1Cor2:15-3:9
The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.But I, brothers,1 could not address you asaspiritual people, but as bpeople of the flesh, ascinfants in Christ. 2 dI fed you with milk, not solid food, for eyou were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is fjealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 4 For gwhen one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” hare you not being merely human?
5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? iServants through whom you believed, jas the Lord assigned to each. 6 kI planted, lApollos watered, mbut God gave the growth. 7 So nneither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each owill receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are pGod's fellow workers. You are God's field, qGod's building.
Why are there so many divisions? Why is it that people are so blind that they think people just like to follow a particular group or a person? Worse still, why do we always think that Calvinism is following John Calvin or whatever... If there's only one baptism, one faith, why is that we can't talk about it? Why is that we just like to avoid conflict and not talk about our differences?
If there's only one Bible and one Lord, why would there be differences or rather why can the differences be at two extremities? It just doesn't make much sense does it?
And by avoiding all these, are we not just adapting the worldly wisdom of wanting to pursue peace and harmony? If that was the goal, why did the Reformation ever happen then? And mind you, if the Reformation didn't happen, we wouldn't be having our bibles right now(which MIGHT REDUCE THESE PROBLEMS THOUGH)...
If we truly profess that we're Christians, why do treasure or place worldly wisdoms before us? Like piling ourselves up with books or researches or medical stuffs or movies or all kinds of crap? Is not the bible the source of wisdom? ahhh...
The worse thing is to be able to identify ourselves with the Corinthians... Notice the passage up there with the bolded text... Yup, you did not see it wrongly, the 'But' after the fullstop is included!!! And that's the gist of the stupidity that we have...
Look up the verses again... Paul is saying the spiritual person judges ALL THINGS EVEN ANGELS IN CHAPTER 6... WHY??? Because we have the MIND OF CHRIST!!! And then in chapter 3, he starts with a big BUT!!!
Gosh, imagine when you were in the best class in school, the whole school knows that everyone in the class scores at least 95/100, and on results day, your teacher says all of you did well, BUT... Yeah, it's that kind of tone!!! Imagine, Paul has been affirming their identity in Christ in Chapter 1 and in Chapter 3 he started with a big BUT!!!
And what was the 'but' for? It was because they were still immature and pursuing worldly wisdom!!!
Ahhhhhhh... How hard it is to be mature... Lord please help us to love your Word and renew our minds through it so that we can mature and live appropriately as eschatological beings...
