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Book messages «Life-Study of 1 Corinthians»

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Life-Study of 1 Corinthians

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Introduction (1) _{msg. 1}

I. The writers and the receivers
A. The writers
1. Paul, a called apostle of Christ
2. Sosthenes the brother
B. The receivers
1. The church of God in Corinth, those sanctified in Christ, called saints

Introduction (2) _{msg. 2}

2. With all those who call upon the name of our Lord in every place
II. Greeting
III. The initial gifts
A. Given by the grace of God in Christ
B. Enriched in Christ in everything
C. Confirmed by the testimony of Christ in you
D. Not lacking any gift
E. Awaiting the unveiling of the Lord
F. Being confirmed till the end

Introduction (3) _{msg. 3}

IV. The participation in Christ

Christ and His Cross the Unique Solution to All Problems in the Church (1) _{msg. 4}

Christ, the unique center
Called into the fellowship of the Son of God
Calling on the name of the Lord
Learning to have no preferences
Taking Christ as everything

Christ and His Cross the Unique Solution to All Problems in the Church (2) _{msg. 5}
Christ Not Divided _{msg. 6}

Speaking the same thing
Christ and Him crucified
Seeing Christ as the unique center
Attuned in the same mind and in the same opinion
A vision of Christ in God’s economy
Saved from divisiveness
Christ, unique and undivided

Christ Crucified, God's Power and God's Wisdom (1) _{msg. 7}

Paul’s spirit in first Corinthians
The crucified Christ
The cross of Christ
The word of the cross
Being saved
Destroying the wisdom of the wise
The foolishness of the preaching
Signs and wisdom
Preaching Christ crucified

Christ Crucified, God's Power and God's Wisdom (2) _{msg. 8}

I. Christ crucified
II. God’s power
III. God’s wisdom

Christ, Our Wisdom: Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption _{msg. 9}

I. God’s choice
A. The foolish to shame the wise
B. The weak to shame the strong
C. The lowborn and the despised to bring to nothing the wellborn
D. No flesh boasting before God
II. Of God we are in Christ
III. Christ becoming wisdom to the believers from God
IV. Boasting in the Lord

Four Crucial Matters for the Participation in Christ _{msg. 10}

The person of Paul and his spirit
Those who call on the name of the Lord
The fellowship of God’s Son
One spirit with the Lord
The good land and the Lord’s table
The rich enjoyment of Christ as our portion

Participation in the Fellowship of Christ _{msg. 11}

God’s good pleasure
The process of God’s dispensation
Creation
Incarnation
Crucifixion
Resurrection
Calling on the name of the Lord
The meaning of fellowship
Divided by preferences
Experiencing and enjoying the fellowship

Partaking of Christ as Our Portion _{msg. 12}

In resurrection
Paul’s ways of dealing with problems
One spirit with the Lord
Taking Christ by eating Him
Short of the enjoyment of Christ

Experiencing Christ as Wisdom to Us from God _{msg. 13}

Aspects of Christ as our portion
The divine way
Becoming righteous
Being sanctified
Brought back to God

The Fellowship of Christ Issuing in the Experiencing of Him _{msg. 14}

The fellowship of the Son of God
God’s power and God’s wisdom
In Christ
Righteousness, sanctification, and redemption

Christ Crucified, the Focus of the Apostle's Ministry _{msg. 15}

Paul’s way of preaching
The testimony of God
Determining to know only Christ
Weakness, fear, and trembling
Demonstration of Spirit and power
A vision of God’s economy

God's Wisdom in a Mystery, Christ as the Deep Things of God _{msg. 16}

A mysterious wisdom
God’s center and our portion
Veiled by philosophy
Our destiny
Loving God
Knowing the depths of God
One spirit with the Lord

Communicating Spiritual Things by Spiritual Words to Spiritual Men _{msg. 17}

Living Christ for the expression of God
Living culture instead of Christ
Taking Christ as everything
Knowing the two spirits
Spiritual things and spiritual words
Soulish men
Spiritual discernment
The mind of Christ

The Two Spirits in Knowing Christ as the Depths of God _{msg. 18}

God’s wisdom in a mystery
The depths of God
Experiencing the depths of God’s being
The spirit of man knowing the things of man
Ushered into the Spirit of God
The meaning of being spiritual
Experiencing the mingled spirit

The Spirit of Man Knowing the Things of Man and the Spirit of God Knowing the Things of God (1) _{msg. 19}

