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Pauline Theology
South Florida Bible College &
Seminary
© John Stevenson, 2009
And you were dead in
your trespasses and
sins, 2 in which you
formerly walked
according to the
course of this world,
according to the
prince of the power of
the air, of the spirit
that is now working in
the sons of
Ephesians 2:1-2 disobedience.
Among them we
too all formerly
lived in the lusts of
our flesh,
indulging the
desires of the
flesh and of the
mind, and were by
nature children of
wrath, even as the
rest.
Ephesians 2:3
• Dead in sin (Ephesians
2:1).
• Children of wrath
(Ephesians 2:3).
• Slaves of sin (Romans
6:20).
• In Adam (1 Corinthians
15:22).
Sin is so much a
part of the being
of man that it
can be
described as
“flesh.”
How do
we get
there
from
here?
But God, being rich in
mercy, because of His
great love with which
He loved us, 5 even
when we were dead in
our transgressions,
made us alive
together with Christ
(by grace you have
been saved)…
(Ephesians 2:4-5).
…and raised us up
with Him, and seated
us with Him in the
heavenly places in
Christ Jesus, 7 so
that in the ages to
come He might show
the surpassing riches
of His grace in
kindness toward us in
Christ Jesus.
(Ephesians 2:6-7).
Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been
saved through faith; and that not
of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9 not as a result of works, so that
no one may boast.
tou/to – neuter singular
ca,riti, – feminine singular
sesw|sme,noi– masculine plural participle
pi,stewj – feminine singular
Ephesians 2:8-10
For by grace you have been
saved through faith; and that not
of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9 not as a result of works, so that
no one may boast.
10 For we are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared
beforehand so that we would walk
in them.
1 Corinthians
Practical Lessons on Unity
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Corinth
Corinth
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A smelting pot of many peoples.
Pagan cults.
Immorality.
Church plagued by division.
Divorce
Trend to glorify the scientific and
philosophical and to ridicule the spiritual.
• The role of men and women in the church.
• Questions of the uses and misuses of the
spiritual gifts.
1 Corinthians 1:10-11
Now I exhort you, brethren, by
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that you all agree, and there be no
divisions among you, but you be made
complete in the same mind and in the
same judgment.
11 For I have been informed
concerning you, my brethren, by
Chloe's people, that there are quarrels
among you.
10
Chapters 1-6
Chapters 7-10
Chapters 11-16
Unity
Questions
Errors
• Divisions
• Need for Unity
• Necessary
Divisions
• Single & Married
• Meat & Idols
• Women & Worship
• Lord’s Supper
• Gifts
• Resurrection
5:1-13
6:1-11
6:12-20
Sexual misconduct
that calls for church
discipline
Legal lawsuits that
call for church
oversight
Lustful temptations
that call for a
connective reminder
Unity broken by sin.
Unity threatened by Unity shared in
disagreements.
Christ.
Christians in Corinth
Those who felt it was
wrong to eat
They did
not eat,
but were
troubled
by those
who did
They ate in
spite of
thinking it
was wrong
and their
conscience
was
troubled
Those who felt it was
okay to eat
They ate
without
regard to
the feelings
of others
They limited
their liberty
from
concern for
other
brothers
8:1
9:1
9:15
A call to
limit liberty
for the sake
of the weaker
brother
An example of this type of limited liberty
seen in Paul’s limitation of his liberty to be
paid in the ministry
Paul has the
Paul has limited his
right to be paid liberty for the sake of the
in ministry
Corinthians
1 Corinthians 9:24-25
Do you not know that those who run
in a race all run, but only one receives
the prize? Run in such a way that you
may win.
25 And everyone who competes in the
games exercises self-control in all
things. They then do it to receive a
perishable wreath, but we an
imperishable.
24
1 Corinthians 9:26-27
Therefore I run in such a way, as
not without aim; I box in such a way,
as not beating the air; 27 but I buffet my
body and make it my slave, lest
possibly, after I have preached to
others, I myself should be disqualified.
26
For I do not want you to be unaware,
brethren, that our fathers were… (10:1)
• All under the cloud
• All passed through the sea
• All were baptized into Moses in the
cloud and in the sea
• All ate the same spiritual food
• All drank the same spiritual drink
Nevertheless, with most of them God was
not well-pleased; for they were laid low in
the wilderness (10:5).
