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Good morning Church!
Announcements:
First, I am really excited to announce that we are starting our revival tonight!
That’s right, we are having our first revival in the last several years, and it starts tonight.
Listen to our line-up:
Bro Ryan Crips: Tonight at 6pm
Bro Bobby Lee Hale: Monday night at 7pm
Bro Jeff Cripps: Tuesday night at 7pm
Praise Reports:
Ukraine
Revival
TV was installed in the back.
We can now have a choir again and are ready for a song leader!
Prayer Requests:
Ukraine
Revival
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Children’s Church
Doxology:
This is my Bible.
It is God’s Holy Word.
It is a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path, and I will hide its words within my heart that I might not sin against God! Amen!!!
Open Bibles To: 1 Corinthians 3.
We have been walking through a series titled “Building TEMPO”.
The series is based off of Acts 2, where we have surveyed the five functions of the Church.
“TEMPO” is an acronym that lays out each of those five functions, and we have decided to start digging into the last of the five functions, which is represented by the “O”.
“O” stands for “Oneness”.
When we speak of oneness, we are talking about unity.
As we have begun to dig into the concept of unity, we have discovered that unity is at the heart of all that God has done.
In our last message, we were able to see that even the nature of God Himself, screams oneness.
We spoke of the triune God we serve, and even looked at how His creation all works together, as one unit, to glorify its maker and master.
Today, we are going to continue digging into this concept of unity in hopes that two things will happen:
That our understanding of the concept of unity will deepen to the point of seeing that it is engraved into every single aspect of what God has created, specifically the Church.
The Church exists to bring glory to God, and was designed to do so.
That our hearts might be prepared for this upcoming revival so that we might receive God’s Word with gladness and singleness of heart, just as the first century Church did!
Scripture:
Context
In chapter 2, Paul explains the need for the Spirit of God in our lives.
Paul explains that without the Spirit, we cannot understand the things of God.
He says it this way:
Knowing the topic at hand, we can now understand why Paul seems to be giving them such a hard time in the opening verses of Chapter 3.
He begins to explain to them that their behavior is not that of a mature Christian.
Therefore, Paul says, I was not able to feed you meat, but rather with milk, because you were not ready for it.
Spiritually speaking, the behavior and arguments that are present among you are childish.
They are not of God.
You need to do some growing up.
This may seem a little harsh, but remember two things:
The faithfulness we exercise as children of God bears eternal weight to those who are around us.
Paul explains in his letter that all of these words he spoke to the Church at Corinth were spoken out of a heart of love.
See, Paul loved these people.
He loved them so much, that he decided to tell them the truth, regardless how hard it was to swallow.
He wanted to be united with these people, but furthermore, he wanted these people to be united with Christ.
That deep desire for their unity compelled him to speak honestly with them, and the truth was: they were not fulfilling their purpose in Christ.
The underlying issue that caused them to fall short was found in the fact that they were not in unity with God, which in turn caused them to be separated from one another.
Paul uses the rest of the chapter to build his case.
He does so by reminding them of three essential truths:
Who they were.
Why it was important.
The major pitfall that was keeping them from both.
Content
Who They Were
Throughout scripture, various illustrations have been used to described to the Church.
Out of those, i want to mention just a few.
The Bride of Christ
From the very beginning of scripture, we see a picture of marriage as being pivotal in God’s design for mankind.
When God created all things in Genesis 1-3, the last thing that God created was man and woman, and with them He took extra care and took extra time.
Everything else was simply spoken into existence, but with them, He took the time to fashion them with His hands.
We have already seen that they were designed as He was, with a triune nature, but we were also designed to resemble Him to others.
That is to say that not only are we made in the likeness of God, but we were also made to bear the image of God.
Listen to these verses:
The Holy communion of marriage was designed so that it represents the relationship between Christ and His Church.
As Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it, the husband is to love the wife.
As the Church follows Christ faithfully, the wife is to respect and follow the Godly leadership of her husband.
In doing so, we become the bride of Christ.
Through this act of unity, each marriage is to represent the Church’s respect for God and obedience unto Him.
It is a beautiful picture of unity between the Church and Christ.
Notice that it takes both parties in order to make this representation whole.
The Body of Christ
Another picture used throughout scripture, and probably the most used, is the illustration of the Church being the body of Christ.
Once again, we see how that all Christians are to be united as one as we all work together to present Christ unto this lost and dying world.
As with the representation of the marriage, we must all work together in unity in order for this illustration to work.
As stated in these verses, every member of the body is necessary and needed in order for the body to function.
As we work in communion with one another, we represent a triune God who works flawlessly within each of its members to function as one God.
The Father expressed His will, the Son became flesh to show it what it looks like, and the Holy Spirit dwells within our hearts to lead and guide us in the paths of righteousness for His name sake.
Unity is necessary.
The Building of Christ
Here in our text today, we see a third representation.
It is the illustration of the Church as the building of God.
Now we must take care as we unpack the meaning of this illustration.
At first glance, it almost seems to teach that our individual work for God is all that matters.
1 Corinthians 3:12–13 (ESV)
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.
1 Corinthians 3:8 (ESV)
8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
In one sense, the answer is yes.
The deciding factor that either grants me access into heaven or denies me access into heaven will be based upon my decision as to who Christ is.
If I choose Christ as my Savior and Lord, nothing that anyone else in the world might do or say can change that.
When we look at the idea of salvation from this perspective, it is completely individual.
No questions asked.
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