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1.3.1, verse 10, I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the

same mind and the same judgment.

This verse really sets the stage for a lot of what's to come in First Corinthians because

Paul is addressing Christians in Corinth who were experiencing disunity with one another. He goes on to talk about

after this how different people are saying, well, I follow Paul or I follow Apollos, or I follow

Sefus, or I follow Christ, like Jesus had just become one option among those who people were

following. And some people were saying, well, I'm, I'm with Paul

over here, or I'm with Sevis over here, or I'm with Apollos over there, some people say, I'm with

Christ over here. Like, no, this is not a recipe for unity in the church. This is a recipe for

disunity in the church, and it can happen so easily, whether it's particular teachers or particular traditions

or particular preferences in the church that people can kind of rally around and all of a sudden

you have different camps who like this or prefer that or want things

to look this way or that way and all of a sudden you have all kinds of division where God has

designed the church to be unified around Jesus alone like focused on Jesus alone longing for Jesus alone. Like, focus on Jesus alone, longing for Jesus alone, like lay aside traditions,

lay aside preferences. How do we exalt Jesus together and to work for that kind of unity

as opposed to Jesus just being kind of one of many different factors in what

might unify the church.

And so this is where we're reminded from the very beginning of this letter that from the

first century, we can sometimes have like a glamorized view of the early church, like,

oh, if we could just get things back to the way the early church was, like, early church had some significant problems. So we don't want to necessarily get back

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