798 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 2 Book 67 - But God! (Gave the Increase) - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 67 BUT GOD! (Gave the Increase) – Part 2 I Corinthians 3:7 and Other Pertinent Scriptures All right, it is good to see you all in here again. For those of you out in television, again we want to invite you to an informal Bible study. We do not have any organization holding their thumb over us. We’re totally independent. It’s between us and the Lord. We just want people to learn how to open the Scriptures and study them, and which we trust we might have accomplished a little bit in that last program. Now, toward the end of that last lesson I totally digressed, but maybe it’ll help people understand that once in a while you’ve got to fill in some details. Do it scripturally and prayerfully, but whenever the Scripture just seemingly says, well, now what’s it talking about? That’s when you get in and dig. Find out what it’s talking about! All right, we’re going to do like we did in our last program. To show what I’m always talking about by rightly dividing the Scriptures, there is a statement by a gentleman way back in the 1500’s. There it is. Okay, I didn’t think I was seeing it, but anyway, what Coverdale wrote way back in the 1500’s, and again, I’ll just read it off of our monitor, “It shall greatly help you to understand Scriptures if you see what is written, what is spoken, and all these things ask of whom and to whom, with what words, and what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, what goes before and what comes after?” Now, if you take all that into consideration as you study, then things will finally start opening up. First thing you say, “Well, who wrote this?” Well, Paul did. “What were the circumstances?” He’s writing to a church of Gentiles that have got a lot of problems. All these things sort of help you understand. Well anyway, we digressed in our last program. We didn’t even finish the one we started, so we’re going to go back on this program to I Corinthians chapter 3. We were down to verse 5, I think it was, and I explained that sometimes you just have to fill in some of the details. I guess where I took off was with this man Apollos. Apollos wasn’t a Corinthian. He wasn’t a native of Corinth. He was actually from Alexandria in Egypt, and he was a highly educated Jew. What we pointed out in our last program was how Priscilla and Aquila took him aside and explained to him more fully the Pauline revelations. The man was humble enough, that, in spite of his pomp and circumstance, his education and his oratory, he was willing to listen to a couple of simple lay-people who “expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly” as they had learned from the Apostle Paul. But anyway, he became a man of influence even in the Corinthian church. Now, somebody at break-time just asked me this question, because Peter comes into the picture, not right here, but he does a little bit later when they say, well, we follow Peter. They asked me how Peter got involved. As far as we know, he was never over at Corinth. But, like I said in the last program, were people any different then than they are today? Well, of course not. So, Apollos had probably known all about Peter, having been an educated Jew, and others may have come their way that knew all about the Twelve and their ministry. So, the Corinthian believers had a pretty good handle on who Peter was and what kind of influence he had in Christ’s earthy ministry. So, he gets lifted up as someone to be followed instead of Paul. There are many that still do that today. Sad, isn’t it? All right, let’s come back where we left off in verse 5. I Corinthians 3:5 “Who then is Paul, (In other words, he’s putting himself on the same level with these others to whom they were dividing their attention.) and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, (In other words, it was through the instrumentation of men opening up the things of God.) even as the Lord gave to every man?” Now, I think that’s an appropriate place to stop. Scripture with Scripture is the only way. Come back with me to Romans chapter 10, and like I said in the last program, there are rare exceptions where people come to salvation with nothing but the Word of God. No help. No tutors. They find salvation alone in the Word. But that’s rare. Others may take a lot of teaching. They may take a lot of witnessing on behalf of believers before they finally come around. Then others, as I mentioned again last program, we had a call at the end of one program, just one program, where the Lord had gloriously opened their eyes and saved them! They never go back to their other situation, and they become students of the Word. I could name several of them, but I don’t name names on my program, hopefully. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible