Jan 23 2011 SS Class notes

Prayer requests for:
Sandy Maynard's mother, Lou Toler. She has a broken ankle.
Jane Read's mother.
Cecil & Julie Williamson - Mission Trip week of Jan 31st to Ghana & Nigeria; Cecil fighting a cold.

Scripture for Sunday Jan 30th-

1 Corinthians 4 (New International Version)

The Nature of True Apostleship
¹ This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. ² Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. ³ I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. ⁴ My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. ⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.

⁶ Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not go beyond what is written.” Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other. ⁷ For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

⁸ Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign—and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! ⁹ For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! ¹¹ To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. ¹² We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; ¹³ when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world—right up to this moment.

Paul’s Appeal and Warning

¹⁴ I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children. ¹⁵ Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. ¹⁶ Therefore I urge you to imitate me. ¹⁷ For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.

¹⁸ Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. ¹⁹ But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. ²¹ What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?

Jan 9 2011 SS Class notes

I Corinthians is proving to be an excellent choice of study and discussion.

Focus next week will be I Corinthians 2: 6-16 (NIV scripture below). Join us!

Opportunities:

• 39th Annual Holy Spirit Conference
• Friday, Jan 14th - 1 p.m.; Saturday, Jan 15th - 8:30 a.m. until 12 noon
• Louisville First United Methodist Church
• Speakers include Rev. Bill Beavers, Joseph Otsin, Rev. Cecil Williamson & Lori Ann Williamson

• Bullygras Ball - OSERVS
  
• Saturday, Jan 29th
• Starkville Country Club -
  
• For more information or tickts email oservsdirector@gmail.com or call 662 418-8911
• For more information on OSERVS visit http://www.oservs.com.

• Brunswick Stew - Kairos Outside fundraiser
  
• Weekend of Jan 29-30,
  
• Orders to be booked in advance. Cost $15 per half-gallon; $25 per gallon.
• Contact Grace Ward @ 662 341-0804 for details.

I Corinthians 2: 6-16
God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit
⁶ We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. ⁷ No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. ⁸ None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹ However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him— ¹⁰ these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³ This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. ¹⁴ The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ¹⁵ The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, ¹⁶ for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Jan 2 2011 SS Class notes

Happy New Year!
Notes from Jan 2nd SS Class:

• We began our study of I Corinthians on Sunday. Please read all 16 chapters and join us on Sunday.

• We raised $1341.00 at the December auction. Class voted to dispense $750 to Kitty Henry for the Walnut Grove prison ministry. We also voted to continue $87.50 per month gift to Cecil Williamson's ministry (African Ministers and orphanage).