Emmanuel Baptist Church - Podcast

It wasn't Paul or Apollos who needed lessons in humility, it was the Corinthians. That's why Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 4:6 that he had applied all that he had written so far to he and Apollos but for the sake or benefit of the Corinthians. Paul knew that their pride would automatically reject a direct assault so he patiently made arguments and pointed those arguments toward himself and Apollos. Beginning in 1 Corinthians 4:7, however, Paul clearly pointed these lessons in humility squarely at the Corinthians. From the three questions Paul asked in verse 7 we can learn three ways of thinking that, if embraced, will keep us from becoming puffed up as followers of Christ.