KNOWLEDGE-NOW AND THEN
By Harold Steinbron
Scripture Reading: I
Corinthians 13:8-12
I used to believe that
Paul's epistles just added a little whipped cream to the strawberry
shortcake of the Gospel proclaimed by our Lord and the Twelve. This
passage is one of many which convinced me that the prophecies, the
tongues and the supernatural knowledge of the Kingdom program would
be superceded by something more appropriate for this dark age in
which we live. Remember the day of Pentecost happened before Paul
ever recorded the wonderful things God revealed through him. That
day must have been the start of the Old Testament Kingdom rather
than the start of the Body of Christ. Because Israel rejected God
(in rejecting the ministry of the Twelve) God set Israel aside during
the Book of Acts, saved Saul of Tarsus, and used him as the revealor
of the glorious truths he penned for our spiritual understanding.
Verse 10 says not He who
is perfect, but rather that which is perfect. It must refer to a
future, more complete revelation that God had promised to Paul,
surely the Gospel of the Grace of God. Verse 12 says "Now we
see ... but then," not here but there, as some want to explain
it. This speaks distinctly to me of a clearer, rather, more complete
unveiling. I Corinthians was written in the early years of Paul's
ministry, and Acts 26:16 tells us Paul was to receive further
revelations as God's plan was unfolded for us through the pen and
life of Paul. He not only revealed the marvelous completeness of the
Grace of God in the Cross, but he
was the living demonstration of it-saved out of Judaism (the Law) to
reveal the fullness of the Grace of God!
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