect by your
  tradition."

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Mark 79-10

• He said to them, "All too well you reject the
  commandment of God, that you may keep your
  tradition. For Moses said, 'Honor your father and
  your mother' and, 'He who curses father or
  mother, let him be put to death.'

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Mark 711-13

• "But you say, 'If a man says to his father or
  mother, "Whatever profit you might have received
  from me is Corban"--' (that is, a gift to God),
  then you no longer let him do anything for his
  father or his mother, making the word of God of
  no effect through your tradition which you have
  handed down. And many such things you do."

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Colossians 28

• Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy
  and empty deceit, according to the tradition of
  men, according to the basic principles of the
  world, and not according to Christ.

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THE WORD OF GOD

• Lack of faith makes the word ineffective
• Lack of knowledge makes the word ineffective
• Hard-heartedness makes the word ineffective
• Traditions of men make the word ineffective
• Allowing Satan to take away the word makes the
  word ineffective

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Luke 85, 12

• "A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he
  sowed, some fell by the wayside and it was
  trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured
  it." "Those by the wayside are the ones who
  hear then the devil comes and takes away the
  word out of their hearts, lest they should
  believe and be saved."

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Matthew 1318-19

• "Therefore hear the parable of the sower When
  anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does
  not understand it, then the wicked one comes and
  snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is
  he who received seed by the wayside."

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CHRIST

• Trying to be justified by the Law of Moses rather
  than by the law of Christ makes Him ineffective

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Galatians 211-13

• Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood
  him to his face, because he was to be blamed for
  before certain men came from James, he would eat
  with the Gentiles but when they came, he
  withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who
  were of the circumcision. And the rest of the
  Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that
  even Barnabas was carried away with their
  hypocrisy.

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Galatians 214

• But when I saw that they were not straightforward
  about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter
  before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live in
  the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why
  do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews?

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Galatians 215-17

• We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the
  Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by
  the works of the law but by faith in Jesus
  Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus,
  that we might be justified by faith in Christ and
  not by the works of the law for by the works of
  the law no flesh shall be justified. But if,
  while we seek to be justified by Christ, we
  ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ
  therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not!

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Galatians 218-21

• For if I build again those things which I
  destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I
  through the law died to the law that I might live
  to God. I have been crucified with Christ it is
  no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and
  the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
  faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave
  Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of
  God for if righteousness comes through the law,
  then Christ died in vain."

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Galatians 51-4

• Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which
  Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled
  again with a yoke of bondage. Indeed I, Paul, say
  to you that if you become circumcised, Christ
  will profit you nothing. And I testify again to
  every man who becomes circumcised that he is a
  debtor to keep the whole law. You have become
  estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be
  justified by law you have fallen from grace.

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Galatians 61-2

• Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass,
  you who are spiritual restore such a one in a
  spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest
  you also be tempted. Bear one another's burdens,
  and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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1 Corinthians 919-20

• For though I am free from all men, I have made
  myself a servant to all, that I might win the
  more and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I
  might win Jews to those who are under the law,
  as under the law, that I might win those who are
  under the law

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1 Corinthians 921-22

• to those who are without law, as without law (not
  being without law toward God, but under law
  toward Christ), that I might win those who are
  without law to the weak I became as weak, that I
  might win the weak. I have become all things to
  all men, that I might by all means save some.

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CHRIST

• Trying to be justified by the Law of Moses rather
  than by the law of Christ makes Him ineffective
• Refusing to listen to Him makes Him ineffective

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Hebrews 1225-27

• See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if
  they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on
  earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn
  away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice
  then shook the earth but now He has promised,
  saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the
  earth, but also heaven." Now this, "Yet once
  more," indicates the removal of those things that
  are being shaken, as of things that are made,
  that the things which cannot be shaken may
  remain.

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Matthew 171-4

• Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and
  John his brother, led them up on a high mountain
  by themselves and He was transfigured before
  them. His face shone like the sun, and His
  clothes became as white as the light. And behold,
  Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with
  Him. Then Peter answered and said to Jesus,
  "Lord, it is good for us to be here if You wish,
  let us make here three tabernacles one for You,
  one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

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Matthew 175

• While he was still speaking, behold, a bright
  cloud overshadowed them and suddenly a voice
  came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My
  beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"

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Acts 322

• "For Moses truly said to the fathers, 'The Lord
  your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me
  from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all
  things, whatever He says to you.'"

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THE CROSS OF CHRIST

• Preaching mans wisdom makes the cross ineffective

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1 Corinthians 117-18

• For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to
  preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest
  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.

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THE CROSS OF CHRIST

• Preaching mans wisdom makes the cross
  ineffective
• Minimizing the church makes the cross ineffective

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Ephesians 38-9

• To me, who am less than the least of all the
  saints, this grace was given, that I should
  preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches
  of Christ, and to make all see what is the
  fellowship of the mystery, which from the
  beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who
  created all things through Jesus Christ

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Ephesians 310-12

• to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God
  might be made known by the church to the
  principalities and powers in the heavenly places,
  according to the eternal purpose which He
  accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we
  have boldness and access with confidence through
  faith in Him.

