1 Corinthians 8, One God, One Lord Jesus

1 Corinthians 8 - One God, One Lord Jesus

1 Corinthians 8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

Things = the things offered to idols (Division)
As touching = the things offered to idols
This was another subject about which they had written
All = the greater part
Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Knowledge brings liberty to oneself
A person has to have knowledge and love, you have to be willing to help all.
All those that want help
You have to have love in your heart
You have to slow down and teach to their level of learning
Puffeth up = hot air = This sentence and next two verses form a parenthesis
Charity = love
Edifleth = buildeth up
Acts 9:31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, were multiplied.
Contrast between a bubble and a building

2 And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

Knowledge
Nothing yet = not yet any thing = A double negative
The texts read single negative.
No man knows it all
We learn daily, through the Holy Spirit, God.

3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

If you love God, you have to love His children and help them
He who loves God, gets knowledge through Him
The same = this one
Of = by

4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

One God, One Lord Jesus
There is only One God.
The idol is nothing
As concerning to eating
Those = the
Things = idols = same word as in verse 1, though it is translated by a longer phrase

5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

There are idol gods so called
Psalms 82:1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Heaven = Matthews 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Thy kingdom come: We mortal are, and alter from our birth, Thou constant art
Thy will be done in earth: Thou mad'st the earth as well as planets seven, Thy Name be blessed here
As it is in heaven: Nothing were have to use, or debts to pay, Except thou give it us

6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

In = Unto
Roman 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Another way to put this is that, through Him come all things, even eternal life.
There is only one God
Those who know God know Him through Christ
By = by means of
John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

Knowledge = to every man = all
Things offered to idols
Conscience = conviction, but the texts read sunetheia, custom
John 18:30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
1 Corinthians 11:16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
The meaning is much the same. Having been so long accustomed to believe the idol to have a real existence, they still regard the sacrifice as a real one.
Unto = until
This hour = now
Defiled = polluted = only here and Revelation 3:4 and Revelation 14:4
Revelation 3:4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Revelation 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
The elect are called out of the body of Israel.
They will remain virgins until their husband comes and arrives. Who is Jesus, the True Christ.
These are the ones who are not virgins are those who shall become ''impregnated'' in their minds.
And take another husband, the false christ, And will be with child when the true Christ does return..spiritually with child.. they played the harlot
A woman who is found to be with child when her husband returns from a long trip has been with another husband. This is what this verse means. Christ, the true Christ is Israel's husband.
God divorce Israel for her iniquities.
Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
When Christ died on the Cross, He made Israel (symbolically His wife) a widow.
By His own law, He could, upon His second coming, remarry His widow.
This is the marriage feast he talked about in other areas of Revelation.
Mark 13:17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
He talking about the same thing, those who have been deceived into thinking the false Christ is Jesus.

8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

Commenendeth = presenteth
Acts 1:3 3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Forty Days, the only reference to the period between the Resurrection.
Forty days = during forty days = Christ shewed himself to Apostles = teaching them
The only reference to the period between the Resurrection and the Ascension
Christ shewed himself alive = Presented "Himself"
Christ speaking of the things concerning to the kingdom of God
Pertaining to = concerning
When it comes to a weak Christian, we are to teach on their level
Just slow down and listen, before you start to teach
Don't start with meat, that is the third level
Start with the milk, as babes
Are we the worse = do we lack, or come short
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
This is why we turn to Christ, to confide and talk to Him.

9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to them that are weak.

Liberty may cause stumbling to others
Care lest liberty cause stumbling
Take heed = see, or look to it
Liberty = authority, or right
Stumbling block = Romans 9:32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;
Why?
Because Israel had no faith.
They stumbled at that stumbling stone, which was Jesus Christ.
They didn't accept Him as the Son of God.
Them that are = the

10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

Influence of one who has knowledge
Effect of example on a weak brother
Sit at meat = sitting down
Which = since he
Emboldened = built up, as in verse 1. There is Irony here.
Instead of building up the weak brother, the edifice will come tottering down.
To eat = for eating

11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

Influence of one who has knowledge
Through = upon = The texts read "in"
Perish = 1 Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
For = on account of
This sentence is not a question.

12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

Effect of example on a weak brother
Wound = strike
Their = their conscience since it is weak

13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

Care lest liberty cause stumbling
1 Corinthians 10:14 14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
Offend = stumble = to cast a snare before one
Romans 14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
There is nothing wrong or impure about meat or wine.
The health laws that you follow are fine as long as they are not a stumbling block to another.
Eat no flesh = by no means
While the world standeth = upon the age
Lest I = in order that = I may not

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

• The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25