Jesus can be seen in any number of ways through the book
of I Corinthians; but the reason the church at Corinth had so many problems was
that they refused to see Jesus at work in their lives and the life of their
church.
The work of Jesus is
always done decently and in order, something which was missing from the church
at
Even when Jesus was a
young lad, before He began His earthly ministry, He did things right. J. Oswald Sanders says, “Our divine Lord
spent six times as long working at a carpenter’s bench as He did in His
world-shaking ministry. He saw no
incongruity in the Lord of glory standing in the saw pit laboriously cutting
the thick logs into planks, or using plane and hammer.”
Justin Martyr, who
lived shortly after the death of John the Apostle, wrote of Jesus, “When He was
among men, He made ploughs and yokes and other farm implements.”
One writer suggests
that Jesus was the first to make chairs and benches that stood on four legs,
and He was the first to build cabinets where the doors opened and shut, “He was
no second-rate carpenter.”
What to do:
✞Follow the example of Jesus and do all things decently and in order.
1.
that which is necessary,
2. that which is needy,
3. that which is nice.
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