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The Way of Spiritual Growth
1 Corinthians 3:1-23
May 13, 2018
receive his wages according to his labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers.
You
are God’s field, God’s building.
4. Trust God to grow you and your church.
(3:7-9)
à Anyone can, through human means, devise a strategy and draw a
crowd of people, but only God can give growth = which means to
see people hearts changed and lives transformed.
THE BIG IDEA: Spiritual maturity is expected but not automatic.
We can be
saved people who are not progressing in our salvation.
That is tragic.
Christ is
All – our salvation, our foundation, our source for all we really need, our
evaluator, and our wisdom.
3 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of
the flesh, as infants in Christ.
1. Stop responding to the flesh.
(3:1)
“flesh” – characteristic of the world, as opposed to the Spirit of God
Galatians 5:16-25
I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it.
And even now
you are not yet ready,
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2. Start eating solid food.
(3:2)
à Babies eat baby food.
In the beginning, it is completely normal.
Now, though, it is abnormal.
à This is not so much about mastering deep doctrine as it is about
basic obedience to the commands of Jesus and our growth in
Christ-likeness.
[1 Peter 2:1-5]
for you are still of the flesh.
For while there is jealousy and strife among you,
are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 4 For when one says,
“I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely
human? 5 What then is Apollos?
What is Paul?
Servants through whom you
believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God
gave the growth.
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3. Stop looking for spiritual celebrities and embrace your
spiritual leaders.
(3:3-6)
à Have a proper view of them – “servants” who help you believe.
à People who are different by God’s design and gifting.
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who
gives the growth.
8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will
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According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I
laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it.
Let each one take care
how he builds upon it.
11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which
is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with
gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 each one’s work will become
manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the
fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
14 If the work that anyone has
built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
15 If anyone’s work is
burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as
through fire.
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5. Make sure your life and church are built on Christ.
(3:10-15)
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in
you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him.
For God’s temple
is holy, and you are that temple.
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6.
Remember that the Holy Spirit lives in you and in God’s
church.
(3:16-17)
à God will protect His church and punish those who seek to tear it
down.
Let no one deceive himself.
If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in
this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of
this world is folly with God.
For it is written, “He catches the wise in their
craftiness,” 20 and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they
are futile.”
21 So let no one boast in men.
For all things are yours, 22 whether Paul
or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—
all are yours, 23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
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7. Be content to know that you’ll never know it all and to belong
to Christ is enough.
(3:18-23)
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