Using as his text 1 Corinthians 3:9, Elder Gus Harter expounds upon the phrase, “we are laborers together with God.”
We greatly desire to be “with God.” God is everywhere present, and nowhere absent, the scriptures tell us. So when we pray for His presence, we do not imply that He has departed. Rather, we pray for His felt presence–His fellowship, as when God spoke to Moses as a man speaks to His friend.
At the church in Corinth, the members were divided in their loyalty to the various preachers of the day. Paul dealt with this error by emphasizing the unity of the body, and the supremacy of Christ: “ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.” Ministers indeed “have the rule over” the church body, as Hebrews 13:17 notes, but the rule book has been written. The Bible is complete, and none should add commandments to it.
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