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The Laodicean Message - E.H. “Jack” Sequeira

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For I am the least of the apostles and do not<br />

even deserve to be called an apostle, because I<br />

persecuted the church of God.<br />

Verse 10:<br />

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and<br />

his grace to me was not without effect. No, I<br />

worked harder than all of them — yet not I, but the<br />

grace of God that was with me.<br />

Have you got it? Paul is saying, “I worked<br />

more than all of them.” Of course, “them” refers to<br />

the Apostles. “I have worked more than the<br />

Apostles. But,” he says. <strong>The</strong>re’s a “but” there.<br />

But what?<br />

Yet not I, but the grace of God that was with<br />

me.<br />

“It was not I who was doing the work, it was<br />

God doing it in me. I was just an instrument.” So<br />

one difference is the origin.<br />

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