1 Corinthians 10:11-13
Now these things happened to them
as an example, and they were written
for our instruction, upon whom the
ends of the ages have come.
12 Therefore let him who thinks he
stands take heed lest he fall.
13 No temptation has overtaken you
but such as is common to man; and
God is faithful, who will not allow you
to be tempted beyond what you are
able, but with the temptation will
provide the way of escape also, that
you may be able to endure it.
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Universal versus Local
Application
What sort of applications should
be made to the teachings found in
1 Corinthians 11:4-6?
Chapter 12 Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Paul teaches Paul points out
that there are that having and
many different
exhibiting
gifts, but that various gifts is
each are no
not nearly so
less a part of
important as
the body
having love
Paul deals with
the specific issue
of the use of
tongues in the
church and how
it is better to do
that which
edifies others
The Resurrection
• Christ rose from the dead
• We will also rise from the dead
15:35
Two questions
15:36
15:45
15:50
Three Answers: The Resurrection Body is...
• How raised? Illustrated Necessary from
Experienced at the
• What body? in nature the Old Testament coming of Christ
First
Corinthians
Striving for
Unity
John
Stevenson
You have just taken on the role of
youth pastor in your church…
Form an
action
plan to
deal with
this
problem
The group tends to be divided
into several cliques. Worse
still, some kids in the group are
not included in any clique.
These “misfits” are treated as
insignificant and are viewed as
offering little to the “important”
people in the group.
nd
2
Corinthians
Defending the Faith
The Second Epistle to the
Corinthians
• The most biographical of all of
Paul’s writings.
• This epistle is written some time
after 1st Corinthians. Some of the
problems in that first epistle had
been settled; some still remained.
– The legitimacy of Paul’s apostleship
had been brought into question.
– Another collection for the church in
Jerusalem.
Occasions for the Epistle
• Paul explains why he has not
returned to Corinth (1:15 – 2:4).
• Restoration of a repentant
believer (2:5-11).
• Encouragement to complete an
offering for the church in
Jerusalem (8-9).
• To affirm his apostleship and
teachings which have come
under attack.
Outline of 2nd Corinthians
Chapters 1-7
Chapters 8-9
Chapters 10-13
A presentation
of Paul’s
apostolic
ministry
An
encouragement
of the Corinthians’
financial ministry
A defense of
Paul’s apostolic
ministry
Personal
Practical
Personal
Introduction (1:1-11)
Travel Plans: Why Paul didn’t come
to Corinth (1:12 - 2:13)
Presentation of Paul’s Apostolic Ministry
(2:14 - 7:16)
Collection of a Love Gift for the Jerusalem
Church (8-9)
Defense of Paul’s Apostolic Ministry
(10:1 - 12:10)
Travel Plans: Paul’s upcoming trip
to Corinth (12:11 - 13:10)
Conclusion (13:11-14)
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of mercies and God of
all comfort; 4 who comforts us in
all our affliction so that we may be
able to comfort those who are in
any affliction with the comfort with
which we ourselves are comforted
by God.
2 Corinthians 1:8-10
For we do not want you to be
unaware, brethren, of our affliction
which came to us in Asia, that we
were burdened excessively, beyond
our strength, so that we despaired
even of life; 9 indeed, we had the
sentence of death within ourselves in
order that we should not trust in
ourselves, but in God who raises the
dead; 10 who delivered us from so
great a peril of death, and will deliver
us, He on whom we have set our
hope. And He will yet deliver us…
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Introduction (1:1-11)
Travel Plans: Why Paul didn’t come
to Corinth (1:12 - 2:13)
Presentation of Paul’s Apostolic Ministry
(2:14 - 7:16)
Collection of a Love Gift for the Jerusalem
Church (8-9)
Defense of Paul’s Apostolic Ministry
(10:1 - 12:10)
Travel Plans: Paul’s upcoming trip
to Corinth (12:11 - 13:10)
Conclusion (13:11-14)
2 Corinthians 2:1-3
But I determined this for my
own sake, that I would not come to
you in sorrow again. 2 For if I cause
you sorrow, who then makes me glad
but the one whom I made sorrowful?
3 And this is the very thing I
wrote you, lest, when I came, I
should have sorrow from those who
ought to make me rejoice; having
confidence in you all, that my joy
would be the joy of you all.
