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Two friends met for dinner at a seafood restaurant.
Each requested filet of sole, and after a few minutes the waiter came back with their order.
Two pieces of fish, a large and a small, were on the same platter.
One of the men proceeded to serve his friend.
Placing the small piece on a plate, he handed it across the table.
"Well, you certainly are selfish!” said his friend
"What's troubling you?" asked the other.
"Look what you've done," he answered.
"You've given me the little piece and kept the big one for yourself."
"How would you have done it?"
the man asked.
His friend replied, "If I were serving, I would have given you the big piece."
"Well," replied the man, "I've got it, haven't I?"
Historical/Cultural Context -
Paul preached the gospel in Corinth in the early 50s AD during his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1–18).
When opposition grew fierce there, the Lord Jesus spoke to him in a vision assuring him that he had ‘many people’ in the city (Acts 18:10).
With this encouragement, Paul stayed on for eighteen months, ‘teaching them the word of God’ (Acts 18:11).
God used Paul’s ministry to bring about the birth and establishment of the church in Corinth.
Biblical Text -
-[Prayer]-
Life Principle - Walking In The Spirit Means Getting Rid Of Self.
Life Point - The Believer Must Walk In The Spirit
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Paul just got telling the Corinthian church that those that are Christ’s are spiritual and that we should have the mind of Christ by being in His Word.
Now He gives them a scathing rebuke.
Stating that they should be spiritual and not carnal.
Christians should be in the mind of Christ.
They should not be thinking on the carnality of man all around them.
This applies to us today.
We are admonished through scripture time and again to set our minds on the things that are above, not on the temporary trappings of this world.
What is spiritual?
The word means to have a pattern of behavior like God’s
To be controlled or direct by The Spirit of God
How can someone say they are spiritual if they aren’t in God’s Word allowing The Holy Spirit to illuminate that Word to Our understanding?
You can’t.
Like I always say.
You can tell me all day long you are a refrigerator, it doesn’t make it so.
Why?
Because you don’t have the characteristics of a refrigerator or refrigerator-ness
What is carnal?
Carnality is human nature without God.
It is sin.
It is all about your base desires being met and then some.
It is about whatever feels good, Do It!
It is worldly.
It is selfishness personified.
Every notice that babies are born inherently selfish?
It’s all about them, all about what they want.
You have to teach them as they grow up, how not to be that way.
The problem is we have a couple of generations who have forgotten about God and so their lives is all about self, selfish, what they want.
No one else matters.
So who is teaching their children to behave selflessly?
The schools?
Nope.
The Government? Definitely Not!
It should be the churches all around the nation, but how can they when Christians are acting selfish themselves!
They are acting carnal
If your entire life is marked by the flesh and not the Spirit at all, then you need to check to see if you are in Christ.
Don’t be like those in Matt.
7:
Going back to our main text:
What’s interesting about this church is that it saw itself as spiritual because it had a lot of spiritual gifts happening in it.
Which we will look at more later.
They were speaking in tongues, prophesying, healings and the like, in their churches.
But these splashy gifts seem so amazing that people mistake the miraculous sign and wonders as them being spiritual.
They are separate.
A gift is given, Transformation to be more and more like Christ is grown.
Sanctification is a life long process.
It is a process of relationship with Christ.
With The Holy Spirit.
Their character was not up-to-par with what they were portraying themselves as.
They were being carnal.
We see this all the time in churches across America and around the world.
We see selfishness raising its’ ugly head everywhere.
Have you ever notice that those churches today who claim they have the spiritual gifts like the Corinthians tend to have more babes in Christ?
Focusing on spiritual gifts, not the giver?
You can go to some of these churches and not hear the name of Jesus spoken more than at the end of a prayer.
Then its’ all about a particular gift or gifts of the Holy Spirit.
I will say that most of the time, what they call a gift of God is nothing but selfish carnality on display.
Sometimes I think it is even demonic false signs and wonders.
Every gift, if it is truly a gift and not just man-made or done in an hypnotic trance, was given to the church to point the unsaved to Jesus.
What He did for us and continues to do for us on a daily basis.
The father points to Jesus and the Holy Spirit points to Jesus.
Why?
Because Jesus is the redeemer, He is the savior.
Everything here is temporary.
It is all passing away, but not our redemption.
That is eternal.
How can we tell a church that is carnal then?
Paul tells us.
If there is envy, strife and division in a church then that church has people working in their carnality.
They are babes in christ.
The example Paul gives them is the division amongst them, that they created.
Saying they follow Paul or Apollos.
To their shame I had some people coming to a church where I was the Associate Minister who were mad at the pastor.
About what, I don’t even remember anymore.
You see they come to my Sunday School Class and would promptly leave before service started.
They caused all kinds of havoc in the church over this and other things.
They tried to get people to side with the Pastor or myself.
Now most of this I didn’t find out about until after they were disfellowshipped from the church.
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