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.

So we'll go ahead and get started.

When we get started here, in just a moment, we'll be picking up at the beginning of St. Paul's

first epistle to the Corinthians chapter 14.

And I think I may have forgotten to say this last time.

But it is actually true as we speak. The first podcast on First Corinthians

with the introduction is available online. So you can go back and listen to it if you want to.

But to get us caught up to where we left off, we started a new section back at the beginning of chapter 12.

We talked about how St. Paul uses this verbal phrase in 1 Corinthians to separate these sort of sections where he's addressing different topics, where he says, now concerning this topic.

So our current topic that started at the beginning of chapter 12, he said now concerning

spiritual gifts.

And so far, in terms of spiritual gifts, he gave his analogy of the body, comparing that

to community, the church, and how it's composed of all different parts that have all different abilities.

They're all necessary for the body to function as a whole.

He talked about some of those particular gifts that different people have.

He gave examples, as it were.

And then during the last section that we read and discussed last time, St. Paul was making the point that love, love for one another.

And we talked about how he particularly defined that in terms of when one person is rejoicing, we all rejoice together.

When one person is suffering, then we all sorrow together. When one person is suffering, then we all sorrow together.

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