Check yourself

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“[You behave as if] you are already filled and think you have enough [you are full and content, feeling no need of anything more]! Already you have become rich [in spiritual gifts and graces]! [Without any counsel or instruction from us, in your conceit], you have ascended your thrones and come into your kingdom without including us! And would that it were true and that you did reign, so that we might be sharing the kingdom with you!” 1 Corinthians 4v8 (AMP)

“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!” 1 Corinthians 4v8 (NIV)

In this verse of Scripture, Paul continues his letter to the Corinthians, and he seems to make a distinction between what the Corinthians think or feel they have and have become and what the reality is. It’s kind of like the church in Laodicea whom the “Amen, the trusty and faithful and true Witness, the Origin and Beginning and Author of God’s creation:” (Revelations 3v14, AMP) had a message for the angel of that church for (see below). They thought they were rich and had prospered, but the Lord was seeing them in a different light. In fact He said they had become lukewarm! Like the Corinthians whom Paul was saying they thought they had all that they wanted and had become rich. Beloved, let us search ourselves, have we become comfortable and thinking we are fine? What is the Lord really saying about you? Paul as the spiritual father of the church was saying, you have begun to reign, without us. Let us search ourselves dear ones, and may we have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to us in Jesus name, amen.

Supplementary Text

“I know your [record of] works and what you are doing; you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth! For you say, I am rich; I have prospered and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing; and you do not realize and understand that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. Therefore I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined and tested by fire, that you may be [truly] wealthy, and white clothes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see. Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I tell their faults and convict and convince and reprove and chasten [I discipline and instruct them]. So be enthusiastic and in earnest and burning with zeal and repent [changing your mind and attitude]. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me. He who overcomes (is victorious), I will grant him to sit beside Me on My throne, as I Myself overcame (was victorious) and sat down beside My Father on His throne. He who is able to hear, let him listen to and heed what the [Holy] Spirit says to the assemblies (churches).” Revelations 3v15-22 (AMP)

Prayer

Father, I thank You for Your Word, and I thank You that You chastise those You love. Father, search me, point out and purge out every lukewarmness in me O God. Make me hot and on fire for You again, in Jesus name I pray, amen.