Good morning. Become sober minded as you ought, and stop sinning;
for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to you shame. Now wait a minute
Paul! Did Alexa tattle on us? From what came before and what follows, most
likely he was not talking about sinning in general, but about them not
believing in the resurrection from the dead. Someone will say, “how are the
dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?“ You fool! (that was
harsh. I thought Jesus said to not say that about someone) That which you sow
does not come to life unless it dies; and that which you sow, you do not sow
the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or something else.
Possibly they were thinking that if God did raise their body from the dead,
that it would be just like their current body only without any frailties, and
would simply last forever. Paul is saying concerning plants: what one sows, is
not what grows. Similarly, your resurrected body will not be like your physical
body. Actually, we cannot even imagine what it will be like. Father help us to
not be concerned about things that do not matter, only those that do. Help the
reader to keep his/her eyes on what is most important.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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