330 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 2 - Book 28 - Eternal Excellence of Love - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 28 ETERNAL EXCELLENCE OF LOVE - PART 2 Now let's pick up where we left off in the love chapter, at verse 10, and remember we had just looked at Hebrews 6 where Paul said, "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ,..." Paul's writings are a progressive revelation just like the Bible is as a whole. And so the Book of Romans and the first one of Paul's letters in the New Testament are doctrinally elementary. I've said so often if people could just understand two chapters in the Bible then they've got the battle over half won, and those are Genesis Chapter 3 which records the fall of mankind, and his problem with sin. Now let's get back to the great love chapter, and we've been stressing that Paul puts this little chapter, by inspiration, between two chapters that are even controversial today. Now verse 11: I Corinthians 13:11 "When I was a child, (Paul uses simplistic illustrations, and I also like to use illustrations that even grade school kids can understand.) I think he probably got those revelations while he was in prison in Caesarea. I Corinthians 13:12 "For now we see through a glass, (or we look into a mirror) darkly; but then face to face: ...." Paul was seeing through an opaque view. I Corinthians 13:12b It is so obvious that when you start those prison epistles, the revelations go completely beyond his earliest epistles of Thessalonians, Corinthians, Romans and Galatians. Then verse 13. I Corinthians 13:13 Faith, hope and charity, or love. Sometimes it may be faith and love. Naturally, without faith you cannot please God. So of the three, faith, hope and love, even love is now the greatest. Now let's back up and pick up with Chapter 12. Now look at verse 1. I Corinthians 12:1 "Now concerning spiritual gifts brethren, I would not have you ignorant." I know your King James says "gifts." "Now concerning spirituals, or spiritual things." Let me show you what I'm talking about. Here we're into one of the deeper aspects, the fuller and more final revelations that the apostle Paul received. Ephesians 6:12 The word "spiritual" here in Ephesians is basically the same Greek word, it's different case, but it's still the same Greek word as what is translated the "spirituals" in Chapter 12 of I Corinthians verse 1. I Corinthians 12:1 "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant." I Corinthians 12:10a Go all the way back to I John Chapter 4, verse 1. This is just as relevant today as it was when John wrote it, or when Paul wrote Corinthians. It is still the valid Word of God, and look what it says: I John 4:1a Believers!) believe not every spirit...." Now remember the word there isn't capitalized. It's the small case "s" and so it's not talking about the Holy Spirit, but it's talking about a spirit that is involved with the very mind and mental attributes of man, as well as Satan. You know the spirit of Satan is never capitalized either. I John 4:1 "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try (or test) the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." I Corinthians 12:1 "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant." God does not want the most uneducated believer to be ignorant. There are Bibles in every book store and commentaries galore. But the Word of God can be understood by the lowliest, the most uneducated in the world. God has promised it. Now verse 2. I Corinthians 12:2 The word "dumb" there merely means that they couldn't speak. Now verse 3. I Corinthians 12:3a "Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit (capital "S." That's the Holy Spirit. Small case "s" is not the Holy Spirit. It's the spirit of man or spirit of evil, but it is not the Holy Spirit.) calleth Jesus accursed:..." What do they call Jesus? Accursed! That accursed Person? I'm not, I'm reading Scripture. Turn with me now to Acts Chapter 5. "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, `We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.'" Now let's go back to Matthew 27 and verse 5. Deuteronomy 21 and here is why Jews, with a straight face and conscious, would accuse or curse Jesus because He had been hanged on a Cross. Deuteronomy 21:22,23 Paul is making it so plain here in I Corinthians 12 that no man who is now a believer and under the control of the Holy Spirit would ever call Jesus accursed simply because He'd been crucified. I thought how in the world could anybody curse Jesus? I Corinthians 12:3b "...and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, (and really mean it) but by the Holy Ghost." No unbeliever can ever claim that Christ is His Lord, it's impossible. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible