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Enriching The Satisfied

1Cor.1:4 I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
1:5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; 1:6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

You know its hard to convince someone of the preciousness of grace when they have no desire for it? Its hard to explain the gift of gold, and treasures when a person has no need of it?

Matthew 5:13 "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

When a dogs belly is full and fat it cares none for anything until its souls craving come again! The desire and the power of the flesh makes the precious gifts of God foolishness, it does not satisfy the power of the flesh and its cravings.

Psalms 106:14 but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

Where the heart is, so goes the man, where the truth is, so goes the actions of that same man. The fleshly man cannot understand the love of God, let alone the power of grace given them in the precious blood of Christ Jesus. When the heart is full of the flesh, and its desires, the glory of God is exchanges for the worship of idols found in our flesh.

Jeremiah 25:31 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says Yahweh.

Who would listen the the things of the Spirit Paul was speaking about here in Corinthian's why was the Spirit of God not teaching them the things of the Spirit, wasn't that the question? The Spirit birthed each child of God, it is the Spirit that is the food of the new creation in Christ, it was the Spirit that taught them all things of God, the Spirit.

Ezekiel 21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Why must the prophet of God, Paul, now reprove them in what he had, they had? Why must another man convince another man they are rich, if they are rich? Does the flesh have to do that in this life? How foolishly even the thing hated by God (flesh) does not have to convince a person they have incomparable richest.

Galatians 3:2 I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Galatians 3:5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Hebrews 5:11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

Isn't that like explaining to a child values of what hard work has given them in their parents houses? What a shame, yet, to add insult to injury these same unappreciative children were in love with the idea of teachings truth, being teachers of what they thought was Christ.

2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

Hebrews 5:12 For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

What is truth with no values of grace? What is truth if one can't even understand the richest of Christ life in dwelling them? What truth is that? It not of truth of the Spirit! Its not the truth of God, or his love, what truth is that?

2 Peter 2:2 Many will follow their immoral{TR reads "destructive" instead of "immoral"} ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

1 John 2:21 I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

1 John 3:18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

1 John 3:19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him.

Well, plain and simple, its the truth of this world, not knowing God or Christ, why don't they know them? They don't have the Spirit of truth in them. They are separated by knowledge, but knowledge of what? The knowledge the flesh which perverts God's word. They are the weeds claiming to be Christian's, but they are of the flesh, and all of the flesh and its teachings excites them, not the grace of God, not the love of God. It isn't the things of God they earn by merit with, in this case, teaching like the world that causes ones to be looked up to as superior, better, more intelligent, of greater character.

1 John 4:6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1 John 4:16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Yes! Of course, the power of the flesh, the food that makes the glory of men more important than the very glory of God. They had no zeal for the Spirit, because they couldn't gain from this world with the Spirit of God. They could not boast in the flesh, they could not make themselves the leader, the teacher. No! All that was stripped and defeated by the Spirit!

1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

1 John 2:15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

Pitifully, like dogs with full fat bellies the grace the richest they had received from God was just one more meal owed to them for being in the masters household, mundane, set in the corner, in a bowl until another need of craving of their flesh filled their fat full hearts. But like dogs they would defend their territory full or empty attacking and destroying anyone loving the Spirit of God more than this life.

Hebrews 13:5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."{Deuteronomy 31:6}

Revelation 2:4 But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

Everything of the flesh would excite them, and enslave them the only thing resisted was the Spirit that had become foolish to them, and not of their appetite. The appeal of men, the thoughts of men, the Spirit could no longer arouse them into the love of God, just words repeated out of obligation, but not out of Spirit and truth.

Revelation 12:11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.

How does one convince a dog to worship a God that they cannot see and get food from? What dog walk in faith, what dog loves what he cannot see and feel? How do you explain all that is gained in Christ to a dog with no desire for such things? The dog does not think it has all things, if it can't eat it, or feel it he does it care, waiting its next same old craving for a fleshly meal when the craving comes.

Ephesians 4:16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Ephesians 5:2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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