If you want to Deconstruct the Church, then do not follow God's creative order
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Intro;
Intro;
in chapter’s 8-10 Paul has been talking about Christian Liberties. How we have new liberties in Christ, but there is a way to use these liberties.
today we will call these liberties, convictions. There are certain things that we are ok with doing, listening to, being a part of, watching etc..... that other people may not be ok with.
These different convictions have the ability to make people stumble if i do not exercise them properly. The main theme has been to exercise our freedoms or convictions with love, thinking of other people.
So as we get into chapter 11, there were certain freedoms that people had taken in regards to the worship service. Certain freedoms that were taken during the time that they gathered that Paul will address.
now as we read this, we have to understand that there are cultural aspects of this text that may be different from today. Obviously, Paul was writing to a specific group at a specific time, and he is answering specific questions that these people had.
so when we read it, we can be confused or we can dismiss it. But the principals that we will look at today are the same for any generation. We will break out this chapter in 2 sections.
Transition
there are two main things that we want to look at today. Because as Paul is writing to these believers he is going to speak to them about the order that God established within the church worship during their specific time, but the most important thing that paul will address is....
God has a creative order of design (v.3)
God desires man to submit to that creative design (v.10)
now the culture around us is pushing hard to get us to following a different order, for us to deny God’s creative order. You can see this take place all around us on tv, in movies, on social media, in songs. So in keeping up with our theme of “The deconstruction of the Church”, i have tilted this message......
“If you want to deconstruct the church, then deny God’s creative order”.
today what i am going to do is to read the section as a whole and will breakdown what Paul is saying specifically to the readers during his time, then we will come back and look at how it applies to us.
Read and interpret
God’s creative Order
God’s Creative Order
God is the creator of all things.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
what we have to look at is creation itself. The bible tells us that God created man and all creation, the world, the universe, the galaxies.
this is the basic thing that we have know and to believe. If you can understand this fact, you will be able to understand and believe all other aspects of God.
2. God is Sovereign
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,
because God created all things , this means that he has also created the order in which all things are to function.
Since God created all things, therefore He has the right to create a specific design for all things to functions within. Meaning He has created all things and has also created the way they are supposed to function.
He is in control of all things, their purpose, the way they are to function, their lifespan
3. God Created Man
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
God created you and I. He made you just the way you are. There are no mistakes with God. Whether your tall or short, skinning or fat, black hair or blonde....... God created you just the way He wanted to.
4. God Created man to fulfill His will
Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
God has created us with His purpose in mind. We were not created to fulfill our own will or to live for our pleasure.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
5. God Created man and woman to be united
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
God made man and woman to be united together.
A. So man would not be alone
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
B. So they could be compatible
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
or suitable. Men and women are completely different both emotionally and physically. He created men and women to be together to complement one another. There are natural things in men like being strong, being hard workers, being more straight forward that helps in the family unit.
the same thing in the women, they are normally more gental, compassionate, loving, emotional. The man and woman complament one another with their natural strengths and weakness.
C. So they would multiple
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Seems very basic, but the reality is that without men and women joining together , you would not be able to have babies. i don’t care what the culture around you tells you, God designed for babies to be made within the relationship of a man and a woman. There is no other way this can happen. Its science.
The Worlds attempt to destroy that Creative Order
now the current culture around us does not view things the way you and i do. The reason is that they are following the course that Satan is pushing. They are following a lie.
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
And the bible tells us that Satan is trying to rip us off.
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Satan will shift the cultures around us to go in the direction that is in opposition to God’s will and God’s word. That includes going against God’s creative order.
what you have today is a culture that is trying so hard to destroy God’s creative order.
Destroying God’s Creative order
there is no God
no difference in men and women. You can be what you want to be . Doesn’t matter if God made you a man, you can choose to be a woman.
masculinity is bad
women should not just be in the home, but they are equal to men. ( men and women are equal in the eyes of God, yet the reality is that men and women are different emotionally and physically. ) there are some things that women would do a better job than most men, like raising kids. There are some things that men are more equipped to do, like hard physical labor.
when it comes down to it, this is what Satan is pushing in our culture and unfortunately is working. Young people like you have bought into this hook line and sinker . Young people are more confused than ever.
God’s desire for us to Submit to that Order
God’s heart is for us to submit ourselves to the authority of God.
when we deny God’s order and go outside of it in worship, in our own life, in our marriages, in our relationships...... we are denying His authority in our lives.
We are saying that we refuse to submit to God. This is exactly what the world is saying. When they are questioning who they are or what they identify as, they are denying who God made them to be. This is a complete rebellion against God.