Daily Devotions
1 Corinthians
"Who ever goes to war at his own expense?"
Text: 1 Corinthians 9:7
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS
Paul must have nursed a deep sense of hurt that the church he founded would have members who turned against him so cruelly! But this was more than just a personal issue. Truth was at stake!
“Who ever goes to war at his own expense?
Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit?
Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk
of the flock? Do I say these things as a mere man?
Or does not the law say the same also?
For it is written in the law of Moses, ‘You shall not
muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.’
Is it oxen God is concerned about?”
1 Corinthians 9:7-9
1. Three pertinent analogies
a) Who goes to war at his own expense?
b) Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit?
c) Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk of the flock?
Rhetorical questions do not need an answer! The answers are too obvious to state!