Monday, May 16, 2016
1 Corinthians 11 NLT ~ . Propriety in Worship (11:2-16) ~ The Lord's Supper (11:17-34)
1 Corinthians 11 NLT
1 And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
2 I am so glad that you always keep me in your thoughts, and that you are following the teachings I passed on to you.
3 But there is one thing I want you to know: The head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
4 A man dishonors his head if he covers his head while praying or prophesying.
5 But a woman dishonors her head if she prays or prophesies without a covering on her head, for this is the same as shaving her head.
6Yes, if she refuses to wear a head covering, she should cut off all her hair! But since it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or her head shaved, she should wear a covering.
7 A man should not wear anything on his head when worshiping, for man is made in God’s image and reflects God’s glory. And woman reflects man’s glory.
8 For the first man didn’t come from woman, but the first woman came from man.
9 And man was not made for woman, but woman was made for man.
10 For this reason, and because the angels are watching, a woman should wear a covering on her head to show she is under authority.
11 But among the Lord’s people, women are not independent of men, and men are not independent of women.
12 For although the first woman came from man, every other man was born from a woman, and everything comes from God.
13 Judge for yourselves. Is it right for a woman to pray to God in public without covering her head?
14 Isn’t it obvious that it’s disgraceful for a man to have long hair?
15 And isn’t long hair a woman’s pride and joy? For it has been given to her as a covering.
16 But if anyone wants to argue about this, I simply say that we have no other custom than this, and neither do God’s other churches.
17 But in the following instructions, I cannot praise you. For it sounds as if more harm than good is done when you meet together.
18 First, I hear that there are divisions among you when you meet as a church, and to some extent I believe it.
19 But, of course, there must be divisions among you so that you who have God’s approval will be recognized!
20 When you meet together, you are not really interested in the Lord’s Supper.
21 For some of you hurry to eat your own meal without sharing with others. As a result, some go hungry while others get drunk.
22 What? Don’t you have your own homes for eating and drinking? Or do you really want to disgrace God’s church and shame the poor? What am I supposed to say? Do you want me to praise you? Well, I certainly will not praise you for this!
23 For I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself. On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread
24 and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember me.”
25 In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his people—an agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this to remember me as often as you drink it.”
26 For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death until he comes again.
27 So anyone who eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily is guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
28 That is why you should examine yourself before eating the bread and drinking the cup.
29 For if you eat the bread or drink the cup without honoring the body of Christ, you are eating and drinking God’s judgment upon yourself.
30 That is why many of you are weak and sick and some have even died.
31 But if we would examine ourselves, we would not be judged by God in this way.
32 Yet when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
33 So, my dear brothers and sisters, when you gather for the Lord’s Supper, wait for each other.
34 If you are really hungry, eat at home so you won’t bring judgment upon yourselves when you meet together. I’ll give you instructions about the other matters after I arrive.
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Saturday, May 14, 2016
1 Corinthians 10 NLT ~ A Warning from the History of Israel (10:1-22) ~ The Principles Applied (10:23;11:1)
1 Corinthians 10 NLT
1 I don’t want you to forget, dear
brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of
them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked
through the sea on dry ground.
2 In the cloud and in the sea, all of them
were baptized as followers of Moses.
3All of them ate the same spiritual food,
4 and all of them drank the same spiritual
water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that
rock was Christ.
5 Yet God was not pleased with most of
them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6 These things happened as a warning to
us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did,
7 or worship idols as some of them did. As
the Scriptures say, “The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they
indulged in pagan revelry.”
8 And we must not engage in sexual
immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.
9 Nor should we put Christ to the test, as
some of them did and then died from snakebites.
10 And don’t grumble as some of them did,
and then were destroyed by the angel of death.
11 These things happened to them as
examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the
age.
12 If you think you are standing strong, be
careful not to fall.
13 The temptations in your life are no
different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow
the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will
show you a way out so that you can endure.
14 So, my dear friends, flee from the
worship of idols.
15 You are reasonable people. Decide for
yourselves if what I am saying is true.
16When we bless the cup at the Lord’s Table,
aren’t we sharing in the blood of Christ? And when we break the bread, aren’t
we sharing in the body of Christ?
17 And though we are many, we all eat from
one loaf of bread, showing that we are one body.
18 Think about the people of Israel.
Weren’t they united by eating the sacrifices at the altar?
19 What am I trying to say? Am I saying
that food offered to idols has some significance, or that idols are real
gods?
