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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Corinthians: Message to a Contemporary Church

Daniel Scarone

Eric del Valle

Corinthians: A Message to a Contemporary Church - Part 1

Corinthians: A Message to a Contemporary Church - Part 2

Corinthians: A Message to a Contemporary Church - Part 3

Corinthians: A Message to a Contemporary Church - Part 4

Corinthians: A Message to a Contemporary Church - Part 5

Father in heaven, thank you for these days and your blessings.

Father, we pray for these officers that has been attacked and pray for the family also.

Help us to spread the word and the message of the gospel.

Basically this is the only protection that we might have, you know.

I am convinced that we need to study the Bible and the teachings of the Scriptures, and we are going to be safe here.

Well, 1 Corinthians 1 and 3, We were dealing with 1 of the problems.

We are dealing, because I detected that several of you were not in the first presentations, we are dealing with Corinthians and the Epistles to the Corinthians because there is a kind of similarity, if I can call in certain form, in between the problems of the early Christian Church with the local cultures and especially those who were located like Corinthians in the middle of the paganism And with the problems that we are having, planting churches, establishing churches, starting new congregations in the context in which we are today, especially in the mission.

And the Apostle Paul we were referring in the first 2 presentations, he was the planter of the new congregation to the Corinthians.

Corinthians was a church in the middle of the paganism, very close to the place in which the Greeks had a temple to Aphrodite that was the goddess of love in the past days.

So besides the cultural side of that, that was a very economic nurture for the entire Greece and connection from North Africa, the Middle East, Europe in those days, Rome, and also the continent.

So that was a kind of convergence of multicultural background people coming from a big, big diversity.

It was very common to find out a multilingualistic background.

And 1 of the topics that you are going to find in 1 Corinthians is about the so-called glossolalia, the gift of tongues.

And sometimes some people are putting in an emphasis about that.

But let me tell you that is not that is not the mainstream in their gospel message.

Lord Jesus never say go into all the nations and speak in tongues.

But to go to the world you need to speak their language and that is a horse of another color, you know, because that is that is different.

So probably when, I don't know if during the week we are going to be reaching that point, but at some point in the future presentations we are going to be dealing because Corinthians is very challenging, it's very interesting, and it's very attractive.

The first things that we were dealing is about divisions in the church.

And when we were doing about the text and we were exploring the context in which the Apostle Paul was presenting, remember Paul was in the Corinthian church for about 3 years, says the Bible, and that is in the book of Acts.

We were, you know, sometimes going back and forward from the book of Acts to the Corinthian epistle in order to have a whole picture of that.

We were telling also that this is probably the second letter to the Corinthians.

And probably there is another that is in between our first Corinthians and the second Corinthians, probably is another letter.

But I do believe what the Seventh-day Adventist Bible commentary says, that in the Bible we have enough information for salvation, so there is no problem at all for us regarding this point.

Just reinforcing important information that you need to be aware of.

And we were dealing with that, especially when the Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians, I guess it's 5.9 we mentioned yesterday, when he says that I already wrote to you not getting in touch with immoral people.

But when you go to the pistol, you find out that there is not.

So this is a previous kind of letter in which the Apostle Paul probably sent that information.

But there were divisions in the Church that those divisions were created by a kind of idolatric loyalties to leaders in the church.

And we made clear yesterday that there were no problems between Apollos, Cephas, or the Apostle Paul, or even the Lord, because that was a kind of tension.

And we may touch base with some similarities that sometimes we might have in the local congregations nowadays.

Yesterday, before finishing the presentation, we were beginning to read and deal with the Christian behavior and discipline, and we described the issue.

Briefly, if you go to 1 Corinthians 5, you are going to find this in chapter 5 from the verses 1 on, you are going to see that the Apostle Paul is dealing with this situation.

And normally when you see this kind of, what I will say, orientation given, we need to remember something that is important to take in count.

This is a problem that appears after the presence of the Apostle Paul was there.

I don't know if if being the Apostle there this might be changed.

Let me tell you, you know, because sometimes sinful nature is just that.

But Paul is at Ephesus, somebody from the Clovis household, family, gave the Apostle Paul information about the situation that is in Corinth, and here you have the report, and the Apostle Paul several times says, I hear, I've been reported about this.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you and such fornication is not of such a name among the Gentiles.

So here for first time you can see something that is uncommon in the Apostle Paul.

Says that if here is the church and here is the world, the world is surprised Because those who are followers of the Lord are having a kind of behavior that is worse in the charge of the behavior that is in the world.

Yes, it is for learn about the Lord in the church, live and tell the world the message.

But if this is worse than the world, well, at some point, what we need to do is to try to solve this situation because what is in the objective of the Church, that is the mission of the Church, is here at stake.

So that is the problem that we are having here.

And the Apostle Paul is beginning to deal, because the situation is serious.

So when we left yesterday, it was very clear that the problem that the Apostle Paul, if you continue reading, I'm not to enter into many details, you can get that.

There was a member of the congregation that was living with the mother-in-law.

It's not with the mother, it is with the mother-in-law.

However, it says it's punishable sin in the Bible.

When you go to Leviticus 18, 7 and 8 and 29 and Deuteronomy chapter 22 and 30.

It's very clear in the Bible, really, in that.

But it's curious and interesting that also incest was prohibited by the Roman law.

And remember that Corinth, that is this, the world here, that is Corinthians, is under the Roman law.

So here there was a very serious problem.

After dealing with the situation, the Apostle Paul began to explain the rationale.

He said for Iberile as absent in the body, What does it mean?

He was in Ephesus, so he was not in presence with them.

In absence in the body, absent in the body, but present in the Spirit.

He created, he built the church in the name of the Lord.

So he's present in the Spirit and have judged already.

He fixed his mind regarding that problem and they are going to follow the process and the Apostle Paul is telling them what to do.

As thou art present concerning him that hath done this deed In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together and in my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus to deliver such an 1 unto Satan.

That means the assembly as a group, because this is not private.

When we are dealing with church discipline, we explained yesterday, it is the best process to keep the situation in private, in the closest possible circle to contain the situation.

The problem is what we are going to do when the problem is not contained already, is out of it.

We need to, yeah, We need to be dealing with a public situation.

And that is a rationale here for the rationale that is applying that when you are gathered together, That is the process in which they are going to be dealing with that.

There was another problem here we were explaining at the end.

Corinthians took a kind of easygoing way to be dealing with the problem.

Because the problem was not only known in the world, but was known in the church.

So this is going to take us how we are dealing with problems in the church.

In the mind of the Apostle Paul, let me give you here the vision.

From the kingdom of God we need to battle here and get the converts.

So when somebody is here and is expelled, is expelled from this kingdom into the other.

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