WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.880 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.988 --> 00:00:03.738 Day 24. 00:00:04.303 --> 00:00:08.773 but now let me show you a way of life that is best of all. 00:00:10.633 --> 00:00:15.673 If I could speak all the languages of Earth and of angels, but didn't 00:00:15.673 --> 00:00:21.043 love others, I would only be a noisy gong or clanging symbol. 00:00:22.153 --> 00:00:27.133 If I had the gift of prophecy and if I understood all of God's secret plans and 00:00:27.133 --> 00:00:32.863 possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains but 00:00:32.868 --> 00:00:36.373 didn't love others, I would be nothing. 00:00:38.083 --> 00:00:44.023 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could 00:00:44.023 --> 00:00:50.293 boast about it, but if I didn't love others, I would've gained nothing. 00:00:52.198 --> 00:00:55.528 Love is patient and kind. 00:00:56.818 --> 00:01:02.098 Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. 00:01:03.178 --> 00:01:05.098 It does not demand its own way. 00:01:05.428 --> 00:01:09.778 It is not irritable and it keeps no record of being wronged. 00:01:10.158 --> 00:01:16.948 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 00:01:18.688 --> 00:01:20.368 Love never gives up. 00:01:21.088 --> 00:01:21.958 Never loses. 00:01:21.958 --> 00:01:27.688 Faith is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance. 00:01:29.398 --> 00:01:34.198 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become 00:01:34.198 --> 00:01:38.278 useless, but love will last forever. 00:01:39.778 --> 00:01:46.318 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy 00:01:46.318 --> 00:01:48.238 reveals only part of the whole picture. 00:01:49.438 --> 00:01:55.648 But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless. 00:01:56.728 --> 00:02:02.188 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child, but when I 00:02:02.188 --> 00:02:04.948 grew up, I put away childish things. 00:02:05.938 --> 00:02:10.618 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in 00:02:10.618 --> 00:02:15.688 a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. 00:02:16.768 --> 00:02:22.048 All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will 00:02:22.048 --> 00:02:27.028 know everything completely just as God now knows me completely. 00:02:28.468 --> 00:02:30.268 Three things will last forever. 00:02:30.958 --> 00:02:37.558 Faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. 00:02:38.788 --> 00:02:42.988 Let love be your highest goal, but you should also desire the 00:02:42.988 --> 00:02:44.968 special abilities the spirit gives. 00:02:45.583 --> 00:02:50.233 Especially the ability to prophesy for if you have the ability to speak in 00:02:50.233 --> 00:02:52.573 tongues, you'll be talking only to God. 00:02:53.203 --> 00:02:57.343 Since people won't be able to understand you, you'll be speaking by the power of 00:02:57.343 --> 00:02:59.713 the spirit, but it will all be mysterious. 00:03:00.613 --> 00:03:06.133 But one who prophesies, strengthens others, encourages them and comforts them. 00:03:07.213 --> 00:03:10.753 A person who speaks in tongues is strengthened personally. 00:03:11.503 --> 00:03:15.373 But one who speaks a word of prophecy strengthens the entire church. 00:03:16.603 --> 00:03:20.983 I wish you could all speak in tongues, but even more, I wish you could all 00:03:20.983 --> 00:03:26.473 prophesy for prophecy is greater than speaking in tongues unless someone 00:03:26.473 --> 00:03:29.893 interprets what you are saying so that the whole church will be strengthened. 00:03:31.243 --> 00:03:35.023 Dear brothers and sisters, if I should come to you speaking in an unknown 00:03:35.023 --> 00:03:37.183 language, how would that help you? 00:03:38.143 --> 00:03:42.433 But if I bring you a revelation or some special knowledge or prophecy 00:03:42.553 --> 00:03:45.073 or teaching, that will be helpful. 00:03:46.393 --> 00:03:51.733 Even lifeless instruments like the flute or the harp, must play the notes clearly, 00:03:52.303 --> 00:03:54.223 or no one will recognize the melody. 00:03:55.033 --> 00:03:58.933 And if the bugler doesn't sound a clear call, how will the soldiers 00:03:58.933 --> 00:04:00.493 know they're being called to battle? 