Chapter 3               

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  3:1 And, brothers and sisters, I was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to infants inside of Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not food, as you were not able. But you are still not able, 3 for you are still fleshly. Is there not jealousy among you and strife? Are you not fleshly and walking like other humans? 4 For indeed, if one might say, “I am of Paul,” another “I am of Apollos,” are you not like other humans?

5 Who, then, is Apollos? Who is Paul? Are they not servants through whom you believed, as also the Lord has given to each? 6 I planted; Apollos watered; but God actively gives growth and increase. 7 So that, it is not the one planting anything, nor the one watering, but only God giving growth and increase. 8 Now, one is planting, and another is watering; each will receive his own wages according to his own labor.

• 9 Indeed, we are synergeoing with God, and you are God’s cultivated field, God’s dwelling place. 10 According to the grace of God given to me as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation; another, however, is building upon it. Let each one, then, take heed how he builds upon that foundation. 11 For no one is able to lay another foundation besides the one continuously and actively being laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If, moreover, anyone builds upon the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, • 13 the work of each will become visible; indeed, the day will make it clear because it is unveiled inside of fire; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire itself will prove. 14 If anyone’s work which he built remains, he will receive a wage. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he himself will be saved, yet as through fire.

• 16 Are you not aware that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells inside of you? 17 If anyone ruins the temple of God, God will ruin him; for the temple of God is devoted, which you are, belonging to God alone.

18 Let no one deceive himself; if anyone among you imagines himself to be wise in this age, let him become foolish, that he might become wise. 19 Indeed, the wisdom of this world is foolishness alongside of God. As it has been written, “Indeed, He is the One entrapping the wise in their own cleverness” (Job 5:13). 20 And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is empty” (Psalm 94:11). 21 Therefore, let no one boast in men; • indeed, all things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Peter or the cosmos or life or death or present things or coming things, all are yours, all belong to you. 23 And you come out from Christ now, and Christ now comes out from God.
 		  
 
Gospel Word Notes
• Ruling Verse 1: Our purpose is the same as Paul’s, to synergeo with God inside of the Spirit, bringing all things into goodness, into the knowledge of God. Everything is about one things, that God our Father might have a dwelling place inside of that which is created, that He might be known as He is. Our lives and thoughts are devoted to this one thing, whatever the cost, that our Father might come Home.

• The Form for God through Jesus: As the Body of Christ, we together are the Temple of God, His dwelling place inside of creation, that all might know Him. We together are filled with the Spirit, with all the fulness of God (see Ephesians 3:19). God is our Source.

• Kingdom: Our God is a consuming Fire, and we synergeo with Him in all. The Fire proves Christ Jesus, faithful and True, in all that we say and do. Because we come out from God through Jesus, everything now belongs to us, everything of creation and everything of God.		 e. “Synergeoing” is the actual Greek word being used, which I have brought straight into English. It does contain the meaning of “working,” but inside of God, it’s meaning includes so much more, shown us by the Spirit.