I Corinthians 12
Christians give a proper place to Jesusverses 1-3
Now concerning spiritual gifts – brethren – I would not have you ignorant
you know that ye were Gentiles
carried away unto these dumb idols
even as you were led
Wherefore I give you to understand
that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed
and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord
BUT by the Holy Ghost
Godhead involved in success of local churchverses 4-6
NOW there are diversities of gifts – BUT the same Spirit
and there are differences of administrations – BUT the same Lord
and there are diversities of operations
BUT it is the same God which works all in all
Each believer has a spiritual gift given by Holy Spiritverses 7-11
BUT the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal
for to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit
to another faith by the same Spirit
to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit
to another the working of miracles
to another prophecy
to another discerning of spirits
to another divers kinds of tongues
to another the interpretation of tongues
but all these work that one and the selfsame Spirit
dividing to every man severally as HE will
All believers baptized into one bodyverses 12-21
For as the body is one – and has many members
and all the members of that one body – being many – are one body
so also is Christ
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body
whether we be Jews or Gentiles
whether we be bond or free
and having been all made to drink into one Spirit
For the body is not one member – BUT many
If the foot shall say – BECAUSE I am not the hand
I am not of the body
Is it therefore not of the body?
AND if the ear shall say – BECAUSE I am not the eye
I am not of the body
Is it therefore not of the body?
If the whole body were an eye – where is the hearing?
If the whole were hearing – where were the smelling?
BUT now has God set the members every one of them in the body
as it has pleased HIM
AND if they were all one member – where were the body?
but now are they many members – YET but one body
AND the eye cannot say unto the hand – I have no need of you
nor again the head to the feet – I have no need of you
Unity in the body necessaryverses 22-26
Nay – much more those members of the body
which seem to be more feeble
are necessary – and those members of the body
which we think to be less honorable
on these we bestow more abundant honor
AND our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness
for our comely parts have no need
BUT God has tempered the body together
having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked
that there should be no schism in the body
BUT that the member should have the same care one for another
and whether one member suffer
all the members suffer with it
OR one member be honored
all the members rejoice with it
Second list of gifts given to churchverses 27-31
NOW you are the body of Christ – and members in particular
and God has set some in the church
first apostles – secondarily prophets
thirdly teachers – AFTER that miracles
then gifts of healings – helps
governments – diversities of tongues
Are all apostles? are all prophets?
are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
have all the gifts of healing?
do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
BUT covet earnestly the best gifts
and yet show I unto you a more excellent way
COMMENTARY:
DAILY SPIRITUAL BREAKFAST: Young Believers
: 3 Wherefore I give you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. (331 “accursed” [anathema] means ban, excommunicated, anathema, anything devoted to evil, curse, or a thing devoted to God with no hope of being redeemed)
DEVOTION: The Holy Spirit works in the lives of all those who are followers of Jesus Christ. We find in this chapter that all three persons of the Godhead are active in the lives of believers. The next three chapters concentrate on the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church.
The Holy Spirit gives gifts to all those who are in the church for the purpose of bringing glory to God and so that the church can function in a Biblical manner. Every person in the church has a gift that is supposed to be used to move the church forward for the LORD. No person is unimportant to the church. Some gifts are used in the front of the church and some are used in the background but all are important.
Members of the church are not to think that they are more important because they are up front every Sunday. There is to be a unity in the church that shows everyone that they are important.
With the Holy Spirit working in the church and in the believers life there is a warning issued by Paul. He states that no one can curse Jesus Christ and still claim to be indwelt with the Holy Spirit. It is a contradiction. Also no man can call Jesus LORD unless the Holy Spirit gives him power. At the time of the writing of this letter the people were worshipers of idols. Paul gave them understanding as to who Jesus was and what he had done for them. They were followers of Christ. They were a people given gifts by the Holy Spirit. They were individuals who were a part of the body of Christ. They were a people who were not to be divided.
God didn’t want any schism in the body. If they were able to call Jesus Lord, they could work together. The Holy Spirit gave each church the right mix of gifts in her people.
Are we treating everyone as if they are important? Is the church allowing people in the church to talk improperly concerning who Jesus was? Are there segments of the church that are questioning the Lordship of Christ? We need to stay true to the Lord.
CHALLENGE: Let the Holy Spirit show you your gift and then use it for the Glory of God.
DAILY SPIRITUAL LUNCH: Transitional Believers
: 18 But now has God set the members every one of them in the body, as it has pleased him. (2309 “pleased” [thelo] means desire, have in mind,intend, to take delight in, havepleasure, be of an opinion, or to rejoice in)
DEVOTION: Have you ever been in a church that thought if they only had someone who could do this? They always thought they were missing important people that would help the church move forward. Even some pastors sometimes feel if they had just the right people the church would move forward but with the people we currently have there is no hope. It is sad but true. These feelings affect many churches.
