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I Corinthians 8:1-3
Excerpted from: Faith (Part Six)

Let us go back to the New Testament again, this time in I Corinthians as we continue to advance through the fruits that come from pride. In I Corinthians 8 we have instructions to a church that was proud to say the least. They were proud of their gifts. The fruit of it was that the congregation was dividing up, this group against that group. Apparently it had divided up - I am of Paul, I am of Apollos, I am of Cephas, I am of Christ - at least four or five different ways, maybe more. Those are the only ones that he mentions. But pride was having its evil work in the congregation.

Pride makes those who have it bold and rash. It makes them, or renders them, careless of the feelings of others. It leads them to openly ridicule and condemn others, others who do not believe exactly as they do. Again you are seeing that it is an aggressive self-confidence. There is an old saying: "When people learn a little, they imagine a lot." It is the tag end of this saying that we remember most frequently. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

Now I will read them together. "When people learn a little, they imagine a lot. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." That is the whole quote. Thus proud people are often hair-splitting, hypercritical, setting people one against the other, dividing congregations and families. Paul is asking, "Is this love?" No, it is not. And so what Paul is doing here is warning against dependence on simply knowing something since a person never knows all that he ought to know about a given subject. Such an attitude then exhibits a complete dependence on one's own self-sufficient knowledge. The person is puffed up.

I Corinthians 8:1-13
Excerpted from: How to Offend Someone

Now clearly in Corinth and more specifically in the church there, there were people that were both strong in the faith and weak in the faith. For some, eating meat, whether it was offered to an idol or not, was really no big deal. That filet mignon was still a filet mignon regardless of what ceremony it went through or who prayed over it, because at the end of the day, it was just meat. To others who took a stance that they did not want to have anything to do with idols, even though idols, as Paul explains here, are nothing in the world, they believe that partaking of that filet was sin. Paul, because of his love for his brethren said, if eating meat offends or causes someone to stumble, I will not do it. Paul shows that he did not want to offend any one of his brethren.

I Corinthians 8:1-3
Excerpted from: Satan (Part 4)

Perhaps these seemingly innocuous words are really the central issue in this whole book (or even books), because this was the sin that led Satan into his separation from God's government. He got puffed up about himself. These people were puffed up about how much they knew.

I Corinthians 8:1-3
Excerpted from: Passover (Part 6)

That is far more important! So what is God saying here? God says that knowledge by itself will not cut it. Knowledge must be joined with love! Love is an action. It is outgoing concern—toward God, and also toward our fellow man.

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Tests of True Knowledge  
Using God's Given Authority  
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