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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 Corinthians 15:33<\/i><\/p>\n

I have written at least three previous times about manners1<\/sup> as many have done who grew up in the turbulent \u201860s when the civilities of society were turned on their head.\u00a0 It was John Silber, past President of Boston University, who in a 1995 graduation speech, directed our thoughts back to John Fletcher Moulton (1844-1921) or Lord Moulton, English Judge and Councillor, and to his essay on Law and Manners.\u00a0 Moulton described three domains of human action: total law and total free choice on the extremes, and manners in the middle keeping either extreme from becoming dominant.\u00a0 When manners disappears or becomes weak, totalitarianism or antinomianism will take over a society.\u00a0 It has been the observation of many in my life time that America, like our big brother Great Britain, has abandoned manners and unfettered freedom (disguised as individualism, human rights, etc.) is reigning.\u00a0 As it does, big government is attempting to establish order in the vacuum of self government.<\/p>\n

D.A. Carson wrote, \u201cMany observers have rightly concluded that unless a democratic state is made up of citizens who are largely in agreement over what is \u2018the good,\u2019 that state will tend to fly apart, forcing the government itself to become more and more powerful and intrusive in order to hold things together.\u201d2<\/sup>\u00a0 But what is \u201cthe good\u201d?\u00a0 That is really our problem, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 We are at a time when individual citizens do not know what is good and how to achieve it without outward constraint from government or inward restraint from ourselves.\u00a0 That is, we have no manners.<\/p>\n

In an ironic way we idolize figures who have shown us manners.\u00a0 Of the days of William Wilberforce and John Newton of England, both of whom are admired for putting a stop to the slave trade, Os Guinness included this note, \u201cThere is little doubt that Wilberforce changed the moral outlook of Great Britain, and this at a time when the British Empire was growing and Britain was the world\u2019s leading society.\u00a0 The reformation of manners grew into Victorian virtues and Wilberforce touched the world when he made goodness fashionable.\u201d3<\/sup>\u00a0 It is ironic because while we idolize these men, we shudder at the Victorian virtues that came with them.<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t hurt America to have a Victoria or even a Miss Manners again!\u00a0 It is still curious to watch Red Skelton read the Pledge of Allegiance on Facebook, or Paul Harvey tell the rest of the story.\u00a0 But in real life we have few who have taken their place.\u00a0 Emily Dickinson said, \u201cThe abdication of belief makes the behavior small.\u201d4<\/sup><\/p>\n

When I was a pastor in Colorado, I liked to take the Junior kids to camp in the mountains.\u00a0 I spent the week telling them to wash their hands and faces, take a shower each night, make their beds each morning, and eat something besides gummy bears.\u00a0 After a number of years perfecting this cultural adventure, I settled on a descriptive theme verse, \u201cAnd about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness\u201d (Acts 13:18).\u00a0 But one can excuse junior behavior because it is necessarily immature, even laughable.\u00a0 But things we laugh at about our children we should not laugh at as adults.<\/p>\n

My childhood pastor, Harold Rawlings, used to say \u201cThe wilderness encroaches.\u201d\u00a0 Unless we keep cutting back the weeds and the forest it will quickly take over our space.\u00a0 This has to be done with each generation or we won\u2019t be reading about the pagans, we will be the pagans!\u00a0 We used to see pagans only in National Geographic magazines, and now we can have them in our living rooms through sports, music, and even politics.<\/p>\n

Paul\u2019s use of \u201cManners\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Think again of that verse in 1 Corinthians 15, \u201cBe not deceived, evil communications corrupt good manners.\u00a0 Awake to righteousness and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame (vss. 33,34).\u201d\u00a0 Paul was arguing for the fact and necessity of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Without this fact as our foundation, our house is built on shifting sand.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be deceived, one who does not know Jesus Christ has no sure way of keeping the wilderness of bad manners from creeping into his\/her life.<\/p>\n

The word \u201cmanners\u201d is not a common word in the Bible.\u00a0 The Greek word (\u0113<\/i>th<\/i>\u0113<\/i>) is used only here in the whole New Testament.\u00a0 For that reason it is translated \u201cgood morals\u201d (ASV, NASV, ESV), \u201cgood habits\u201d (NKJV), \u201cgood character\u201d (NIV), but preferably \u201cgood manners\u201d because it means a manner of behavior, a settled habit, much as we use the word manners to describe self control or good conduct.\u00a0 In other places we have the word \u201cmanner\u201d (e.g. in verse 32, \u201cthe manner of men\u201d) but that usually means the customary actions of people.<\/p>\n

It is interesting also to realize that this is one of only a few places where Paul quotes extra-biblical sources (see also Acts 17:28 and Titus 1:12).\u00a0 This is almost an exact quote from Menander in his Thais<\/i>.\u00a0 Grosheide says,<\/p>\n

It may be that this is not a direct quotation from Menander but that this line had become generally known.\u00a0 If so, its value as a potent argument would be greatly increased for Paul would be telling these Greek Christians, who had gone back to their former pagan customs, that their own proverb warned them against their evil conduct.5<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The point is that these Corinthian Christians were carnal because they had allowed false teaching which denied the resurrection of Christ, and this false teaching was corrupting their very manners.<\/p>\n

