Day 9 - 1 Corinthians 3:18-23

18 Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say,

“He traps the wise

    in the snare of their own cleverness.”

20 And again,

“The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise;    he knows they are worthless.”21 So don’t boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you— 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Peter, or the world, or life and death, or the present and the future. Everything belongs to you, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

Tori's Comments:

"everything belongs to you" ? What?

And while many times (like currently, because college is a very humbling process) I feel foolish and weak, pride definitely sneaks it's way into my life. I believe one of the hardest prayers to pray is asking for humility, because you know it's gonna hurt you, but it will ultimately be good for you.


Terrie's Comments:

Our world in North America is filled with people trying to get wisdom.  It is revered.  It is like buried treasure that people seek after hoping that it will make them enough money to set them free in life.  

When we talk with kids one of our first questions we ask is what grade they are in?  Do you like your teachers?  what are you taking?  Should we re think our general conversation to train our kids to place importance on heavenly value instead of human wisdom?  

No amount of education can set us free or give us peace.  Sometimes it can be a stepping stone in God's plan to get us where he wants us to go.  Even after education we need to be aware that we rely on the Strength of the Holy Spirit and not our education to accomplish God's plan in our lives.  And Jesus is the only one who can set us free... no money or education can ever do that.




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Day 8 - 1 Corinthians 3:10-17

10 Because of God’s grace to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ.

12 Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. 13 But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person’s work has any value. 14 If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward. 15 But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through a wall of flames.

16 Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? 17 God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Terrie's Comments:
Unity and maintaining unity in the body of Christ is so critical.  We can trust the Holy Spirit to deal with each person who is a part of that body.  If they have made Jesus Lord there will be fruit.  We all have blind spots that need to be revealed to us by God's Spirit so that we are convicted to deal with them and have His power to mature as we do.  People are fragile.  We need to be careful to not tear them apart from God and in turn destroy the very temple itself.

Jesus Christ needs to remain central in all that we do and say while we are representing Heaven here on earth.


Tori's Comments:

Of course we talked about togetherness in Chapel today.

Do Christians realize we all have the Holy Spirit in us? That that is enough of a reason to love someone wholly and completely, and put their needs before ours?

So many arguments over little things... And not wanting to make the big things seem like not a big deal but church unity has been shoved away and that IS a big deal.

Now question time.... This has been happening a lot with me recently. Do y'all ever have the same message pop up a few times in a row? Like, for example, this message I've heard twice today. And do you ever assume God is trying to emphasize something to you?

Another example was the passage on how God chooses the weak and foolish as His instruments.


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Day 7 - 1 Corinthians 3:1-9

1 Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. 2 I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready, 3 for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world? 4 When one of you says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting just like people of the world?

5 After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us. 6 I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow. 7 It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work. 9 For we are both God’s workers. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building.

Tori's Comments:

It's interesting that he talks about how he can't even talk to those controlled by their sinful nature the same way he talks to those living by the Spirit...


Terrie's Comments:

So my question is am I allowing myself to be controlled by the Holy Spirit in obedience to Jesus Christ and God's word or am I being controlled by this world?  

My answer would be that I am more Spirit led than I used to be and I am getting better at choosing obedience rather than my selfish desires.  I would say there are still areas I still need to work on being eternally focused instead of focused on this world.

How about everyone else here?  


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