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Intro
Looking at the closing of 1 Corinthians.
To set the stage a little, Paul wrote this letter to address several of the problems this church was facing.
No other church that Paul wrote to had this many problems.
There’s a total of 29 chapters between 1 and 2 Corinthians.
29 chapters of rebuke and admonishment, all done in love, to straighten them out.
Be Watchful
The Greek word is Gregoreo and it means to be awake.
Most lexicons tell us that is has an emphesis of being “really awake” or “really alert”.
You know what’s going on and what to look for.
What was the Corinthian church doing?
Paul says, “When you come everybody takes before the other his own supper.
One is hungry and another is” what?! “drunk.”
Paul says, “When you come everybody takes before the other his own supper.
One is hungry and another is” what?! “drunk.”
They were getting drunk.
The opposite of being alert.
One of the reasons that you shouldn’t get drunk is that when you are drunk you are no longer alert to what’s going on around you.
Even more important, you aren’t alert to your Christian life or to spiritual matters.
You are not alert to Satan.
You are not alert to temptation.
You aren’t alert to anything.
That’s why you should never take in anything that brings you under it’s power and blinds you from being watchful.
Although they were getting physically drunk, Paul here is really talking about the spiritual.
The people where in a state of spiritual stupor.
They were the opposite of being spiritually alert.
Paul says they have no knowledge of God.
Here’s what he’s talking about.
“Don’t you know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?”
You can let sin in the congregation without it affecting everyone.
You can let sin in the congregation without it affecting everyone.
“Don’t you judge those in your midst?”
Don’t you examine people to see if they are adding or taking away from the fellowship?
Don’t you examine people to see if they are adding or taking away from the fellowship?
1 Co 6:2 “Don’t you know that the saints will judge in the kingdom?”
Why don’t you take care of your matters in the way that God has really granted you authority to do rather than take them before a pagan judge?
Don’t you know you can’t let leaven in?
Don’t you know you’re supposed to judge sin in your midst?
Don’t you know that God has given you the authority to judge in the kingdom?
You certainly ought to be able to take care of affairs here and not drag them into pagan law courts.
“Don’t you know that the saints will judge in the kingdom?”
Don’t you know you can’t let leaven in?
Don’t you know you’re supposed to judge sin in your midst?
Don’t you know that God has given you the authority to judge in the kingdom?
You certainly ought to be able to take care of affairs here and not drag them into pagan law courts.
In 1 Co 6:3 he says, “Don’t you know that we shall judge angels?”
Don’t you know what a high calling we have before God and we ought to be able to settle our own problems? 1 Cor 6:5 “Is there nobody wise among you?”
“Don’t you know that we shall judge angels?”
Don’t you know what a high calling we have before God and we ought to be able to settle our own problems?
1 Cor 6:5 “Is there nobody wise among you?”
“Is there nobody wise among you?”
“Don’t you know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?”
“Don’t you know that your bodies are the members of Christ?”
“Don’t you know that if you're joined to a harlot you are one flesh with that harlot?”
“Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?”
The problem was that they didn’t know.
They weren’t alert.
They weren’t grounded in the Word.
That’s why Paul says:
We can learn from the letter here.
So, what should we be watching for?
(only a few things)
Temptation - “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation”
False Teachers
Lord’s Return - “Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.”
What else can or should we be watching for?
Stand Firm in the Faith
The Greek work is Steko and hearing it makes me think of a stake in the ground.
Driving it down where it won’t be moved - it’s firm
What were the Corinthians doing?
Were they standing firm?
They weren’t standing firm at all.
They were blowing in the breeze when it cam to basic truths.
Let me show you one
There were some denying the resurrection of Christ.
The high point of the Gospel.
Without Christ being raised, as Paul says, we are still dead in our sins.
“Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?”There were some denying the resurrection of Christ.
The high point of the Gospel.
Without Christ being raised, as Paul says, we are still dead in our sins.They were also letting human wisdom stand on the same level as God’s revelation.
That’s why Paul tells them in 3:18 “If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.”
Basically substract your human wisdom and what’s left is wisdom from God.
We are told several times to stand firm.
Told here and in , , , and “12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, stand.”How
do we stand firm? - by being in the Word.
Take up the armor of God - through His Word.
We are told several times to stand firm.
Told here and in , , , and “12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, stand.”
How do we stand firm? - by being in the Word.
Take up the armor of God - through His Word.
We can’t stand firm in truth or faith if we don’t know what it is.
It’s a daily things - not once...
Act Like Men
We’ve covered Be Alert and Stand Firm - what is commanded next?
What do you think it means to be a man?
How do we act like men?
NKJV reads “be brave”
You could even read this as “Don’t act like children”
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