God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible, tracing God's unfolding story

from Genesis to Revelation. Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's

word daily. Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

Now I want to warn you that on our journey today, we're going to begin with a negative,

but stay with me, we're going to end on a positive. We've come in our study to the little book of First Corinthians. If you know anything about the church in Corinth, you'll know that

these were fairly carnal

believers. These were Christians who were struggling with lots of things, and it was a very

imperfect church. But let me remind you, we're all sinners, and there is no such thing as a

perfect church. My grandpa used to say, if you find a perfect church, don't go there, you'll mess it up.

He was exactly right. The Apostle Paul established this church. grandpa used to say if you find a perfect church don't go there you'll mess it up he was

exactly right the apostle paul established this church through the aid of the holy spirit during

his first visit to the city of corin and you can read about that in acts chapter number 18 and now

sometime later he's either heard of some of the problems in this young church or he's briefly

visited there

one of his missionary journeys. And so he writes two letters, in fact, first and second Corinthians,

back to this church as a response to their needs. Aren't you glad that when we have problems

and when we have struggles, things to deal with, God always has a word for us. The Lord has a message

to us, something to say to us. Now, 1 Corinthians follows the book of Romans in our New Testament,

and you might see it this way. Things that are doctrinally stated in Romans are now related

to the church and everyday life in Corinthians. So Romans shows the interpretation

and Corinthians shows applications, lots of applications. This book has some of the most well-known

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