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If you were with us last week, then you know last week was a trying week for me.
Being a week removed from the situation, I want to teach for just a moment.
I choose not to expound on why it was a trying week.
The reason I choose not to expound on it is that it has the potential to grab the focus for shift the focus.
What do I mean by this?
Grab the focus: would mean that we as a church talk about what happened and focus on what happened and talk about the situation.
I don’t think we come here to talk about the what but we come here to talk about the who and that who is Jesus Christ who is King of kings and Lord of lords.
If we spend a lot of time talking about what happened it will draw our focus off of Jesus and onto the problem.
Shift the focus: The tendency for this situation to also shift the focus.
By shift the focus it can be easy for the focus to be drawn toward the leader and my problems.
I know you care about me but that you don’t come here because of me.
You come here to seek Christ alone and it would be easy for the focus to be taken off of Christ and put on me.
Last week, through the power of Christ alone I felt that I needed to pull myself together and push through so that the focus might be on Christ alone.
I am sure there are times in life when you may want to grab the focus or shift the focus.
When life is tough, we strive to allow the power of Christ to be on display.
Don’t allow the enemy to grab the focus on the problem or to shift the focus to yourself.
Stay focused on Christ Alone who has the power to save.
It is my desire that we keep Christ our focus.
For it is in Christ, that He alone has the power to save! Christ alone has the power to redeem and restore.
Christ death sets us free.
May we consistently keep our focus on Christ alone!
1 Corinthians 2
(Prayer)
The City of Corinth
Philosophical city.
It was a key trade city that routes led North, South, East and West from this city.
The city faced a lot of immorality.
This immorality had made its way into the church.
The text shares with us that the church at Corinth was facing divisions in the church.
1 Corinthians 1:
I liken what they are facing in the church to what we would be facing today in the tractional or consumerism church we see today.
Some in Corinth were saying I follow Apollos because he was the best speaker and easy to listen too.
Today churches are often caught in a web of trying to get the latest trend of what will get people through the doors.
The shift in the church has been to meet the needs of the member or consumer and to ensure that they have the greatest experience possible every week so that they will want to come back.
Sermons shift to motivational messages, worship becomes performance, and it is all about the mood or environment so that the worship experience is the best for those who attend.
I will never forget a conversation with a well known pastor in our area a year ago.
He said that the trend is heading towards experiences in churches.
He was talking about the way they were redoing children dedications so that they could offer the best experience to those who attend.
Let me be clear these things are not wrong in themselves.
Great moods, great communicators, great sermons, or great experiences in themselves are not wrong.
1 Corinthians 2:1
Paul’s weakness
I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom
I came to you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling
My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom
2 Corinthians 12:9
The tendency could be to shift the focus of motivational messages that get you through the week and how to live your best life now.
This is not the Gospel and will lead us to believe that we can do things on our own if we just be good enough which is known as self-righteousness
Paul’s Strength
Paul boasted of is weaknesses but what was his strength.
1 Corinthians 2:
I love as it describes what the crucifixion of Jesus does.
Paul was centered on Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Hebrews 10:4-
This is not a self help and put your confidence in yourself message.
This Gospel is that you are dying in Sin and going to Hell but a Sinless Savior died to pay the penalty of Sin that WE should have paid.
It is through this death of Jesus that we are forever perfected those who are sanctified.
Our confidence does not reside in your ability to fix you.
Our confidence is in the finished work of Jesus on the cross.
Spiritual Wisdom
1 Corinthians
Verse 8 Paul links the crucified Lord with glory, an utter paradox to both Jews and Gentiles.
1 Corinthians 2:10-
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