SNT 0248 Power Manifested in the Church: 1 Corinthians 14
July 10, 1966 How the manifestations are to be used in the church. SNT – 248 1Co 1:2; 13:1; 14:1, 2 1Co 14:2-6 1Co 14:6-15 1Co 14:15-21; Isa 28:11, 12 1Co 14:21-28 1Co 14:29-37 ___________________ DRAFT Snt-0248-PowerInTheChurch.- Take your Bibles and turn to 1 Corinthians tonight. 1 Corinthians the 14 th chapter. If you will remember, 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 2 tells us that the Book of Corinthians is addressed to the church. If the Book of Corinthians is addressed to the church, then it’s addressed to you and to me because we belong to the church. It is addressed to the men and women after the Day of Pentecost. And, of course, you and I live in this age of grace after the Day of Pentecost, and we live in the church, the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Chapters 12, 13 and 14 of Corinthians are just like a great sandwich. They are terrific meat of the Word of God in this Book of Corinthians. The Book of Corinthians was addressed to the church in a remarkable way. I have taught this in other classes, so tonight again I’d like to set it before some of our people. Some who are in here tonight who just finished the foundational class. The Book of Romans was the first great revelation given to the church. And because they failed to adhere to the greatness of the revelation in the Book of Romans, and they got into practical error, God had the Book of Corinthians written to get people out of their practical error due to their failure of adherence to the revelation of the Book of Romans. Galatians was written because people had gotten into doctrinal error because of their failure to adhere to the principles set forth in the Book of Romans. You know you don’t get doctrinal practices until after you have practiced error for a while. After you’ve been in the wrong for a while, and you’ve done wrong things. Then you make a doctrine out of that wrong teaching or that wrong action. This is why the Book of Galatians is God’s revelation to the church to correct the doctrinal e
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at the University of Chicago and at Princeton Theological Seminary from which he received a Master of Theology degree in Practical Theology. Later he completed his work for the Doctor of Theology degree. Dr. Wierwille taught the first class on Power for Abundant Living in 1953. Books by Dr. Wierwille include: Are the Dead Alive Now? published in 1971; Receiving the Holy Spirit Today published in 1972; five volumes of Studies in Abundant Living— The Bible Tells Me So (1971), The New, Dynamic Church (1971), The Word's Way (1971), God's Magnified Word (1977), Order My Steps in Thy Word (1985); Jesus Christ Is Not God (1975); Jesus Christ Our Passover (1980); and Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed (1982). Dr. Wierwille researched God's Word, taught, wrote, and traveled worldwide, holding forth the accuracy of God's "wonderful, matchless" Word. DOC AUDIO