Controlled By Your Sinful Nature

Meditations in First Corinthians

April 26, 2022

Controlled By Your Sinful Nature

Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world?

1 Corinthians 2:3b

Read: 1 Corinthians 2:14-3:4

In today’s reading, I am reminded of Hebrews 6:1-3, “So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. You don’t need further instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. And so, God willing, we will move forward to further understanding”.

Here, Paul is admonishing the Corinthians to put into practice what they already know, or as James put it, to be doers of the word and not hearers only. Can there be a more serious charge against those who claim to love Jesus, who claim to have been made right with God through faith in Jesus than, “Aren’t you living like people of the world?” (v. 3b)

My Takeaway: This morning, I wrote a eulogy for a friend whose service I cannot attend. In it I noted my friend took the prophet Micah very seriously and endeavored to always do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with his God. Notice the verbs in each of Micah’s declaratory statement: to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly. When this is our ambition, we are not living like people of the world!

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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