{"id":3545,"date":"2022-03-13T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=3545"},"modified":"2022-03-13T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T17:21:59","slug":"a-fools-errand","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/sermons\/a-fools-errand\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fool&#8217;s Errand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2 Corinthians 11:16-33<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>\u00a0<\/sup>I repeat,\u00a0let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.\u00a0<sup>17\u00a0<\/sup>What I am saying\u00a0with this boastful confidence,\u00a0I say not as the Lord would\u00a0but as a fool.\u00a0<sup>18\u00a0<\/sup>Since\u00a0many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.\u00a0<sup>19\u00a0<\/sup>For you gladly bear with fools,\u00a0being wise yourselves!\u00a0<sup>20\u00a0<\/sup>For you bear it if someone\u00a0makes slaves of you, or\u00a0devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or\u00a0strikes you in the face.\u00a0<sup>21\u00a0<\/sup>To my shame, I must say,\u00a0we were too weak for that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But whatever anyone else dares to boast of\u2014I am speaking as a fool\u2014I also dare to boast of that.\u00a0<sup>22\u00a0<\/sup>Are they Hebrews?\u00a0So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.\u00a0<sup>23\u00a0<\/sup>Are they\u00a0servants of Christ?\u00a0I am a better one\u2014I am talking like a madman\u2014with far greater labors,\u00a0far more imprisonments,\u00a0with countless beatings, and\u00a0often near death.\u00a0<sup>24\u00a0<\/sup>Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the\u00a0forty lashes less one.\u00a0<sup>25\u00a0<\/sup>Three times I was\u00a0beaten with rods.\u00a0Once I was stoned. Three times I\u00a0was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;\u00a0<sup>26\u00a0<\/sup>on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers,\u00a0danger from my own people,\u00a0danger from Gentiles,\u00a0danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;\u00a0<sup>27\u00a0<\/sup>in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night,\u00a0in hunger and thirst, often without food,\u00a0in cold and exposure.\u00a0<sup>28\u00a0<\/sup>And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for\u00a0all the churches.\u00a0<sup>29\u00a0<\/sup>Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>30&nbsp;<\/sup>If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.&nbsp;<sup>31&nbsp;<\/sup>The God and Father of the Lord Jesus,&nbsp;he who is blessed forever,&nbsp;knows that I am not lying.&nbsp;<sup>32&nbsp;<\/sup>At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas&nbsp;was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me,&nbsp;<sup>33&nbsp;<\/sup>but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[2 Corinthians 11:16-33] Boasting in our weakness displays our dependence on Jesus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[6],"ctc_sermon_book":[212],"ctc_sermon_series":[360],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[24],"ctc_sermon_tag":[396],"class_list":["post-3545","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_topic-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_book-2-corinthians","ctc_sermon_series-gods-power-in-our-weakness-2-corinthians","ctc_sermon_speaker-jon-heisterkamp","ctc_sermon_tag-2-corinthians-1116-33","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3545\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}