4/6/2024 0 Comments Clay jars bible![]() Right sort of religious hucksters… a kind of salesman in the worst sense of the word. So, lots of relevance for our role there as those who point to Christ and His Gospel message. It seems like he is talking primarily to preachers – to people like you and me but really they apply to every Christian because every Christian is called in one way or another to live the Gospel out as a witness to the Lord Jesus. The place where he most fully explains the resurrection of the body – the ground of our hope – is I Corinthians 15 because there were problems with the resurrection and here, throughout II Corinthians we have these marvelous passages, one after another after another, where he explains the nature of Christian ministry and Christian witness. So, the only place where Paul really explains the meaning of the Lord’s Supper is in I Corinthians because there were problems with that there. We learn things that we never would have learned otherwise if they hadn’t been challenged by those contentious Christians in Corinth. In fact, this is true of both Corinthian letters. Really what we get here is reactive on Paul’s part. ![]()
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