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Exegetical Idea: Paul regularly thanked God for the grace given to the church in Corinth.
Theological Idea: Believers should respond to God’s gift of grace in Christ with thanksgiving.
Preaching Idea: The proper response to God’s gift of grace in Jesus Christ is to be a living thank you note.
Notes:
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Introduction
A. Illustration: Growing up, having to write thank you notes was a chore for me.
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When we are given a gift, the proper response is to write a thank you note.
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If someone gives you a gift it is because they care about you.
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That person will want to know that you received the gift.
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They will also be curious to know if you are enjoying the gift or have found it useful.
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Knowing that a gift was received well brings joy to the giver.
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God has given His grace to believers in Jesus Christ.
i. God already knows who has and has not received his gift.
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God knows whether we put his gifts to good use or are enjoying them.
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The proper response to God’s gift of grace is to be a living thank you note.
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From 1 Corinthians 1:4-9 we will discover four elements of proper thank you notes.
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As we discover what these four elements are, we will be able to apply them and become living thank you notes in response to God’s gift of grace in Jesus Christ.
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[Read 1 Corinthians 1:4-9]
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A proper thank you note *addresses* the giver by *name*.
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Paul was thankful to God for the grace that was given to the church in Corinth.
1. Paul saw the evidence of God’s grace in the lives of these struggling believers.
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The rest of 1 Corinthians gives us a picture of a church that struggled with a number of issues, and many of these issues created a sense of disunity among the believers in Corinth.
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The issues they were faced with are not unlike the issues churches today continue to wrestle with, so the principles we can pull from this letter are still very relevant to us.
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Even though the church in Corinth wasn’t perfect, they were still genuinely the church made up of authentic believers in Jesus Christ.
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Paul brought the message of Christ to Corinth, but God brought the Corinthians to Christ.
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We can read about Paul’s first visit to Corinth in Acts 18.
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It could be tempting for a man like Paul to pat himself on the back after seeing people in Corinth come to faith.
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But Paul realized that he was merely only a tool in God’s hands; he had merely been called by God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ.
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It was in God’s sovereign plan that he would send Paul and his associates to bring the gospel to Corinth and to establish his church in that place.
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Paul took every opportunity to offer prayers of thanksgiving for this church.
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We might think Paul was exaggerating when he said he always prayed for this church.
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Paul would not have meant that he spent every waking moment in prayer, but that in his regular pattern of prayer he made sure to thank God for the church in Corinth as he did for other churches connected to his ministry.
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If we are tempted to dismiss Paul’s example as unreachable, we should take a step back and realize that the goal is not about how much we pray, but is there a regular pattern of prayer that we take part in.
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Paul had a heart for these believers, and especially while he could not be with them physically, he was committed to keeping them before the Lord in prayer.
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God’s grace in Christ was His gift to us.
1. God’s gift of grace initiated in His purposes.
i. Sometimes the idea of God’s sovereignty makes us a little uncomfortable.
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Actually, reflecting on God’s sovereignty should do the opposite and bring us comfort.
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Paul in Romans 3 reminds us that no sinner seeks God, and that includes everyone of us.
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None of us sought God’s gift of grace; God’s grace was offered to us as his gift.
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