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The
Good
News
Living Based on
What
You
Are,
That
is
For
All
People
Not on What You Used to Be
Corinthians 9:19-23
11 Corinthians
6:1-11
September
23, 2018
June 24,
2018
THE BIG IDEA: Paul shows us the focus of his life (winning souls for
Christ), explains his strategy (agile and adaptable messenger +
unchanging message), and helps us see his motivation (the nature of the
Gospel).
Truths to Take Away From this Scripture:
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THE GOSPEL:
When Paul spoke of the gospel he was saying that a Holy
God, offended by our sin, graciously sent the sinless Son to die a substitutionary
death on the Cross, satisfying the wrath of God on our sin.
We are restored to a
relationship with God by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
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1 Corinthians 9 (ESV)
9
19
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all,
that I might win more of them.
20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in
order to win Jews.
To those under the law I became as one under the
law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those
under the law.
21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the
law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I
might win those outside the law.
22 To the weak I became weak, that I
might win the weak.
I have become all things to all people, that by all
means I might save some.
23 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I
may share with them in its blessings.
1 Corinthians 9:23 (NASB) I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so
that I may become a fellow partaker of it.
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Putting this Scripture Into My Life:
§ What sacrifices am I willing to make – what will I give up in order
to see someone saved by Jesus?
Am I willing to make myself “a
servant to all” (v.
19)?
§ What would happen if the souls of people became the passion
of my life?
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“THAT” – Paul uses it 7 times in 5 verses à what he is doing is declaring
what he knows is his purpose – it reveals his passion!
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Verse 19 is the explanation for the difference between mere social
ministry and Gospel-centered ministry: “that I might win more of
them.”
“win” – Matthew 18:15; 1 Peter 3:1
“save” – this word speaks both about removing someone from
imminent danger and of the healing and making whole someone who is
dying.
Paul believed that the message of the Gospel could never change, but
the messenger of the Gospel should always be willing to change.
The reason Paul always came back to absolute sufficiency of Christ on
the Cross for our salvation is that Christ is the constant in our constantly
changing cultures.
There was no question what Paul’s main aim in life was or what he
believed the main business of the church was.
Another way to think about it is Christians are “translators” of the
Gospel into the hosts of cultural groups, mindsets, and groups of
people present in every community.
A missionary to a Spanishspeaking country would never demand that the people learn English if
they want to hear the story of Jesus.
He/she takes the Gospel and
translates it into the language of the people.
Besides the spoken language, there is always the thing that connects
with the heart of a person.
To someone who is feeling overwhelmed by
their circumstances and losses this week, the heart-connection will be in
acts of love.
Paul crossed cultural bridges for the souls of men.
We don’t ask people
to cross those bridges in order to qualify themselves to be worthy of
hearing what we have to say!
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Will I learn a new language?
Immerse myself in a new culture?
Choose to be a servant?
Start where people are, not where I think they should be?
Will I sit with people I wouldn’t naturally be drawn to?
Change the way I spend my time?
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