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Hook
Introduction
Our series is CeaseFire: Seven Habits to Make Your Home a Place of Peace.
We want peace in our homes, but we have a hard time getting there.
We want to be able to work through challenges in a peaceful and loving way, but it always seems to breakdown into bickering, quarreling, and fighting.
Parents, do you find that at the end of the day, you are not exactly the people you want to be when it comes to relating with your kids or spouse?
Do you find your fuse is too short.
You react harshly with the little ones.
You bark orders.
Maybe you spank to quickly?
Don’t you hate to see the look of fear in their eyes when you portray yourself as big and threatening if they don’t do what you want?
Wouldn’t it be nice to find a more peaceful and loving way to work through the challenges?
So many of our quarrels are the result of pride, different expectations and agendas.
Because of this, you may live with regular frustration and fear.
But God can help.
We are looking at His passages, principles, and practices which will improve your families ability to live in peace.
It may not be perfect, but it can be better.
Last week we simply affirmed that you and God want the same thing for your family- peace.
You are on God’s side of things if you work for peace.
Book
The Passage
1 Corinthians
The Context
This passage is in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians which is in the Bible.
Here’s the back story:
Remember, Paul was a missionary who spread the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the Roman empire.
The Bible reports he went on three missionary journeys around the Mediterranean sea.
On Paul’s 2nd trip, he ended up in a town in Greece named Corinth.
Paul presented the gospel and many people believed in Jesus and were saved.
Paul took these new believers and formed them into a church.
Then Paul spent 18 months teaching these Christians the Scriptures and the teachings of Jesus Christ.
He did this as a bi-vocational pastor.
He was a tent-maker in fact.
The time came when Paul had to leave and return to Judea and Antioch (Acts 18:22).
After this furlough, he began his third missionary journey.
During this trip he stayed as a pastor in Ephesus for three years.
From Ephesus, Paul engaged the church in Corinth with letters.
Attempting to shepherd them from afar, he wrote them a letter which we do not know much about, only that it taught them to stay away from people who called themselves Christians but live sexually immoral lives.
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Later, Paul received a spoken report that the church in Corinth was really struggling to be healthy.
The church was full of infighting.
Most relevant to our talk today, the church was full of fighting.
There were social snobbery and divisions in the church.
Then Paul received a letter from the Corinthians with questions that revealed their deep confusion about life and theology.
Then Paul received a letter from the Corinthians with questions that revealed their confusion about the theology behind marriage, divorce, idolatry, worship, and the resurrection of the body.
Paul writes 1 Corinthians to help them understand Jesus’ teaching, but also to help them drop the infighting and bickering.
The Corinthian church was mess!
They fought about many things.
The Corinthian church was mess!
Most of our families can relate.
Just like Paul didn’t give up on the Corinthians because they had problems, God doesn’t give up on our families because we do.
Some of the Corinthians like Paul, others Apollos, others, Peter, others Christ, and still others followed Paul’s rival pastors from the East.
One of the main things they bickered about was which Christian leader was their favorite.
Some liked Paul, others Apollos, others, (Cephas) Peter, others Christ, and still others followed Paul’s rival pastors from the East.
This was one way the Christians at Corinth divided themselves into factions and opposed each other.
We find out Corinth was not a health church family.
They fought a lot like many of our familes do.
Our families do the same thing.
Family members form factions with their own wants and agendas.
Dad wants this, but mom wants this.
The parents want this but junior expects that.
Then, like the Corinthians, we fight with one another for what we want, or just to prove we are right.
Most of our families can relate.
Just like Paul didn’t give up on the Corinthians because they had problems, God doesn’t give up on our families because we do.
Before we dive into the “Why” behind our fighting, I want to give some hope.
Even though the Corinthians were a mess, God didn’t give up on them.
Instead, Paul’s letter to the Corinthians proves God’s earnest desire to reform them.
These words are meant to lead them to peace.
Most of our families can relate.
Just like Paul didn’t give up on the Corinthians because they had problems, God doesn’t give up on our families because we do.
Likewise, God doesn’t give up on our families even though we are quite ugly to one another.
Instead, like the church in Corinth, God wants to see our families reformed.
Hopefully, His words to the Corinthians will help us to find peace at home.
The Text
In this passage, Paul explains to them why they fight so much.
You’ll want to listen to this because it also answers why our families fight and bicker.
Some of the Corinthians like Paul, others Apollos, others, Peter, others Christ, and still others followed Paul’s rival pastors from the East.
In this passage, Paul explains to them why they fight so much.
You’ll want to listen to this because it also answers why our families fight and bicker.
According to Paul,
Fighting in the home is the result of
People fight because they are of the flesh rather than of the Spirit.
People quarrel because they are of the flesh rather than of the Spirit.
Let’s break this down.
What does this mean?
Fighting in the home is the result of
First, let’s talk about what it means to be of the Spirit.
In chapter 2, Paul explains that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God and He knows the depths of God’s character.
In chapter 2, Paul explains that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God and He knows the depths of God’s character.
Look at the second part of v. 10.
1 Corinthians 2:
The Spirit of God is deeply in tune with God’s heart.
Therefore, He is aligned with God’s chief characteristic of peace and reconciliation.
As the Christian receives the Holy Spirit upon salvation, he or she also receives the ability to know God.
Look now at the first part of 2:10.
The “things” referred to in each of these verse are understanding of His wisdom, His attributes, and His ways.
Pertaining to today’s topic, it also refers to knowledge and love for the peace of God.
If a person is spiritually mature, he or she will foster the knowledge of God’s peace and live by it.
In this way, the spiritual person is the one who understands God’s peace and lives by it.
Through this process, we can see
Now let’s look at the first two verses of our passage.
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