Jul 30, 2022
JEREMIAH
19-20:
In
yesterday’s reading, we again heard some often-quoted verses. These
verses come just after verses in chapter 17 where the Lord himself
beautifully paraphrased Psalm 1:
Jer. 17:9 GNT “Who can
understand the human heart?
There is nothing else so
deceitful;
it
is too sick to be healed.
10
I, the Lord, search the minds
and
test the hearts of people.
I
treat each of them according to the way they
live,
according to what they do.”
Then in chapter 18, we also heard the famous passage about the Lord being like a potter, which Paul refers to in Romans 9.
PSALM 147:
Again this is quite a contrast with Jeremiah’s
feelings which we just read! This is our second Hallelujah psalm.
And hallelujah has been translated according to its meaning here as
“Praise the LORD.” This psalm has incredible depth.
1CORINTHIANS
3:10—4:21
Paul is still ‘going on about’ the same thing.
He is going to return to the subject of himself and Apollos in
chapter 4— which summarizes the division in the Corinthian church.
To give the connection, let’s start reading at chapter 3 verse
10.
GNT Translation notes:
1Cor. 3:16 Surely you know that
you are [included as a part of] God's temple and that God's Spirit
lives in you!
17
God will destroy anyone who destroys God's temple. For God's temple
is holy, and [we— all of God’s people//you yourselves] are his
temple.
[Translations in English often fail to make
clear that ‘you’ in Greek is plural here. The Corinthians as a
group are being built into the temple of God— as Paul says in
Ephesians 2. It seems a bit more natural or complete in English for
Paul to include himself in the body of Christ, so it is possible to
use ‘we’ and a modifying phrase, as I have suggested above. There
is another verse we will soon read where Paul says that we each
individually are a sanctuary/temple of the Holy
Spirit.]
21
No one, then, should boast about what human beings can do.
[(Implicit
info:) Because of being joined as one with Christ,]
Actually everything belongs to
you:
22 [So that
includes] Paul
[and] Apollos, and
Peter; this world, life and death, the present and the future—all
these are yours,
4:1 You should think of us
[apostles//0] as Christ's servants, who have been put in charge of
God's secret truths.
17 For this purpose I am
sending to you Timothy, who is my own dear and faithful son in the
Christian life. He will remind you of the [way of
living//principles] which I follow [, and which is appropriate for
all of us who are joined in union with Christ Jesus.//in the new
life in union with Christ Jesus] [0//which] I teach [these
principles] in all the churches everywhere.