A book of complications
A comparison of Romans and 1 Corinthians
The things of man and the spirit of man
A picture of man and God
Examples of the things of man
The things of God
The proper knowledge of God and man

The Spirit of Man Knowing the Things of Man and the Spirit of God Knowing the Things of God (2) _{msg. 20}

Neglecting the two spirits
Two extremes
The crucified Christ
The Lord’s recovery today
Becoming a living testimony

The Spirit of Man Knowing the Things of Man and the Spirit of God Knowing the Things of God (3) _{msg. 21}

Using the right organ
The spirit and the experience of Christ
Holding both aspects of the truth
The need to exercise our spirit

The Church, God's Farm and God's Building (1) _{msg. 22}

God’s farm
Growing materials for God’s building

The Church, God's Farm and God's Building (2) _{msg. 23}

Two aspects of planting
A matter of life
The building, God’s eternal goal
Caring for the corporate church life
The unique foundation

Growth in Life Needed (1) _{msg. 24}

Spiritual, soulish, and fleshy
Infants in Christ
The initial gifts and the miraculous gifts
Growing through the supply of life
God’s fellow-workers

Growth in Life Needed (2) _{msg. 25}

Three kinds of gifts
Paul’s burden
Signs of infancy
The farm and the building
Receiving mercy to see the vision

The Building Work with Transformed Materials _{msg. 26}

I. Not laying another foundation, but building on the foundation already laid
II. Taking heed how we build upon the foundation
III. To build with gold, silver, precious stones
A. Transformed materials
B. Gold signifying the nature of God the Father
C. Silver signifying the redemptive work of God the Son
D. Precious stones signifying the transforming work of God the Spirit
IV. To be tested
A. At the day of Christ’s return
B. By fire
V. To receive a reward

The Building Work with Natural Things _{msg. 27}

I. With wood, grass, and stubble
A. Natural things, either fleshly or soulish
B. Wood
C. Grass
D. Stubble
II. To be consumed
III. To suffer loss

Building on the Unique Foundation _{msg. 28}

Governed by a vision
Experiential truths
Building with precious materials
Paul’s burden
Growing and building
Our work to be tested by fire
Applying Paul’s word

Feeding, Drinking, Eating, Planting, Watering, and Growing _{msg. 29}

Six crucial matters
A place for feeding
Drinking and breathing
The greatest need

God's Farm and God's Building _{msg. 30}

Growing and building
The unique foundation
Laying other foundations
No preferences
Genuine building

Transformation for the Building _{msg. 31}

The farm and the building
A metabolic process
Building on the unique foundation
Two ways of building
Transfusion and transformation

Building or Destroying the Temple of God? _{msg. 32}

Gold, silver, and precious stones
Constituted of the Triune God
The process of transformation
Transformation and building
A warning not to destroy God’s temple

All Things for the Church and the Church for Christ _{msg. 33}

I. Destroying the temple of God by building the church with natural things and being punished by God
II. Destroying the temple of God, the church, by boasting in spiritual giants
III. Thinking ourselves to be wise and being self-deceived
IV. Becoming foolish in order to have God’s wisdom
V. Realizing that all things are ours, that we are Christ’s, and that Christ is God’s

Stewards of the Mysteries of God (1) _{msg. 34}

I. Faithful servants of Christ
II. A spectacle both to angels and to men

Stewards of the Mysteries of God (2) _{msg. 35}

III. The offscouring of the world and the scum of all things
IV. The begetting Father

Dealing with an Evil Brother _{msg. 36}

I. The evil judged
II. Keeping the feast of unleavened bread
III. Excommunicating the evil one from the church

Dealing with Going to Secular Law _{msg. 37}

I. Believers to be judged by the church
A. The saints to judge the world
B. The saints to judge angels
C. Going to law before unbelievers being condemned
D. A case between brothers should be judged by the saints
E. A Defeat to have lawsuits among brothers
II. Sinful believers not qualified to inherit the kingdom of God

Dealing with the Abuse of Freedom in Foods and in the Body (1) _{msg. 38}

I. A basic principle
A. All things lawful but not all things expedient
B. Not brought under the power of anything
II. Our body for the Lord
A. Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods
B. The body not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body
C. Our body to be raised up by God through His power