20 No, not at all. I am saying that these
sacrifices are offered to demons, not to God. And I don’t want you to
participate with demons.
21 You cannot drink from the cup of the
Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord’s Table and at
the table of demons, too.
22 What? Do we dare to rouse the Lord’s
jealousy? Do you think we are stronger than he is?
23 You say, “I am allowed to do anything”
—but not everything is good for you. You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but
not everything is beneficial.
24 Don’t be concerned for your own good but
for the good of others.
25 So you may eat any meat that is sold in
the marketplace without raising questions of conscience.
26 For “the earth is the LORD ’s, and
everything in it.”
27 If someone who isn’t a believer asks you
home for dinner, accept the invitation if you want to. Eat whatever is offered
to you without raising questions of conscience.
28 (But suppose someone tells you, “This
meat was offered to an idol.” Don’t eat it, out of consideration for the
conscience of the one who told you.
29 It might not be a matter of conscience
for you, but it is for the other person.) For why should my freedom be limited
by what someone else thinks?
30 If I can thank God for the food and
enjoy it, why should I be condemned for eating it?
31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever
you do, do it all for the glory of God.
32 Don’t give offense to Jews or Gentiles
or the church of God.
33 I, too, try to please everyone in
everything I do. I don’t just do what is best for me; I do what is best for
others so that many may be saved.
1 Corinthians 11 NLT
1 And you should imitate me, just as I imitate
Christ.
Friday, May 13, 2016
1 Corinthians 9 ~ B. The Problems of the Unmarried ~ The Principles Illustrated
1 Corinthians 9 NLT
1 Am I not as free as anyone else? Am I
not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus our Lord with my own eyes? Isn’t it
because of my work that you belong to the Lord?
2 Even if others think I am not an
apostle, I certainly am to you. You yourselves are proof that I am the Lord’s
apostle.
3 This is my answer to those who question
my authority.
4 Don’t we have the right to live in your
homes and share your meals?
5 Don’t we have the right to bring a
believing wife with us as the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers do, and as
Peter does?
6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to
work to support ourselves?
7 What soldier has to pay his own
expenses? What farmer plants a vineyard and doesn’t have the right to eat some
of its fruit? What shepherd cares for a flock of sheep and isn’t allowed to
drink some of the milk?
8 Am I expressing merely a human opinion,
or does the law say the same thing?
9 For the law of Moses says, “You must not
muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain.” Was God
thinking only about oxen when he said this?
10Wasn’t he actually speaking to us? Yes, it was
written for us, so that the one who plows and the one who threshes the grain
might both expect a share of the harvest.
11 Since we have planted spiritual seed
among you, aren’t we entitled to a harvest of physical food and drink?
12 If you support others who preach to you,
shouldn’t we have an even greater right to be supported? But we have never used
this right. We would rather put up with anything than be an obstacle to the
Good News about Christ.
13 Don’t you realize that those who work in
the temple get their meals from the offerings brought to the temple? And those
who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrificial offerings.
14 In the same way, the Lord ordered that
those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from
it.
15 Yet I have never used any of these
rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that I want to start now. In fact,
I would rather die than lose my right to boast about preaching without
charge.
16 Yet preaching the Good News is not
something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for
me if I didn’t preach the Good News!
17 If I were doing this on my own
initiative, I would deserve payment. But I have no choice, for God has given me
this sacred trust.
18 What then is my pay? It is the
opportunity to preach the Good News without charging anyone. That’s why I never
demand my rights when I preach the Good News.
19 Even though I am a free man with no
master, I have become a slave to all people to bring many to Christ.
20 When I was with the Jews, I lived like a
Jew to bring the Jews to Christ. When I was with those who follow the Jewish
law, I too lived under that law. Even though I am not subject to the law, I did
this so I could bring to Christ those who are under the law.
21 When I am with the Gentiles who do not
follow the Jewish law, I too live apart from that law so I can bring them to
Christ. But I do not ignore the law of God; I obey the law of Christ.
22 When I am with those who are weak, I
share their weakness, for I want to bring the weak to Christ. Yes, I try to
find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some.
23 I do everything to spread the Good News
and share in its blessings.
24 Don’t you realize that in a race
everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!
25 All athletes are disciplined in their
training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an
eternal prize.
26 So I run with purpose in every step. I
am not just shadowboxing.
