God's gift to us through Christ is one of super abundance grace, an indescribable gift. A willing and premediated plan of action to give is also an indescribable gift. It demonstrates one's conversion.
We are in a spiritual battle. We need to put down spiritual strongholds. The armor of God. The only offensive weapon. What are the spiritual strongholds? We must not look at the physical. We must not compare ourselves amongst ourselves. It...
Paul pleads with the Corinthians not to receive the grace of God in vain. Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Be separate from the world. God wants to be our Father.
The body is sown in corruption - this corruption must put on immortality. God will elevate those that are Christ's to a different level of existence. A far greater and joyous quality of life.
Paul concludes his epistle by saying to the...
We need to be clothed with righteousness. We will then have a spiritual body at Christ's coming. In the meantime God has given us His Holy Spirit as a garantee. Jesus Christ will ultimately judge us.
Paul discusses the creative order of authority that God has from the beginning and uses hair length as an external example of respect for that authority. He further addresses the most serious issue in the whole epistle, the defiling of the...
Administration of death was the civil execution of punishment for violation of the civil law code in ancient Israel. The administration of death was written on large boulders, large stones. Not on the two tablets of stone! On the two...
Introduction to 1 Corinthians. The geographical location, and it's social problems which triggered the need for Paul to write this epistle. Paul starts the epistle by reminding the Corinthians of how God has spiritually enriched them and...
Forgive the sinner that has repented, lest Satan will take advantage of you. Christ is precious to God, as those that obey the gospel are also precious to God. At the same time, Christ is an offense to the sinner, as true Christians are...
