1 Corinthians 3:5-8

We should be thankful to all our spiritual leaders who are called by the Father and enabled by the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to the glory of God and the salvation that only He can give to man in……Jesus Christ.

Jesus did not leave us here alone without a helper but provided the Holy Spirit through the Father. He abides within us taking the teachings of Christ that we hear allowing us to understand and ingest them. As we feed on the Word of God out of our mouth will come faith, hope and love with love being the greatest gift from God that we can give to others.

Paul and Apollos were only servants through whom God worked. The ones who plant and water have nothing to boast about because God gives the increase. 

Only God draws unbelievers to Himself. 

It is our responsibility to do our job no matter what the results, for God will reward us for our efforts and the quality of our work.

It is not about man it is all about Jesus!

1 Corinthians 3:5-8

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. ⁷ So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. ⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

³ clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. 

2 Corinthians 3:3

⁶ who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 

2 Corinthians 3:6

4 Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. 

2 Corinthians 4:1

¹⁸ Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 

2 Corinthians 5:18

¹² And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, 

1 Timothy 1:12

¹⁵ For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 

1 Corinthians 4:15