1
2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and
anguish of heart I wrote to you with
many tears; not that you should be
made sorrowful, but that you might
know the love which I have especially
for you.
2 Corinthians 2:6-8
Sufficient for such a one is this
punishment which was inflicted by
the majority, 7 so that on the contrary
you should rather forgive and comfort
him, lest somehow such a one be
overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
8
Wherefore I urge you to
reaffirm your love for him.
6
Introduction (1:1-11)
Travel Plans: Why Paul didn’t come
to Corinth (1:12 - 2:13)
Presentation of Paul’s Apostolic Ministry
(2:14 - 7:16)
Collection of a Love Gift for the Jerusalem
Church (8-9)
Defense of Paul’s Apostolic Ministry
(10:1 - 12:10)
Travel Plans: Paul’s upcoming trip
to Corinth (12:11 - 13:10)
Conclusion (13:11-14)
2 Corinthians 2:14-16
But thanks be to God, who
always leads us in His triumph in
Christ, and manifests through us the
sweet aroma of the knowledge of
Him in every place.
15 For we are a fragrance of
Christ to God among those who are
being saved and among those who
are perishing; 16 to the one an aroma
from death to death, to the other an
aroma from life to life. And who is
adequate for these things?
14
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not like many,
peddling the word of God, but as
from sincerity, but as from God, we
speak in Christ in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 3:1-3
Are we beginning to commend
ourselves again? Or do we need, as
some, letters of commendation to you
or from you?
2 You are our letter, written in our
hearts, known and read by all men; 3
being manifested that you are a letter
of Christ, cared for by us, written not
with ink, but with the Spirit of the living
God, not on tablets of stone, but on
tablets of human hearts.
1
2 Corinthians 3:4-6
And such confidence we have
through Christ toward God. 5 Not that
we are adequate in ourselves to
consider anything as coming from
ourselves, but our adequacy is from
God, 6 who also made us adequate as
servants of a new covenant, not of the
letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter
kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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Old Covenant
New Covenant
The letter
The Spirit
Tablets of stone
Tablets of human
hearts
The letter kills
The Spirit gives life
If the ministry of the
death, in letters
engraved on stones,
came with glory…
How shall the ministry
of the Spirit fail to be
even more with glory?
2 Corinthians 3:12-13
Having therefore
such a hope, we use
great boldness in our
speech, 13 and are not
as Moses, who used to
put a veil over his face
that the sons of Israel
might not look intently
at the end of what was
fading away.
2 Corinthians 3:14-16
But their minds were hardened;
for until this very day at the reading of
the old covenant the same veil
remains unlifted, because it is
removed in Christ.
15
But to this day whenever
Moses is read, a veil lies over their
heart; 16 but whenever a man turns to
the Lord, the veil is taken away.
14
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and
where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty.
18 But we all, with unveiled face
beholding as in a mirror the glory of
the Lord, are being transformed into
the same image from glory to glory,
just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
17
2 Corinthians 4:3-5
And even if our gospel is veiled,
it is veiled to those who are perishing,
4 in whose case the god of this world
has blinded the minds of the
unbelieving, that they might not see
the light of the gospel of the glory of
Christ, who is the image of God.
5 For we do not preach ourselves
but Christ Jesus as Lord, and
ourselves as your bond-servants for
Jesus' sake.
3
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all
appear before the
judgment seat of Christ,
that each one may be
recompensed for his
deeds in the body,
according to what he has
done, whether good or
bad.
2 Corinthians 5:11
Therefore knowing
the fear of the Lord, we
persuade men, but we
are made manifest to
God; and I hope that we
are made manifest also
in your consciences.
2 Corinthians 5:20
Therefore, we are
ambassadors for Christ,
as though God were
entreating through us;
we beg you on behalf of
Christ, be reconciled to
God.
Introduction (1:1-11)
Travel Plans: Why Paul didn’t come
to Corinth (1:12 - 2:13)
Presentation of Paul’s Apostolic Ministry
(2:14 - 7:16)
Collection of a Love Gift for the Jerusalem
Church (8-9)
Defense of Paul’s Apostolic Ministry
(10:1 - 12:10)
Travel Plans: Paul’s upcoming trip
to Corinth (12:11 - 13:10)
Conclusion (13:11-14)
2 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now, brethren, we wish
to make known to you
the grace of God which
has been given in the
churches of Macedonia, 2
that in a great ordeal of
affliction their abundance
of joy and their deep
poverty overflowed in the
wealth of their liberality.
