1 Corinthians 3:1-17

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:16-20

CRITICAL NOTES1 Corinthians 3:16.—A temple (R.V.) misses, or denies, the typology binding Old Testament and New Testament together here. A case where, as often (e.g. 1 Corinthians 11:20), one of the great leading facts of the Old Covenant is divested of its temporary, local robing and embodiment, and brought forward into the new world of the New Testament, to find a new embodiment in the Church. The old building has gone; the new shrine where God dwells on earth is growing, rising, every day. A... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:11

1 Corinthians 3:11 Consider how Christ is the True foundation. I. The nature of Christ. It was Godhead divested of its circumstance. His great power, the secret of His wonderful, unparalleled career, was not His Godhead, but the immeasurableness of the Holy Spirit which was in Him, which, never being grieved by the slightest approach of sin, wrought in Him infinitely. But He was a man generally subject to the same physical and spiritual laws as any other divinely commissioned and supernaturally... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:11-13

1 Corinthians 3:11-13 Life as a Structure. I. There is a foundation laid. The idea couched in this figure is the radical idea, which runs through the whole of Scripture, that something must be done out of and apart from the man, to enable him even to begin his proper life before God. Jesus Christ is the foundation. We cannot take these words too literally. The foundation of all this world's hopes, in the plan of God and of every man's salvation, is Jesus Christ Himself, the personal historical... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:12-15

1 Corinthians 3:12-15 This is an awful passage; one whose import no man to whom has been committed the care of souls can realise without trembling. But it has a lesson for all laity as well as clergy on whom God has laid responsibility of any kind. St. Paul was much troubled by an account which had reached him of the state of things at Corinth. He had laid the foundation of a flourishing church there, and God had greatly prospered His work; but dissensions had arisen. The Apostle's authority... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:14-15

1 Corinthians 3:14-15 Two Builders on One Foundation. I. Consider, first, the two builders and their work. The original application of these words is distinctly to Christian teachers. The wood, hay, and stubble are clearly not heresies, for the builder who uses them is on the foundation; and if Paul had been thinking of actual heresies, he would have found sharper words of condemnation with which to stigmatise them than those which merely designate them as flimsy and unsubstantial. But what is... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:16

1 Corinthians 3:16 I. Every Christian is a dwelling-place of God. This is not a metaphor. It was the outward temple that was the metaphor. The reality is that which you and I, if we are God's children in Jesus Christ, experience. That God should dwell in my heart is possible only from the fact that He dwelt in all His fulness in Christ, through whom I touch Him. That Temple consecrates all heart-shrines; and all worshippers that keep near to Him partake with Him of the Father that dwelt in Him.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:16-17

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 I. When the fall of man broke down the altar within him and scattered the fire, and his vision of God became dim, it did not follow that the Holy Spirit withdrew from the world because the aberration of man's will was allowed to banish Him from the human heart. Whatever belonged to Him as the Giver of Life went on still. "The whole creation," says one father, "is surrounded by the Spirit of God." "The grain of wheat that falls into the ground," says another, "and comes to... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:17

1 Corinthians 3:17 I. The human soul God's truest temple. This truth expresses one of the great changes introduced by Christianity. The question to be answered, in order to illustrate its meaning, is this: Why has Christianity abolished the one local house, broken down the holy place, and consecrated man himself as the dwelling-place of the Most High? To show why this must be why only man can be the true temple we must trace it from two of the great principles of Christianity; for unless we see... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Corinthians 3:5-7

DISCOURSE: 1944UNDUE PARTIALITY TO MINISTERS REPROVED1 Corinthians 3:5-7. Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.WE are apt to conceive of the primitive Churches as patterns of all perfection; and doubtless there were amongst them many individuals whose... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Corinthians 3:11

DISCOURSE: 1945CHRIST THE ONLY FOUNDATION1 Corinthians 3:11. Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.THERE is not any thing more injurious to the Church of God than a party-spirit: yet even in the apostolic age did it begin to distract the Christian community. At Corinth it prevailed, and rose to an alarming height: and St. Paul was obliged to exert all his influence in order to counteract it. He reminded the partisans, that, as “God’s building,” they should be... read more

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