Lesson 2855

(Lesson 2855)(10-20-19) 1 Corinthians 3:1-11
    “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

   Today’s lesson, in essence, that there are NO special people when it comes to the children of God. It says that if anyone uses the Spirit of God for any purpose other than to magnify and glorify God, that person’s efforts will fail in the end.
    Sadly, there are literally hundreds, and maybe even thousands, of so-called Christian evangelists who, very obviously, preach a perverted version of the gospel, either out of ignorance or purely for their own gain. They will undoubtably drag countless numbers of people down with them. “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth to life, and few there be that find it”. (Matthew 7:13-14)
    In today’s quote, Paul assured us that those false teachers will recieve their just reward when they sit before the judgment.~