00:04:01.393 --> 00:04:02.593 It is the same for you. 00:04:03.373 --> 00:04:06.073 If you speak to people in words, they don't understand. 00:04:06.478 --> 00:04:08.218 How will they know what you are saying? 00:04:09.148 --> 00:04:11.488 You might as well be talking into empty space. 00:04:12.388 --> 00:04:16.708 There are many different languages in the world and every language has meaning, 00:04:17.548 --> 00:04:21.928 but if I don't understand a language, I will be a foreigner to someone who 00:04:21.933 --> 00:04:24.328 speaks it and the one who speaks. 00:04:24.333 --> 00:04:25.708 It will be a foreigner to me. 00:04:26.578 --> 00:04:28.438 And the same is true for you. 00:04:29.068 --> 00:04:33.748 Since you are so eager to have the special abilities the spirit gives, seek those 00:04:33.748 --> 00:04:35.548 that will strengthen the whole church. 00:04:36.358 --> 00:04:40.318 So anyone who speaks in tongues should pray also for the ability 00:04:40.318 --> 00:04:41.968 to interpret what has been said. 00:04:42.718 --> 00:04:42.928 Four. 00:04:42.928 --> 00:04:47.878 If I pray in tongues, my spirit is praying, but I don't understand what 00:04:47.878 --> 00:04:51.058 I'm saying, well then what shall I do? 00:04:51.868 --> 00:04:56.098 I will pray in this spirit and I will also pray in words. 00:04:56.098 --> 00:04:56.938 I understand. 00:04:57.718 --> 00:05:01.198 I will sing in the Spirit and I will also sing in words. 00:05:01.198 --> 00:05:04.828 I understand for if you praise God only in the Spirit. 00:05:05.143 --> 00:05:08.713 How can those who don't understand you praise God along with you? 00:05:09.403 --> 00:05:12.013 How can they join you in giving thanks? 00:05:12.373 --> 00:05:16.033 When they don't understand what you are saying, you will be giving 00:05:16.033 --> 00:05:19.303 thanks very well, but it won't strengthen the people who hear you. 00:05:20.863 --> 00:05:25.783 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than any of you, but in a church 00:05:25.783 --> 00:05:32.143 meeting, I would rather speak five understandable words to help others than 00:05:32.143 --> 00:05:34.573 10,000 words in an unknown language. 00:05:34.573 --> 00:05:34.633 I. 00:05:35.878 --> 00:05:38.668 Dear brothers and sisters, don't be childish in your 00:05:38.668 --> 00:05:40.048 understanding of these things. 00:05:40.828 --> 00:05:46.018 Be innocent as babies when it comes to evil, but be mature in 00:05:46.018 --> 00:05:47.668 understanding matters of this kind. 00:05:48.928 --> 00:05:50.368 It is written in the scriptures. 00:05:50.818 --> 00:05:54.898 I will speak to my own people through strange languages and through the lips 00:05:54.898 --> 00:05:59.788 of foreigners, but even then, they will not listen to me, says the Lord. 00:06:01.498 --> 00:06:04.588 So you see that speaking in tongues is a sign not for 00:06:04.588 --> 00:06:06.898 believers, but for unbelievers. 00:06:07.888 --> 00:06:13.498 Prophecy, however, is for the benefit of believers, not unbelievers even. 00:06:13.498 --> 00:06:18.208 So if unbelievers or people who don't understand these things come into 00:06:18.208 --> 00:06:22.078 your church meeting and hear everyone speaking in an unknown language, 00:06:22.468 --> 00:06:23.668 they will think you are crazy. 00:06:24.568 --> 00:06:26.248 But if all of you are prophesying. 00:06:26.938 --> 00:06:29.638 And unbelievers or people who don't understand these 00:06:29.638 --> 00:06:31.318 things, come into your meeting. 00:06:31.828 --> 00:06:35.578 They will be convicted of sin and judged by what you say. 00:06:36.418 --> 00:06:40.798 As they listen, their secret thoughts will be exposed and they will fall 00:06:40.798 --> 00:06:46.078 to their knees and worship God declaring God is truly here among you. 00:06:47.458 --> 00:06:50.638 Well, my brothers and sisters, let's summarize. 00:06:51.568 --> 00:06:54.118 When you meet together, one will sing. 00:06:54.538 --> 00:06:55.558 Another will teach. 00:06:56.038 --> 00:06:58.228 Another will tell some special revelation. 00:06:58.228 --> 00:06:58.978 God has given. 