Acts - Apollos & Peter - Corps Notes - December 7, 1976
Men and Women Close to Paul Part II: Apollos & Peter December 7, 1976 I want to go to I Corinthians 16:12. This verse I just want to share with you because of a record that comes up in Acts 20, toward the latter part, when he calls all the elders and bishops and so forth from Ephesus, Acts 20:30. Corinthians is written regarding the practical error that has crept into the Church, and I think here in 16:12, I have a documentation. At least this is how I feel about the in-depth spiritual principle of the Corps; awareness of the depth. This is very unique in I Corinthians 16:12. That’s why I wanted to check out some stuff. I put some notes here in the left margin: Concerning Apollos, the brother (adelphos - you know, “Philadelphia” brother) much I exhorted (that’s parakalesa. It’s like the word “Paraclete”, remember; exhort, comfort.) I exhorted (to exhort is to encourage toward a more worthy endeavor) him (auton) (hina) that he (ĕlthĕ) should go (pros) first (the first to me means right now) with (meta) (ton adelphon) the rest of the brethren and (kai) (pantōs-ouk) not at all (ēn) was his (thelēma) will (or desire) (hina nun) that now (ĕlthĕ) he would come but (eleusetai de) he will come (ěukairese) when he shall have opportunity (King James says “when it shall be convenient”). ěukairese - This word is translated: leisure; opportunity; in season. Preach the Word in season, remember that? [II Timothy 4:2] That’s the same word, “in season.” “When you have opportunity,” it’s translated that way also. I see in this verse the beginning of the breaking up of the one mind in the Church of the Body. Because when he calls the elders together in Acts 20:30, he says: “Also of your own selves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.” I will show you, as I get into this word, that these were all bishops that he called together, top brass. Of them and Apollos, I believe, was one of them. This indication in Corinthians is that Apollos did not resp
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was just covering so it didn’t look bad for the ministry.” Dr. - That’s right, that’s exactly what he said. He was covering for Apollos. But what I’m showing you much deeper than that; that that was the beginning of the break. Paul knew Apollos was finished. He just didn’t say so. (Individual), “We were thinking here from that verse, I Corinthians 16:12; you see what developed with Apollos and the fact that he started to intellectualize the mystery and started losing the whole vision of the mystery of that one body, Christ in you the hope of glory. And you can look back as close as I Corinthians 15 and see where Paul was having a battle with these guys. They were glad to live within the grace but they didn’t want to accept the fact that there was a resurrection from the dead. He said, ‘If there be no resurrection of the dead, then of all the people on the face of the earth, we are most p