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Big Idea:

As Christians, we all stand on the same common ground at the foot of the cross.

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Our Real Reason for Unity…

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

🡪 Common Identity, vs. 10-11

🡪 Common Issues, vs. 12-14

🡪 Common Inheritance, vs. 15-17

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a. Common Identity, vs. 10-11

🡪 same position, (Ephesians 2:1-9)

🡪 same pedigree, (Titus 3:3-7)

🡪 same “Papa” (1 Corinthians 8:6)

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For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior…

~Titus 3:3-6

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b. Common Issues, vs. 12-14

🡪 pride

🡪 over-estimating self

🡪 tribalism

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So I exhort the elders among you…2 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; 3 not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. 5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

~1 Peter 5:1-5

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c. Common Inheritance, vs. 15-17

🡪 Jesus is our hope

🡪 Jesus is our hero (1 Cor. 1:26-31)

🡪 Jesus is our humility

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Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. ... If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthy pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.

~CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

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