00:06:59.458 --> 00:07:03.118 One will speak in tongues and another will interpret what is said. 00:07:04.138 --> 00:07:07.678 But everything that is done must strengthen all of you. 00:07:08.848 --> 00:07:11.818 No more than two or three should speak in tongues. 00:07:12.088 --> 00:07:15.868 They must speak one at a time and someone must interpret what they say. 00:07:16.738 --> 00:07:20.338 But if no one is present, who can interpret, they must be silent 00:07:20.338 --> 00:07:23.848 in your church meeting and speak in tongues to God privately. 00:07:25.108 --> 00:07:29.788 Let two or three people prophesy and let the others evaluate what is said. 00:07:30.868 --> 00:07:34.408 But if someone is prophesying and another person receives a revelation 00:07:34.408 --> 00:07:38.878 from the Lord, the one who is speaking must stop in this way. 00:07:39.028 --> 00:07:43.258 All who prophesy will have a turn to speak one after the other so that 00:07:43.258 --> 00:07:45.568 everyone will learn and be encouraged. 00:07:46.378 --> 00:07:49.048 Remember that people who prophesy are in control of 00:07:49.048 --> 00:07:51.238 their spirit and can take turns. 00:07:52.273 --> 00:07:55.303 For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace. 00:07:55.933 --> 00:08:00.373 As in all the meetings of God's holy people, women should be 00:08:00.373 --> 00:08:01.933 silent during the church meetings. 00:08:02.053 --> 00:08:03.733 It is not proper for them to speak. 00:08:04.303 --> 00:08:05.533 They should be submissive. 00:08:05.653 --> 00:08:09.613 Just as the law says if they have any questions, they should ask 00:08:09.613 --> 00:08:11.683 their husbands at home for it. 00:08:11.683 --> 00:08:16.123 Is improper for women to speak in church meetings or do you think 00:08:16.123 --> 00:08:18.343 God's word originated with you? 00:08:18.343 --> 00:08:19.123 Corinthians? 00:08:19.963 --> 00:08:21.973 Are you the only ones to whom it was given? 00:08:23.053 --> 00:08:26.953 If you claim to be a prophet or think you are spiritual, you should 00:08:26.953 --> 00:08:30.613 recognize that what I am saying is a command from the Lord himself. 00:08:31.573 --> 00:08:36.313 But if you do not recognize this, you yourself will not be recognized. 00:08:37.903 --> 00:08:42.643 So my dear brothers and sisters be eager to prophesy and don't forbid 00:08:42.643 --> 00:08:48.643 speaking in tongues, but be sure that everything is done properly and in order. 00:08:50.773 --> 00:08:54.943 Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters of the good news, I 00:08:54.943 --> 00:09:00.253 preached to you before you welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. 00:09:01.093 --> 00:09:05.143 It is this good news that saves you if you continue to believe the message 00:09:05.143 --> 00:09:09.763 I told you, unless of course you believed something that was never true 00:09:09.763 --> 00:09:13.153 in the first place I passed on to you. 00:09:13.153 --> 00:09:16.483 What was most important and what had also been passed on to me. 00:09:17.503 --> 00:09:19.633 Christ died for our sins. 00:09:19.963 --> 00:09:25.153 Just as the scriptures said he was buried and he was raised from the dead. 00:09:25.303 --> 00:09:31.183 On the third day, just as the scriptures said, he was seen by Peter and then by the 00:09:31.183 --> 00:09:38.293 12 after that he was seen by more than 500 of his followers At one time, most of whom 00:09:38.293 --> 00:09:40.813 are still alive, though some have died. 00:09:41.773 --> 00:09:45.133 Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles. 00:09:45.748 --> 00:09:49.198 Last of all as though I had been born at the wrong time. 00:09:49.858 --> 00:09:53.788 I also saw him for I am the least of all the apostles. 00:09:54.418 --> 00:09:58.318 In fact, I'm not even worthy to be called an apostle after the 00:09:58.318 --> 00:10:00.118 way I persecuted God's church. 00:10:01.798 --> 00:10:06.208 But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special 00:10:06.208 --> 00:10:08.848 favor on me and not without results. 00:10:09.748 --> 00:10:12.658 For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles. 00:10:13.258 --> 00:10:18.148 Yet it was not I, but God who is working through me by his grace. 