DISCOURSE: 1944 UNDUE PARTIALITY TO MINISTERS REPROVED 1 Corinthians 3:5. _Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1945 CHRIST THE ONLY FOUNDATION 1 Corinthians 3:11. _Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ_. THERE is not any thing more injurious to the Church of God than a party-spirit: yet even in the apostolic age did it begin to distract the Christian community.... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1946 INSTRUCTIONS TO THOSE WHO BUILD UPON THE TRUE FOUNDATION 1 Corinthians 3:12. _Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1947 THE DANGER OF DEFILING GOD’S TEMPLE 1 Corinthians 3:16. _Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are_. EVERY passion of the huma... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1948 THE MEANS OF ATTAINING TRUE WISDOM 1 Corinthians 3:18. _Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise_. CONCERNING the nature of true wisdom, God and the world are at issue; the wisdom of man being fooli... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1949 THE CHRISTIAN’S PRIVILEGES 1 Corinthians 3:21. _Let no man glory in men. For all things are your’s; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s_. IT is scarcely to... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1950 BELIEVERS ARE CHRIST’S PROPERTY 1 Corinthians 3:23. _Ye are Christ’s_. TRUE Christians, however poor in this world, are indeed the richest people in the universe. There is not any thing of which they have not the best use and enjoyment. All things temporal, spiritual, and eternal,... [ Continue Reading ]