Teaching Ministry from 1 Corinthians (DVD Box Set) Part 2 & 3

Dr Peter Masters

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Part 2 & 3 are now in one box - (19 messages on 10 DVDs)
On Active Service
Urgent Living (7.29-31)
Our lives are ever running lower on time to love and serve the
Lord. We cannot make earthly matters, including our home, our
chief priority in favour of the cause of Christ and of souls. Are
we living too much for things that are doomed to pass away?
Dangerous Knowledge (8.1)
Spiritual knowledge, though vital, is merely ego-inflating if
unaccompanied by active love for Christ, for His cause, and
for souls, as well as by an active conscience warning of sin, and
urging to Christian duties. Here is how love and conscience work
to make knowledge effective, and to keep us humble.
The Glorious Burden (9.1-17)
Paul earns his own living to avoid hindering the Gospel.
However, God commands the normal support of preachers.
Here is the obligation of the persuasive offer of the Gospel, and
it is consistent with election and regeneration. Also, maintaining
fervour for souls, and the woe pronounced against slackness.
Gospel Priorities (9.19)
To be saved by the Gospel means to live for the Gospel.
1 Corinthians 9 is often used to justify compromise with the world,
so called 'front line' living, even patronising pubs and clubs. It
actually condemns this, presenting real dedication to the Gospel,
gaining much instrumentality.
Backsliding Dangers (10.11)
In the wilderness, the Israelites were punished not only for
idolatry and fornication, but also for wanting the foods of
Egypt, being dissatisfied with spiritual provisions, and for
'worldly' worship. Astonishingly, the latter offences are widely
approved in churches today. Here is the counsel of the apostle.
Control of Temptations and Trials (10.13)
Here are eight kinds of trial and seven kinds of temptations
possibly arising from them, with God's assurances of how
He overrules to fix the limits of these, and helps His people
overcome and bear them. Here are the 'ways of escape'
enabling us to overcome them all.
Closer to Christ (10.16)
'The communion of the blood of Christ' is a remarkable term
speaking of partnership or sharing with a divine person. Yet
Christ is not known by touch, voice or bodily sensation, but
by faith. Here is the way in which we know strong personal
spiritual familiarity with Christ.
Putting Self Last (10.24)
Seeking the well-being of others above our own is a key
objective for Christ's people. How we speak of others as well
as to them, and how we help them in deed, must be Christ-like
if we hope to be used by Him, and have spiritual fulfilment.
True Followers (11.1)
What Christ left to Paul to reveal. True Christians are to be
imitators of the apostles' ordinances ' here meaning traditions,
ie: the doctrines and practices they taught, including
behaviour, aims, attitude, love, reverence, separation from the
world, working for Christ, and living with an eye to eternity.
PART 3
Hearing God Speak
Hearing God Speak (12.1-12)
The purpose of spiritual gifts ' revealing the NT (and
authenticating the spokesmen). Paul lists them, with ongoing
spiritual gifts and their features. Never for personal indulgence,
they bring God's Word to all. Here also is why the church is
gloriously called the body of Christ.
The Church is Like a Body (12.12-27)
The apostle speaks of an individual congregation as a 'body',
showing the divine design and the wide differences in the
contribution of members. If a church is a preacher only, it is
ultimately doomed; that is if there are not roles for all, and no
mutual care and dependence.
The Components of Love (13)
Only the Christ of Calvary could have composed and inspired
this glorious chapter (penned by Paul) about Christian love, its
qualities, its strength, and its eternal crowning. Here are our
aims in the experience of love, and why it is so much greater
than faith and hope.
Understanding is the Key (14.1-24)
Amidst clear teaching on the limited purpose of the temporary
gift of tongues-speaking, and the paramount place of
understanding in worship, Paul reveals the four 'departments'
or objectives of all teaching and ministry, and the nature of
evangelism. Here also prophecy is defined.
True Worship (14.33)
When Paul says everyone had a psalm, doctrine, tongue, etc,
for worship, he obviously refers to the recognised leaders of
the church, as we prove here. These are his inspired directions
for orderly worship that includes the full biblical 'agenda', and
glorifies Christ.
The Unique Message of Resurrection (15.1)
The Cross would have disappeared from history as a terminal
failure, had not the Resurrection shown its significance and
accomplishments. Christ must save soul and body for God's
original plan to be brought to pass ' a godly host living bodily
on a glorified earth.
End-Time Glory (15.20-28)
Christ's resurrection guarantees the day when He shall return
and His people shall receive their resurrection bodies. Here is
the manner of it, and the accompanying acts of Christ that end
the tyranny of death and all opposition, ushering in unbreakable
glory and bliss.
Jealous for Truth (15.29-45)
At Corinth even good believers lacked backbone to defend
the priceless truth of resurrection against a minority of cynics.
Here is Paul's call to wake up, his warning of the power of
error, and his revelation on the necessity and nature of glorious
resurrection bodies.
The Source of Fervour (15.49-58)
Our resurrection bodies will be the image of Christ's,
constituted for eternal glory: physical, tangible, yet spiritual,
powerful and perfect. Death ' the great devourer ' will be itself
swallowed up by the final victory of Christ. Here is how we
should be affected and inspired even now.
Paul's Personal Admonitions (16.1)
Having shown that there is much opposition to Gospel work,
Paul gives five famous directions for resisting and overcoming
this, here explained. On these directions, with God's help, the
very survival, let alone the spiritual advance of a congregation,
depends. Here also are the apostle's closing encouragements