Day 335 (1 Corinthians 9-11) - Year 6
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Paul opens today in his letter to the church c. Corret, with a reminder of his role in their lives. Apparently some people discredit him or refused to view him as an apostle.

Summer saying he's not in a postle because he doesn't receive money from them, but he says the same authority that allows me the right to receive money from you is the authority that allows me to deny money from you. You're writing me a paycheck is not what makes me in a parcel. I'm in a parcel because god appointed me, not you.

He goes until least the other things the puzzles have the right to do, including have their physical needs taken care of, get married and make their soul living and income. Through ministry, he argues that he has every right to receive support from them, but that he has chosen to deny that right, so that they can't second guess his motives. But that seems to backfire on him.

They're second guessing him because he's denying their money. How ridiculous is that that he has to defend his right to not get paid? But essentially he says he didn't hire me, so you can't fired me.

I'm going to preach the gospel regardless. When we get to second krystian, we will find out more of what's happening behind the scenes here. But in the meantime, he's restricting his own rights in order to preach the gospel to more people without putting any kind of stumbling block in their way.

He becomes all things to all people, find himself freedoms in order to meet them where they are. This idea of becoming all things to all people has been wildly taken out of context. IT isn't a path to abuse god's Grace.

Paul is restricting his freedoms, not taking on goddy liberties with them. He's intentional about all these things, living a life of discipline and purpose, because while all those things are temporary, the rewards of sharing the gospel are eternal. In chapter ten, paul talks about the church is struggle with idea, let something the jews have been familiar with throughout their history.

He says their ancestors witnessed god in his character in a variety of ways. Through the years, they experience his presence in the pillar of the cloud that guided them to the wilderness and into the promise land. They experiences this protection when he part of the seas for them across, helping them escape the oppression of their enemies.

And the experience his provision in the way he gave them food and water, even water from a rock. And paul compares that water giving desert rot to Christ himself, despite god's presents, protection and provision, the hearts of their ancestors still wondered off into adultry. Some of that add laty LED them into sexual sin.

Paul references is a scenario that happened in numbers twenty five, where god brought divine judgment on the people who were building against him. In that way, paul urges them to turn away from sexual sin, but also from things like ling. In testing god, IT seems crazy to seek grumbling in a list alongside sexual sin.

But paul's words point out that all those things are in the front to god, sovereignty and goodness. All of those things are our way of saying that we know Better than god and have a Better plan than him. Whether our sins are subbed or drastic, they represent idolatry of self.

They attempt to dethrone god and position ourselves in his place. Paul says. We're all capable of these sins, so we have to stay humble and stay on guard against them.

If someone thinks they're the above this type of sin, they're demonstrating the same kind of americans that is at the very heart of these sins. And elevated view of self. Temptation will come to everyone, but when temptation shows up in our mailbox, IT will always have a free bonus gift from god. The guard given power to resist temptation thin paul addresses food offered to idols again. He first addressed his back in chapter eight.

He's expounding on those ideas a little more here, since IT corresponds to his current theme of ideology at the time, the currencies are going to pay in temples, hanging around after the sacrifices and eating the food there, he realizes this is a potential snail for them, and it's an easy first step into ideology. And away from away, he says, look, when people are sacrificing food to idols, they think they're making offerings to powerful gods. But the reality is they're offering to demons.

False religions aren't just made of ideas. The paying gods are demons. And since you take part in the lord supper, his body and his blood, then participating in all of this is ideology, then he switches scenario, what if they're eating food, sacrifice to idols in someone's home and not in a pagan temple?

Paul is, hey, if no one mentioned that where IT came from, eat up, but if they tell you and you still eat IT, they are going to think you're on with IT. So you should refuse to eat IT because IT gets in the way of your opportunity to share the gospel. In the temple scenario, the problem is ideal.

And in the house scenario, the problem is the other person's mindset. The problem is never of the food itself, is how the food is used and viewed. These are some very specific scenario, the currency church dealing with, but they potentially have brought a application in general as far as well is concerned.

Anyone can eat whatever they want, as long as their thanks is directed toward god. In chapter eleven, poll changes gears a bit and starts talking about different practices within the church. And he hits on some things that are a touchy topics.

We read these passages today, they are aren't as touch you back then, most likely because of how the culture Operated today. There are many ways these passengers are unpacked, explained, but alleges the primary view of orthodox Christians through the years. Paul starts out by painting a picture of marriage, which he connects not only to our relationship with god, but to our relationship with the church as well.

Before we jump into this is helpful for us to remember that all this is being written by a man who continually lays down his freedoms and doesn't argue for his own rights, so that he can let his humility lay the groundwork for him to share the gospel. In recent years, these verses have been used to craft arguments against paul and god and scripture. But if we remember what paul's characters like and what we've seen of god's character throughout scripture into the ministry of jesus will have a proper lions for viewing these.

Because scripture interpret scripture first. Paul impacts the authority structure in marriage. This idea isn't new. Us, since we've seen the authority structure in the trinity demonstrated repeatedly there, one united in purpose, ent in vision, but with different roles and responsibility, ie.

S and the father is the head in the same way the husband is the head of the marriage. And Christ ahead of the church. Anything without ahead is dead. By the way, the word glory means to give the right opinion of something. And paul says this is what's happening with men as the head.

While paul doesn't deny genesis one twenty seven, which says women are made in the image of god and gives us equal value to men, he leaned into the fact that men are revealing the headship of the father. Roles don't indicate value. They indicate assignment.

In this culture, which is roman culture or not jewish culture, men who prayed ed in pagan temples would cover their head. Paul says he doesn't want them to bring their peg and culture into the church. He flips script on them and tells them to uncover their heads.

And women typically wear veiled to cover their heads if they were married, kind of like an ancient version of the wedding ring, while unmarried women just wear their regular hair. But apparently in the church, some of the married women were taking their rails off. And this is an especially problematic scenario because the church in court that so much sexual thing going on, paul was like, this is not honoring to your husband.

IT looks like you've rejected him. Put your wedding ring on. Help people have the right understanding of your marriage as an unmarried woman.

None of this applies to me, but it's also not offensive to me. Paul isn't directors or diminishing women. Men and women are mutually dependent.

And also, he's talking about a cultural context that is foreign to most of us. So if you want a twenty first century summary, IT might look something like this. Do you need where a hat to church if you're married? Woman nodded st.

Its super cute in you're having a bad hair day or you just want to. But do you need to wear your wedding rings? Since that's how our cultural significance marriage probably it's not a law, but it's helpful and honoring and as a single woman hour that finger vail anyway, IT keeps the creeped away.

Paul raps up with a few corrections about actions in the church and how they have been missing and ling lord supper. The church is often meet in the homes of rich people because they are big enough to hold everybody, but the poor people have to work long days. Then, because they don't have their own cars, they have to take public transportation to the world in neighborhoods.

And by the time they get there, the food is all gone. Jesus said to eat the bread and drink the cup and remembers of him. But IT seems you're just eating and drinking, but have forgotten him.

They forgotten his command to love others. Paul says they should examine themselves before taking communion. Do they really understand that it's about the unity of his body who protects in his body? My god shot was in tin, twelve to thirteen, where pl talks about temptation.

He says god will not allow us to be tempted beyond what he will empower us to say no to. This is probably the verse that gets twisted and misinterpreted into the mantra god won't give you more than you can handle, which isn't in scripture. But when we read this first in context, we can see that what paul is really saying is more like when satan gives you temptation, god will give you a drink to resist IT.

So lean into his strength. This is not about having the strength in ourselves. This is about trusting him to provide us with what we need to obey him.

pauses. God provides the way out. He is the one who will help us handle what comes our way. He is our escape patch in every temptation, and he is where the joy is.

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