Men’s Saturday Morning First Corinthians Study Saturday, January 7, 2006

Men’s Saturday Morning First Corinthians Study

• Saturday, January 7, 2006

• Happy New Year!

How do I start a new study?

• Pray

• Start reading

• Other writings that can help?

• History?
• Geography?
• Timelines?

Purpose

• So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused [them] to understand the reading. (Neh 8:8)

Purpose

• So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused [them] to understand the reading. (Neh 8:8)

• Read 1Corinthians distinctly

Purpose

• So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused [them] to understand the reading. (Neh 8:8)

• Read 1Corinthians distinctly

• Serve the Context

Purpose

• So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused [them] to understand the reading. (Neh 8:8)

• Read 1Corinthians distinctly

• Serve the Context

• Which lead to understanding

Purpose

• So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused [them] to understand the reading. (Neh 8:8)

• Read 1Corinthians distinctly

• Serve the Context

• Which lead to understanding

• Bend your paradigm to match God’s

Resources

• Bible - Acts, Galatians, 1&2Co, Ephesians, Luke, 1&2Thess, Philippians, Philemon, Colossians, and Habakkuk

• Holy Spirit

• NASB Study Bible

• KJV

• www.blueletterbible.org

• Halley’s Bible Commentary

1Co 1:1-2a

• 1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

• 2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, …

Where did Paul write the letter from?

• But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. (1Co 16:8)

Where in the world is Corinth, Greece? Ephesus?

Regions Represented at Pentecost in Acts 2

What happened next?

The Founding of the Church of Corinth per Acts 18

• Approximately 52 A.D.

• 250,000 free, 400,000 slaves

• Port City, Prosperous, Intellectual

• 1000 temple prostitutes to Aphrodite

• “to Corinthianize” = commit sexual immorality

Quickly, what about the rest of Paul’s life?

So here we are 56 AD in Ephesus with Paul

Context

• Who? To Believers at Corinth

• What? A letter

• How? Sosthenes

• Who is Sosthenes?

• When? 56 AD, Paul is about 50 yrs old

• Where? From Ephesus to Corinth

• Why? Paul had a relationship with them

Read the rest of Chapter 1

Paul’s Spiritual Early Years

Detail of Paul’s First Journey

Detail of Paul’s Second Journey

Detail of Paul’s Third Journey

Detail of Paul’s Voyage to Rome

Paul riding into shore on the waves at Malta

Paul’s Spiritual History in Acts

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