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Daily Bread

Our Foundation is Jesus Christ

Date: Mar. 21, 2021

Passage

1 Corinthians 3:10-23 (ESV)

10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—13 each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” 20 and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” 21 So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

Daily Bread

Key Verse: 3:11

For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1. What is our foundation? (10-15)

On an earlier visit, Paul had laid the foundation of the faith of the Corinthian Christians. After he left them, others built up on what Paul had previously laid. The Corinthian church, therefore, was built on the blessed labor of many Christian coworkers. There was thus no reason for divisions. They had a solid foundation, as long as that foundation was Jesus Christ. They must be careful when they build anything else on Christ, since it will be judged and tested.

2. You are of Christ; Christ is of God (16-23)

What does it mean that our foundation is Jesus Christ? It means we are God's temple! Because we are God's temple, He dwells in us through the Holy Spirit. Our foundation is not the wisdom of this world, which is foolishness in God's sight. With this knowledge, there is no reason to boast about who we are related to or who our Bible teachers are. We belong to Christ himself!

Prayer: Father, thank you that you made me into your very temple. Dwell in me with your Holy Spirit and help me live as one whose foundation is Jesus Christ.

One Word: Jesus Christ is my foundation

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The Lamb Will Triumph

Revelation 17:1-18

Key Verse: 17:14

They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”

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