MAKING THE EFFECTIVE OF NO EFFECT

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MAKING THE EFFECTIVE OF NO EFFECT

• Effective - adequate to accomplish a purpose
  producing the intended or expected result
  effective teaching methods effective steps
  toward peace.

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MAKING THE EFFECTIVE OF NO EFFECT
The Word of God Christ The Cross of Christ The
Promises of God

• Can All Be Made of No Effect

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THE CROSS OF CHRIST

• PREACHING HUMAN WISDOM

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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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1 Corinthians 119-20

• For it is written "I will destroy the wisdom of
  the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding
  of the prudent." Where is the wise? Where is the
  scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has
  not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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1 Corinthians 121

• For since, in 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.

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1 Corinthians 122-24

• 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, but to those who are called, both
  Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the
  wisdom of God.

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1 Corinthians 125-26

• Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men,
  and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For
  you see your calling, brethren, that not many
  wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not
  many noble, are called.

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1 Corinthians 127-29

• But God has chosen the foolish things of the
  world to put to shame the wise, and God has
  chosen the weak things of the world to put to
  shame the things which are mighty and the base
  things of the world and the things which are
  despised God has chosen, and the things which are
  not, to bring to nothing the things that are,
  that no flesh should glory in His presence.

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1 Corinthians 130-31

• But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became
  for us wisdom from God--and righteousness and
  sanctification and redemption-- that, as it is
  written, "He who glories, let him glory in the
  Lord."

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1 Corinthians 21-2

• And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come
  with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring
  to you the testimony of God. For I determined not
  to know anything among you except Jesus Christ
  and Him crucified.

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1 Corinthians 23-5

• I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much
  trembling. And my speech and my preaching were
  not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in
  demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that
  your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but
  in the power of God.

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THE CROSS OF CHRIST

• PREACHING HUMAN WISDOM
• MINIMIZING THE CHURCH

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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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Ephesians 525-27

• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also
  loved the church and gave Himself for her, that
  He might sanctify and cleanse her with the
  washing of water by the word, that He might
  present her to Himself a glorious church, not
  having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but
  that she should be holy and without blemish.

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Acts 2028

• Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the
  flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you
  overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He
  purchased with His own blood.

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THE CROSS OF CHRIST

• PREACHING HUMAN WISDOM
• MINIMIZING THE CHURCH
• PREACHING THE CROSS w/o THE RESURRECTION

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1 Corinthians 151-2

• 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.

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1 Corinthians 153-5

• 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 156-7

• 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.

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1 Corinthians 158-9

• 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

• 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.

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1 Corinthians 1511-12

• 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 1513-15

• 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.

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1 Corinthians 1516-18

• 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 HUMAN WISDOM
• MINIMIZING THE CHURCH
• PREACHING THE CROSS w/o THE RESURRECTION
• THE RESURRECTION MAKES THE CROSS EFFECTIVE

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Romans 11-2

• 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,

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Romans 13-4

• 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

• 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,

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1 Peter 14-5

• 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

• 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,

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1 Peter 319-20

• 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 HUMAN WISDOM
• MINIMIZING THE CHURCH
• PREACHING THE CROSS W/O THE RESURRECTION
• THE RESURRECTION MAKES THE CROSS EFFECTIVE.
• MANY PREACH THE DOING AND DYING OF JESUS AND
  SAY LITTLE ABOUT HIS RESURRECTION.
• PREACHING THE CROSS W/O THE BLOOD

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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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Ephesians 211-12

• Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the
  flesh--who are called Uncircumcision by what is
  called the Circumcision made in the flesh by
  hands-- that at that time you were without
  Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of
  Israel and strangers from the covenants of
  promise, having no hope and without God in the
  world.

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Ephesians 213

• But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off
  have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

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THE PROMISES OF GOD

• NOT BEING IN CHRIST

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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, KJV

• Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring
  us unto Christ, that we might be justified by
  faith. But after that faith is come, we are no
  longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the
  children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as
  many of you as have been baptized into Christ
  have put on Christ.

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Galatians 324-27, ASV

• So that the law is become our tutor to bring us
  unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
  But now faith that is come, we are no longer
  under a tutor. For ye are all sons of God,
  through faith, in Christ Jesus. For as many of
  you as were baptized into Christ did put on
  Christ.

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Galatians 324-27, NASB

• Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us
  to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
  But now that faith has come, we are no longer
  under a tutor. For you are all sons of God
  through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who
  were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves
  with Christ.

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Galatians 324-27, NKJV

• 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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Galatians 324-27, ESV

• So then, the law was our guardian until Christ
  came, in order that we might be justified by
  faith. But now that faith has come, we are no
  longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you
  are all sons of God, through faith. For as many
  of you as were baptized into Christ have put on
  Christ.

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Galatians 324-27, NIV 2011

• So the law was our guardian until Christ came
  that we might be justified by faith. Now that
  this faith has come, we are no longer under a
  guardian. So in Christ Jesus you are all children
  of God through faith, for all of you who were
  baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with
  Christ.

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Ephesians 13-4

• 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,

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Ephesians 15-6

• 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
• COMING SHORT

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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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Hebrews 1139-40

• And all these, having obtained a good testimony
  through faith, did not receive the promise, God
  having provided something better for us, that
  they should not be made perfect apart from us.

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Revelation 28-9

• "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write,
  'These things says the First and the Last, who
  was dead, and came to life I know your works,
  tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich) and
  I know the blasphemy of those who say they are
  Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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Revelation 210

• "'Do not fear any of those things which you are
  about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to
  throw some of you into prison, that you may be
  tested, and you will have tribulation ten days.
  Be faithful until death, and I will give you the
  crown of life.'"

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CONCLUSION

• GODS PLAN IS EFFECTIVE IF IT IS FOLLOWED!