The LORD is in control of what members are in each church. HE knows what gifts are needed in a church to help it grow if the leadership and members are faithful to HIM. So it is not lack of the right people in any given church it is the faithfulness of the members to use their gift or gifts for the glory of God.
There needs to be harmony in the church for the gifts to be used properly. If the harmony is gone it will not matter if the church doubled in size and gifts until there is confession and restoration of the work of the Holy Spirit in the church. God has a desire for every Biblical church to grow. All of the membership has to be involved in moving the church forward.
One of the major problems is finances today in the local church. Each member has to give their tithe to the local church that is small for it to move forward. Money is necessary to have outreach. If there is no outreach there will be no growth. The church will die if it is not adding new members each year. There are people in the neighborhood of each Biblical church that need the LORD. Some of them are believers who have strayed from the LORD that would come back with an invitation from a member.
All members have the ability to reach people. That should be the prayer of each member to pray for an individual who they can invite to come to church. God will add those who can help the church continue to move forward with the gospel.
CHALLENGE: God is faithful to HIS promises. Paul stated that God has the right members in the right churches to have them move forward. Members get involved more for the LORD!!!
DAILY SPIRITUAL SUPPER: Mature Believers
: 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. (2192 “need” [echo] means to have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense, to belong to, to bear, to be able, hold, or to have charge of)
DEVOTION: Many Christians can say these words. They think that they don’t need all those who attend their church. If Jesus has put everyone in the church than we have to realize that they are there for a reason.
One of the reasons could be to cause us to mature more in our faith. There are many unlikeable people in our world. Some of them show up in church. If they are believers we need to try to work together with them for the glory of God.
They might just need to know that someone cares and that will cause them to change into a better person from our perspective. We are not to give up on people. If they give up on us that is their problem. We are to show all those in our church and our Christian community the love of Christ on a regular basis. If we fail one day we need to go to them and say we are sorry we didn’t show them the love God has shown us by giving us the gift of salvation.
CHALLENGE: This needs to be common practice in all genuine believers.
: 26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. (3958 “suffer” [pascho] means be vexed, feel, to be affected or have been affected, have a sensible experience, endure, to grieve over, or pain)
DEVOTION: Churches need to rally around those who are suffering. There are people who have loved ones in the hospital or nursing home or are care givers in the home. All of these individuals need our prayers and support.
Even a phone call of encouragement can help those who are dealing with a loved one who is sick in the hospital. You could even offer them a gift or send a gift in the mail to encourage them. I have tried to give people money to help with the gas for their trips back and forth from the hospital. Some have accepted and some have refused.
Baking a meal could be an encouragement to those who are working with a loved one in their home. We have had people who didn’t know us very well bring a meal while my wife was away. My mother-in-law loved the meal and she didn’t have to put up with my cooking – which isn’t very good.
When someone is honored we need to make sure that we don’t get jealous and think we should have received the honor instead of the individual. God knows what your motives are for doing things for HIM. HE will honor you if no one else does.
Our responsibility is to encourage the one who is honored. They might have needed it more than us to help them grow in the LORD. We should always want to see people grow in their service to the LORD.
CHALLENGE: If they are honored, and it goes to their head, which is their problem not yours. You are to honor them. God will deal with them.
