Well, congratulations, God has called you into the ministry. Congratulation, you have been assigned to your first pastorate, and triple congratulations, you’ve made it to the church field, and its Saturday afternoon and you’re putting some things away in the new pastorium, and (knock, knock, knock), you hear a knock on the door. As a new pastor, all excited, your first pastorate, your first church, your first time,...

Amen. Turn to 1 Corinthians, chapter 1 with me this evening as we’re studying straight through this New Testament book. And I want to look at verses 4-9. Let me just say this right quick. When interpreting a passage of scripture, there are five things that I think you must do. First of all, you must interpret it contextually. You must look at the immediate and the preceding context of...

Alright, turn over to 1 Corinthians, would you? 1 Corinthians chapter 1, we’re just going straight through verse by verse, preaching through this wonderful New Testament book and we come to a section, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 that I’ve entitled “Divisions in the Church.” Actually this book we call 1 Corinthians is the response to a letter that the elders at the church at Corinth had written to the...

1 Corinthians, we’re just going verse by verse, chapter by chapter through this wonderful New Testament book. We saw last time that the apostle Paul has already dealt with the first problem, as he saw it in this carnal, baby church. That was the problem of divisions, and now he hits a theological concept that was obviously being attacked by false teachers and other influences. Let’s look at...

Turn to 1 Corinthians 1. I’ve tried and tried and tried to outline this chapter and it just won’t do it. So I’m just going to preach what’s there. All right. Best I know how, hopefully the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 1:26. Actually, he’s continuing in the flow of his argument to the church at Corinth as to how they should not in...