Big Idea:

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Healthy Christians are

maturing Christians

1 Corinthians 6…

🡪 The need for maturity (1-8)

🡪 The means of maturity (9-11)

🡪 The practice of maturity (12-20)

The need for maturity (1-8)

Maturity looks like:

1) Freedom from the love of money (1-3)

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For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

~Colossians 3:3-4

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The whole of the Christian life is born out of this womb of our union with Christ in his death and resurrection, sufferings and glory. This is the DNA of the child of God who is being transformed into the likeness of (Christ).

~Sinclair Ferguson

The need for maturity (1-8)

Maturity looks like:

1) Freedom from the love of money (1-3)

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2) Wisdom: face-to-face conversation (5)

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…go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

~Matthew 18:15

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~Matthew 5:23-24

…if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

…he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

~1 John 4:20

The need for maturity (1-8)

Maturity looks like:

1) Freedom from the love of money (1-3)

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2) Wisdom: face-to-face conversation (5)

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3) An eternal perspective (7)

The means of maturity (9-11)

The gospel, which reminds us:

1) Who we were before Christ (9-10)

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2) Who we are now in Christ (11)

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³ 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, ⁷ so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

~Titus 3:3-7

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The practice of maturity (12-20)

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. ¹³ “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴ And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. ¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” ¹⁷ But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. ¹⁸ Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, ²⁰ for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

The practice of maturity (12-20)

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. ¹³ “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴ And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. ¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” ¹⁷ But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. ¹⁸ Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, ²⁰ for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.