DISCIPLINES OF THE FAITH:
BODY
Chastity (Purity in living)
Fasting (Time alone with LORD without eating or drinking)
Sacrifice (Giving up something we want to serve the LORD)
Submission (Willing to listen to others and LORD)
Solitude (Going to a quiet place without anyone)
SOUL
Fellowship (Gathering together around the Word of God)
Frugality (wise use of resources)
Journalizing (Writing down what you have learned from the LORD)
Study and Meditation (Thinking through your study in the Word)
Secrecy (Doing your good deeds without others knowing but God)
SPIRIT
Celebration (Gathering around a special occasion to worship LORD)
Confession (Tell the LORD we are sorry for our sins on a daily basis)
Prayer (Conversation with God on a personal level)
Silence (Letting the LORD deal with some problems and needs)
Worship (Time to praise the LORD alone or in a group)
DOCTRINES OF THE FAITH:
Scripture (66 inerrant books of the Bible)
God the Father (First person of the Godhead)
Godverses 6, 18, 24, 28
God organized parts of church bodyverses 18-24
God the Son (Second person of the Godhead –God/man, Messiah)
Jesusverse 3
Lordverses 3, 5
Jesus is the Lordverse 3
Christverses 12, 27
Body of Christverse 27
God the Holy Spirit (Third person of the Godhead – our comforter)
Spirit of Godverse 3
Holy Ghostverse 3
Spiritverses 4, 7-9, 11, 13
Trinity (Three persons of the Godhead who are co-equal = ONE God)
Angels (Created before the foundation of the world – Good and Evil)
Man (Created on the sixth twenty-four hour period of creation)
Gentilesverses 2, 13
Bond or freeverse 13
Sin (Missing the mark set by God on man and angels)
Ignorantverse 1
Dumb idolsverse 2
Says Jesus is accursedverse 3
Fighting among bodyverse 15
Schismverse 25
Salvation (Provided by Christ’s death on the cross for our sins)
Brethrenverse 1
Manifestation Spirit givenverse 7
Covet earnestly the best giftsverse 31
More excellent wayverse 31
Israel (Old Testament people of God)
Church (New Testament people of God)
Spiritual giftsverse 1
Brethrenverse 1
Diversities of giftsverse 4
Differences of administrationsverse 5
Diversities of operationsverse 6
Gifts:
Word of wisdomverse 8
Word of knowledgeverse 8
Faithverse 9
Gifts of healingverse 9
Working of miraclesverses 10, 29
Prophecyverse 10
Discerning of spiritsverse 10
Kinds of tonguesverse 10
Interpretation of tonguesverse 10, 30
Dividing to every man severally verse 11
One body – many membersverse 12
All baptized into one bodyverse 13
Drink into one Spiritverse 13
Care for one anotherverse 25
Suffer togetherverse 26
Honor togetherverse 26
Churchverse 28
Gifts:
Apostlesverses 28, 29
Prophetsverses 28, 29
Teachersverses 28, 29
Miraclesverse 28
Gifts of healingsverses 28, 30
Helpsverse 28
Governmentsverse 28
Diversities of tonguesverses 28, 30
Covet earnestly the best giftsverse 31
Last Things (Future Events)
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QUOTES regarding passage
The alla (“but”) in the middle of v. 24 brings the argument back to God’s sovereign purposes. He has brought the members of the body together in perfect harmony. By saying that God “has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,” Paul means that through implanting modesty and self-respect in our hearts, God has caused us to protect our unpresentable parts (as the sex organs) from exploitation by properly covering them. All this concern for the body is for the purpose of enabling it to operate in unity, so all its parts will mutually respond to each other’s needs—e.g., the brain sending nerve signals to the hand. In using the word schisma (“schism,” “division”) in v. 25 Paul reminds the Corinthians of the discussion in 1:10–17. As it is with the body, so with the church (v. 26). What happens to one part affects the well-being of the whole. (Mare, W. H. (1976). 1 Corinthians. In F. E. Gaebelein (Ed.), The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Romans through Galatians (Vol. 10, p. 265). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.)
That there should be no schism (ἱνα μη ᾐ σχισμα [hina mē ēi schisma]). Purpose of God in his plan for the body. Trouble in one organ affects the whole body. A headache may be due to trouble elsewhere and usually is. Have the same care (το αὐτο μεριμνωσιν [to auto merimnōsin]). The very verb μεριμναω [merimnaō] used by Jesus of our anxiety (Matt. 6:27, 31). Paul here personifies the parts of the body as if each one is anxious for the others. The modern knowledge of the billions of cells in the body co-working for the whole confirms Paul’s argument. (Robertson, A. T. (1933). Word Pictures in the New Testament (1 Co 12:25). Nashville, TN: Broadman Press.)
12:21–26. In the diversity of the bodily parts there was a corresponding mutual dependence. A person with a seemingly greater gift should not imagine that he could function alone since a bodily member cut off from the natural body would cease to exist. More importantly, one thought to possess a lesser gift should in fact be accorded greater attention by the other members of the body (cf. 14:1–5) just as in the natural body special deference in attention to dress is paid to those parts of the body deemed less presentable (12:22–24). Possibly Paul was reaching back in thought beyond the immediate discussion of gifts when he referred to weaker members (v. 22; cf. 8:7–13) and less honorable ones (12:23; cf. 11:22) who also required special care and consideration. This too was part of God’s plan (God … combined the members), that members of the spiritual body would demonstrate a mutual concern for the well-being of others (12:25b–26; 10:24, 33) so that rivalry would cease (so that there should be no division in the body; 1:10; 11:18) and genuine unity would exist (12:26). (Lowery, D. K. (1985). 1 Corinthians. In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.), The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 2, p. 534). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.)
