How many materials does God give us to build with in 1 Corinthians 3?
In 1 Corinthians 3, God gives six different materials to work with. Believers are depicted as workers building a wall of brick, each constructing a segment of God's building. Every person is involved, laboring together for a common purpose: to bring glory to God and fill up the Body of Christ.
Les teaches that in 1 Corinthians 3, God provides six different materials for believers to work with as they build their segment of the wall, which is part of God's building. He says every one of us is involved in this labor. Some may never get out of their rocking chair, while others accomplish great things, but all work together like bees in a hive for a common purpose. The analogy breaks down because God does not kick out the lazy worker, whereas bees will. Nevertheless, we work every day toward the same end: to bring glory to God and to fill up the Body of Christ. When the Body is complete and the last person is brought in, the Lord will take us and deliver us out of this evil world. Les notes he won't have time to go into verses 12-13 and so forth, but encourages reading them before the next program, and he stops before verse 10.
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
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What six materials does God give believers to build with in 1 Corinthians 3?
In the building imagery, God gives each believer six different materials to work with as they build their segment of the wall that is part of God's building, and every believer is involved in that work.
What is the building imagery in 1 Corinthians 3 about—what are we building?
In 1 Corinthians 3 he explains graphically how the six materials are going to be sifted out in our section of the wall, because we are each building our own section of the wall.