Category: 1 Corinthians
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A Second Motive For Church Discipline
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. (1 Corinthians 5:6-7) In a previous post we began to look at the verse…
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A Motive For Church Discipline
you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 5:5) Church discipline is one of the marks of a healthy church. Yet church discipline is sorely lacking in American churches today. There are many reasons for…
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Judging in the church
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? (1 Corinthians 5:12) It is very popular in American culture to say that Christians aren’t suppose to judge anyone. But we find in this verse that we are to judge those “inside the church”…
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Servants and Stewards
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. (1 Corinthians 4:1) The church in Corinth was experiencing some division as people aligned themselves behind either Paul or Apollos. But Paul and Apollos weren’t leading factions. They didn’t want to. They wanted the church to be…
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Plant, Water, Watch it Grow
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and…
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The Spirit of Understanding
…we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. (1 Corinthians 2:12) This verse and its surrounding context are at once a glorious promise, and a warning. God teaches us in this passage that right understanding and…
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Words of Eloquent Wisdom
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. (1 Corinthians 1:17) Most of us, even non-christians, are impressed with eloquent preachers. They are impressive. They wear nice clothes, they have it all together,…
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the path of submission
I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of every woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. (1 Corinthians 11:3) We are told elsewhere in scripture that Christ did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but humbled himself taking on the…
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love
We don’t have to have a sweetheart on Valentine’s Day to know what it means to truly love and be loved in return. In fact one of the greatest gifts we can give a sweetheart or our friends and family on Valentine’s Day is our deep, loving relationship with the heavenly father. Without it we…