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THE CROSS OF CHRIST

• Preaching mans wisdom makes the cross
  ineffective
• Minimizing the church makes the cross ineffective
• Preaching the cross w/o the resurrection makes
  the cross ineffective

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1 Corinthians 151-5

• Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel
  which I preached to you, which also you received
  and in which you stand, by which also you are
  saved, if you hold fast that word which I
  preached to you--unless you believed in vain. For
  I delivered to you first of all that which I also
  received that Christ died for our sins according
  to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and
  that He rose again the third day according to the
  Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then
  by the twelve.

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1 Corinthians 156-9

• After that He was seen by over five hundred
  brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain
  to the present, but some have fallen asleep.
  After that He was seen by James, then by all the
  apostles. Then last of all He was seen by me
  also, as by one born out of due time. For I am
  the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to
  be called an apostle, because I persecuted the
  church of God.

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1 Corinthians 1510-12

• But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His
  grace toward me was not in vain but I labored
  more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the
  grace of God which was with me. Therefore,
  whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you
  believed. Now if Christ is preached that He has
  been raised from the dead, how do some among you
  say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

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1 Corinthians 1513-18

• But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then
  Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen,
  then our preaching is empty and your faith is
  also empty. Yes, and we are found false witnesses
  of God, because we have testified of God that He
  raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up--if in
  fact the dead do not rise. For if the dead do not
  rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is
  not risen, your faith is futile you are still in
  your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep
  in Christ have perished.

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THE CROSS OF CHRIST

• Preaching mans wisdom can make the cross
  ineffective
• Minimizing the church can make the cross
  ineffective
• Preaching the cross w/o the resurrection makes
  the cross ineffective
• The resurrection makes the cross effective

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Romans 11-4

• Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be
  an apostle, separated to the gospel of God which
  He promised before through His prophets in the
  Holy Scriptures, concerning His Son Jesus Christ
  our Lord, who was born of the seed of David
  according to the flesh, and declared to be the
  Son of God with power according to the Spirit of
  holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

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1 Peter 13-5

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has
  begotten us again to a living hope through the
  resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an
  inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that
  does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
  who are kept by the power of God through faith
  for salvation ready to be revealed in the last
  time.

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1 Peter 318-20

• For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just
  for the unjust, that He might bring us to God,
  being put to death in the flesh but made alive by
  the Spirit, by whom also He went and preached to
  the spirits in prison, who formerly were
  disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering
  waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was
  being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight
  souls, were saved through water.

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1 Peter 321-22

• There is also an antitype which now saves
  us--baptism (not the removal of the filth of the
  flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward
  God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
  who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand
  of God, angels and authorities and powers having
  been made subject to Him.

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THE CROSS OF CHRIST

• Preaching mans wisdom makes the cross
  ineffective
• Minimizing the church makes the cross ineffective
• Preaching the cross w/o the resurrection makes
  the cross ineffective
• The resurrection that makes the cross effective
• Many preach the doing and dying of Jesus and
  say little or nothing about the resurrection.

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THE CROSS OF CHRIST

• Preaching mans wisdom makes the cross
  ineffective
• Minimizing the church makes the cross ineffective
• Preaching the cross w/o the resurrection makes
  the cross ineffective
• Preaching the cross w/o the blood makes the cross
  ineffective

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Colossians 119-20

• For it pleased the Father that in Him all the
  fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile
  all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on
  earth or things in heaven, having made peace
  through the blood of His cross.

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THE PROMISES OF GOD

• Not being in Christ makes the promises ineffective

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2 Timothy 210

• Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the
  elect, that they also may obtain the salvation
  which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

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Galatians 324-27

• Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to
  Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But
  after faith has come, we are no longer under a
  tutor. For you are all sons of God through faith
  in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were
  baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

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Ephesians 13-6

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
  blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just
  as He chose us in Him before the foundation of
  the world, that we should be holy and without
  blame before Him in love, having predestined us
  to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself,
  according to the good pleasure of His will, to
  the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He
  has made us accepted in the Beloved.

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1 John 225 511

• And this is the promise that He has promised
  us--eternal life.
• And this is the testimony that God has given us
  eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

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THE PROMISES OF GOD

• Not being in Christ makes the promises
  ineffective
• Falling short makes the promises ineffective

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Hebrews 41, 9

• Therefore, since a promise remains of entering
  His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to
  have come short of it.
• There remains therefore a rest for the people of
  God.

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Revelation 28-9

• "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write
  'The words of the first and the last, who died
  and came to life. " 'I know your tribulation and
  your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander
  of those who say that they are Jews and are not,
  but are a synagogue of Satan.

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Revelation 210

• "'Do not fear what you are about to suffer.
  Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you
  into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten
  days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto
  death, and I will give you the crown of life.'"

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CONCLUSION

• Gods plan is effective only for those who follow
  it.