APOSTLES … CONDEMNED / 1 CORINTHIANS 4:9-13

(KJV) 1 Corinthians 4:9-13

Now Paul describes some of the difficulties endured by the apostles – those personally commissioned by Christ to deliver His original message and lead the effort of establishing His church. The verb “put on display” gives a picture of the gladiator contests in the arena (or perhaps a victory procession of a Roman general parading his prisoners through the city). It suggests that God has appointed the apostles to a life of adversity, inconvenience and suffering to be seen by the world, by angels and by the church.

1. Paul’s circumstances even at that time (as he wrote from Ephesus) involved such things as lack of food, drink and proper clothing. He has been despised, mistreated and has no home. He has worked hard night and day; and yet, he is cursed, persecuted, slandered and considered the “scum of the earth, the refuse [trash] of the world” (2 Corinthians 4:8-9; 6:4-5, 8-10; 11:23-29; 12:10).
2. Although suffering was in one sense a special condition of Paul’s ministry as an apostle (Acts 9:16), it is also the common experience of all true believers who are loyal to Christ and are opposed to sin, Satan, evil and injustice. Their difficulties are a means of sharing and identifying with Christ’s suffering (Romans 8:17; Philippians 1:29; 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 3:3).

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1. HAVE ALL YOU WANT … HAVE BECOME RICH / 1 CORINTHIANS 4:8
2. WHY DO YOU BOAST / 1 CORINTHINANS 4:7
3. EXPOSE THE MOTIVES OF MEN’S HEARTS / 1 CORINTHIANS 4:5
4. CONSCIENCE IS CLEAR … DOES NOT MAKE ME INNOCENT / 1 CORINTHIANS 4:4
5. GOD WILL DESTROY HIM / 1 CORINTHIANS 3:17
6. YOU YOURSELVES ARE GOD’S TEMPLE / 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16
7. HE WILL SUFFER LOSS – BUT ONLY AS ONE ESCAPING THROUGH THE FLAMES / 1 CORINTHIANS 3:15
8. ONE PURPOSE / 1 CORINTHIANS 3:8
9. YOU ARE STILL WORLDLY / 1 CORINTHIANS 3:3
10. NOT ADDRESS YOU AS SPIRITUAL / 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1
11. WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST / 1 CORINTHIANS 2:16
12. WORDS TAUGHT BY THE SPIRIT / 1 CORINTHIANS 2:13
13. THAT WE MAY UNDERSTAND / 1 CORINTHIANS 2:12
14. I FOLLOW PAUL … APOLLOS … CEPHAS … I FOLLOW CHRIST / 1 CORINTHIANS 1:12
15. A DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT’S POWER / 1 CORINTHIANS 2:4
16. I DID NOT COME WITH … WISDOM / 1 CORINTHIANS 2:1
17. CHRIST JESUS HAS BECOME FOR US WISDOM / 1 CORINTHIANS 1:30
18. NULLIFY THE THINGS THAT ARE / 1 CORINTHIANS 1:28-29
19. GOD CHOSE THE FOOLISH THINGS / 1 CORINTHIANS 1:27
20. THE FOOLISHNESS OF WHAT WAS PREACHED / 1 CORINTHIANS 1:21
21. THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD / 1 CORINTHIANS 1:20
22. CHRIST DID NOT SEND ME TO BAPTIZE / 1 CORINTHIANS 1:17
23. GOD … IS FAITHFUL / 1 CORINTHIANS 1:9
24. IT IS THE POWER OF GOD / 1 CORINTHIANS 1:8
25. YOU DO NOT LACK ANY SPIRITUAL GIFT – WAIT FOR OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO BE REVEALED / 1 CORINTHIANS 1:7
26. CALLED TO BE HOLY / 1 CORINTHIANS 1:1-2
27. PRAY WITH MY SPIRIT – PRAY WITH MY MIND / 1 CORINTHIANS 14:14-15
28. THIS CUP / 1 CORINTHIANS 11:25
29. THE GREATEST … IS LOVE / 1 CORINTHIANS 13:13
30. TONGUES, THEY WILL BE STILLED / 1 CORINTHIANS 13:8
31. LOVE IS PATIENT / 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-7
32. I AM NOTHING / 1 CORINTHIANS 13:2
33. BUT HAVE NOT LOVE / 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1
34. GUIDED BY GRACE ABOUT

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