Dealing with the Abuse of Freedom in Foods and in the Body (2) _{msg. 39}

Members of Christ
One spirit with the Lord
A temple of the Holy Spirit
The need for the proper capacity
A great mystery
Seeing the central vision

Dealing with the Abuse of Freedom in Foods and in the Body (3) _{msg. 40}

Two groups of problems
Keeping the feast
Life imparted to our mortal bodies
United with Christ organically
Three aspects of one reality
Glorifying God in our body

Dealing with Marriage Life (1) _{msg. 41}

I. Basic principles
A. Good for a man not to touch a woman
B. Devoting ourselves to prayer
C. Giving no occasion to Satan
D. Depending upon the gift we have received from God
E. Good to remain unmarried
F. Better to marry if lacking self-control
G. Remaining in marriage that the unbelieving party may be saved
H. The unbelieving party being allowed to leave so that the believing party may live in peace
I. Remaining in the status of our calling
J. Seeking to care for the things of the Lord without other cares
K. Waiting on the Lord without distraction
L. Doing well by giving one’s virginity in marriage, and doing better by deciding to keep one’s virginity
M. After the death of her husband a wife being free to be married only to one in the Lord

Dealing with Marriage Life (2) _{msg. 42}

Absolute for the Lord
Not initiating anything
Accepting our circumstances

Dealing with Marriage Life (3) _{msg. 43}

II. The apostle’s teaching
A. In the principle of incarnation
B. Some teaching by way of concession, not by command
C. In some matters Paul charging, yet not he but the Lord
D. In some matters making it clear that it is he who says, not the Lord
E. Having no commandment of the Lord concerning certain matters, but giving his opinion
F. Thinking that he also has the Spirit of God, even in some teaching which is according to his opinion
G. The apostle’s teaching becoming the word of God in the New Testament

Dealing with Eating of Sacrifices to Idols (1) _{msg. 44}

I. An inadvisable eating
A. Not according to love that builds up
B. Idols being nothing
C. Food not commending us to God
D. Causing weak brothers to stumble

Dealing with Eating of Sacrifices to Idols (2) _{msg. 45}

II. The apostle’s vindication
A. His qualifications
B. His rights

Dealing with Eating of Sacrifices to Idols (3) _{msg. 46}

C. His faithfulness
1. Necessity laid upon him
2. Entrusted with a stewardship
3. Having a reward
4. Enslaved to all
D. His endeavor
1. Running the race
2. Exercising self-control
3. Buffeting the body and leading it as a slave

The Type of Israel _{msg. 47}

I. An illustration of running the racecourse
II. Baptized unto Moses — Christ
III. Eating the same spiritual food
IV. Drinking the same spiritual drink
V. Most of them strewn along in the wilderness
A. God not well pleased with them
B. Lusters after evil things
C. Becoming idolaters
D. Committing fornication
E. Tempting the Lord
F. Murmuring against the Lord
G. Types for our admonition unto whom the ends of the ages have come
H. Taking heed lest we fall
I. No temptation that is not common to man

Growing into the Full Possession and Enjoyment of Christ _{msg. 48}

The Hebrews and the Corinthians
The history of Israel
Applying the first portion of Israel’s history
Two generations
The process of transformation
Our need to grow in life

The Lord's Table (1) _{msg. 49}

Fleeing idolatry
Fellowship of the blood and body
One bread, one Body
The altar and the table
Idols and demons
Two tables
The meaning of idolatry
The enjoyment of the good land
Becoming what we eat
A rich unveiling of Christ

The Lord's Table (2) _{msg. 50}

The deep and mysterious Christ
Enjoying Christ
The fellowship of God’s Son
The table and the good land
The two tables

The Proper Eating _{msg. 51}

Eating and enjoyment
Four principles
Asking no questions for conscience’ sake
Giving no occasion of stumbling
Pleasing all men in all things
Imitating one who imitates Christ
Focused on the central vision

An Overview of First Corinthians _{msg. 52}

The life-giving Spirit
Baptized in the Spirit to drink the Spirit
Ministers of the Spirit
Transformation from the Lord Spirit
Problems in the realm of human life
Christ — the factor to solve the problems in our Christian life
Problems in the realm of God’s administration
Christ and the church

Dealing with Head Covering _{msg. 53}

I. The apostle’s praise
II. The headship
III. The head covering
A. Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered disgracing his head
B. Every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered disgracing her head
IV. The reasons
A. Man being God’s image and glory, but woman being the glory of man
B. Man not out of woman, but woman out of man
C. Man not created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the sake of the man
D. Woman having authority on her head for the sake of the angels
E. Nature itself teaching us that long hair is a dishonor to a man, but long hair is a glory to a woman
V. No contention