00:10:19.138 --> 00:10:22.678 So it makes no difference whether I preach or they preach for. 00:10:22.678 --> 00:10:25.768 We all preach the same message you have already believed. 00:10:27.778 --> 00:10:32.608 But tell me this, since we preach that Christ rose from the dead, why 00:10:32.608 --> 00:10:35.488 are some of you saying there will be no resurrection of the dead? 00:10:36.478 --> 00:10:39.568 For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ 00:10:39.568 --> 00:10:40.738 has not been raised either. 00:10:41.623 --> 00:10:45.193 And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is 00:10:45.193 --> 00:10:47.803 useless and your faith is useless. 00:10:48.493 --> 00:10:53.173 And we apostles would all be lying about God for we have said that 00:10:53.173 --> 00:10:58.183 God raised Christ from the grave, but that can't be true if there 00:10:58.183 --> 00:10:59.713 is no resurrection of the dead. 00:11:00.133 --> 00:11:04.063 And if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. 00:11:04.693 --> 00:11:08.713 And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and 00:11:08.718 --> 00:11:10.483 you are still guilty of your sins. 00:11:11.488 --> 00:11:15.778 In that case, all who have died believing in Christ are lost. 00:11:16.948 --> 00:11:21.748 And if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be 00:11:21.753 --> 00:11:23.398 pitied than anyone in the world. 00:11:24.358 --> 00:11:28.078 But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. 00:11:28.768 --> 00:11:32.368 He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died. 00:11:33.268 --> 00:11:38.503 So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, Now the 00:11:38.503 --> 00:11:43.873 resurrection from the dead has begun through another man just as everyone 00:11:43.873 --> 00:11:46.033 dies because we all belong to Adam. 00:11:46.723 --> 00:11:51.883 Everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life, but there 00:11:51.883 --> 00:11:53.653 is an order to this resurrection. 00:11:54.493 --> 00:11:57.253 Christ was raised as the first of the harvest. 00:11:57.913 --> 00:12:01.573 Then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back. 00:12:02.683 --> 00:12:04.813 After that, the end will come. 00:12:05.383 --> 00:12:09.943 When he will turn the kingdom over to God the Father, having destroyed 00:12:09.943 --> 00:12:15.733 every ruler and authority and power for Christ must reign until he humbles 00:12:15.733 --> 00:12:17.563 all his enemies beneath his feet. 00:12:18.313 --> 00:12:20.923 And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. 00:12:21.733 --> 00:12:25.603 For the scriptures say God has put all things under his authority. 00:12:26.653 --> 00:12:30.403 Of course, when it says all things are under his authority, that 00:12:30.403 --> 00:12:33.643 does not include God himself, who gave Christ his authority. 00:12:35.023 --> 00:12:39.613 Then when all things are under his authority, the son will put 00:12:39.613 --> 00:12:44.503 himself under God's authority so that God who gave his son authority 00:12:44.503 --> 00:12:49.663 over all things will be utterly supreme over everything, everywhere. 00:12:50.983 --> 00:12:55.873 If the dead will not be raised, what point is there in people being baptized? 00:12:55.993 --> 00:12:56.953 For those who are dead? 00:12:57.733 --> 00:13:01.033 Why do it unless the dead will someday rise again? 00:13:02.473 --> 00:13:06.073 And why should we ourselves risk our lives hour by hour? 00:13:06.973 --> 00:13:11.323 For, I swear, dear brothers and sisters that I face death daily. 00:13:11.983 --> 00:13:16.093 This is as certain as my pride in what Christ Jesus our Lord has done in you. 00:13:17.233 --> 00:13:20.203 And what value was there in fighting wild beasts? 00:13:20.933 --> 00:13:25.573 Those people of Ephesus, if there will be no resurrection from the dead. 00:13:26.773 --> 00:13:31.693 And if there is no resurrection, let's feast and drink for tomorrow we die. 00:13:33.103 --> 00:13:37.543 Don't be fooled by those who say such things for bad company 00:13:37.633 --> 00:13:38.983 corrupts good character. 00:13:40.273 --> 00:13:46.483 Think carefully about what is right and stop sinning for to your shame. 