Build My Life pt 2
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Building on the sure foundation of Jesus Christ is a life-long adventure. Be careful to build in ways that will last for eternity!
not the works that we do
rather, the heart with which we do them
READ- 1 Cor 3:9-15
1 Corinthians 3:9–15 (ESV)
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.
God is not Impressed
God is not Impressed
Last week I addressed the Rebellious. This week the Religious.
Bible memorization
Evangelism
Apologetics
Attendance record
Years of service, domestic/foreign missions
financial giving
IF not done in Love to bless and honor.
Luke 18:9–14 “He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.””
1 Corinthians 13:1–3 “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.”
Works Pleasing to the Lord
Works Pleasing to the Lord
Not the activity, but the heart.
Faith - reasoned reliance upon Jesus, our source.
Hope - confident, joyful expectation
Love - Agape’- those works borne of the overflow of God’s Love, poured into our hearts.
Works done in Love to bless and honor.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
