1 Corinthians 1:10, There Be No Divisions Among You

1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

The Apostle Paul writes with grave concern that there are divisions within the Corinthian church. What was the problem? The believers were at loggerheads with each other.

MacArthur illustrated well, “Infants are quick to express displeasure when they are not given something they want or when something they like is taken away. Little children cry, fight and throw tantrums because they cannot have their own ways. We argue and fight over a rattle, then a toy, then a football, then a position on the football team or in a cheerleading squad, then in business, the PTA, or politics. Friends fight, husbands and wives fight, businesses fight, cities fight, even nations fight – sometimes to the point of war.” And he further observed well, “And the source of all the fighting is the same: man’s depraved, egoistic, selfish nature. Scripture teaches nothing more clearly than the truth that man is basically and naturally sinful, and that the heart of his sinfulness is self-will. From birth to death the natural inclination of every person is to look out for “number one” – to be, to do, to have what they want. Even believers are continually tempted to fall into lives of self-will, self-interest, and general self-centeredness.”

The Apostle Paul has to address the same in-fighting problem in the church at Galatia,  Galatians 5:13-15  “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.“

Being freed from the bondage of sin, the believer is exhorted not to go back to the filth of sin but to mortify the flesh, to put it under subjection. Let there be love and unity among Christian brethren one for another. Amen.