The Acts of the Apostles Acts 18 – Fightings, Within And Without Sunday – August 12, 2018

Peloponnese Peninsula

Temple of Apollo with Temple of Aphrodite

Map of Ancient Corinth

The Church at Corinth: Its Establishment The message preached. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; 1:18; 2:1-5; 2 Corinthians 1:3-6; 1 Corinthians 4:15 The Response. Acts 18:8; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 The means. Paul’s labors. 1 Corinthians 9 Support of other churches. 2 Corinthians 11:7-9 I Corinthians 15:1-4 – “15 Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand, 2 by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 and that he was buried; and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the scriptures” I Corinthians 1:18 – “For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.” II Corinthians 1:3-6 – “3 Blessed (be) the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; 4 who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ. 6 But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer” I Corinthians 4:15 – “For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet (have ye) not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.” Acts 18:8 – “And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.” I Corinthians 6:9-11 – “9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.” I Corinthians 9:1-27 – “9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord? … 27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.” II Corinthians 11:7-9 – “7 Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages (of them) that I might minister unto you; 9 and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and (so) will I keep (myself).”