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Introduction
We have a drain in our house that gets plugged up really easily.
Eventually it gets to the point that in order to prevent the sink from filling up with water, you have to turn the faucet on lower and lower, until finally it is barely at a trickle.
There is, however, a way to deal with this problem.
Every few months I take the pipes apart and clean everything out.
I run water through them and I take paper towels and get all the gunk out.
Until the blockage is removed, the water cannot drain and the sink either cannot be used at all, or cannot be used to its full potential.
Paul is writing this letter to a church that has a blockage.
God wants to use them.
He wants to work through their lives to bless people, to draw people, to strengthen and equip the body of Christ.
The problem is, something is preventing this church from being all that God wants it to be.
Paul’s heart is not to hurt or damage this church.
His heart is to remove the blockage, to unstop the drain and allow these believers to reach their full potential for Christ!
Pride is a blockage in the drain pipe of life.
It hinders growth and prevents usefulness for Christ.
To serve the Lord effectively we must destroy pride.
Today we learn how to destroy pride.
Let’s Pray.
Father, we are wholly and completely insufficient to the task you have laid before us.
We need you.
Apart from the power of the Holy Spirit and the strength of Christ we will never defeat pride.
If we remain trapped in pride, we will never be effective for you.
Use your Word today.
Speak through me.
Challenge us.
Change us.
Make us more like Jesus.
Help us to destroy our pride.
May Jesus Christ be exalted in this message.
May your people be equipped to minister effectively where you have placed them.
We pray all of this in the precious name of your Son Jesus, Amen.
How is pride destroyed?
1. Pride Is Destroyed By Progress vv.
14-17
When the pipe in our bathroom gets plugged up, it doesn’t get unplugged in an instant.
It is a process of taking things apart, cleaning things, and putting them back together.
In the same way, pride doesn’t disappear when we trust in Jesus.
Pride is destroyed little by little, bit by bit, as we grow and mature in Christ.
That is what Paul is dealing with here.
We are dealing with maturity.
In order to destroy pride, there needs to be progress.
There needs to be growth in the gospel.
In these verses Paul gives us two requirements for progress.
Requirement #1…
a.
To progress we must listen vv.
14-15
Paul has just spoken with some very harsh sarcasm.
He did so to get their attention and to make the point that the Christian life is not about personal advancement.
The Christian life is about the honor, glory, and service of Jesus Christ.
We exist to advance the cause of Christ.
Paul has made his point, now he backs off a little bit and speaks to the Corinthian church like a father to his children.
Look with me at verses 14-15.
The first thing Paul wants them to understand is that he’s not trying to shame them.
Paul wants to confront their sin and have them change their behavior!
He is warning them about what the Christian life is really like.
He wants them to be prepared to face suffering.
Paul says to them that he is warning them as beloved children.
Sometimes, in order to get a point across to our children, we need to speak very bluntly and clearly.
That is what Paul has done.
He is not trying to hurt them!
He is protecting them.
If your child is about to touch the hot pan on the stove you are not going to speak softly and slowly.
You are going to yell out “stop! don’t touch that!”
Your goal is get their attention!
Paul is getting the attention of the Corinthian church.
Why?
Because they are headed into danger.
And so Paul reminds them of his right and authority to speak to them in this way.
He cares for them like a father.
What Paul says here is true of all of us.
We have a lot of instructors.
In this day and age it is probably even more.
Through digital media we have access to the greatest teachers alive today and many of the greatest teachers of the last several centuries.
We have a lot of teachers.
But we only have a few spiritual fathers.
I had the great privilege of my earthly father also being one of my spiritual fathers.
Paul had planted the church in Corinth and was their Spiritual father through the gospel he preached to them.
Here is the picture.
They are Paul’s children and they are playing with fire.
He wants them to stop before they burn the house down.
They need to listen.
They need to heed his warning.
If they are going to destroy pride, they need to grow, to progress.
That can only happen as they listen to Paul.
I want to take a little bit of a step back as we learn our lesson here.
All of us should have spiritual mentors, men and women who are speaking truth into our lives.
Are we listening to them?
People who are speaking truth into our lives may see that we are headed for disaster.
They are trying to warn us.
Are we listening?
Here’s the lesson.
Listen to godly instruction.
There is no benefit to having people with permission to speak truth into our lives if we do not listen to them.
There’s a second thing here.
If you do not have anyone with permission to call you out, to speak truth into your life, change that as soon as possible.
Prayerfully pick out some people and ask them if they would be willing to fill that role in your life.
Okay.
To be useful for Christ and grow in our relationship with Him we need to destroy pride.
To destroy pride we need to progress in the Christian life.
Paul gives us two requirements to progress.
Requirement #1: To progress we must listen.
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