Corinth

And so when we look at this message titled Will You Please Come With Me, the apostle is drafting the love, the care, the concern of the Roman believers.

And if he wrote to them drafting their love and support, there's no doubt that as he writes this book from Corinth, Greece, that he would be drafting their love and support as well.

He, it doesn't say it here in the Book of Romans, but he probably, while he was in Greece, before he headed off to Jerusalem and then over to Rome, that he would have said to the Corinthian believers, "Let's do this.

Come with me on this mission." And this is one of the greatest passions and the driving forces of the believer today, is that God has deployed you and I to this exact same mission to fulfill, and that is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and to be salt and light in this world.

And to love Him.

No, that's introduction.

Here we go.

[laughs] 1 Corinthians chapter 12.

Actes dix-huit, livre des Actes des Apôtres, verset chapitre dix-huit, les versets dix-huit à vingt-trois.

Paul resta encore assez longtemps à Corinthe.

Ensuite, il prit congé des frères et s'embarqua, et s'embarqua pour la Syrie avec Priscille et Aquilas.

Après s'être fait raser la tête à Cenchrées, car il av-, euh, oui, car il avait fait un vœu.

En fait, quelqu'un a déjà souligné que du verset dix-huit du chapitre dix-huit du livre des Actes jusqu'au verset un du chapitre dix-neuf, euh, Paul a parcouru environ deux mille quatre cents kilomètres.

Il s'en est passé des choses pendant ce temps-là.

Mais ce qui nous est rapporté tout particulièrement, bien sûr, euh, nous, nous verrons la rencontre de, euh, Priscille et Aquilas avec Apollos, mais ce qui nous est raconté, notamment, c'est le fait que non seulement Paul a quitté Corinthe et il va se-- pour se rendre à Antioche, qu'il est passé par Éphèse et par Jérusalem, etc.

Mais qu'il a fait, qu'il avait fait un vœu.

» Bien plus, les parties du corps qui paraissent les plus délicates sont indispensables.

Ces paroles de saint Paul s'adressent aux chrétiens de Corinthe, l'une des métropoles les plus riches et les plus dynamiques de son époque.

L'Évangile y avait été accueilli par des personnes d'origines et de milieux sociaux divers, parmi lesquelles de nombreux pauvres et d'esclaves, comme certains d'entre vous aujourd'hui.

Mais en organisant le corps, poursuit l'apôtre, Dieu a accordé plus d'honneur ainsi ceux qui en étaient dépourvus.

Ah.

No Siracusa, Siracusia, que construyó Arquías de Coren-- de Corinto, que era constructor de barcos, supervisado por Arquímedes.

El barco podía ser usado para viajes lujosos, para cargar suministros y también como barco de guerra.

Finalmente, su nombre fue cambiado por el de Alejandría cuando fue enviado como regalo, junto a un cargamento de grano, al rey Ptolomeo tercero de Egipto.

You're going through tough times right now, this verse is for you.

2 Corinthians 4.

This is why we never give up.

Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.

Alexander the Great, he was from Macedonia.

His father was Philip of Macedonia.

Now there's a church in this place called Macedonia in Greece, and there's another church in Greece called the Corinthians.

Corinth is a city in Greece.

Yet more wonderful than the Parthenon itself is the majestic temple of Paul's thought, so lofty, so spacious, so glorious in its beauty and dazzling in its daring.

These swift-racing, passionate letters of his seemed as though the ink on them was hardly dry, so fresh they were, as we read them on the vast plain of the Galatian cities, in the valley going down to Ephesus, on the great hill over Corinth.

We stood on the quay at Puteoli, where he landed in Italy, and passing along the Appian Way, entered Rome with him, and walked the corridors of Nero's golden house and the Forum.

Nor can one tread unmoved the road where Paul strode bravely out to the block and sword of the executioner.

The frightful power of a snow blizzard in the mountain pass over Antioch, the smiting heat of the blazing sun on the beach at Corinth where the blue water has the wiles of a beautiful witch, gave us a still deeper reverence for the sturdy, dauntless daring of this man who was tossed in tempest, drenched with rains, and burned in the summer heat, smitten with fever, robbed, stoned, beaten, and wrecked, and still undaunted went on to declare, as he ran his race in the stadium of the Roman world, I press on toward the goal, unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

This life of Paul the Tarsian has been written after I had taken these journeys personally, and having read books in which the life of Paul, the truth of the book of Acts, and the Pauline authorship of the letters is discussed, and after having studied the life of the Roman Empire round the Mediterranean in the time of Paul and Nero.

Everything stated in the book I believe to be historically true and accurate in detail.

But if you will, as we sing at school, follow up, follow up, trudge by him till you really know him, you will have found for yourself one of the great companions of the world.

What matters is that we are, I would say, about 70 to 100 feet from the oldest Greek stone structure in Sicily, which is the Temple of Apollo.

The Temple of Apollo was built in 565 B.C., Greeks from Corinth in Greece on the Peloponnese established the city in 700 and something BC let's see I'm looking it up here Well, 7...

I think it's 65 B.C.

Yeah, I think it is 765.