Most powerful thing on the planet

You want to see a bunch of messed-up people, look at the Corinthians. You know, you look at what’s going on out in the world today--they can’t decide what marriage is, they can’t decide what sex you are.

You need to go read I Corinthians sometime. You talk about transgenders; they were there in the church. There were homosexuals in the church at Corinth. There were crossdressers. You know how they got there? They got saved, says Richard Jordan.

They were in a pagan culture and they’d get saved and come into the local church and then say, “Well, can I still do what I used to do?” and Paul had to deal with that.

By the way, there were a bunch of folks who were home-schooled in a religious environment, separated from the world, in the same church.

Now, think about getting that crowd together. I mean, if you were in the Jewish culture, you lived in a very cloistered atmosphere. You were home-schooled. Mom teaches you, dad oversees it and there’s a patriarchal system and it was very structured.

You had people come out of that and others come out of a very pagan background. I mean, there was drunkenness, extortion . . . There was a guy who thought it was okay to be living with his daddy’s wife. You just hope she was his second wife.

You look at the world we live in. Listen, the façade of Christianity that’s kind of kept our culture identifiable is gone; it’s evaporated. What is now here is exactly the kind of culture Paul dealt with.

The Book of Corinthians says, “Look, you come out of all that background. Here’s what grace does; here’s the change it makes,” and Paul deals with those kinds of things.

When you have physical pain, it tells you there’s something wrong in your body. Well, emotional pain is the same thing. It tells you there’s something wrong in your inner man.

Understanding how you function and how you operate helps you to correct that inner-man malfunction.

Paul’s talking here about you walking worthy. Where’s that walk going to come from? The Word of God working in your inner man.

Listen, the most powerful, the most influential force—the most potent force on Planet Earth in any culture is the Word of God working in the lives of Believers.

You understand that? The most powerful thing on this planet today is God’s Word working in and through people who believe His Word and allow it to work in their life—individually and collectively. That’s where the power of God works and that’s the most powerful thing that’s going to happen in life.