<p>14:25- see on 1 Cor. 3:13; 2 Cor. 9:11.</p><p><i>The secrets of his heart are revealed- </i>This must be understood in the context of the person having been convicted of sin by the powerful preaching of God's word (:24). The secrets of the heart therefore refer to sins, and Paul uses the phrase in that way in Rom. 2:16 and earlier to the Corinthians he has said that the secrets of human hearts will be revealed and judged at the Lord's return (4:5). But for those who respond to God's word now, they can have that experience ahead of time. Whenever we come before the call of God in His word, whenever we hear the &lsquo;judgments&rsquo; of God, we effectively come before His judgment. The Lord's preaching to the Samaritan woman had the same effect- she went and told others that He had revealed to her all the sins she had ever committed.</p><p>I&rsquo;ve pointed out elsewhere how Paul so often alludes to and further interprets the words of the Lord Jesus. In Mk. 4:22 the Lord says: &quot;For nothing is hidden, except to<b> be revealed</b>; nor has anything been<b> secret</b>, but that it should <b>come to light&quot;</b>. Paul&rsquo;s inspired allusions to this can be found as follows: 1 Cor 4.5: &quot;who will bring to light the <b>secrets</b> of darkness and will <b>make public</b> the purposes of the heart&quot;; Rom 2.16: &quot;God judges the <b>secrets</b> of people, according to my gospel through Jesus Christ&quot;; and, significantly for our context, 1 Cor 14.25: &quot;The <b>secrets</b> of his heart are made<b> public / revealed</b>&quot;. The context of 1 Cor. 14 is of behaviour at the memorial meeting, following on from Paul&rsquo;s concerns about this in 1 Cor. 11 and 12. The point of the connections is this: As the secret / hidden matters of the heart will be judged at the last day, so they are revealed at the memorial meeting. For there, we stand before the cross, and the hidden thoughts of our hearts are revealed.</p><p><i>And so he will fall down on his face and worship God- </i>The falling on the face in worship of God is because the man is having his experience of judgment day ahead of time. The same language is used in Rom. 14:11,12 of sinful man bowing before God in worship at judgment day.</p><p><i>Declaring that God is among you indeed- </i>1 Cor. 14:23-25 seem to imply that unbelievers came into house churches and ought to have been so deeply impressed that they declared that &ldquo;God is in you of a truth&rdquo;. They were to be the living exemplification of how, as the Lord had prayed in John 17, the witness of Christian unity ought to be enough to convert the world. We need to give His words there their true weight. To see slaves and masters, men and women, Jew and Gentile, all sitting at the same table celebrating their salvation in the same Lord, with offices of leadership and responsibility distributed according to spiritual rather than social qualifications&hellip; this would&rsquo;ve been astounding to the Mediterranean world of the first century. The way men mixed with women and the poor with the rich would&rsquo;ve been especially startling.</p>