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The Christians At Corinth
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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• Events Leading Up To The Epistle
• Written from Ephesus 168
• Timothy was sent to Macedonia Acts 1922
• Apparently, he was to go to Corinth afterwards
  417
• Paul was also planning to come here perhaps even
  wintering 419 165-7

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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• Events Leading Up To The Epistle
• We can be fairly certain when it was written
• The events in Acts 1913-20 fit very well
• The fake Jewish exorcists are exposed
• The name of the Lord was magnified
• The Ephesians burning their magic books would
  have been a tremendous opportunity (a wide
  door)

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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• The Epistle
• They were blessed as a local group 11-9
• They were enriched in Him in everything, in all
  speech and all knowledge v. 5
• They were not lacking in any gift v. 7
• God will confirm them to the end, blameless in
  the day of Jesus v. 9

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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• The Epistle
• Their problems addressed 110 620
• Division over preachers 110-17
• True wisdom resides with God, not with meneven
  preachers 118 216
• Carnal, immature attitudes 31 421
• Paul had to speak to them as babes
• Consider the apostles as examples

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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• The Epistle
• Their problems addressed 110 620
• Tolerating immorality in the church 51-13
• They did nothing re a fornicator
• Discipline was needed vv. 4-5, 9, 11
• Taking each other to public courts 61-11
• Sexual immorality 612-20

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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• The Epistle
• Questions they had asked Paul 71 164
• Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage 71-40
• There was a present distress v. 26
• Pauls teaching mirrored the Lords
• Problems re personal liberties 81 111
• Particularly, eating meat sacrificed to idols

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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• The Epistle
• Questions they had asked Paul 71 164
• Problems re personal liberties 81 111
• Particularly, eating meat sacrificed to idols
• Great care must be taken so as not to cause
  younger, less knowledgeable brethren to stumble
  81-13 cp. 69-11
• Liberties can be given up 91-18

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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• The Epistle
• Questions they had asked Paul 71 164
• Problems re personal liberties 81 111
• Dont even go to the idols temple to eat that
  is partaking of the table of the Lord and the
  table of demons 1014-22
• Do things for conscience sake 1023-33
• The apostles serve as examples 111

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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• The Epistle
• Questions they had asked Paul 71 164
• Problems in their public worship 112-34
• Womans submission to man vv. 2-16
• Perverting the Lords Supper vv. 17-34
• Questions re spiritual gifts 121 1439
• Arguments over which gift is superior

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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• The Epistle
• Questions they had asked Paul 71 164
• Questions re spiritual gifts 121 1439
• They were forgetting the body 124-27
• The greatest gift love 131-13
• All gifts should be exercised to edify the body,
  not promote the individual 141-40

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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• The Epistle
• Questions they had asked Paul 71 164
• Problems re the resurrection 151-58
• There was false teaching in Corinth v. 12
• If no resurrection, then not even Christ is
  raised vv. 13-19
• There will be a resurrection vv. 20-58

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Paul's First Letter To
The Christians At Corinth

• The Epistle
• Questions they had asked Paul 71 164
• The collection for the saints 161-4
• Pauls plans final exhortations 165-24
• Plans to help him get to Jerusalem

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