1 Corinthians 1:10 "I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought.
To solve the inner church problems Paul wrote epistle, seeing the church will be dividing, there was the danger of divisions. Paul called them as brothers, no matter who are the leaders of the divisions, we are all brothers. We are like hands and legs.
1 Corinthians 1:13 "Is Christ divided ?"
PAUL'S CALLING IS TO PREACH THE GOSPEL., time after times, he mentioned THE MESSAGE of the Gospel IS IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING ELSE, SECONDLY UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE IS ANOTHER PRIME IMPORTANT.
1:17, Christ did not sent Paul to baptize, but to preach the gospel-not with the words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
THERE ARE PEOPLE living for DEBATES, LONG DEBATE, DEBATE WITH WORDS. AND PAUL ASKED where are they? MERE DEBATE IS USELESS, THE GOSPEL MESSAGE IS MORE IMPORTANT than DEBATES.
1:20, "..Where is the scholar...?"
MERE WISDOM IS USELESS.
1:22, "Greeks look for wisdom.."
THE MAIN POINT OF THE MESSAGE IS ABOUT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND HIS CRUCIFIXION.
2:2, "Paul resolved to know nothing while he was with the Corinthian except Jesus Christ and he crucified."
EVEN THOUGH THE CORINTHIAN HAS RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEY DID NOT LIVE IN SPIRIT, SO PAUL SAID THEY ARE "CARNAL, BABE IN CHRIST.
3:1, "Paul could not address the Corinthians as spiritual but as worldly-mere infants in Christ."
WHY PAUL SAID LIKE THAT? SOME OF THEM LIKE TO DO GROUPING OR DIVISION. THEY DO NOT UNITE IN A BIG FAMILY. THIS IS CARNAL. THEY DO NOT HAVE THE HEART OF CHRIST.
3:2, "there was jeolousy and quarreling among them.
SOME WILL SAY, I follow Paul, MAY BE PAUL USED the Septuagints?
OTHER WIL SAY, I follow Apollos, MAY BE APOLOS USED the Hebrew OT, MESORATIC TEXTS ?
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD DO THAT.
3:4, Are they not mere men ?
PAUL SAID THAT THE CHURCH ONLY FOUNDATION IS CHRIST JESUS. NOT PETER OR PAUL.
3:11, "the foundation is Jesus Christ."
HERE PAUL WARNED THEM NOT TO WORSHIP MAN, WHEN WE WORSHIP MAN, THEN THE CHURCH WILL SPLIT AND DIVIDED. MAN ARE ALL SIMPLY SERVANT OF GOD, THEY WERE GIVEN TO THE CHURCH, THEY SHOULD NOT BECOME OUR IDOL. LEADERS ARE ONE OF THE MAIN FACTORS THE CHURCH SPLIT. BOASTING IS WRONG.
3:21, "no more boasting about men, all things are yours."
SERVANTS ARE JUST HUMAN, THEY ARE SERVANTS OF GOD, WE CANNOT ADD ANYTHING TO THE FOUNDATION.
4:6, "do not go beyond what is written."
PAUL SAID HE BECAME THEIR FATHER THROUGH THE GOSPEL, HE IS NOT JUST 'TEACHER', BUT MORE THAN A TEACHER.
4:15, "Paul became their father through the gospel."
PAUL WANTED THEM NOT TO ASSOCIATE WITH THOSE BELIEVERS WHO ARE LIVING IN SIN LIKE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, GREEDY, IDOL WORSHIPPER, SLANDERER, DRUNKARD, SWINDLER...
5:11, "But now I am writing you that you must not assosiate with a sexually immoral,...slanderer.."
PAUL MENTIONED HERE, SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAWSUITS BETWEEN THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS, STOP GOING TO COURT. THESE ARE MOSTLY QUARREL REGARDING WHAT? MONEY, PROPERTIES, PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP,PAUL ADVICED THEM BETTER TO BE CHEATED AND WRONGED, NOTHING TO DO WITH CRIME, SO CHRISTIANS CANNOT GO TO COURT. IT IS NOT CRIMINAL.
WHATEVER IT IS THE PROBLEM, WE SHOULD ASK, DOES IT EFFECT LIFE OR DEATH ? IF IT IS THEN IS IMPORTANT TO SOLVE IT IMMEDIATELY.
6:1, "If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints."
IT IS BETTER TO BE SETTLED THOSE THINGS IN THE CHURCH.
CHRISTIANS SUEING CHRISTIANS, WHY, BECAUSE WE HAVE SPIRITUAL PROBLEMS, LIKE GREED, SELFISHNESS, HATE, NOT FORBEARING, DEFEATED BY THE DEVIL. HOPEFULLY NO QUARREL AMONG US.
