February 14, 2009 1 Corinthians 3

Following People Is Wrong ~1 Corinthians 3~
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So...recently, the passages I have been doing my blogs on are all about wisdom. Nevertheless, this passage is also about wisdom. "the world, life, death, the present, and the future--all these belong to you. And you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God," hence everything, everyone belongs to God.

The beginning part of this passage starts out with Paul talking to the church of Corinth...he says that they are still young, that they can only consume liquids, like a baby, and not solid foods, like an adult. They are still spiritually very young, and this is becuase they give into their own wisdom. They get jealous, they fight, they act like people of the world. They pick and fight over 'Apollos' and 'Paul', but the point is that neither of them matter. They are just people whom God has appointed to do certain things, just like each one of us. In the end, it is all for His kingdom, "We are God's workers, working together; you arel ike God's farm, God's house." We need to use the gifts God gave us in order to do His will and further His kingdom, He did not give us these gifts so that we may praise ourselves, or seek praise for ourselves because we have such wisdom.

If we believe we are wise in this world, we need to become fools so that we may truly be wise..."foolishness with God." God knows what we think, what we know, He knows all things. To Him, the things we know are nothing, because He is so wise, so...instead of bragging about those human leaders who know nothing compared to God, why don't we just brag about God, who knows all things? That is the message!