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  Wednesday, December 14, 2023   INTRODUCING 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 5 In chapter 5 Paul continues to confront the Church at Corinth. In chapter 4 he was stern with them regarding their arrogance and pride. The Believers in Corinth were behaving as if they were unaccountable as if they would not be confronted for their behavior. In Chapter 5 Paul chastises the church for their inaction in response to a member of the body who is openly committing incest. Paul commands them to remove the man from their community by turning him over to satan for the destruction of his flesh , in hopes that his spirit would be saved. He told them that they shouldn't even share a meal with anyone who continues to engage in unrepentant sin despite teaching and chastisement. In this chapter, Paul distinguishes between the judgment of believers with that of non-believers.   (https:// www.bibleref.com/1-Corinthians/5/1-Corinthians-chapter-5.html Dealing With a Case of Incest, Part 1, Verses  1...

  Wednesday, December 13, 2023   INTRODUCING 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 4 First Corinthians 4 continues Paul's insistence to the Corinthian Christians to stop making themselves judges of each other. Only the Lord's judgment matters. They are living as if their wealth and status are all they need, while the apostles serve Christ in poverty and under persecution, imitating Christ. Paul urges them to change course and imitate his life.   (https:// www.bibleref.com/1-Corinthians/4/1-Corinthians-chapter-4.html The Nature of True Apostleship, Part 1, Verses  1-7, TBA This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed.   2  Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.   3  I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself.   4  My conscience is clear, but that does not make m...

  Wednesday, November 29, 2023   INTRODUCING 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 3   Chapter 3 continues along the same vein in Paul's teaching that only spiritual people can understand the wisdom of God. Paul cannot fully call the Corinthian Christians spiritual people, though, because they continue to live according to the flesh, as if they were still infants trapped in an immature condition. Evidence includes the divisions among them. Paul insists that he and Apollos are both servants of the same master and that the Corinthians should follow God, not them.  Paul also expounds on the idea that believers ought to set Christ as their example, rather than being defined in terms of their earthly leaders such as the Pastors, Priests, or Bishops of today.  (https:// www.bibleref.com/1-Corinthians/3/1-Corinthians-chapter-3.html The Church & Its Leaders, Part 1, Verses 1-8, MAMA Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but...

  Friday, November 10, 2023   INTRODUCING 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 2   Paul reminds the Corinthians that he did not make an impressive display of his own speaking skills or knowledge when he first came to them. He wanted their faith to be in God's power, not human wisdom. God's ultimate wisdom can only be understood spiritually, revealed to human beings through God's Spirit. Those without God's Spirit cannot understand spiritual things. As a result, they reject the idea of Christ crucified for human sin as foolish. Through the Spirit, spiritual people have the mind of Christ. (https://www.bibleref.com/Romans/2/Romans-chapter-2.html) Verses 1-5, JEANNIE 1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. [ a ]   2  For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.   3  I came to you in weakness...

Friday, October 13, 2023   INTRODUCING 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 1   First Corinthians begins Paul's letter to the Christians in Corinth, a big, bustling city on a major trade route. Paul knows them well, having spent a year and a half leading people to Christ and establishing the church there. He writes from Ephesus to correct some of their wrong attitudes and behaviors and to answer some of their questions. First, though, he thanks God for His grace to the Corinthians, knowing they will stand blameless before Him on the day of the Lord. Still, they must stop being divided and unite in and around Christ.  (https://www.bibleref.com/Romans/2/Romans-chapter-2.html) 1)Greetings & Thanksgiving, Verses 1-9, JEANNIE Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, 2  To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere...