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Intro
Most Christians think that being a christian should be a cake walk, just to find out that the cake is a lie.
the christian walk can sometimes feel like the game Portals
just as soon as you get through one trial there is another one waiting
Faithful Christian living becomes increasingly more difficult and more demanding.
Christ does solve all of our important problems.
He does bring
peace
joy
meaning
purpose
and many other blessings of which the unbeliever knows nothing.
But the Christian life is not easy.
In many ways living is far more demanding than before we were saved
Why is it that when we have God’s own Spirit within us, the mind of Christ, and the power of God, could it become more difficult to do what is right, to do what our Lord wants us to do?
Two reasons
The World
The Flesh
The first is outside us, the second is inside us.
They are Satan’s supreme instruments in tempting believers and keeping them from faithfulness and victory.
When a person becomes a Christian he also becomes a new creation, with a new nature, a new inner being, and a favorable disposition toward God—none of which a person can have apart from Christ
From that point, until the Lord takes him to be with Himself, he is swimming upstream.
Like a salmon returning to spawn, he discovers that gravity and the current are continually against him.
His new heart drives him in an entirely different direction from that of the world around him
(1)Worldliness is more than bad habits its an paridime, (how you look at the world)
a way of thinking and believing.
it is buying
the world’s philosophies
human wisdom
It is looking to the world—to
human leaders,
to those who are influential
popular people
neighbors
associates
fellow students and coworkers
for our
standards
attitudes
meaning.
Worldliness is accepting the world’s definitions, the world’s measuring sticks, the world’s goals.
(2)The Flesh
it is the flesh that produces the bridge the world uses to reach us
When we are given Christ’s divine nature, our flesh is not removed.
That will not occur until we are glorified according to()
because the flesh continually resists and opposes the new heart.
Paul tells about the struggle in his own life
The world and the flesh are closely related.
They are both used by Satan,
they serve the same purpose, evil.
They complement each other and are often hard to distinguish.
But it is not necessary to precisely distinguish between them
both of them are spiritual enemies
both must be fought with the same weapons God’s Word and God’s Spirit
—God’s Word and God’s Spirit
The Corinthian believers had an especially hard struggle against those twin enemies, a struggle which they seldom won.
They would not
break with the world
break with the flesh
They were continually succumbing to both
Consequently they fell into one serious sin after another
Almost all of 1 Corinthians has to do with identifying and correcting those sins.
The sin of division was closely related to numerous other sins.
Sins are always interrelated.
There is no such thing as an isolated sin.
One sin leads to another,
and the second reinforces the first.
Every sin is combined and intermingled with other sins,
a sinning believer cannot confine the evil to one dimension.
there truly is no secret sin
the sins that is hidden will ultimately cause the most damage when they come out
Review
From 1:18 through 2:16 Paul points out that the Corinthians were divided because
of worldliness,
because of their continued love for human wisdom.
human wisdom was to follow the messenger or teacher instead of God who sent him
In 3:1–9 the apostle shows them that they also were divided
because of the flesh,
because of their continued yielding to the evil within them.
He shows the
cause,
the symptoms,
and most important the cure
Scripture
1cor.3.1-9
Message
The cause of division in the church was more than just external, worldly influence.
It was also internal, fleshly.
The Corinthians had succumbed to the pressures of the world, but they were also succumbing to the pressures and enticements of their own flesh.
Before Paul gives correction to them for their immature sinfulness,
he reminds them again that he is speaking to them as
brethren,
fellow believers.
That is a term of recognition and of love.
It reminded his brothers in Christ that they were still saved,
that their sinning, terrible and inexcusable as it was, did not forfeit their salvation.
He did not try to take away from the seriousness of their sins
he did however try to diminish or prevent any discouragement that his rebuke might otherwise have caused.
He stood with them as a brother,
not over them as a judge.
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