God's command to His people is that the wicked who claim to be Christians are to be put out of the church. The Passover is a picture of how the church is to be pure - clean out the leaven because Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.
Christ is coming again! The parable of the 10 Virgins is a call to us to be ready, knowing that He could return at the most unexpected time. Those not prepared will find themselves shut out of the kingdom.
Moses is an example of genuine faith. He chose to suffer with the people of God rather than cling to the treasures of Egypt.
Paul admonishes the Corinthians for their arrogance in failing to grieve over gross sin in their midst and to put such a professing Christian out of the church.
Paul admonishes the Corinthians for their arrogance. He shows them his experience in following Christ and rebukes them for puffing themselves up in pride. The church of today needs this rebuke.
The church has been entrusted with a treasure - the gospel - which must be guarded carefully and faithfully. Otherwise we will be found unfaithful when Christ comes again. We are stewards of this pearl of great price and we must never alter it no matter how much pressure people with itching ears crave another gospel.
When Paul tells us to be renewed in the spirit of our mind, he means that the very essence and depth of the sinner's being is corrupted so that the mind is darkened, blinded, and broken. It cannot process God's Revelation to us and twists His truth into a lie.
The world's wisdom is foolishness to God. If we are going to be wise in God's real wisdom, we must be willing to be regarded as fools by the world.
Faith is a gift from God given when He makes us new creations. Faith embraces the wisdom of God even though the world calls it foolishness. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. Man the sinner cannot and will not believe God's Word.
The wisdom of God, the truth of Christ and His Word and gospel, is only seen and heard by the work of the Holy Spirit in us. A real Christian is a person who had heard Christ, who has learned Christ, who has been taught Christ - all by the life-working work of the Holy Spirit. Apart from this spiritual work in us by the Spirit, we would never HEAR Christ.
