We Are God's Cultivated Land, God's Building

Let's Pray:

Lord, save Your people so that they may be transformed and become the precious materials -- gold, silver, and precious stones-- having all the precious, transformed materials.

Hymn: 631

Today's Verses and Footnotes: 1 Cor 3:1-13

Key Verse:

1 Cor 3:9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's cultivated land, God's building.

Filling the Blanks:

The believers, who have been regenerated in Christ with God's ( ), are God's cultivated ( ), a ( ) in God's new creation to grow Christ that precious ( ) may be produced for God's building. Hence, we are not only God's cultivated land but also God's ( ). Corporately, we as the church of God have Christ planted in us. Christ must ( ) in us and, in the sense of this chapter, produce out of us not fruit but the precious materials of ( ), ( ), and precious ( ) for the building of God's ( ) on earth. (See 1 Cor 3:9 note 2)