High Hopes

Meditations in First Corinthians 

May 9, 2022

High Hopes

Don’t you realize that someday we believers will judge the world? And since you are going to judge the world, can’t you decide even these little things among yourselves?

1 Corinthians 6:2

Read: 1 Corinthians 6:1-8

The Apostle Paul believed Jesus had risen from the dead, and thus Jesus was God’s Messiah. He also believed the Christians, because they belonged to Jesus, were the true people of God. He therefore had very high expectations for the church, the people of God. His references in today’s passages to God’s holy people judging the earth is taken from Daniel 7, of which verse 18 is right on point: “But in the end, the holy people of the Most High will be given the kingdom, and they will rule forever and ever.”

As we have already seen in this letter, Paul has repeatedly called the church to a lifestyle that is altogether different from the prevailing culture. Paul was not just setting a high standard for the church; he was using his authority as an Apostle to discipline the church and call them into obedient submission to Christ.

My Takeaway: I see in today’s passage another invitation to sit in quiet meditation and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to me how well I have submitted my life to Christ, and to pastoral authority.

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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