1 Corinthians 4:1-6
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. 4 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted.
It is the Lord who judges me.
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
6 I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written
Who wrote 1 Corinthians 4?
Well, a very young copy of the entire Chapter of 1 Corinthians 4 is found from the late 1st or early 2nd A.D - intact at the University of Michigan. And no one disputes 1 Corinthian 4 was written by Paul.
Christian doctrine accepted in the Bible fits together. We might explain Year A, B or C or perhaps Year 1,2 or 3. Yet the Ideas and Words of God flow. We are all going to the same Banquet of God in Heaven.
If we wander down the Road of Wonder...
we could say Timothy - in later years -would advise later-in-life loved ones with 1 Corinthians 4
Timothy was given to in his youth:
Timothy 4:12
Let no one look down on your youthfulness,
but rather
in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.
The two principals flow.
Life - is flowing. Pushing us on in God's Plan. We are sorting fiercely in just about all we do.
Some people say the Scriptures are very harsh. Terrible.
And others are pushed out by life rushing them by - other things are more pleasing than listening to "The Good Word."
This is true when we approach Scripture feeling not very loved or nourished by Father God.
We have assailed ourselves with doubts of our self esteem - our worth - in Father God's Eyes, Mind and Heart. This is all of us.
Paul said Fight the Good Fight. Realize how astonishing God truly is. God placed His only Son in His Creation just as wealth swept rural Israel. Foreign Culture. The Jews were mocked and attacked in their own Proud Nation by money. BIG, BIG MONEY. The World would not see this prosperity again until the Renaissance was well, well past first bloom 16th Century.
Mary well understood culture and class and religion and ideas and modernization - war on earth.
If we allow one Scripture to be all our Scripture - we are limited. We have to stand on the Foundation of Jesus.
Jesus is the Light of the world. Jesus is the Light of mankind.
All things are made of Jesus Christ.
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Our God is the fire in us - not consuming. Our Light. The Image of God Himself, our Father dwells within.
1 Corinthians 6:11
You were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
John 1
12 To all who did receive him, who believed in his name,
he gave the right to become children of God,
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man,
but of God.
he gave the right to become children of God,
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man,
but of God.
How did we go from being Born and Blessed of God to Fighting the Good Fight.
The path, and the birds came pecking and eating.
The path was rocky without deep refreshing soil to grow and nourish into.
The Glory of day, turned to be brilliantly about moi..
Others crowded out the Light. Shallow, scorching, withering.
Continue traveling with Love and the Light - a hundred, sixty or thirty times Hope what was sown.
To hear the Word of God in all it's Glory
we must realize
How Very Precious we are to God.
A Loving Father provides lessons on maturity and growth. Assuring us of His Complete Love. He tells us about David doing all he could and finding Mercy. Needed Mercy. Telling us of trial and failure. The Glory of Hope to try again.
Some of the lessons will be for us. Some will be stored to remember in later days.
And in our ability to Learn Father God.s Mercy and Wisdom , we sort the Living Word of God to apply the right part of the path and the seeds to our day. Allowing the Word of God to dwell in our Eternal Richly.
Realizing we are on all different steps in the path of life going back and forth. Allowing God's Living Water to rush past to reveal what God is giving us yesterday, today and tomorrow. Letting the Wisdom of God help us learn our own comfort and the comfort we must provide others to make life meaningful and worthy with the Riches of His Goodness.
Our doubts worry us.
Our Father, our Abba,
Each day we seek Your Blessing.
Help us to remember the truthful Word of God. The forward of Life, the fail, the re-group, the Victory of God.
Remembering the Prodigal Father had Joy.
And we place the ones we love in Your Hand and Love.
Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God
and the exact imprint of His nature,
and He upholds the universe by the Word of His Power
We will rest with trust in our prayer requests. God is God.
And for all our prayers, we Rest in Jesus. Amen.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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