The Earth is the Lord's 1 Corinthians 10:26

Paul the apostle told the church members in Corinth “whatever is sold in the shambles, that eat”, and they were not to “ask questions” “for their conscience sake”. In chapter ten and verse twenty-four of First Corinthians, Paul told the Corinthian church members “the earth is the Lord's” where we read:

For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.

The verse begins, “For the earth is the Lord's,...”. Paul began with the word, “For” which means “even as, indeed, no doubt, seeing then, verily and therefore” “the earth” or “the inhabited abode of men and animals” “is the Lord's” which refers to “he to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding; master and the title given to God the Messiah”. Paul declared that the entire “world” is God's.

The verse goes on to say, “...and the fullness thereof.” Paul continued with the words, “and the fullness” “the complete filling and abundance” “thereof” or “the same and itself”. God not only possesses the “earth” itself, but He also owns everything that is within it. God also “possesses” all that is in the world as well.

When we think through these words from Paul, we recognize how he referred to Psalm chapter twenty-four and verse one to show the church members in Corinth how everything they encountered physically is “owned” by the Lord. Everything that would be offered for sacrifice to “idols” and the materials by which the “idols” were made was God's as well. God owns it all, and all the world and it's contents points to having a relationship with Him through Jesus Christ His Son. May all who read these words look around, recognize who owns it all and submit their lives to Jesus Christ God's Son.

Next time Paul instructs the Corinthians, “if any of them that believe not bid you to a feast” don't ask “questions for conscience sake”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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