As you are!!!
Words From Paul • Sermon • Submitted
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· 7 viewsWe are not called to an idea, we are called to use our lives (no one else's model) to live out our faith.
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Paul was speaking to people that were being controlled by social conditions rather then being lead by Christ.
Circumcision
Not the point nor the indication of faith
Slavery
Christ’s freed person
Servant of Christ
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision. For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God. Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called. Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men. So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.
1. Paul uses the word “called” 7 times in this passage, what does that word mean?
2. If the conditions you live in are irrelevant, what in stead should be the focus of our lives?
3. Are you easily impacted by what others are impacted by? (think hard about this one) Explain?