Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

To the Church of God, which is at Corinth,

to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus,

called to be saints with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ,

our Lord, both theirs and ours.

Now this is interesting for a number of reasons, right?

So he's writing to the, now remember the word church is just the word that's used for the assembly in the Old Testament.

So we read about the assembly of Israel. Moses comes to

address the assembly of Israel. He's got all the people together. Right. So he's calling the

Christian community at Corinth, the ecclesia in Greek, right, the eccleslesia, the assembly of God, right?

That's not referring to our Protestant friends

in the assemblies of God.

Though this is where they got their name.

But, right, already he's made a statement here.

Right? Because

the assembly of God in the Old Testament was who?

Israel.

Was Israel.

Right? It was Israel.

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