0235. 232. Complaints

232. Complaints

From Which the Church in Corinth Were Suffering

1. Fits of Sectarianism. “There are contentions among you” (1Co_1:11-13). Self-elation is the mother of a party spirit.

2. Fever of Discontent. “There is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law with one another” (1Co_6:1-8). We have rights that we may give them up.

3. Carnality of Unspirituality. “Ye are yet carnal” (1Co_3:1-3). A saint in a carnal state is worse than a sinner in a dead state!

4. Swelled Head of Pride. “Ye are puffed up” (1Co_5:2). Pride always causes the head to swell with conceit, and blurs the vision. Puffed eyes indicate a bad heart.

5. Palsy of Sloth. The Church at Corinth allowed a brother in sin to remain in their midst, and gloried in it, hence the command to “purge out” the leaven—1Co_5:1-8.

6. Ague of Disorder. There was a babble of tongues, and a confusion in the assembly, hence the exhortation of 1 Corinthians 14.

7. Hardness of Unbelief. Unbelief is the mother of many ills. Find out those mentioned in 1 Corinthians 9 and 1 Corinthians 10.

By: DR. F. E. MARSH