| For the Love of Christ: the Truth about Spiritual Wisdom and Giftedness |
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- Spiritual Wisdom is Essentially Circumscribed by Jesus'
Work on the Cross (1:17-30)
- Spiritual Wisdom is Radically Distinct from the Wisdom
of This Age (2:1-16)
- Spiritual Wisdom is not Confined by Talk, but
Demonstrated in Power (4:20)
- Spiritual Wisdom is Focused on the Lordship of Christ
(12:3Ff.)
- Spiritual Wisdom is Established on a Foundational
Understanding of Christ's Resurrection (15:1-32)
| For the Love of God: the Truth about Loving Worship |
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- Loving Worship will not Provoke God's Jealousy
(10:14-22)
- Loving Worship will Seek God's Glory by not
Causing our Brother to Stumble (10:31-33)
- Loving Worship will Involve a Proper Sign and
Understanding of "Headship" (11:3-16)
- Loving Worship will Involve a Proper Heart Attitude
toward God and Other Believers (11:23-32)
- Loving Worship will Involve Self-Examination (11:32)
- Loving Worship is not Self-Seeking, but Oriented
toward Edification of the Body (14:2-21;26)
- Loving Worship will Impact Believers and
Unbelievers (14:22-25)
- Loving Worship will Involve Decency, Orderliness, and
Proper Mutual Respect (14:26-40)
- Loving Worship is Modeled by Christ Himself, Who
Presents Everything to his Father (15:24-28)
- The Purity of Love in Motive and Practice (5:5-13;
6:11)
- The Supremacy of Love over Knowledge (8:1-13)
- The Necessity of Love for the Christian (13:1-3;
16:22)
- The Essence of Christian Love (13:4-7)
- The Eternality of Christian Love (13:8-13)
- The Basis of Christian Love is the Resurrection of
Christ (15:58)
| For the Love of the Church: the Truth about the Holy Community, God's Temple |
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- The Holy Community is Granted Spiritual Gifts for the
Sake of Edification (1:7-9; 12:4-11)
- The Holy Community is Given Everyone, from Apostles
down, as Servants and Models (3:5;4:1-7)
- The Holy Community is Built by Works Which will be
Tested by Fire and Rewarded (3:5-15)
- The Holy Community is God's Temple Where He Lives by
his Spirit (3:16-23)
- The Holy Community, as God's Purchased Temple, must be
Vigilently Guarded against Evil (6:9-20)
- The Holy Community is God is a Unified Body with
Various Divinely Differentiated Parts (12:1-31)
- The Holy Community is Patterned after the Resurrection
Body of Believers (15:35-56)
| For the Love of One Another: the Truth about Saints in the Body of Christ |
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- Saints are not Chosen by God on the Basis of their own
Position or Merit (1:28,29)
- Saints Motives and Actions are Subject to a Judgement
by God, not by Self Or Others (4:1-5)
- Saints Marriages Should be Modeled after the
Faithfulness of Christ in Christian Love (7:1-40)
- Saints' Earthly Relationships are Secondary to their
Spiritual Relationship with Christ (7:17-24;29-31)
- Saints should Learn from the Examples of the Holy
Community and Avoid Temptation (10:1-13)
- Saints' Freedom is Balanced by their Involvement with
and Devotion to the Body (10:23-30)
| A CARNAL COMMUNITY THAT'S SURE IT HAS "ARRIVED" |
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| Corinthian Community: Boasting about the Spiritual Nature of their Carnal Entrapments |
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- Community Quarrells (1:10-12; 3:1-4)
- Community Arrogance (4:8-13;18,19)
- Community Immorality (5:1ff.)
- Community Lawsuits (6:1-8)
- Community Irreverence and Greed (11:17-22)
- Community Demonism and Spiritism (12:2,3)
- Community Eschatological Nihilism (15:12)
| Corinthian Community: Boasting about God's Gracious Gifts as if Self-Produced |
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- God called the Corinthians into fellowship - He is
faithful (1:9)
- Not Many Corinthians were Wise, Influential, or of
Noble Birth (1:26)
- It is Because of God that They are in Christ Jesus
(1:30)
- If Paul's and Apollos' ministries were gifts from God,
how could Corinthians Boast of Unique Wisdom? (4:6,7)
- Some of the Corinthians had Fallen into Each of the Wicked
Categories before They were Sanctified (6:11)
| Corinthian Community: Urged to Imitate Paul's Behavior and to be Generous and Respectful |
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- Paul Sees Himself as the Corithians' Father in Christ
(4:15)
- Paul urges the Corinthians to Imitate Him (4:16)
- Paul, as Father, Sends Timothy, his Faithful Son in
the Lord, to Remind of his Way of Life (4:17)
- Paul calls the Corinthians to Imitate his Example
(11:1)
- Paul Instructs the Corinthians regarding the Collection for the Saints
(16:1-4)
- Corinthians Admonished to be Men of Courage, Faith and
Power, and to Do All in Love (16:13,14)
- Corinthians Admonished to Submit to and Honor
Stephanus' Household, Initial Converts (16:15,16)
| Corinthian Community: Spiritual Potential in Spite of Problems |
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- Corinthians Enriched in Every Way - in Speaking and
knowledge (1:5-7)
- Corinthians Eagerly Await Christ to be Revealed (1:8)
- Corinthians Remembered Paul's Teachings and Held to
Them (11:2)
- The Corinthians are Encouraged to Desire Spiritual
Gifts, Following the Way of Love (14:1)
- The Corinthians have Taken their Stand on the Gospel
(15:1)
| CARNAL MAN - SPIRITUAL MAN: SEEKING THE GOOD OF THE CHURCH |
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- The Mature Man with a Message of Wisdom (2:6-16)
- The Holy Redeemed Man, the Pure Temple of God
(6:19,20)
- The Fruitful Man with Measurable Ministry Success
(9:1,2)
- The Powerful Man, Provided for in the Midst of
Temptation (10:13)
- The Humble Man, Worthy to be Imitated by Other
Believers (11:1)
- The Pious Man Who Recieves the Body of the Lord with
Reverence (11:27-32)
- The Carnal Man cannot Understand Spiritual Things
(2:14)
- The Arrogant Man Ignorant of his Actual Status
(3:18-21)
- The Immoral Man Sins against his own Body (6:18)
- The Proud Man on the Verge of a Tumble (10:12)
- The Unholy Man in Danger of Judgment (11:30-32)
- The Childish Man Missing the Importance of Spiritual
Gifts (14:20,21)
- His Simple Message: the Cross of Christ (1:14-17)
- His Simple Message: the Holy Spirit (2:2-5)
- His Simple Message: the Resurrection (15:1ff.)
- Focused Ministry as a Master Builder (3:10ff.)
- Focused Ministry as a Single Saint (7:7)
- Focused Ministry as a Disciplined Runner (9:24-27)
- Proper Motivation: not to Shame Them but to Warn Them
(4:14)
- Proper Motivation: not to Make a Passing, Painful
Visit (4:19-21; 16:7)
- Proper Motivation: not to Leave the Church Ignorant
(12:1)
- Sacrificial Method: Relinquishing his Rights for the
Sake of the Gospel (8:8-13; 9:3-22)
- Sacrificial Method: Seeking Those Things Which will
not Harm Others (10:23-33)
- Sacrifical Method: Seeking Those Things Which Edify
the Church (12:7-14:4ff.)
- Gospel is Foolish to Those Who are Perishing, Power of
God to Those Who are Being Ssaved. (1:18)
- Wisdom and power of This World Contrasted with Wisdom
and Power of God and Saints (1:20-2:16)
- Saints will Judge the World and Angels, Wicked will
not Inherit the Kingdom of God (6:2-9)
- Your Body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit Who Lives
in You (6:19)
- The Fathers in Israel were Examples to Us on Whom the
Fullness of the Ages has Come (10:11)
- Paul does not Want the Corinthians to be Participants
with Demons, the Earth is the Lord's (10:20,26)
- The Corinthians had been Led Astray and Influenced by
Mute Idols (12:2)
- Without Resurrection, Faith and Preaching are Futile,
and We are to be Pitied above All Men (15:12-23)
- The Son Hands the Kingdom over to the Father once He
has Conquered Every Enemy (15:24)
- He must Reign until He has Destroyed Every Enemy, the
Last Enemy to be Destroyed is Death (15:25,26)
- God will Raise Us with the Power with Which He Raised
Jesus (6:14)
- The Resurrection Body Compared to Seed - Plant
Metaphor (15:35-41)
- The Resurrection Body is Imperishible, Incorruptible,
Immortal, and Spiritual (15:42-44)
- The Resurrection Body will be in the Image of the
Glorified Christ (15:45-49)
- We will All be Changed at the Final Trumpet (15:53-57)
- Death will be Swallowed Up in Victory (15:54)
- Corinthians Presently Enriched with All Spiritual
Gifts in Christ (1:5-7)
- Corinthians to be Kept Blameless to the End by God Who
is Faithful (1:8,9)
- God has Revealed his Mind to Us by His Spirit (2:10)
- The Church has the Mind of Christ (2:16)
- The Church is God's Temple, in which God's Spirit
Lives (3:16)
- All Apostles, the World, Life and Death, Present and
Future - All Belong to the Church (3:22)
- Already You have All You Want! Apostles Treated as
Scum of the Earth. (4:8-13)
- Christ, the Passover Lamb, has been Sacrificed -
Celebrate Feast of Unleavened Bread (5:6-8)
- Each One should Retain the Position in Life He Had
when Called by the Lord (7:17-24)
- Time is Short, and the World in its Present Form is
Passing Away (7:29-31)
- An Idol is Nothing at All in the World, and There is no
God but One (8:4)
- Reaping a Material Harvest is Due Those Who Sow
Spiritually (9:11,14)
- Paul Beats his Body into Subjection in Order to Make
Sure He Attains to the Prize (9:27)
- The Lord's Supper is the Remembrance of his Death
until He Comes (11:24-26)
- Now We See a Poor Reflection as in a Dark Glass, then
We will Know as We are Known (13:12)
- Faith, Hope, and Love Remain - and the Greatest of
These is Love (13:13)
- Paul's Calling and Zeal are Meaningless without a
Resurrection from the Dead (15:29-32)
- Resurrection is the Source of the Christian's Hope
(15:58)
- Each will be Rewarded According to his own Labor (3:8;
14)
- The Lord will Judge All at the Appointed Time when He Comes (4:5)
- The Work of Each Man is to be Tested by Fire (3:13)
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