I don't know how much you critique me as we go along here, probably not as much as I think you do or as much as I critique myself. But you may have wondered why didn't we include verses 16 and 17 with what we read on Monday? Well, I had a reason here. I wanted to go back to this idea. It was too much just to do the end of chapter 3 last time, but I wanted us to keep this thought here to connect verses 18 through 23 to what was above to see how all of this has sort of Come back here in chapter 3 to conclude some of Paul's opening thoughts about who they were siding with in the church in Corinth.

 So, we come to chapter three with Paul addressing this issue that he's mentioned before. He has people who are saying that, well, I follow Paul, or I follow Apollos, or I follow Christ, and they are having these factions among them. These are just some of the issues that are going on in the church in Corinth, but obviously it's a big deal.

And so, Paul is saying, hey, When I came to you, I addressed you as infants because you weren't ready for, you know, solid food. You weren't ready for the hard stuff, basically. And so, what Paul is saying is here, you need to continue to grow. You're not, you're still not ready because you're acting in the flesh.