Men's Council 2.0
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As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
“Just like him”
Just like he is — repeated theme
Just like he is — repeated theme
Just like he is — repeated theme
v. 23 — When believers are united — the world knows
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v. 23 — When believers are united — the world knows
v. 22 — the glory that you have given me I have given to them
Question: is the glory given in v. 22 given to “them” (us) as opposed to “me” (individuality).
The passage paints a beautiful depiction of what our oneness together should represent
This gathering is a fulfillment of this prayer
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Ben —
We are God’s inheritance
Incomparably great power toward those who believe
Deep sense of inadequacy and weakness
The answer to fear is power
“the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe”
resurrection power
Does our interaction with difficult people, circumstances demonstrate that we believe God can bring life out of death — or do we believe that those difficult people/circumstances are too much for Christ?
And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
David - an economic example of local church Shalom
It is expensive to do church like this
those with more were voluntarily helping those with less
define poor — you worked from sunup to sundown —
better off people subsidized worse off people
living with an assurance of another world — laying up treasures in heaven
love is defined as laying life down —
compassion for the poor indicates the kind of heart that Jesus commends in Zaccheus
others were knowing Jesus by their love for one another
they were focused on the present service of Christ and not worrying about what tomorrow would bring
they were doing what he told the rich young ruler to do
Question for David about idealism vs. loving people where they are
re: The Holy Spirit has to reveal this
1 Corinthians 12:2
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts.
And I will show you a still more excellent way.
Zach — 1 Corinthians can largely be seen as a book about divisions in the church. They’re all claiming different teachers. They’re divided by sexual immorality. They’re suing one another. They’re divided over food sacrificed to idols. They’re divided over the Lord’s table. They’re divided over worship.
Differences are graces
Differences create dependency
We all depend on each other
Earnestly desire the higher gifts (in = edifying the church)
Use existing gifts in a higher sense
More excellent love —
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
A letter to the persecuted church
how could thinking about the persecuted church help us think more clearly about the nature of the church in general?
Exhortation — bear with this word
You can’t do the stuff above unless you’re gathering together
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Caleb
What did unbelief look like?
Not having water. Not having food. Not having the right type of food.
Seeing the giants and not seeing God’s faithfulness.
The element of “lest there be “any” of you with an evil unbelieving heart (looking out for this in one another)
Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs
Conceal and carry
Driven by appearances
We are not God. We get it wrong.
Wisdom is when we outgrow our misconceptions about how life should work… Ray Ortlund
Wounds & kisses
Faithful & profuse
Friend & Enemy
Open & Hidden
Hurt but not harm
Iron sharpens iron,
and one man sharpens another.
Adrian —
Sharpening the face of the sword w/ ancient tools
precision, strength, repetition
Are we men of iron?
If we get rebuked — and we don’t like it — we can leave
Taking the rebuke multiple times
Patience
Not just something that you slap on a tshirt — takes a long time
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
Seth
Endure —
People will accumulate for themselves teachers (collecting teachers via podcasts, social media, etc…)
Selfishness — I only want to hear what I want to hear
Community is going to strengthen faint hearts
When we give ourselves to others, it is a safeguard to our souls and to those we love
Upside down kingdom
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Josh
Go to brothers — this is affirming his faith
The fact that he isn’t getting it (just from you) isn’t a big deal
You need additional help from others (different perspectives, etc…)
If a brother “sins” against you. Go and tell him his fault. Not offended, etc…
He is giving the apostles authority
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Wes
Companionship brings joy in work
Two people hold each other accountable / fight sin
Two people bring union built on a foundation of Christ
Solo person is easily broken
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Sacrificial love
Living sacrificially with one another
What does love in deed look like?
— greater love has no one than this...
HOW DO WE HELP OUR WIVES DO ONE OF THESE?