Corinthians Corps Notes

Victor Paul Wierwille, Walter Cummins · Corinthians

June 29, 1984 Thirty-eighth Corps Night "The Final Examination" Section We have seen in Corinthians how they were reproved because of the divisions at Corinth, caused by men and women who stood for knowledge that was contrary to God's Word. They were lifting themselves up, they had their imaginations and high things that were contrary. They were built upon world knowledge and world wisdom and they expounded it in such a rhetorical fashion that they were considered geniuses in their fields. Yet, their knowledge does not stand up one bit to the truth of God's Word, to the truth of God's Word - the greatest knowledge of all times. The knowledge and the wisdom regarding the mystery which has not even been revealed yet, but he has told them about it. In II Corinthians, he has encouraged them so much and has brought them to the point where he says, "Look, you are faithful; you are tremendous men and women of God. But there are some out there who are boasting about their own sense-knowledge ability and they have set themselves on a pedestal and that has influenced your lives so that you are seeking a proof of the Christ speaking in me. That brings us to the conclusion of the whole matter - verse 5. UII Cor. 13:5 "Examine yourselves," - give yourself an examination. "faith," = family faith "examine," = peirazō, (Greek) It is the word translated to be tempted with evil, however it has another usage. Both usages mean to test or to examine. The one usage is to test in the sense that you tempt someone with evil. The other is that you test them, not looking for an evil or a good outcome. But you simply test them, examine them - to find out what's going to be what. Like a scientific approach. If peirazō, can mean to simply examine whether it is good or evil; or, if it can be used in the negative sense of testing with evil - then, what is the word that is used of testing in a good sense? In other words, to prove that something is true. That is the Greek word, dokimazō. It means to