27 I discipline my body like an athlete,
training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to
others I myself might be disqualified.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
1 Corinthians 8 ~ V. Instruction on Questionable Practices ~ The Principles Involved
1 Corinthians 8 NLT
1 Now regarding your question about food
that has been offered to idols. Yes, we know that “we all have knowledge” about
this issue. But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that
strengthens the church.
2Anyone who claims to know all the answers
doesn’t really know very much.
3But the person who loves God is the one whom
God recognizes.
4 So, what about eating meat that has been
offered to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that
there is only one God.
5 There may be so-called gods both in
heaven and on earth, and some people actually worship many gods and many
lords.
6 But for us, There is one God, the
Father, by whom all things were created, and for whom we live. And there is one
Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things were created, and through whom we
live.
7 However, not all believers know this.
Some are accustomed to thinking of idols as being real, so when they eat food
that has been offered to idols, they think of it as the worship of real gods,
and their weak consciences are violated.
8 It’s true that we can’t win God’s
approval by what we eat. We don’t lose anything if we don’t eat it, and we
don’t gain anything if we do.
9 But you must be careful so that your
freedom does not cause others with a weaker conscience to stumble.
10 For if others see you—with your
“superior knowledge”—eating in the temple of an idol, won’t they be encouraged
to violate their conscience by eating food that has been offered to an
idol?
11So because of your superior knowledge, a weak
believer for whom Christ died will be destroyed.
12 And when you sin against other believers
by encouraging them to do something they believe is wrong, you are sinning
against Christ.
13 So if what I eat causes another believer
to sin, I will never eat meat again as long as I live—for I don’t want to cause
another believer to stumble.
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
1 Corinthians Chapter 7 IV. Instruction on Marriage
1 Corinthians 7 NLT
1 Now regarding the questions you asked in
your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations.
2 But because there is so much sexual
immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her
own husband.
3 The husband should fulfill his wife’s
sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs.
4 The wife gives authority over her body
to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his
wife.
5 Do not deprive each other of sexual
relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited
time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you
should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of
your lack of self-control.
6 I say this as a concession, not as a
command.
7 But I wish everyone were single, just as
I am. Yet each person has a special gift from God, of one kind or
another.
8 So I say to those who aren’t married and
to widows—it’s better to stay unmarried, just as I am.
9 But if they can’t control themselves,
they should go ahead and marry. It’s better to marry than to burn with
lust.
10 But for those who are married, I have a
command that comes not from me, but from the Lord. A wife must not leave her
husband.
11 But if she does leave him, let her
remain single or else be reconciled to him. And the husband must not leave his
wife.
12 Now, I will speak to the rest of you,
though I do not have a direct command from the Lord. If a fellow believer has a
wife who is not a believer and she is willing to continue living with him, he
must not leave her.
13 And if a believing woman has a husband
who is not a believer and he is willing to continue living with her, she must
not leave him.
14 For the believing wife brings holiness
to her marriage, and the believing husband brings holiness to his marriage.
Otherwise, your children would not be holy, but now they are holy.
15 (But if the husband or wife who isn’t a
believer insists on leaving, let them go. In such cases the believing husband
or wife is no longer bound to the other, for God has called you to live in
peace.)
16 Don’t you wives realize that your
husbands might be saved because of you? And don’t you husbands realize that your
wives might be saved because of you?
17 Each of you should continue to live in
whatever situation the Lord has placed you, and remain as you were when God
first called you. This is my rule for all the churches.
18 For instance, a man who was circumcised
before he became a believer should not try to reverse it. And the man who was
uncircumcised when he became a believer should not be circumcised now.
19 For it makes no difference whether or
not a man has been circumcised. The important thing is to keep God’s
commandments.
20Yes, each of you should remain as you were
when God called you.
21 Are you a slave? Don’t let that worry
you—but if you get a chance to be free, take it.
22 And remember, if you were a slave when
the Lord called you, you are now free in the Lord. And if you were free when
the Lord called you, you are now a slave of Christ.
23 God paid a high price for you, so don’t
be enslaved by the world.
24 Each of you, dear brothers and sisters,
should remain as you were when God first called you.
25 Now regarding your question about the
young women who are not yet married. I do not have a command from the Lord for
them. But the Lord in his mercy has given me wisdom that can be trusted, and I
will share it with you.
26 Because of the present crisis, I think
it is best to remain as you are.
27 If you have a wife, do not seek to end
the marriage. If you do not have a wife, do not seek to get married.
