1 Corinthians

Relevant instruction for the modern church from an ancient church’s example. Come and learn what God intended for His church, the gospel in the believer’s life, and His calling upon us to walk in holiness.

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Sermon Preview for Sunday, April 27, 2025

Here is what we have studied in the last two weeks. From last week, Resurrection Sunday, there is no greater love available to humanity than when someone lays down their life for a friend, from John 10. From two weeks ago, even if somebody delivers their body up to be burned, but does not have love they will gain nothing, from 1 Corinthians 13:3. When you look at the surface of these two verses one may see a bit of a contradiction, if laying your life down for another is the greatest love, then how is it that one could deliver himself over to be burned but still not have it? Our actions are not the entire definition of it. John tells us very plainly “anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love” 1 John 4:8. Our deep desire for God and His glory precedes our ability to love others and act towards them in a loving way. It is not love, as the Bible describes it, if it is separate from God and if it does not have as its ultimate goal to bring Him glory. Therefore, I can give my life in order to boast, or I can give of myself only to put someone else in my debt and neither of these would equate to love. Love does not boast, it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, and it certainly is not resentful. It is time for us to be honest about the word love, and whether or not we truly know its meaning. For the sake of those who are being destroyed every day by all kinds of false impersonations of the term, let us commit to nothing less than God’s clear definition. May God change the world through us in our understanding of, and obedience to, the love that was first shown to us in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Sermon Preview for Sunday, April 20, 2025

Praise the name of our Holy God on this Resurrection morning. What a great celebration to celebrate eternal life purchased and secured for us through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord. Jesus said this to his disciples BEFORE the night of His arrest. “A little while, and you will see me no longer, and again a little while, and you will see me” (John 16:16). Jesus knew his followers were going to have a front row seat to his brutal death, they knew the turmoil this was going to cause and even though the disciples did not understand what Jesus meant by these words at the time they were spoken, all those who follow Jesus Christ then and today can read these words and know exactly what Jesus meant. Furthermore, these words continue to be true in our lives today as we face all kinds of turmoil we face. The truth is the resurrection serves as the guarantee of Christ’s power of sin, destruction, and death itself, this means it serves as the foundation of our faith, the rightful place we can turn to in times of darkness to hope, believe, and even know, the light is coming. This is why Jesus finishes the teaching he started in verse 16 with the words of verse 33, “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart, I have overcome the world.”