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Every Tuesday, I spend the day at the coffeeshop here in town.
I love it.
For some reason, I need the bustle and the noise to focus on my studies.
My mind wanders so much when it is too quiet.
Also, I like having my face in the community while I am studying the Bible.
I am very grateful for that coffeeshop.
I order a cup of hot tea and they keep it filled for the five hours that I am there.
From there, I move to the library to finish up the sermon as all the after school kids come through.
I am weird.
Even though I don’t like coffee, I love coffeeshops.
Every coffeeshop has a specific culture, from their logo, to their sign, to their decor.
When you walk up, you know what the coffeeshop owners think is important, what they want the feel of their coffeeshop to be.
And if you spend enough time in the coffeeshop, you start picking up that culture and carrying it other places.
Paul says that we are to be like coffeeshops.
Our lives are to be evident about who we are.
We are to give obvious hints by our conversation, our language, our interactions, our priorities, to who we are, to our culture.
And if people spend enough time with us, hopefully, they will pick who we are and carry it other places.
In a phrase, we are to be spiritually mature.
As a sign of our spiritual maturity, we are to be unified.
Let’s read the text:
Remember, Paul just talked about how the spiritually mature can know the things of God and reveal the things of God.
Unfortunately, the Corinthians are not spiritually mature, and they show their immaturity by their disunity.
They can’t get along.
Before we jump in, let’s Pray.
Paul tells us that as a sign of our spiritual maturity, we are to be unified.
1A.
Our salvation
Let’s build this argument from the bottom up.
First, let’s talk about our salvation.
Previously, Paul gave us a contrast between those who were Christians and those who were not.
Now, he gives us a contrast between those who are Christians and following him and those who are Christians and are not following him.
So, we must talk about our salvation, to give us all a unified place to stand.
1B.
Christ saved us when we were sinners.
We believe that Jesus came to earth 2000 years ago.
He was born of the virgin Mary and lived a sinless life.
We believe that he didn’t walk through earth on a cloud, separated from the sin and dirt around him.
He Heb 4 15 “has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.”
He was perfect.
The Bible speaks of Jesus wandering in the desert for 40 days, tempted constantly by the Devil, and never falling.
Think about all things thing that you struggle with.
Jesus was tempted by those things.
After living the model life, teaching great things, showing love to the social outcast, looking out for the poor, correcting the theology of the religious elite, he then dies, was buried, and came back to life after 3 days.
We believe all these things are true.
These facts prove that Jesus was the Son of God, as Paul writes:
We believe that the Gospel which was promised before is fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
That his death provided salvation from our sins and reconciliation to our God.
We believe that this Gospel is received not based on anything we do but based simply upon faith.
We cannot earn our salvation, because we are sinners.
Christ saved us when we were sinners.
I’ve said this before, and I will probably go down to my death bed saying this: We do not deserve our salvation because we cannot earn our salvation.
We are sinners.
Paul knew this first hand.
Consider how Paul’s life changed.
When he met Christ, he was racing down the road to murder Christians.
He was not a good man.
He confesses to Timothy:
Christ, the perfect man, God himself, saved us when we were sinners.
If we believe that we weren’t, we should just compare ourselves with Jesus.
2B.
We do not change right away
A result of Christ saving us when we were sinners is that we don’t change right away.
Don’t get me wrong, there are many people who have amazing Paul on the road to Damascus stories.
Where they were horrible people and God miraculously changes them overnight.
However, even then, those people are not perfect.
Even though Paul went from being a murderer to a life-giver overnight, he still admitted that he wasn’t perfect.
He needed growth.
And he took the time for that growth.
He took the time to study, pursue God, and see what he needed to change.
When someone trusts in Christ, we start a journey of getting to know Christ and being changed by him.
John writes:
Remember, John is writing to Christians about Christians.
We are sinners.
And we remain sinners.
I know many of you know this.
You accepted Christ, and you still indulged in sin, slowly being convicted by it.
Some of you are much more mature than I am, and you are still being convicted by your sin.
I think about stories that Paul shared.
One day, he and Peter are both in Antioch, and Peter acts like a hypocrite and a racist.
One day he is eating, drinking, and fellowshipping with Christians who were not Jews.
The next day, when some important Jewish Christians from Jerusalem visit, he stops fellowshipping with the non-Jewish Christians.
And he influences others to join him in this horrible act.
Even Barnabas, the encourager, the one who accepted Paul when no one else did, joined in this racist, hypocritical act.
Paul openly challenged Peter, in front of everyone, calling him out on his sin.
My point is, if Peter who walked with Jesus and was the leader of the church early on, was still living in sin almost 15 years after Jesus’ death and resurrection, we will definitely not be changed from our sin overnight.
3B.
We are to grow
While this fact is true, and should give comfort, this fact does not allow us to stay were we are.
Christ saved us when we were sinners.
We do not change right away.
But we are to grow.
Which brings us to our text.
Paul says:
He has an expectation that the Corinthians church as a whole would grow more spiritual.
That they would follow Christ, seeking his ways and reflecting his ways to the world around.
But, they are not.
Instead, they are seeking the ways of the world and reflecting those ways to the church.
Every letter in the New Testament is built on the fact that Jesus died for us when we were still sinners.
And if we know the awesomeness of that fact we will live differently.
Paul writes to the Ephesians, very simply:
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