The Corinthians\u2019 bad manners<\/span><\/p>\n

MacArthur points out that the Corinthians would have been aware that many of the Greek poets and historians had advocated bad behavior based on bad theology about life after death.\u00a0 He writes,<\/p>\n

The Greek historian Thucydides reported that when a deadly plague came to Athens, \u2018People committed every shameful crime and eagerly snatched at every lustful pleasure.\u2019\u00a0 They believed life was short and there was no resurrection, so they would have to pay no price for their vice.\u00a0 The Roman poet Horace wrote, \u2018Tell them to bring wine and perfume and the too short-lived blossoms of the lovely rose while circumstance and age and the black threads of the three sisters fate still allow us to do so.\u2019\u00a0 Another poet, Catullus, penned the lines: \u201cLet\u2019s live my Lesbia and let\u2019s love, and let\u2019s value the tales of austere old men at a single half penny.\u00a0 Suns can set and then return again, but for us when once our brief light sets there is but one perpetual night through which we must sleep.\u20196<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul knew that bad manners results from bad theology.\u00a0 As only Paul could do, he scolds the Corinthians for their historians\u2019 advice by quoting their historian\u2019s advice.\u00a0 No theology is as bad as denying the resurrection of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Lenski writes,<\/p>\n

Paul intends to say in the present connection that association with deceivers who are full of skeptical ideas is bound to react hurtfully on the good ways of life (ethe<\/i>) of Christians.\u00a0 Instead of letting the divine truth mold their manner of living they let the false and insidious ideas of their associates mislead them.\u00a0 Even one bad apple spreads rot among many others.\u00a0 He who rejects the resurrection cannot live and act like one who truly believes this divine reality.7<\/sup><\/p>\n

Paul said the same thing twice, \u201cA little leaven leaveneth the whole lump\u201d (1 Cor. 5:6, Gal. 5:9).\u00a0 The Corinthian problem permeates modern Christianity too.\u00a0 We borrow manners or habits or lifestyles from the world without a care that they were born into the world by bad theology.\u00a0 We sing the world\u2019s music, we exercise to Yoga, we watch movies from New Age astrologers, we mark our bodies like pagan sun worshipers, we even riot in the streets like Nazi Brownshirts.\u00a0 Evil communications have corrupted our manners.<\/p>\n

Applications to make<\/span><\/p>\n

1) Even lost people should have basic manners.\u00a0 Human beings are made in the image and likeness of God their Creator.\u00a0 We are not animals even though we may receive life and breath from the same source (Acts 17:25).\u00a0 When any society forgets this, their civility will quickly be lost.\u00a0 Kenneth Myers said,\u00a0 \u201cIf the Noble Savage is the highest form of man, you can hardly protest if his table manners are deplorable.\u201d8<\/sup>\u00a0 A whole society can be brought to a higher level by the influence of a few believers or by laws that reflect their belief.\u00a0 Of course, the Devil hates this, and the lost soul soon loathes the misunderstood restrictions.\u00a0 As Chesterton said, \u201cIt is assumed that equality means all men being equally uncivil, whereas it obviously ought to mean all men being equally civil.\u201d9<\/sup>\u00a0 Look now at Western Europe and Great Britain that were influenced for centuries by the Reformation.\u00a0 Now they loathe the expected public demeanor.\u00a0 America is also losing its patience with a Christian history that has given us good manners as well as morals.\u00a0 They will soon cast it off because the lost soul will not abide a lifestyle formed by a theology it no longer believes.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be deceived, Paul said.<\/p>\n

2) Manners is not the same thing as salvation.\u00a0 We often make the mistake of meeting someone who believes in God, maybe goes to church, and does a lot of good things, so we call him a Christian.\u00a0 Again, human beings are capable of many good and wonderful things.\u00a0 But good and wonderful works do not magically become grace.\u00a0 \u201cFor by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God\u201d (Eph. 2:8).\u00a0 Vance Havner said, \u201cGreatness does not excuse unseemly behavior, it only makes such misconduct more serious.\u201d10<\/sup>\u00a0 The lack of civility ought to teach to repent rather than trust our own goodness.<\/p>\n

3) A believer has a new source of information.\u00a0 Once we are saved, regenerated by the Spirit of God, we are introduced to a whole new avenue of information:\u00a0 revelation from God! Now we will accept the Bible as the Word of God and we have a built-in interpreter, the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Paul was glad for the salvation of the Thessalonians because, \u201cwhen ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God\u201d (1 Thes. 2:13).\u00a0 John told his readers, \u201cBut the anointing [Holy Spirit] which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you\u201d (1 John 2:27).\u00a0 John was also aware of false teachers who brought in error and bad manners with it.\u00a0 \u201cThey are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.\u00a0 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us.\u00a0 Hereby know ye the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error\u201d (1 John 4:5-6).\u00a0 These were \u201cevil communications\u201d that were corrupting good manners.<\/p>\n

