Paul writes that the wisdom of man is foolishness to the wisdom of God. It will be destroyed. The “foolish” who try and defy God or proclaim that God is not true or that the Bible is not true will be proven false. If not in this life, then in the judgment. That will be [...]

God’s grace brings a life transforming deliverance from the bondage of sin that is common to one’s social environment. Then God calls us to reach out to those in that environment that are still enslaved. The trend is usually for someone to try and get out of their situations in order to start a new [...]

All the other gifts will fail because they will end. Love does not end and endures forever. It’s vision is farther than this life. I read a skeptics comments once that suggested that since Paul is prophesying that “prophesy will fail” that this prophesy, hence, fails. That’s not being a “skeptic,” that is just being [...]

Blinded by unbelief, the Jew has been stumbling over the cross since Christ rose. The cross, however, lies right in their path and they cannot get out of its way. The Greek philosophers sought after wisdom but deliberately passed by the wisdom of God which was actually foolishness.

The word “mature” comes from a Greek word which translates literally means “perfect.” But it does not mean so much that one is without flaw as it does that all parts are being fully developed. It takes a mature person to come to the place where they have allowed God to “perfectly develop” their lives.

He puts into his foundation that which is consistent with his character. The foolish builder is wise in his own conceit. He thinks that as long as you believe in the foundation it matters little what you build upon it, and so the false teaching becomes easy, and the vain philosophies of the proud in [...]

Since it is the Lords, only God can tax the earth. For the state to claim the right to tax the earth is for the state to make itself God. The more a state abuses this, the more tyrannical it usually is. Taxes in the hands of a tyrannical government is very destructive.

We will not have the total picture on many things til we meet in eternity. If you are like me on and have this desire to understand everything then this can be a bit frustrating. But it is an important part of maturity to accept that there are some things we just will not be [...]

“The Last Days” refers to the period between Christ’s past bodily resurrection and His future bodily return. Why is it termed “The Last Days?” Because it is the last period of God’s redemptive work in the earth. The Last Days is the consummation of redemptive history–when we bask and work within the victory of Christ’s [...]

Martin Luther wrote “If I profess, with the loudest voice and clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages there the loyalty [...]

God may no longer destroy His people physically as he did in the Old testament. But his judgments on our belief today are spiritual–and just as severe. Instead of being struck down, we die spiritually..and then eternally. The word “remember” is used 164 times in 39 of the 66 Bible books. In repeating this word, [...]

“Not discerning the Lord’s body” can refer to theological heresy, failure to follow the Biblical doctrines concerning out Lord’s life, work, atoning death, and resurrection. Paul does refer to heresy in I Corinthians 11:19. All heresy is a refusal to discern the Lord’s body, but this refusal can be both theological and practical; it can [...]

Paul was telling the brothers and sisters of the church to stop arguing about the factions and divisions that were arising. To be perfectly united does not mean Paul required everyone to be exactly the same. Instead, he wanted them to set aside their arguments and focus on what truly mattered: Jesus Christ. The word [...]

Carnal means “sense ruled.” The carnally minded man is a Christian who has not yet come to the place where the Word rules him and governs his thinking. He is called a babe in Christ. He is ruled by the flesh, by what he sees with his eyes, what he feels, hears, tastes, and smells. [...]

There are two things characteristic of a temple. First, it is sacred as a dwelling place of God, and therefore cannot be profaned with impurity. Second, the proprietorship of a temple is not in man, but in God. Both these things are true of the believers body. It is a temple because the Holy Ghost [...]

Sosthenes may have been Paul’s secretary who had written this letter as Paul dictated it. He was probably the Jewish synagogue leader in Corinth (Acts 18:17) who had been beaten during an attack on Paul and then later became a believer. Paul is writing with the authority of “an apostle.” Any minister should speak with [...]

As the firstfruit offering represented the whole of the harvest to come, Christ rose as the firstfruits of those who died in faith. The significance of the firstfruits was not just that it came first but because it was a pledge of faith that the entire harvest was part of God’s grace and mercy to [...]

A man must be sinking into the blackness of final despair who thinks Gods methods of salvation is “foolishness.” He might as well call it foolishness to expect light from the sun.