DIVISIONS IN THE CHURCH' OTHER 'TOPICS.

PART. #1. DIVISIONS IN THE CHURCH (1COR. 1-4)( ALL SPIRITUAL GIFTS..AFTER A BRIEF GREETING TO THE CORINTHIANS(1;1-3),PAUL BEGAN HIS LETTER ON A POSITIVE NOTE EXPRESSING HIS THANKS TO GOD FOR THEIR MANY SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND HIS CONFIDENCE THAT GOD WOULD CONTINUE TO BLESS THEM).(1COR.1;10-17 BUT NO SPIRITUAL GROWTH, HOWEVER GREAT THEIR SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS, THE CORINTHIANS HAD SOME PROBLEMS.PAUL DEALT FIRST OF ALL WITH THEIR DIVISIONS AND QUARRELING. THEY HAD BEGUN FOLLOWING VARIOUS LEADERS,APPARENTLY BASED IN PART ON WHO HAD BAPTIZED THOSE IN EACH FRACTION. PAUL PLEADED FOR UNITY ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COMMON FAITH IN CHRIST(1;13) REMINDING THEM OF THE SIMPPLICITY OF THE GOSPEL,WHICH HAS VERY LITTLE TO DO WITH THE HUMAN WISDOM THEY SO MUCH ADMIRED(1;17). RECOGNIZING THAT ONE OF THE FRACTIONS CENTERED ON HIM,PAUL DID'NT HESITATE TO SINGLE OUT HIS OWN FAN CLUB FOR SPECIAL REBUKE(1;12-13). ''CHRIST DIDN'T SEND ME TO BAPTIZE,BUT TO PREACH THE GOOD NEWS'' (1;17). IS PROBABLY THE STRONGEST BIBLICAL ARGUMENT AGAINST THE VEIW THAT ONE MUST BE BAPTIZED TO BE SAVED.PAUL DID NOT SAY THAT CHRIST HAD FORBIDDEN HIM TO BE BAPTIZED FOR THE APOSTLE OFTEN DID BAPTIZED HIS CONVERTS(SEE ACTS.16;15, 33; 18;8 19;5).RATHER HE SIMPLY SAID THAT BAPTISM IS NOT A PART OF THE BASIC GOSPEL MESSAGE(THE CONTENT OF WHICH HE LATER DEFINE- SEE. 1COR. 15;1, 3-4)(WHICH READS- THE GOSPEL'' PAUL REVIEWED THE BASIC GOSPEL MESSAGE, WHICH IS THE HISTORICAL FACT OF THE ''(DEATH, BURIAL,, AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST ''THE WONDERFUL MESSAGE'' ON WHICH OUR FAITH IS BUILT,CHRIST WAS NOT A MARTYR DYING FOR HIS FAITH'' BUT A SAVIOR DYING FOR OUR SINS. HE DID NOT SAY, I'AM FINISHED BUT IT IS FINISHED.''(SEE. GEN.1;26-31WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING ABOUT CHRIST'S DEATH AND RESURRECTION;#1. 'THE FATHER. SEE JOHN.3;16 ALSO ACTS.2;24).(#2.THE SON. SEE JOHN. 10;11, 18).(#3.THE HOLYSPIRIT(SEE ROMANS 1;4 ALSO SEE HEB.9;14).(1COR.15;5-11 PAUL CITED TWO PROOFS FOR CHRIST'S; #1 HIS MANY POSTRESURRECTION APPEARANCESOF WHICH PAUL LISTED SIX.INCLUDING HIS APPEARANCE TO HIM(15;5-8).(#2. THE AMAZING FACT OF PAUL'S OWN SALVATION(15;8-11).(IF HE ISN'T WE'RE DOOM'' IF HE IS YOU ARE'' WHO REFUSE TO BELIEVE''(1COR.155;12-19 SOME AT CORINTH QUESTIONED THE VERY POSSIBILITY OF RESURRECTION,PAUL STRESSED THAT THE CHRISTIAN FAITH REST SOLLY ON CHRIST'S RESURRECTION.IF THAT RESURRECTION DIDN'T HAPPEN,THEN THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN IT ARE SURELY THE MOST '' OF ALL PEOPLE 'MISERABLE'' MORE IMPORTANT, THEY ARE STILL IN THE GRIP OF SIN AND DEATH'').