God has entrusted different tasks to different Christians throughout time to advance His gospel and build His church. Each one has a role to fulfill under our Lord's scrutiny, asking Him for the fruitful reward for our labor.

Jealousy and strife permeate the world, but they have no place in the lives of Christians. The Spirit of God has established peace and unity among believers, and believers must maintain that unity through humility and sound doctrine.

Christians have received the wisdom of God as revealed by His Spirit to the prophets and apostles. Instead of the spirit of the world which is perishing, Christians can receive the Spirit which is from God to know the saving gospel of His Son.

The wisdom of God runs contrary to the wisdom of this age and is accessible only to those who love Him.

At the announcement of His incarnation, the Lord Christ received the name Jesus and three of the many titles attributed to Him: the Son of the Most High, the Holy Child, and the Son of God. Each name and title helps us understand the person and work of this Savior, King, and God incarnate.

The gospel of Jesus Christ needs no ornamentation to make it acceptable to its hearers and lacks nothing to make in effective unto salvation. Those who proclaim this message ought to rest in the power of God to save those who acknowledge their inability to save themselves and run to Christ for eternal life.

Christians have no basis to boast in themselves but have every reason to boast in the Lord Jesus who provides gracious salvation to them. Many problems in the church and culture can be solved by a healthy dose of humility before God and others.

The gospel of a crucified Christ demonstrates the wisdom and power of God to redeem those who cannot know God through their own observation, inquiry, or cleverness, but whom God has called to salvation.

The gospel message appears to be absurd. God sent His son to die a shameful death on behalf of perishing sinners. But this is the way for those who cannot know God in their own wisdom to come to know Him through His good pleasure. The worldly wise man must humble Himself before the all-wise God to receive forgiveness of sins through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Unity of doctrine is important in the life and witness of a local church. Paul exhorted the church in Corinth to like-mindedness and unity around the person and work of Jesus Christ.