Macedonia
●
Corinth
2 Corinthians 8:6-7
Consequently we urged Titus
that as he had previously made a
beginning, so he would also complete
in you this gracious work as well. 7 But
just as you abound in everything, in
faith and utterance and knowledge
and in all earnestness and in the love
we inspired in you, see that you
abound in this gracious work also.
6
2 Corinthians 8:8-9
I am not speaking this as a
command, but as proving through the
earnestness of others the sincerity of
your love also.
9 For you know the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was
rich, yet for your sake He became
poor, that you through His poverty
might become rich.
8
2 Corinthians 9:6-7
Now this I say, he who sows
sparingly shall also reap sparingly;
and he who sows bountifully shall also
reap bountifully.
7 Let each one do just as he has
purposed in his heart; not grudgingly
or under compulsion; for God loves a
cheerful giver.
6
2 Corinthians 9:8-9
And God is able to make all
grace abound to you, that always
having all sufficiency in everything,
you may have an abundance for every
good deed; 9 as it is written, "He
scattered abroad, he gave to the poor,
His righteousness abides forever."
8
2 Corinthians 9:10-11
Now He who supplies seed to
the sower and bread for food, will
supply and multiply your seed for
sowing and increase the harvest of
your righteousness; 11 you will be
enriched in everything for all liberality,
which through us is producing
thanksgiving to God.
10
Introduction (1:1-11)
Travel Plans: Why Paul didn’t come
to Corinth (1:12 - 2:13)
Presentation of Paul’s Apostolic Ministry
(2:14 - 7:16)
Collection of a Love Gift for the Jerusalem
Church (8-9)
Defense of Paul’s Apostolic Ministry
(10:1 - 12:10)
Travel Plans: Paul’s upcoming trip
to Corinth (12:11 - 13:10)
Conclusion (13:11-14)
2 Corinthians 10:12-13
For we are not bold to class or
compare ourselves with some of
those who commend themselves; but
when they measure themselves by
themselves, and compare themselves
with themselves, they are without
understanding. 13 But we will not boast
beyond our measure, but within the
measure of the sphere which God
apportioned to us as a measure, to
reach even as far as you.
12
2 Corinthians 11:2-3
For I am jealous for you with a
godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to
one husband, that to Christ I might
present you as a pure virgin.
3 But I am afraid, lest as the
serpent deceived Eve by his
craftiness, your minds should be led
astray from the simplicity and purity of
devotion to Christ.
2
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if one comes and preaches
another Jesus whom we have not
preached, or you receive a different
spirit which you have not received, or
a different gospel which you have not
accepted, you bear this beautifully.
2 Corinthians 12:1-2
Boasting is necessary, though it
is not profitable; but I will go on to
visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 I know a man in Christ who
fourteen years ago-- whether in the
body I do not know, or out of the body
I do not know, God knows-- such a
man was caught up to the third
heaven.
1
2 Corinthians 12:3-5
And I know how such a man-whether in the body or apart from the
body I do not know, God knows-- 4
was caught up into Paradise, and
heard inexpressible words, which a
man is not permitted to speak.
5 On behalf of such a man will I
boast; but on my own behalf I will not
boast, except in regard to my
weaknesses.
3
2 Corinthians 12:7-8
And because of the surpassing
greatness of the revelations, for this
reason, to keep me from exalting
myself, there was given me a thorn in
the flesh, a messenger of Satan to
buffet me-- to keep me from exalting
myself!
8 Concerning this I entreated the
Lord three times that it might depart
from me.
7
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
And He has said to me, "My
grace is sufficient for you, for power is
perfected in weakness." Most gladly,
therefore, I will rather boast about my
weaknesses, that the power of Christ
may dwell in me.
10 Therefore I am well content
with weaknesses, with insults, with
distresses, with persecutions, with
difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when
I am weak, then I am strong.
9
Look through these epistles
and look for principles on…
Groups 1 & 2
Groups 3 & 4
The Purity of
the Church
The Unity of
the Church
What happens when a church
moves to one extreme or the
other?
Unity
Purity