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Category: 1 Corinthians

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  • Immaturity in the Church

    Immaturity in the Church

    Paul desires to build maturity that leads to unity in the Corinthian church (1:10). He determines to know nothing but Christ and Christ crucified but speaks the depth of God’s wisdom to those who are mature (1-2). Paul believes the Corinthian church is in Christ (1:4-9), He also recognizes that her puffed-up knowledge leads to…

  • Impossible to Know God

    Impossible to Know God

    Paul continues to address the problem of worldly wisdom in the church at Corinth—a problem that puffs people up and leads to division in the body. In the remaining verses of Chapter 2, Paul presents an epistemology. He reveals, basically, what it means to have the wisdom of Christ rather than of the world.  1…

  • Why I Determine to Know Nothing

    Why I Determine to Know Nothing

    Paul’s goal is to encourage the church at Corinth toward unity through maturity in the knowledge of Christ (1:10). He explicitly mentioned the wisdom of the world as a source of conflict in the Corinthian church (1:22-23). Today, there is much worldly wisdom in our society and in the church that leads to great division.…

  • The Foolishness of Our Faith

    The Foolishness of Our Faith

    Paul is writing to the believers at Corinth to encourage unity through maturity in the faith (v. 10). He is writing with unity as his goal because there are divisions in the church (v. 11-17). Jesus made Paul an apostle and sent him to preach the Gospel, not in cleverness of speech so that the…

  • Christian Unity

    Christian Unity

    Paul has introduced his letter and revealed the faithfulness of God as the foundational doctrine behind his first letter to the church at Corinth. Today, we see the overall exhortation of his letter. The whole letter concerns Christian unity and agreement. Every verse that follows verse 10 is part of the exhortation that the church…

  • The Lady Named Church

    The Lady Named Church

    Who, what, when, where, and how? Those are the questions I want to ask concerning the identity and purpose of the church. Paul wrote 1 Corinthians in 53-54 AD. Paul, Aquila, and Priscilla planted the church at Corinth in the home of a man named Titius Justus (cf. Acts 18:1-11) in 50 or 51 AD.…

  • Loyalty: A Four Letter Word

    Loyalty: A Four Letter Word

    Do you desire loyalty in life? I do. I don’t know if, today in America, we experience any significant degree of brotherhood or sisterhood for the most part. This morning, the text leads us to consider Christian loyalty. Last week, we took time to basically define the church—the bride of Christ. This week, we read…