28 But if you do get married, it is not a
sin. And if a young woman gets married, it is not a sin. However, those who get
married at this time will have troubles, and I am trying to spare you those
problems.
29 But let me say this, dear brothers and
sisters: The time that remains is very short. So from now on, those with wives
should not focus only on their marriage.
30 Those who weep or who rejoice or who buy
things should not be absorbed by their weeping or their joy or their
possessions.
31 Those who use the things of the world
should not become attached to them. For this world as we know it will soon pass
away.
32 I want you to be free from the concerns
of this life. An unmarried man can spend his time doing the Lord’s work and
thinking how to please him.
33 But a married man has to think about his
earthly responsibilities and how to please his wife.
34 His interests are divided. In the same
way, a woman who is no longer married or has never been married can be devoted
to the Lord and holy in body and in spirit. But a married woman has to think
about her earthly responsibilities and how to please her husband.
35 I am saying this for your benefit, not
to place restrictions on you. I want you to do whatever will help you serve the
Lord best, with as few distractions as possible.
36 But if a man thinks that he’s treating
his fiancée improperly and will inevitably give in to his passion, let him
marry her as he wishes. It is not a sin.
37 But if he has decided firmly not to
marry and there is no urgency and he can control his passion, he does well not
to marry.
38 So the person who marries his fiancée
does well, and the person who doesn’t marry does even better.
39 A wife is bound to her husband as long
as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but
only if he loves the Lord.
40 But in my opinion it would be better for
her to stay single, and I think I am giving you counsel from God’s Spirit when
I say this.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
1 Corinthians B. Sexual Immorality (6:12-20)
1 Corinthians 6 NLT
12 You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything.
13 You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies.
14 And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead.
15 Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!
16 And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.”
17 But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,
20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
Monday, May 9, 2016
1 Corinthians A. Lawsuits before Non-Christian Judges (6:1-11)
1 Corinthians 6 NLT
1 When one of you has a dispute with
another believer, how dare you file a lawsuit and ask a secular court to decide
the matter instead of taking it to other believers !
2 Don’t you realize that someday we
believers will judge the world? And since you are going to judge the world,
can’t you decide even these little things among yourselves?
3 Don’t you realize that we will judge
angels? So you should surely be able to resolve ordinary disputes in this life.
4 If you have legal disputes about such
matters, why go to outside judges who are not respected by the church?
5 I am saying this to shame you. Isn’t
there anyone in all the church who is wise enough to decide these issues?
6But instead, one believer sues another—right
in front of unbelievers!
7 Even to have such lawsuits with one
another is a defeat for you. Why not just accept the injustice and leave it at
that? Why not let yourselves be cheated?
8 Instead, you yourselves are the ones who
do wrong and cheat even your fellow believers.
9 Don’t you realize that those who do
wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who
indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male
prostitutes, or practice homosexuality,
10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or
drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the
Kingdom of God.
11 Some of you were once like that. But you were
cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Sunday, May 8, 2016
Kenneth E Hagin 1982/07/13 Healing is the Children's Bread
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Saturday, May 7, 2016
1 Corinthians Chapter 5 Laxity in Church Discipline
1 Corinthians 5 NLT
1 I can hardly believe the report about
the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I
am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother.
2 You are so proud of yourselves, but you
should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from
your fellowship.
3 Even though I am not with you in person,
I am with you in the Spirit. And as though I were there, I have already passed
judgment on this man
4 in the name of the Lord Jesus. You must
call a meeting of the church. I will be present with you in spirit, and so will
the power of our Lord Jesus.
5 Then you must throw this man out and
hand him over to Satan so that his sinful nature will be destroyed and he
himself will be saved on the day the Lord returns.
6 Your boasting about this is terrible.
Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the
whole batch of dough?
7 Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing
this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough
made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb,
has been sacrificed for us.
8 So let us celebrate the festival, not
with the old bread of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread of sincerity
and truth.
9 When I wrote to you before, I told you
not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin.
10But I wasn’t talking about unbelievers who
indulge in sexual sin, or are greedy, or cheat people, or worship idols. You
would have to leave this world to avoid people like that.
11 I meant that you are not to associate
with anyone who claims to be a believer yet indulges in sexual sin, or is
greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or is a drunkard, or cheats people.
Don’t even eat with such people.
12 It isn’t my responsibility to judge
outsiders, but it certainly is your responsibility to judge those inside the
church who are sinning.
13 God will judge those on the outside; but
as the Scriptures say, “You must remove the evil person from among you.”
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