(1COR.15;20-28 ''RESURRECTION, THE REVIEWING STAND AND THE REIGN. '' CHRIST'S RESURRECTION IS ONLY THE FIRST OF MANY THAT WILL FOLLOW. JUST AS ADAM'S SIN BROUGHT DEATH TO THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE,CHRIST'S RESURRECTION BRINGS THE POSSIBILITY OF EVERLASTING LIFE(15;20-22).SEE EXPO. ON ROM. (5;12-21).THE COMMING RESURRECTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN A PARTICULAR''ORDER'' (15;23).A MILITARY TERM REFERRING TO TROOPS MARCHING BY RANK,AS IN A PARADE; #1.CHRIST'S RESURRECTION LEADS THE PARADE , FOR IT IS THE FIRST OF IT'S KIND.ALL THOSE PREVIOUSLY RAISED(SEE EXPO. ON ACTS.20;7-12)DIED AGAIN CHIRST WAS THE FIRST TO BE RAISED TO IMMORTALITY. HE WAS THE 'FIRST' OF ALL WHO WILL RISE FROM THE ''DEAD'')>(#2 ''NEXT COMES THE TROOPS'' OF THE RAPTURE RESURRECTON(15;23).SEE EXPO.ON 15;50-58). AND ON 1THESS.4;13-18).(#3.THEN COMES THE ''END'' WHICH WILL INCLUDE THE RESURRECTION OF OT AND TRIBULATION SAINTS(15;24 ALSO SEE DAN. 12;2 AND EXPO. ON REV.20;1-6),(USHERING IN CHRIST'S INTERNALREIGN (15;24-28).(#4; NOT MENTION HERE BUT INPLIED IN (REV. 20;6)(IS A SECOND RESURRECTION, AFTER THE MILLENNIUM AND SATAN'S FINAL REBELLION, OF THE UNREPENTANT WHO WILL THEN'' STAND BEFORE GOD IN THE GREAT WHITE THORNE JUDGEMENT(SEE JOHN.5;29). ALSO EXPO. ON REV. 20;1-6 20;11-15).(HAVE A BEAUTIFUL, BLESSED, WONDERFUL, GOD GIVEN DAY' , PRAY WITH ME' FATHER, WE COME TO YOU, BECAUSE WE ALWAYS HAVE NEED OF YOU' NOT ALWAYS SEEKING MATERIAL THINGS, BUT SPIRITUAL THINGS AS WELL, LORD WE KNOW YOU KNOW WHAT WE NEED, SO WE ASK THAT YOU GIVE US WHAT WE NEED TO LOVE MORE, AND TO LEARN, MORE, BLESS YOUR PEOPLE LORD, HEAL YOUR PEOPLE LORD, GIVE ALL OF US WHO BELIEVE IN YOU' AND NOT ONLY THAT LORD' ALSO FOR THE UNSAVE' WHO YOU HAVE CALLED, AND ALL WHO HAVE HEARD YOUR CALL, WE ASK THAT YOU HAVE THEM TO TO ALSO COME AND SHARE IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF OUR LORD' BLESS US TO TEACH THE TRUTH' GUVE US MORE OF EVERYTHING' FULL US UP WITH THE TRUE FULLNESS OF YOU LORD' SO WE WILL NOT STRAY, AND WE WILL WIN SOULS FOR YOU, FOR WE KNOW YOU CARE FOR ALL LIFE AND WISH NO ONE TO PERISH' WE KNOW HOW WONDERFUL YOU BEEN TO US LORD, AND WE THANK YOU FOR IT' BLESS YOU LORD, FOR LOVING US, AND HELPING US' WE TRUST YOU LORD' EVEN TO THE DEATH; FOR YOU ARE OUR GOD, AND OUR LIFE' WHERE SHALL WE GO LORD' WHO CAN LOVE US AND CARE FOR US LIKE YOU' THERE NEVER HAS BENN AND THERE NEVER WILL BE ANYONE LIKE YOU LORD' I PRAISE' YOUR MIGHTY NAME' I PRAISE' YOU MY LOVING, MERCIFUL, GRACEFUL CAREING GOD' GIVE YOUR PEOPLE LORD, MORE FAITH'' GIVE YOUR PEOPLE MORE HOPE' GIVE YOUR PEOPLE ALL THE THINGS THEY NEED LORD, AND WE WILL NOT TURN AWAY FROM YOU' FOR YOU KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR US' PROTECT US AND WATCH OUR WALK' AND KEEP OUR TALK' CONTINUE TO BLESS US, WE THANK YOU LORD IN THE NAME OF JESUS' LET ALL THE PEOPLE OF GOD IN ONE MINE AND IN ONE VOICE SAY PRAISE' THE LORD, FOR HIS MIGHTY MERCIES, THAT HE HAS GAVE TO US' HE HEALED US AND HAS PROTECTED US, FED US, AND PROVIDED FOR OUR EVERY NEED' WE THANK YOU OH GREAT AND MERCIFUL GOD' WE LOVE YOU AND WE WILL NEVER TURN AWAY FROM YOU' TILL DEATH WE SERVE IN THE NAME OF JESUS AMEN AMEN. PEACE,WEOUT SERVANTGODGIVETH' HAVE A BLESSED WEEKEND, AND A BLESSED YEAR.