4) The believer\u2019s new life raises his manners above his fellow earth dwellers.\u00a0 We are not so much reclaiming a fallen culture as we are living out a new culture created in us as new creatures in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17).\u00a0 Paul showed that the works of the flesh are \u201ccontrary\u201d to the fruit of the Spirit and that you \u201ccannot\u201d do the thing which is contrary to you (Gal. 5:17).\u00a0 \u201cAs ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him; rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught\u201d (Col. 2:6-7).\u00a0 Again, Havner said, \u201cAge and experience in the things of God do not accentuate our crudities, they remove them.\u201d11<\/sup><\/p>\n

5) A believer\u2019s manners are for the purpose of drawing the unsaved to Christ.\u00a0 One way in which we see manners corrupted in our day is because we think we must become more like the world to win the world.\u00a0 Jesus said, \u201cLet your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven\u201d (Matt. 5:16).\u00a0 The Spirit desires the lost person to see his sin and then desire righteousness and then choose righteousness over sin.\u00a0 \u201cAnd when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment\u201d (John 16:8).\u00a0 When Paul witnessed to Felix and his wife, \u201che reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled\u201d (Acts 24:25).\u00a0 Years ago Eric Sauer wrote, \u201cEnriched in Christ, the practical realization of these riches is now our duty.\u00a0 This is at once our task and privilege.\u00a0 The redeemed must live as redeemed.\u00a0 Bearers of salvation must walk as saved.\u00a0 They who possess heaven must be heavenly-minded.\u201d\u00a0 C.S. Lewis said, \u201cThose who want Heaven most have served Earth best.\u00a0 Those who love Man less than God do most for Man.\u201d12<\/sup><\/p>\n

6) The believer\u2019s manners should not, therefore, be corrupted by the world.\u00a0 Paul has warned us, \u201cBe not deceived\u2019 (1 Cor. 15:33).\u00a0 We should not let our manners be corrupted first and foremost because God has warned us not to let this happen.\u00a0 That must be our highest priority.\u00a0 We cannot apply a popular pragmatism and argue that we will accomplish more for God if we become like the world to win the world.\u00a0 We can call it reclaiming culture, or following a cultural mandate, or even loving them so much we\u2019re willing to change.\u00a0 That would be a mistrust in what God has said.\u00a0 Rather, we must strive to be what God has called us to be and trust that this will be the best for all these purposes.\u00a0 Surely having God on our side is the best we could do.<\/p>\n

C.H. Spurgeon wrote, \u201cIf Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who hath redeemed me.\u00a0 I cannot trifle with the evil which slew my best Friend.\u00a0 I must be holy for His sake.\u00a0 How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?13<\/sup><\/p>\n

And So . . .<\/b><\/p>\n

If the ship of state goes down, the church of Jesus Christ will not.\u00a0 The future of Christ\u2019s church depends not on any human organization but on the promises of God.\u00a0 Yet the church has often, and will yet, go through troubled waters.\u00a0 If those waters are created in this beloved country it will be because it loses its manners.\u00a0 When the middle ground of manners disappears either totalitarianism or antinomianism will take over.\u00a0 Right now we are watching the fight between these two, even in the extremes of political candidates.<\/p>\n

How great it would be if Americans could again practice self-government or manners.\u00a0 If we could police our own language, have respect for other peoples\u2019 property or businesses, obey the laws of the land even when they are inconvenient, refuse to flaunt our crudities and nakedness in public, and even allow our neighbor to practice his faith in private and in public, we would keep the unwanted extremes from happening.\u00a0 But the believer will do these things regardless of what the world does, and he will find his rest and inward peace in knowing God is pleased.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

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  1. See my Aletheia website for articles from 10\/95, 3\/99, 6\/02. www.aletheiabaptistministries.org<\/li>\n
  2. D.A. Carson, Christ & Culture Revisited<\/i> (Chicago: Eerdmans, 2008) 137.<\/li>\n
  3. Os Guinness, Character Counts<\/i> (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999) 87.<\/li>\n
  4. Quoted by Bruce Lockerbie, Dismissing God <\/i>(Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998) 35.<\/li>\n
  5. F.W. Grosheide, Commentary on First Corinthians<\/i>, in The New International Commentary on the New Testament<\/i>, F.F. Bruce, Gen. Ed. (Eerdmans, 1979)378.<\/li>\n
  6. John MacArthur, First Corinthians <\/i>(Chicago: Moody Press, 1984) 429.<\/li>\n
  7. R.C.H. Lenski, Interpretation of I and II Corinthians<\/i> (Minneapolis: Augsburg Pub., 1963) 699.<\/li>\n
  8. Kenneth Myers, All God\u2019s Children and Blue Suede Shoes<\/i> (Wheaton: Crossway, 1989) 142.<\/li>\n
  9. G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi <\/i>(New York: Doubleday, 1990) 99.<\/li>\n
  10. Vance Havner, Rest Awhile<\/i> (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1941) 84.<\/li>\n
  11. Ibid., 83.<\/li>\n
  12. C.S. Lewis, Present Concerns<\/i> (New York: HBJ, 1986) 80.<\/li>\n
  13. C.H. Spurgeon, Autobiography, Vol. I <\/i>(Pasadena: Pilgrim Publications, 1992) 99.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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