The members promote unity as they discover their dependence on one another (vv. 21–26). Diversity in the body is an evidence of the wisdom of God. Each member needs the other members, and no member can afford to become independent. When a part of the human body becomes independent, you have a serious problem that could lead to sickness and even death. In a healthy human body, the various members cooperate with each other and even compensate for each other when a crisis occurs. The instant any part of the body says to any other part, “I don’t need you!” it begins to weaken and die and create problems for the whole body.
A famous preacher was speaking at a ministers’ meeting, and he took time before and after the meeting to shake hands with the pastors and chat with them. A friend asked him, “Why take time for a group of men you may never see again?” The world-renowned preacher smiled and said, “Well, I may be where I am because of them! Anyway, if I didn’t need them on the way up, I might need them on the way down!” No Christian servant can say to any other servant, “My ministry can get along without you!”
Paul may be referring to the private parts of the body in 1 Corinthians 12:23–24. If so, then to “bestow honor” on them refers to the use of attractive clothing. The more beautiful parts of the body need no special help.
God’s desire is that there be no division (“schism”) in the church. Diversity leads to disunity when the members compete with one another; but diversity leads to unity when the members care for one another. How do the members care for each other? By each one functioning according to God’s will and helping the other members to function. If one member suffers, it affects every member. If one member is healthy, it helps the others to be strong. (Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, pp. 609–610). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.)
12:25 God has designed visible, public gifts to have a crucial place, but equally designed and more vital to life are the hidden gifts, thus maintaining the perspective of unity—all are essential to the working of the body of Christ.
12:26, 27 This is a call to mutual love and concern in the fellowship of believers (cf. Php 2:1–4) which maintains the unity that honors the Lord. There is one body in which all function, yet never do they lose their personal identity and the essential necessity of ministry as God has designed them to do it. (MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (2006). The MacArthur study Bible: New American Standard Bible. (1 Co 12:25–26). Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers.)
Ver. 25. That there should be no schism in the body, &c.] No complaint of one member against another, as useless and unnecessary; no murmuring on that account; no tumults and rioting; no rebellion and insurrection of one against another; no dissension, no division. The use Menenius Agrippa made of this simile, applying it to the body politic, as the apostle here does to the spiritual body, for the appeasing of a sedition among the people, is well known, and usually mentioned by interpreters on this place: but that the members should have the same care one for another, that is, they are so tempered and mixed together, are in such close union with, and have such a dependence on each other, that they are necessarily obliged to take care of each other’s good and welfare, because they cannot do one without another; and so God has ordered it in the church, that persons should be so placed in it, and gifts disposed of among them in such a manner, that every man is obliged, not only to look on, and be concerned for his own things, that he takes care of himself, and performs his office, but that he looks every man on the things of others, his good and safety being involved in theirs.
Ver. 26. And whether one member suffer, &c.] Pain; even the meanest, lowest, and most distant, as the foot or hand, toe or finger: all the members suffer with it; are more or less affected therewith, and bear part of the distress; as is easily discerned, by their different forms and motions on such an occasion: so when any one member of the mystical body is in affliction, whether inward or outward, of body or mind, the rest are, or should be, affected with it, condole, sympathize, help, and assist; and remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them, as if they themselves were in bonds, and them that suffer adversity, whether spiritual or temporal, as being in the body, not only in the flesh, but as being part of the body, the church: and therefore should weep with them that weep, and bear a part with them in their sorrows. The Jews have a saying, that “if one brother dies, all the: brethren grieve; and if one of a society dies, תדאנ כל ההבורה כולה, the whole socicty grieres;” and also another, that “every one that afflicts himself, עﬦ הציבור, with the congregation, is worthy to see or enjoy the comfort of the congregation or church;” or one member be honoured; by being set in the highest place, and employed to the greatest usefulness, or by being most richly and beautifully clothed and adorned: all the members rejoice with it: as sharing in the honour, or benefit of it: so if one member of the church of Christ is honoured with an high office, with great gifts, with a large measure of grace, spiritual light, knowledge, and experience, with great discoveries of the love of God, with the presence of Christ, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, or with the good things of this life, and an heart to make use of them for the interest of religion, the other members rejoice at it; for so it becomes the saints to rejoice with them that rejoice, and be glad, both at the temporal and spiritual prosperity of each other: and upon the whole ’tis clear, that the meanest have no reason to be discouraged, nor the highest and greatest to be proud and elated. (Gill, J. (1809). An Exposition of the New Testament (Vol. 2, pp. 700–701). London: Mathews and Leigh.)