00:13:46.663 --> 00:13:52.423 I say that some of you don't know God at all, but someone may 00:13:52.423 --> 00:13:55.303 ask, how will the dead be raised? 00:13:56.068 --> 00:13:57.868 What kind of bodies will they have? 00:13:58.828 --> 00:14:00.118 What a foolish question. 00:14:01.078 --> 00:14:05.908 When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn't grow into a plant unless 00:14:05.908 --> 00:14:11.278 it dies first, and what you put in the ground is not the plant that 00:14:11.278 --> 00:14:16.558 will grow, but only a bare seed of wheat or whatever you're planting. 00:14:17.668 --> 00:14:19.678 Then God gives it the new body. 00:14:19.678 --> 00:14:24.688 He wants it to have a different plant grows from each kind of seed. 00:14:25.303 --> 00:14:27.913 Similarly, there are different kinds of flesh. 00:14:28.483 --> 00:14:34.543 One kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 00:14:35.593 --> 00:14:39.403 There are also bodies in the heavens and bodies on the earth. 00:14:40.303 --> 00:14:43.483 The glory of the heavenly bodies is different from the 00:14:43.483 --> 00:14:45.043 glory of the earthly bodies. 00:14:45.823 --> 00:14:50.923 The sun has one kind of glory while the moon and stars each have another kind. 00:14:51.463 --> 00:14:54.793 And even the stars differ from each other and their glory. 00:14:56.023 --> 00:14:58.543 It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. 00:14:59.293 --> 00:15:03.973 Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they 00:15:03.973 --> 00:15:06.313 will be raised to live forever. 00:15:07.123 --> 00:15:11.863 Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. 00:15:12.583 --> 00:15:16.483 They're buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. 00:15:17.323 --> 00:15:19.783 They're buried as natural human bodies. 00:15:20.383 --> 00:15:24.283 But they will be raised as spiritual bodies for just 00:15:24.283 --> 00:15:25.753 as there are natural bodies. 00:15:26.173 --> 00:15:28.183 There are also spiritual bodies. 00:15:29.203 --> 00:15:35.713 The scriptures tell us the first man, Adam became a living person, but the last Adam, 00:15:36.043 --> 00:15:39.613 that is Christ is a life-giving spirit. 00:15:40.483 --> 00:15:42.673 What comes first is the natural body. 00:15:43.123 --> 00:15:45.493 Then the spiritual body comes later. 00:15:46.528 --> 00:15:51.508 Adam, the first man was made from the dust of the earth while Christ, 00:15:51.598 --> 00:15:53.638 the second man came from heaven. 00:15:54.658 --> 00:15:58.768 Earthly people are like the earthly man, and heavenly people 00:15:58.858 --> 00:16:00.208 are like the heavenly man. 00:16:01.018 --> 00:16:06.448 Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man. 00:16:07.648 --> 00:16:11.698 What I am saying dear brothers and sisters, is that our physical bodies 00:16:11.788 --> 00:16:13.678 cannot inherit the kingdom of God. 00:16:14.443 --> 00:16:19.063 These dying bodies cannot inherit what will last forever. 00:16:20.653 --> 00:16:23.713 But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. 00:16:24.943 --> 00:16:29.533 We will not all die, but we will all be transformed. 00:16:30.343 --> 00:16:35.593 It will happen in a moment in the blink of an eye when the last trumpet 00:16:35.593 --> 00:16:38.683 is blown for when the trumpet sounds. 00:16:39.103 --> 00:16:41.953 Those who have died will be raised to live forever. 00:16:42.403 --> 00:16:47.143 And we who are living will also be transformed for our dying. 00:16:47.143 --> 00:16:50.833 Bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die. 00:16:51.583 --> 00:16:55.903 Our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies. 00:16:56.983 --> 00:17:01.453 Then when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never 00:17:01.453 --> 00:17:04.243 die, this scripture will be fulfilled. 00:17:05.383 --> 00:17:07.333 Death is swallowed up in victory. 00:17:08.278 --> 00:17:08.968 Oh, death. 00:17:08.968 --> 00:17:10.258 Where is your victory? 00:17:10.588 --> 00:17:11.278 Oh, death. 00:17:11.278 --> 00:17:17.248 Where is your sting for Sin is the sting that results in death, 00:17:17.908 --> 00:17:19.948 and the law gives sin its power. 