Gary Gleans

                                                                                       1 Corinthians 5:1-8 It is actually reported that there is   sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans,   for a man has his father's wife.   And   you are arrogant! Ought you   not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.  For though   absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.   When you are assembled   in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,   you are   to deliver this man to Satan for the d...

                                                                        1 Corinthians 4:14-21 I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.   For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.   I urge you, then, be imitators of me.   That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church. Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.   But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.   For...

                                                                        1 Corinthians 4:6-13 I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may   be puffed up in favor of one against another.   For who sees anything different in you?   What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?   Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!   For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all,   like men sentenced to death, because we   have become...

                                                                                  1 Corinthians 4:1-5 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.   Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.   But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.   For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.   Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will r...

                                                                   1 Corinthians 3:16-23 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?   If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For   God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.    Let no one deceive himself.   If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.   For   the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written,   “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”   and again,   “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”   So   let no one boast in men. For   all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or...

                                                                             1 Corinthians 3:10-15 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.   For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.   Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.   If...

                                                                             1 Corinthians 3:1-9 But I, brothers, could not address you as   spiritual people, but as   people of the flesh, as   infants in Christ.   I fed you with milk, not solid food, for   you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,   for you are still of the flesh. For while there is   jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?   For   when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,”   are you not being merely human?  What then is Apollos? What is Paul?   Servants through whom you believed,   as the Lord assigned to each. I planted,   Apollos ...

                                                                        1 Corinthians 2:14-16 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.   The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.   “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.   There are only two types of people in this world: the natural and the spiritual.  All of us are born natural and we will remain natural until death apart from the work of the Spirit of God in our lives.  When the Spirit of God brings us to Christ, there is a radical change that...

                                                                                  1 Corinthians 2:6-13 Yet among   the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not   a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age,   who are doomed to pass away.   But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God,   which God decreed before the ages for our glory.   None of   the rulers of this age understood this, for   if they had, they would not have crucified   the Lord of glory.   But, as it is written,  “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,   nor the heart of man imagined,   what God has   prepared   for those who love him”— these things   God has revealed to us through the Sp...

                                                                             1 Corinthians 2:1-5 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.   For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.   And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling,   and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,   so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.   Too often preaching can focus on the methods of the preacher more than the content of the message.  Paul makes it clear that this was never h...

                                                                        1 Corinthians 1:26-31 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.   But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;   God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,   so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,   so that, as it is written, “Let the one who...

                                                                        1 Corinthians 1:18-25 For the word of the cross is   folly to   those who are perishing, but to us   who are being saved it is   the power of God.   For it is written,  “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,      and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”  Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age?   Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?   For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.   For   Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,   but we preach C...

                                                                        1 Corinthians 1:10-17 I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.   For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”   Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?   I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,   so that no one may say that you were baptized i...

                                                                        1 Corinthians 1:1-9 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you—so that you are not lacking in any gi...