Tomas writes, “Since the habit with the physical body is to take the ‘behind-the-scenes’ part and devote special effort and attention to them, how much more should this be true in the spiritual body? …. God honors even the members that others view as inferior (v. 24, The Moody Bible Commentary by editors Michael Rydelnik and Michael Vanlaningham)
FROM MY READING:
He quietly brings events and conditions into our lives that humble us, purify us, and draw us to Christ. Quite often God uses suffering to smooth out our rough edges and break down our streak of independence.
(p. 128, The Hole In Our Holiness by Kevin DeYoung)
Exodus 12
The Passover ends with the redemption of a promise.
INSIGHT
Exodus 12 is one of the most remarkable and important chapters in all of the Bible. In it we learn many things:
1. Only God can deliver us from sin.
2. Sin’s penalty is death.
3. God is willing to allow a substitute death, so that we don’t have to die.
4. Faith is the basis of our salvation. Our belief results in our obedience.
5. The Old Testament passover lamb is a foreshadowing of the New Testament Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ.
6. We are saved the same way the Israelites were saved: by faith in the substitutionary atonement of the Lamb which God provided.
7. Not to accept this avenue of escape is to suffer the wrath of God. (Quiet Walk)
Her father blamed his illness on witchcraft. It was AIDS. When he died, his daughter, ten-year-old Mercy, grew even closer to her mother. But her mother was sick too, and three years later she died. From then on, Mercy’s sister raised the five siblings. That’s when Mercy began to keep a journal of her deep pain.
The prophet Jeremiah kept a record of his pain too. In the grim book of Lamentations, he wrote of atrocities done to Judah by the Babylonian army. Jeremiah’s heart was especially grieved for the youngest victims. “My heart is poured out on the ground,” he cried, “because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city” (2:11). The people of Judah had a history of ignoring God, but their children were paying the price too. “Their lives ebb away in their mothers’ arms,” wrote Jeremiah (v. 12).
We might have expected Jeremiah to reject God in the face of such suffering. Instead, he urged the survivors, “Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children” (v. 19).
It’s good, as Mercy and Jeremiah did, to pour out our hearts to God. Lament is a crucial part of being human. Even when God permits such pain, He grieves with us. Made as we are in His image, He must lament too! (By Tim Gustafson, Our Daily Bread)
A GLIMPSE INTO ETERNITY
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. John 17:5
The Lord is looking at what is before Him, and this is His prayer. Having completed all the work, having done everything that the Father had appointed Him to do, He asks, as it were, “Has not the time now arrived when I can come back to You, exactly where I was before? I have done the work. Father, ‘glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.’” But the astonishing thing for us to remember at this point is that He goes back as God-Man! In eternity He was God the Son, pure deity, and He shared the glory; but now He goes back as God-Man. And as God-Man, and our representative, the glory that He momentarily laid aside at the request of the Father is restored to Him, and thus as God-Man and Mediator He again shares this ineffable glory of the eternal God.
And so this prayer was answered. It began to be answered at the resurrection, the event that finally convinced even the disciples that He was the Son of God. They did not quite understand it before, but, as Paul puts it in writing to the Romans, our Lord was “declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead” (Romans 1:4). Who is this who has conquered death and the grave? He must be, He is the Son of God. Consider the appearances after the resurrection. You find the disciples in Jerusalem behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jews, and suddenly He came in without the door being opened. “You see who I am,” he says in effect. “I have flesh and bones, and I can eat.” See the glorious person of this risen Lord.
A Thought to Ponder: In eternity He was God the Son, but now He goes back as God-Man. (From Saved in Eternity, pp. 77-78, by Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
Made Manifest by the Scriptures
“But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.” (Romans 16:26)
This revelation was written by Paul the apostle as a conclusion to his great doctrinal epistle to the Romans. That which “now is made manifest . . . to all nations” had been “kept secret since the world began” and was essentially the simple truth revealed in “my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ” (Romans 16:25) offering to people from every nation (not just Israel!) the wonderful gift of salvation and eternal life through Jesus Christ.
And note that this was being made manifest not just by the preachers and Scriptures of the New Testament, but “by the scriptures of the prophets”—that is, by the Old Testament Scriptures. There are some today who think the Old Testament is no longer of significance to Christians. But they are wrong! Remember that Jesus, after His resurrection, speaking to two of His disciples, rebuked them by saying: “O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: . . . And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself” (Luke 24:25, 27).
Furthermore, the Old Testament abounds with wonderful promises and precepts and examples that are supremely practical and profitable for the Christian life. As Paul said, “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” (Romans 15:4). In fact, every Old Testament Scripture is “given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16)
(HMM, The Institute for Creation Reseach)
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