Big Idea:
Jesus is building the church in His image, so let’s not build the church in ours
1 Corinthians 3…
🡪 A Distinction
🡪 Our Participation
🡪 Superior Satisfaction
a. A Distinction
b. Our Participation
c. Superior Satisfaction
- “Positional Sanctification” (salvation)
- “Practical Sanctification” (growth)
1 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 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?
~1 Corinthians 3:1-4
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“Currently True” in 1 Corinthians 3:
“we are God’s fellow workers” (9)
“you are Gods field” (9)
“you are…God’s building” (9)
“you are God’s temple” (16)
“you are that temple” (17)
“all things are yours” (21)
“all are yours” (22)
“you are Christ’s” (23)
1 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 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?
~1 Corinthians 3:1-4
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a. A Distinction
b. Our Participation
c. Superior Satisfaction
- “Positional Sanctification” (brothers)
- “Practical Sanctification” (not yet ready)
a. A Distinction
b. Our Participation
c. Superior Satisfaction
- Ultimately, God does the work (6-7,16)
- We participate (3,10,21)
a. A Distinction
b. Our Participation
c. Superior Satisfaction
- God is building something incredible
- We get to enjoy it!
Big Idea:
Jesus is building the church in His image, so let’s not build the church in ours