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What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you
believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos
watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor
he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He
who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his
wages according to his labor. For we are God's fellow workers.
You are God's field, God's building.
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master
builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it.
Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay
a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become
manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by
fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If
the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will
receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss,
though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit
dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy
him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
I Corinthians 3:5-17 (ESV)
Paul uses two analogies
First, there is the agricultural analogy.
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you
believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos
watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor
he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He
who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his
wages according to his labor. For we are God's fellow workers.
You are God's field, God's building.
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you
believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos
watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor
he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He
who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his
wages according to his labor. For we are God's fellow workers.
You are God's field, God's building.
Paul uses two analogies
First, there is the agricultural analogy.
A farmer can only do so much work. After the seed is planted and
watered the farmer must wait.
Paul uses two analogies
First, there is the agricultural analogy.
Second, he uses a building analogy.
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master
builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it.
Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay
a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become
manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by
fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If
the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will
receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss,
though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master
builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it.
Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay
a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become
manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by
fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If
the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will
receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss,
though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master
builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it.
Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay
a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become
manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by
fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If
the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will
receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss,
though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
There is both a personal and corporate warning here.
There is both a personal and corporate warning here.
Personally, we need to be careful in what we put our faith.
There is both a personal and corporate warning here.
Personally, we need to be careful in what we put our faith.
Corporately, we need to be careful that what we do has its
foundation in God’s will and word.
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit
dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy
him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
I Corinthians 3:5-17 (ESV)
This verse is oftentimes given a very personal application.
We need to remember the context of the verse.
This verse is oftentimes given a very personal application.
We need to remember the context of the verse.
God has not abandoned, or given up on his work with the church.
This verse is oftentimes given a very personal application.
We need to remember the context of the verse.
God has not abandoned, or given up on his work with the church.
The church was, is, and will be God’s method of bring salvation
and worship to the earth.