I CORINTHIANS

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Theme: Church Order

Author: Paul

Time: 55 AD

  • Paul established the church and planted a church. Writing to a church he fathered

Key Words:

Body 44

Spirit 41

Wisdom 31

Tongue 22

  • Why order? What is the purpose of the order?

Key Scripture:

1 Corinthians 13:1-4 ESV

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

  • The thing we need to stand on is love.

Structure:

Chapter 1-8: Dealing with Carnality

  • The mess that has manifested itself in certain sins

Chapter 9-16: Dealing with Spirituality

  • Dealing with ignorance because they need to be educated

Purpose of the Book:

1. To answer questions that the Corinthians had concerning problems in the church

Message of the Book:

1. Recognition of the Lordship of Jesus is the solution to division in the body of Christ

2. God’s church must be built by God’s wisdom and power rather than by man’s

3. To have order in the church must conform to God’s order

4. The thing that builds the church is sound doctrine. The thing that motivates the church is God’s love

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