God's Building F.R.O.G

Turn with me to 1 Corinthians 3

- We are ZION, God’s heart has always been to dwell with His people, and because of what Jesus has done on the cross when we believe in Him through faith we are saved and become the temple or the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.

- Then My mom gave us the question are you running from God? To which my son said no. Don’t run from Him run too Him.

- Hunter asked us the question What are you seeking? Are you seeking God’s will or are you seeking your will?

- And Ryan pointed us to Jesus.

Tonight I want to look more into God’s Building. I’ve struggled to prepare this week because the enemy has tried to trap and distract.

It’s funny how the Lord works, because this passage that I found the Lord putting on my heart was 1 Corinthians 3 that says,

1 Corinthians 3:1–4 ESV

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?

Found myself dealing with a little bit of Jealousy and Insecurity.

I am not as wise as my dad,

I am not as geniune as my mom,

I am not as funny as my brother-in-law,

I am not as passionate as my brother.

I found myself dealing with a bit of immaturity.

Here is the point,

Immaturity is a problem because we have characteristics that still look like the world.

We are called to be set apart, we are called to be different, we are called to be holy, we are salt of the earth and city set up on a hill. All that to say we are called to be like Jesus.

Do you know someone who is immature? Its frustrating and difficult, and you just want to say grow up?

Immaturity is a problem because it means we are not letting God build us up.

1 Corinthians 3:5–17 ESV

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Let me set this up for you. Paul is using an analogy that we are a building.

God in the OT we read these passages about how God gives the people instruction on how to build the temple. It can be hard to read because its a lot of measurements I mean it gets down to the details and God calls for it to be built just as he said. Well in the NT we see God in the flesh Jesus building the church, the people that would believe and follow him. You know what is crazy what does scripture tell us about Jesus’ profession. Jesus was a carpenter. Jesus could have been any profession, or even just a preacher but He came and was a builder. My dad shared that passage in Rev. 3:20

Revelation 3:20 ESV

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

That Jesus is telling the church He wants to come in why? Because they had

If you are not in Christ, if you don’t have a relationship with Jesus you are living a home that is run down, it’s got a cracked and fragile foundation, nothing in it can be salvaged, but Jesus said Ill buy you. Jesus said I love you and Ill take you and when we accept his offer of grace, we are poured a new foundation. Paul says Christ is that foundation. The good news is when Christ is our foundation no matter what comes our way we are founded on the rock and can stand firm.

Paul says though Let each one take care how he builds upon it.

A relationship with Jesus is like renovating a home Jesus has great plans for our house our life, but , sometimes it might feel like things are falling apart, taking and tearing down old walls, walls of pride, or insecurities, so that the floor plan can be opened to what God wants to do. There times too were you find things you weren’t expecting, you find mold growing, a habit has been hurting you so you have to rip it out and put new things in.