Pagans are the nations that do not know God.
You know that when you were pagans
you were led astray to mute idols.
What pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God.
You turned to God from idols
to serve the living and true God.
Pagan is the nations outside the covenant, led to mute idols and not knowing God. Paul says the Corinthians were pagans, led astray to mute idols, however they were led. What pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. The word is not a slur for every neighbor. It is the old life the church left. They turned from idols to serve the living and true God.
- Food sacrificed to idols is their table. An idol is nothing. The sacrifice can still be offered to demons.
- False gods are what the nations serve. Idolatry is that service.
- Jesus sends the church to the nations. The pagans are not left as a class to despise. They are people to be told the gospel, and a table the church must not share.
You were pagans. That is the sentence that keeps the word honest. The sacrifice is to demons. The turn is to the living God.
When you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols.
What pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God.
You turned to God from idols.
- Pagan names the nations that do not know God, not a curse-word.
- Paul includes the church: when you were pagans.
- Mute idols led them. The idols do not speak.
- Their sacrifice is offered to demons and not to God.
- The church must not share that table.
- The gospel turn is from idols to the living and true God.
- The Nations – Those who do not know God.
- The Past – When you were pagans.
- The Idols – Mute, and not gods.
- The Sacrifice – Offered to demons.
- The Table – Not to be shared by the church.
- The Turn – To the living and true God.
- 1 Corinthians 12:2 – “You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:20 – “What pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.”
- 1 Thessalonians 4:5 – “Not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.”
- Ephesians 2:12 – “Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.”
- 1 Thessalonians 1:9 – “You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.”
You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols.
What pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God.
You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.
The word remembers what the church was. Mute idols. Sacrifice offered to demons. Do not share that table. They are not a people to curse. They are a people who do not know God, and the church was once among them.
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