Dealing with the Lord's Supper (1) _{msg. 54}

The Lord’s table and the Lord’s supper
The physical body and the mystical Body
Until He comes
Discerning the Body for God’s administration
Proving and discerning

Dealing with the Lord's Supper (2) _{msg. 55}

I. Rebuking because of the disorder
A. No praise in giving this charge
B. The corinthian believers coming together not for the better but for the worse
C. Divisions existing among them in their church meeting
D. Their coming together in the same place not being to eat the Lord’s supper
II. The review of the definition of the Lord’s supper
A. The apostle receiving from the Lord
B. That which he delivered to the Corinthian believers
III. The need of proving and discerning
A. The one eating the bread or drinking the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner being guilty of the body and blood of the Lord
B. Proving one’s self
C. Eating and drinking judgment to one’s self, not discerning the body
IV. The discipline of the Lord
A. The result of not proving and discerning
B. Discerning ourselves that we are not judged
C. Disciplined that we may not be condemned with the world
D. Coming together to eat the Lord’s supper
E. The remaining matters to be set in order when the apostle comes

Dealing with the Lord's Supper (3) _{msg. 56}

Unto the remembrance of the Lord
A remembrance related to God’s administration
Proving and discerning
Declaring the Lord’s death
The two comings of Christ
The unique product of Christ’s death
The head operating through the Body
The reason for eating the Lord’s supper

Dealing with the Gifts (1) _{msg. 57}

I. The governing principle
II. The manifestation of the Spirit by different gifts
A. Distribution of gifts but the same Spirit
B. Distributions of ministries and the same Lord
C. Distributions of operations, but the same God who is operating all things in all
D. The manifestation of the Spirit given to each one for profit

Dealing with the Gifts (2) _{msg. 58}

III. One Body with many members
A. The constitution of the Body
B. The indispensability of each member

Dealing with the Gifts (3) _{msg. 59}

C. The tempering of the members
IV. The gifts God placed in the church

Dealing with the Gifts (4) _{msg. 60}

V. The excellent way for exercising the gifts
A. The need of love
B. The definition of love
C. The excelling of love

Dealing with the Gifts (5) _{msg. 61}

VI. The superiority of prophesying over speaking in tongues
A. Prophesying building up the church more
1. Pursuing love and desiring earnestly spiritual gifts, but rather to prophesy
2. The comparison between speaking in tongues and prophesying
B. Prophesying convicting people more

Dealing with the Gifts (6) _{msg. 62}

The problem concerning today’s tongue-speaking
The Body and the church
The writings of Paul and John
Reasons for not encouraging tongue-speaking

Dealing with the Gifts (7) _{msg. 63}

VII. How to function in the church meeting
A. For each one
B. For speaking in tongues
C. For prophesying
D. For women

A Proper Christian Meeting _{msg. 64}

Calling on the name of the Lord
Speaking
Living in the index of the eyes of Christ
Back to simplicity
Walking according to the spirit
The product of our daily living
Exhibiting Christ for uplifted meetings

Dealing with the Matter of Resurrection (1) _{msg. 65}

I. Christ’s resurrection, the vitality of the gospel
A. Preached
1. The apostle making the gospel known to the Corinthian believers
2. The gospel delivered to them
B. Witnessed

Dealing with the Matter of Resurrection (2) _{msg. 66}

II. Rebuttal to “no resurrection”
III. The history of resurrection
A. Christ, the firstfruit of those who have fallen asleep
B. Each one in his own order

Dealing with the Matter of Resurrection (3) _{msg. 67}

IV. The moral influence of resurrection
A. If there is no resurrection
B. A warning not to be deceived
V. The definition of resurrection
A. The body of resurrection

Dealing with the Matter of Resurrection (4) _{msg. 68}

B. A spiritual Body with Christ’s heavenly image
VI. The victory of resurrection
A. Incorruption over corruption
B. Life over death
C. A motive for the work of the Lord

Dealing with the Collection of the Gift and Conclusion _{msg. 69}

I. Dealing with the collection of the gift
A. The apostle’s direction
B. The apostle’s willingness
II. Conclusion
A. Intimate charges
B. Loving greetings and warning

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