   
IS THE BIBLE INSPIRED WHERE PAUL SAYS, "TO THE REST SPEAK I, NOT THE 
LORD"?
   
Oh, yeah, it's inspired.  He's saying, "By the Holy Spirit, I'm 
telling you what the Lord will allow." That's what he's saying.  "The 
Lord will allow that."
   
Let me show you another one just like it.  Verse 10:  "To the married 
I command, yet not I, but the Lord." Verse 12:  "But to the rest speak 
I, not the Lord." The idea on that is, that the Lord, when He was on 
the earth, didn't say anything about that.  When he says, "To the rest 
speak I, not the Lord," he's not saying, "The Lord is not behind what 
I'm saying." He's saying, "The Lord didn't say what I'm getting ready 
to say.  So I'm speaking this." But the Lord led him to say it!  "All 
Scripture is given by inspiration of God."
   
When the Lord was on the earth, He said some things about marriage in 
Matthew 19, but didn't say the things that Paul says in 1Corinthians 
7.  So, when Paul says, "I'm saying it, not the Lord," he's saying, 
"The Lord didn't say these things, but I'm saying them." And, of 
course, he's saying them under inspiration.
   

   

 