6:7-8, ...you have lawsuits among you, mean you have been completely defeated already.....be cheated, rather be wronged...and you do this to your brothers."
WE CANNOT BECOME IMMORAL
6:12, "not everything is beneficial.."
THE LORD IS COMING SOON, THE PROSPECTIVE OF HAPPINESS IS FOREVER, NOT JUST HAPPY ABOUT THE TEMPORAL THINGS.
7:30, "mouning LIKE happINESS...."
PAUL ADVICED US TO CONCENTRATED IN SERVING THE LORD. THERE ARE FREEDOM IN THE CHURCH.
7:35, "undivided devotion to the Lord."
THERE IS FAITH WHICH CAN MOVE A MOUNTIAN, BUT HERE PAUL WANT THEM TO BUILD UP THE CHURCH IN LOVE.
8:1, "Love build up."
BEWARE OF THIS FREEDOM, NOT TO PUT STUMBLING BLOCK TO THE WEAK.
8:9, "exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak."
DESPISE THE WEAK IS A SIN AGAINST THE LORD. PLEASE LOOK AFTER THE WEAK IN THE CHURCH.
8:12, weak brother, is destroy by your knowledge."
THIS IS ANOTHER PRINCIPLE OF CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
9;23, "Paul do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings."
ISRAELITES WERE GRUMBLING IN THE WILDERNESS, FIRE WAS SENT TO DESTROY THEM.
10:10, "do not grumble.."
NOT EVERYTHING. BUT DO THOSE WHICH ARE BENEFIIAL.
10:23, "everyting is permissible" but not everything is beneficial.
LOOKING FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS. NOT ONLY YOURSELF
10:24, "for the good of others...."
THEY ARE ONE IN CHRIST. JEW OR GREEKS AND THE CHURCH ARE ONE.
10:32,"Do not cause anyone to stumble, Jew and Greek or the church."
WE ARE CALLED TO HOLD ON FAITHFULLY TO THE TEACHING.
11:2, "holding to the teaching..."
LASTLY PAUL REMINDED AGAIN, NOT TO DIVIDE, BUT TO UNITE.
11:17-19, there are divisions among Coritnthians, there have to be differences among you,...do you despise and humiliate those who have nothing..... Shall I praise you for this..Certainly not"
THE MEANING OF WHAT A PERSON SAID IS VERY IMPORTANT, WEATHER HE IS GLORYING GOD OR OTHERWISE ? DESCENMENT NEEDED NOW.
12:3, no one can say, "Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit."
THE CHURCH IS A COMPLETE BODY. LACK OF NOTHING. THE BODY IS WASH BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. BELIVERS ARE ALL CHILDREN OF GOD.
12:13, "The Jew and Greeks are one body."
NO DIVISIONS WHAT SO EVER ?
12:25, "There there should be no division in the body."
ARE ALL THEOLOGIANS, TEACHERS ?
12:29, "Are all teachers ?"
PAUL WAS SO HUMBLE TO SAID HE KNOW IN PART. EVEN THE INSPIRED WRITER OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, THE ORIGINAL TEXT WRITER, HE SAID HE KNOW IN PART, WHAT ABOUT US ?
ONE DAY WHEN YOU SEE THE LORD FACE TO FACE, YOU WILL KNOW EVERYTHING.
13:9, "For we know in part and we prophecy in part.'
STOP TEACHING THAT VPP, TEACHING NOT THE DESPUTABLE THINGS, THE TEACHER MUST THINK ABOUT THE STUDENTS. EXPOSITION IS IMPORTANT, APPLICATION ALSO IMPORTANT, BUT EVERYTHING IN LOVE.
14:1, ...desire the gift of prophecy.."
WE MAY RECEIVE THE GIFT, BUT WE BETTER TAKE TURN, DO NOT RUSH, WAIT.
14:31, "For you all can prophecy in turn.."
HOLD ON TO THE GOSPEL !
15:1, the Gospel, by this gospel you are saved, hold frimly to the word Paul preached to you.."
STOP SINNING, DO SOMETHING, WHAT?
15:34, ..."stop sinning.."
PAUL CONCLUDED HIS LETTER WITH THIS ?
16:14, "Do everyhting in love..."
i am a weak brother, and an out sider, please help yourself, if miss qouted any thing may God forgive, no division is better than divisions.
FINALLY,
this is good offer, not to go to court,
FEBC continue to use the beulah house, sound good,
but with conditions belows,
1) the church pastor become the principal of FEBC the coming years,
2) the premises belong to the chuch.
3) vpp is only a personal view. give freedom in learning this or not to learn this.
4) not to attack verbally to those who do not accept vpp, and stop all the split, reunion.
5) the lecturers will abide in a mutual written agreement.
Praise the Lord.
Lord, help me in writting, forgive me, this article is only my personal view.
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