A Little Leaven John Beeson 1 Corinthians 5 As a pastor, you get to participate in things of life in So we're walking through a series on First Corinthians, and if you've been here with us the last couple In the Corinthian Church. There's just so many echoes of our own experience in this church. So let's pick up first Corinthians 5, and let's step into the text. Paul says this. And it's resonating in the Corinthian context, and it resonates in our context.

Encountered by the Spirit John Beeson 1 Corinthians 2 So I don't know if anyone else had the troubling And in 1 Corinthians 2 today, as we navigate the book of First Corinthians, we're going to see that Paul So let's go to the passage 1 Corinthians chapter 2, beginning just in the first couple verses. Paul is instructing the Corinthian Church, and they have all kinds of issues and they have all kinds

So let's flip into First Corinthians 17, and let's pick up our text there. But Paul says in your Case Corinthians, it is not for the better, it's for the worse. But we're trying to make it a little more mealish, a little more Corinthian. Well, evidently that's how the Corinthian Church was taking communion. He says this in 1st Corinthians 11, starting in verse 23:4.

The gift of tongues was a “problem” gift in the Corinthian church. Eighth, tongues are a tool for praising God ( 1 Corinthians 14:16a ). Paul lays down a number of rules for using the gift of tongues in 1 Corinthians 14 . Otherwise, the tongue speaker is to be silent ( 1 Corinthians 14:5 , 16 , 27-28 ). Sixth, do not forbid speaking in tongues ( 1 Corinthians 14:31 ).

Take time to look at the following passages: 2 Corinthians 5:9-11; 1 Corinthians 3:10-15; Romans 14:10 1 Peter 1:17; Matthew 12:36-37; Matthew 10:42; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Mark 10:28-31; Romans 2:12; 1 Corinthians 10:31; Luke 19:17; 1 John 2:28; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Matthew 19:29; John 12:26; 2 Timothy 4:8; Revelation 7:10-11; James 4:1-10; Matthew 12:41; Matthew 22:1 14; Colossians 3:1-11; Matthew 6:19-24; 2 Corinthians 5:1-8; 2 Corinthians 4:18; 1 John 4:17-21; 1 John 3:16-21; 1 John 4:1-6; Hebrews 10:35-39; 1 John 5:

, therefore all died” (2 Corinthians 5:14). The Corinthians should never have doubted Paul’s integrity. no man according to the flesh” (2 Corinthians 5:16). marks of humility (2 Corinthians 10:12–18). themselves” (2 Corinthians 10:12).