1 Corinthians 16:9, A Great Door and Effectual Is Opened
The great ripe harvest field for souls is emphasized here. There is much work to be done or there is much work yet undone requiring prayer, haste, sowing, and reaping.
Category: Devotions
1 Corinthians 16:5-7, If the Lord Permits
Our lives are in the sovereign hand of God. He orders it according to His good pleasure. The Apostle Paul as a servant waiting upon his Master Jesus Christ. He sought to visit the church in Corinth. He commits his plans that the Lord may approve of them and directs or re-directs as He deems fit if the Lord permits.
1 Corinthians 16:3-4, To Bring Your Liberality to Jerusalem
There was a collection that the Corinthian church has raised for the support of the saints in Jerusalem. The church in Corinth will appoint someone who will be entrusted with this task of bringing the funds raised to Jerusalem. The Apostle Paul shall be making the journey to Jerusalem. This appointed person will go together with the Apostle Paul carrying the collection.
1 Corinthians 16:2, Let Every One of You Lay By Him in Store
This text sets the precedence for the collection of gifts on the first day of the week when the church comes together for worship, on the Lord’s Day, the day where our Lord was risen from the dead. The idea of this giving is for everyone of the believers to participate as God enables them, they are to give.
1 Corinthians 16:1, Collection for the Saints
William MacDonald observed well, “The first verse of chapter 16 concerns a collection which was to be taken up by the church in Corinth and sent to needy saints in Jerusalem. The exact cause of their poverty is not known. Some have suggested that it was a result of famine (Acts 11:28–30).”
1 Corinthians 15:55-58, Victory Through Our Lord Jesus Christ
The blessing of eternal life comes with victory over death and sin. A blessing that the kings in the past sought to find but in vain. The secret to eternal life comes by faith in Jesus Christ. This truth, for God’s people, must warm the heart and strengthen the soul. God’s power of salvation is freely given to all who will receive Jesus Christ by faith.
1 Corinthians 15:57-58, Therefore, My Beloved Brethren
It is with great rejoicing that the people of God give praise to the power of the gospel to save lost souls. It is first of all imbibed then lovingly offered to others. And the exhortation is that the people of God be kept strong in the Lord and be kept strong fervently serving the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:58, Always Abounding In the Work of the Lord
All that the believer does as unto the Lord for His honour and glory constitutes the believer’s new life in Christ. He is exhorted to keep relying on the Lord through prayer and to do all in accordance with God’s Word. This constitutes the good work of the believer that the Apostle Paul encourages should abound.
1 Corinthians 15:58, Your Labour Is Not In Vain In the Lord
Death is no longer an impasse for the Christian, God has provided for His people a comprehensive solution. We are going to inherit an incorruptible body, a new body, no more aches and pains, a body that will last us for eternity. This is the promise of God in the preceding text.
1 Corinthians 15:58, Be Ye Steadfast
We live in a world where the line of truth is blurred and men call good evil and evil good. A time likened to the days before God sent the global flood to destroy the known world wherein Noah and his family of 8 were saved when they got into the ark before the rain came.