1 Cor, 3:1-15
- In the last couple of weeks I have been talking about getting back to basics of our Faith.
- I talked first about forgiveness, and the need to forgive to maintain our relationship with Yashua and one another.
- Next I talked about Faith, the way we live our life and what we are to base our life on.
- Once again I believe we have walked away from the basics in the Church today.
- And if we are going to get back to what He wants us and has created us to be, we need to get back to the basics.
- Today I would like to talk about pride and immaturity which will keep us from knowing the truth, but it will open us up to other things.
- Read 1 Cor, 3:1-15.
- Look at verse 1, Paul says that he could not speak to them as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as babies in Messiah.
- Look at Gal. 5:16-21, these are what fleshly living looks like, and it keeps us in sin.
- Back to 1 Cor 3:2-3, in the state of living in the flesh we are not able to receive meat, or we can say any thing that deals with maturity.
- Paul calls it as living like ordinary people, people that are not saved.
- And the reason is that there is strife and envy among you, back to Gal. 5:20-21, Strife and envyings.
- Look at the pride in 1 Cor. 3:4, I am with Paul, or I am with Apollos and pride makes us typical men.
- Paul begins to set them straight here on who is who in verse 5.
- Paul planted, and Apollos watered and they are nothing more than servants, and each has a role that Yashua had given them.
- Look at Eph. 4:7-12 and look at verse 7 it says that each one has been given a measure of “grace”, look also at 1 Cor. 12:7.
- Look at Eph. 4:12, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body.
- Back to 1 Cor. 3:6, it is Yahweh who gives the growth, takes the focus off of man and place it on Yahweh where in should be placed.
- Paul drives it home by saying it is neither the one who plants nor the one who water that is important but the one who gives the growth.
- The one who plants and the one who waters are equal and both will receive a reward according to his labor.
- Paul uses himself as an example, and says as a master builder he has laid a foundation, Paul being the one who started the Corinthian Congregation.
- But says that another has built on that foundation, and each one has to take care on how he builds on that foundation.
- The one who builds and not build on it anything other than Yashua Messiah.
- Then Paul begins to talk about building material gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw.
- And each ones work will be tested by fire, and it will test the work that each has done on the foundation.
- And what is left after it has been tested is that persons reward.
- And some will saved as going through the fire, and think what happens to hay, wood and straw when fire is put to it, it is burned up.
- But thin about what happens with gold, costly stones and silver.
- Instead of being consumed they will be refined and that will be there reward.
- So, why will that person be saved?
- Because the foundation was built on Yashua Messiah.
- Look at 1 Peter 1:6-7 refiners fire.
- We see these things happening choosing one speaker over another.
- The idea in which religious school you go to over another.