“Grace: Always Free, But Never Cheap.” Those Crazy Corinthians! Part 1 1) The foundational doctrine in God’s relationship with fallen Man is “Grace”. Our Sovereign, merciful Lord saves rebellious, unmerciful mankind through Grace. God authors the work of our salvation from beginning to end. A very good God saves very bad men to glorify himself! (1 Corinthians 1:1-4) 2) We can appreciate the “Grace and Peace” Paul is speaking of by reading scripture. Paul’s conversion was a perfect illustration of Jesus Christ being the sovereign mediator of the covenant of grace. (Acts 7:44-60; 8:1-4; 9:1-27) 3) God almighty by grace equips his chosen people to fulfill his purpose. Paul is only one of many examples. (Jeremiah 1:5-9; Jonah 1:1-3) CORINTH-Called anciently Ephyra, the capital of Achaia, and seated on the isthmus which separates the Ionian Sea from the Aegean, and hence called bimaris, "on two seas." The city itself stood a little inland; but it had two ports, Lechaeum on the west, and Cenchrea on the east. Its position gave it great commercial and military importance; for while the traffic of the east and west poured through its gates, as over the isthmus of Darien the commerce of two oceans, it was also at the gate of the Peloponnesus, and was the highway between Northern and Southern Greece. Its defense, besides the city walls, was in the Acro-corinth, a mass of rock, rising 2,000 feet above the sea, with precipitous sides, and with room for a town upon its summit. Corinth thus became one of the most populous and wealthy cities of Greece; but its riches produced pride, ostentation, effeminacy, and all the vices generally consequent on plenty.
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