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Introduction
Take your Bibles this morning and open them to I Corinthians 9. We are still continuing our journey through this great book.
Currently, we are working through chapter 9.
By way of reminder, the book of Corinthians is, as I believer, God’s Blueprint for the Local Church.
Wednesday night, Pastor Jerry mentioned this fact about the New Testament epistles.
Each one of them is written to either a local church or to leaders of a local church.
God places a heavy emphasis on the local church in the New Testament.
The local church is God’s ordained method of operation in this present time.
He demonstrated the local church’s importance when He said this in Ephesians 5:25
Note that Christ “loved” the local church and “gave” himself for it.
Thus, I contend that if the local church is important to the Lord Jesus Christ then it should be important to us who love and follow Him.
This book, 1 Corinthians, then becomes a very important book.
It outlines everything we need to know so that we might be a local church that please the Lord.
As we have already noted, chapter 9’s focus is on the role of the pastor.
In the chapters leading up to this one, the focus was on each believer and their personal life before the Lord.
Now, however, the focus shifts to the local church as a whole.
There is no better place to start than at the top with the one who God has called to manage each local church - the pastor.
So, for the last few weeks, I, as your pastor, am under the microscope.
What have learned so far?
First, God spoke on the topic of a Pastor’s Pay in verses 7-11.
From those verses, we learned that ever local church as the responsibility of taking care of its pastor or pastors.
At times, a local church may have more than one pastor.
Our church has two men who serve in the capacity of pastor.
I serve as your Senior Pastor.
Daniel, although he is not yet ordained (we are working on that), is considered to be our Youth & Children’s Pastor.
It is an unofficial title for now.
However, when he has completed his ordination it will be official.
So, in a sense, we have two pastors.
Therefore, it is the responsibility of this church, as we learned from God in verses 7-11, to financially support its pastors.
The second thing we learned is this.
This was last’s week message.
We learned about a Pastor’s Passion.
This point is found mainly in verse 16.
A pastor’s passion is to preach the gospel.
In last week’s message, we learned about a pastor’s call to preach.
The Holy Spirit pointedly noted that Paul preached the gospel out of necessity.
It was something that God had “laid upon” him.
That phrase means he was pressed, compelled, constrained, required, and duty-bound to preach the gospel.
God called him to that one thing and nothing else.
In that message, I shared with you my own personal call to preach.
We also looked again at Paul’s call.
Along with each pastor’s call to preach comes a commitment to accountability.
Note verse 17.
The word “dispensation” is word of stewardship.
It carries the connotation of management.
Thus, God’s call upon each pastor to preach the gospel comes with a stewardship of that call.
Every man called into the ministry will one day stand before the Lord Jesus Christ giving full account of his management of God’s call.
However, there is much reward that comes with God’s call to preach and pastor.
We see that reward noted in verses 18 and 19.
A pastor’s reward is knowing that he is fulfilling God’s call.
Fulfillment comes by obedience.
Note Paul said “when I preach the gospel.”
Pastors, just as other believers, must be obedient to God’s commands.
Specifically, a pastor must be obedient in preaching the gospel.
Pastors also fulfill God’s call by doing despite receiving financial compensation or not.
Preaching the gospel should never be about money.
True fulfillment of God’s stewardship to preach means preaching even when it is not popular to do so.
And, then, fulfillment also comes when pastor live faithful lives so not to abuse the management of the gospel before others.
Now, this morning, we continue by considering a Pastor’s Procedure concerning the call to preach.
We have learned about a Pastor’s Pay, a Pastor’s Passion, and now, there is a Pastor’s Procedure.
Look with me at our text.
It is 1 Corinthians 9:19-23.
Note right from the beginning the Holy Spirit points to the fact that being a servant must be part of a pastor’s procedure as he preaches the gospel.
A Pastor’s Process: Serving Others
Verse 19 might seem a little odd to those who have not been with us our study of 1 Corinthians.
However, for those of us who have, you might recall our study of chapter 8.
In that chapter, the Holy Spirit dealt with some issues of liberty.
He encouraged us to consider the things we do making sure that we do not become a stumblingblock to weaker believers.
We learned that yes it is okay to do somethings like eat meat sacrificed to idol.
Believers are free from the bondage of idolatry and understand that such meat means nothing.
However, in the eyes of new born believers, they might see what we are doing and think that there remains some truth to idolatry leading them back to a life of sin’s bondage.
Thus, the warning from the Holy Spirit in chapter 8 is be careful.
Do not do something that might cause another believer to stumble even if you are free to do so.
It is for this reason that we now read:
Paul was not in anyway obligated to live under the opinions or ideas of another person.
His only obligation was to obey God and conform to Christ.
Yet, remember this, he, along with other men, received a call from God to preach the gospel.
A call to which he surrendered and accepted.
For that reason, the Holy Spirit placed within him the desire to serve others.
He was given a Servant’s Heart.
I contend from God’s Word this morning that every truly called man of God is exhibit a servant’s attitude.
If he doesn’t, then it is quite possible that he is in it for the money and not for God.
Why do I say that?
Well, for starters, our text this morning reveals the fact that Paul, a man called by God, desired to be a “servant unto all.”
However, there is much more in God’s Word concerning a pastor’s heart.
I could go to list the number of time that Paul and others described themselves as “servants of God.” Having a servant’s attitude is essential if we want to follow the Lord.
Christ himself was the perfect example of a servant.
Thus, any pastor or preacher worth his salt is a pastor or preacher who exhibits a humble servant’s heart.
Paul’s desire was to be “servant unto all.”
For what purpose?
He did so that “he might gain the more.”
The word “gain” means to acquire more.
He wanted to acquire more souls for Christ.
Thus, in his effort to preach the gospel and gain more souls for Christ, Paul willingly gave up his freedoms and became a servant to everyone he met.
Note the next 3 verses of our text.
He willingly became a Jew to reach Jews.
In other words, as he was ministering to Jews, he did as they did.
He ate the food they ate.
He lived his life in such a way that he did not offend them.
He did so for one purpose - that he “might gain them.”
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