00:17:21.148 --> 00:17:28.288 But thank God he gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:17:29.728 --> 00:17:34.168 So my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. 00:17:34.828 --> 00:17:39.448 Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing 00:17:39.448 --> 00:17:42.088 you do for the Lord is ever useless. 00:17:44.128 --> 00:17:47.038 Now, regarding your question about the money being collected for 00:17:47.038 --> 00:17:50.848 God's people in Jerusalem, you should follow the same procedure 00:17:50.848 --> 00:17:52.368 I gave to the churches in Galatia. 00:17:53.308 --> 00:17:57.088 On the first day of each week, you should each put aside a portion 00:17:57.088 --> 00:17:58.198 of the money you have earned. 00:17:58.708 --> 00:18:01.828 Don't wait until I get there and then try to collect it all at once. 00:18:02.308 --> 00:18:05.908 When I come, I will write letters of recommendation for the messengers. 00:18:05.908 --> 00:18:09.988 You choose to deliver your gift to Jerusalem, and if it seems appropriate for 00:18:09.993 --> 00:18:12.208 me to go along, they can travel with me. 00:18:14.758 --> 00:18:18.718 I'm coming to visit you after I've been to Macedonia for I am planning 00:18:18.723 --> 00:18:20.188 to travel through Macedonia. 00:18:21.193 --> 00:18:25.813 Perhaps I will stay a while with you, possibly all winter, and then you can 00:18:25.813 --> 00:18:28.003 send me on my way to my next destination. 00:18:28.933 --> 00:18:32.983 This time, I don't want to make just a short visit and then go right on. 00:18:33.283 --> 00:18:36.223 I want to come and stay a while if the Lord will let me. 00:18:36.913 --> 00:18:41.923 In the meantime, I will be staying here at Ephesus until the Festival of Pentecost. 00:18:42.793 --> 00:18:47.143 There is a wide open door for a great work here, although many oppose me. 00:18:48.283 --> 00:18:50.773 When Timothy comes, don't intimidate him. 00:18:51.313 --> 00:18:53.593 He is doing the Lord's work just as I am. 00:18:54.283 --> 00:18:56.263 Don't let anyone treat him with contempt. 00:18:57.103 --> 00:18:58.993 Send him on his way with your blessing. 00:18:59.173 --> 00:19:02.893 When he returns to me, I expect him to come with the other believers 00:19:04.543 --> 00:19:06.373 now about our brother Apollo's. 00:19:06.763 --> 00:19:09.943 I urged him to visit you with the other believers, but he was 00:19:09.943 --> 00:19:11.323 not willing to go right now. 00:19:12.103 --> 00:19:16.453 He will see you later when he has the opportunity beyond guard. 00:19:16.993 --> 00:19:18.703 Stand firm in the faith. 00:19:19.243 --> 00:19:24.793 Be courageous, be strong, and do everything with love. 00:19:26.503 --> 00:19:30.553 You know that Stefanus and his household were the first of the harvest of believers 00:19:30.558 --> 00:19:34.993 in Greece, and they're spending their lives in service to God's people. 00:19:35.803 --> 00:19:40.663 I urge you, dear brothers and sisters to submit to them and others like 00:19:40.663 --> 00:19:42.763 them who serve with such devotion. 00:19:43.783 --> 00:19:48.493 I'm very glad that Stephanus Fornas and have come here. 00:19:49.213 --> 00:19:52.063 They have been providing the help you weren't here to give me. 00:19:52.723 --> 00:19:55.993 They have been a wonderful encouragement to me as they have been to you. 00:19:56.893 --> 00:20:00.163 You must show your appreciation to all who serve so well. 00:20:01.573 --> 00:20:06.463 The churches here in the province of Asia send greetings in the Lord as do Aquila 00:20:06.643 --> 00:20:10.693 and Priscilla and all the others who gather in their home for church meetings. 00:20:11.518 --> 00:20:14.128 All the brothers and sisters here send greetings to you. 00:20:14.788 --> 00:20:16.678 Greet each other with a sacred kiss. 00:20:17.548 --> 00:20:20.818 Here is my greeting in my own handwriting, Paul. 00:20:22.138 --> 00:20:27.568 If anyone does not love the Lord, that person is cursed our Lord. 00:20:27.928 --> 00:20:28.498 Come. 00:20:30.148 --> 00:20:32.398 May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. 00:20:33.028 --> 00:20:35.518 My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. 00:20:37.513 --> 00:20:40.363 This concludes today's Immer Reading experience. 00:20:40.513 --> 00:20:41.743 Thank you for joining us.