DEFLATING PUFFED UP PEOPLE (2 OF 10)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 4:6-13
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Deflating Puffed Up People (2 of 10)
Series: God's Wisdom for the Jacked Up
Bob Ingle
1 Corinthians 4:6-13
Let's open our bibles to 1 Corinthians 4. The title of the message today is 'Deflating Puffed Up People'. Know anyone who needs to hear this but isn't here? Ha. Well, maybe you're here and not them because God knows you need to hear this even more than them. We will see.
We all know what it means when someone says, 'He's got a big head.' It doesn't usually mean that his cranium is abnormally large. It means he has an inflated ego. He's conceited. He's arrogant. He's puffed up.
Well, the Corinthian Christians were stricken with this self-induced disease. They were full of themselves. They had become egotistical and proud. They were spiritually conceited and arrogant. And Paul, their spiritual father, was baffled as to why they felt this way because in reality they had NOTHING to be prideful about.
And that's exactly what he tells them in no uncertain terms. In verses 6-13, he uses some of the most cutting sarcasm and biting irony that you will ever see in Holy Scripture. I mean it's harsh! And the reason he uses this tone is because this church had become so big-headed and so hard-hearted that they couldn't hear plain truth easily anymore. It's like they had to be shaken, shocked, and insulted to awaken them to reality.
Let's read our text 1 Cor. 4:6-13 (READ). In verse 6 Paul says, ''...that none of you may be puffed up''. It means to inflate, or to blow up, or cause to swell. Picture a frog that inflates its throat to croak. To be puffed up is to be inflated and full of self. It's to be proud.
There's really no greater contradiction than a proud church. Talking about a proud church is like talking about a humble devil. They just don't go together. Pride is the worst of sins because it is the mother of all other sin. It was pride that initially led to Satan's downfall. Isaiah 14 describes that for us. ''How you are fallen from heave ...
Series: God's Wisdom for the Jacked Up
Bob Ingle
1 Corinthians 4:6-13
Let's open our bibles to 1 Corinthians 4. The title of the message today is 'Deflating Puffed Up People'. Know anyone who needs to hear this but isn't here? Ha. Well, maybe you're here and not them because God knows you need to hear this even more than them. We will see.
We all know what it means when someone says, 'He's got a big head.' It doesn't usually mean that his cranium is abnormally large. It means he has an inflated ego. He's conceited. He's arrogant. He's puffed up.
Well, the Corinthian Christians were stricken with this self-induced disease. They were full of themselves. They had become egotistical and proud. They were spiritually conceited and arrogant. And Paul, their spiritual father, was baffled as to why they felt this way because in reality they had NOTHING to be prideful about.
And that's exactly what he tells them in no uncertain terms. In verses 6-13, he uses some of the most cutting sarcasm and biting irony that you will ever see in Holy Scripture. I mean it's harsh! And the reason he uses this tone is because this church had become so big-headed and so hard-hearted that they couldn't hear plain truth easily anymore. It's like they had to be shaken, shocked, and insulted to awaken them to reality.
Let's read our text 1 Cor. 4:6-13 (READ). In verse 6 Paul says, ''...that none of you may be puffed up''. It means to inflate, or to blow up, or cause to swell. Picture a frog that inflates its throat to croak. To be puffed up is to be inflated and full of self. It's to be proud.
There's really no greater contradiction than a proud church. Talking about a proud church is like talking about a humble devil. They just don't go together. Pride is the worst of sins because it is the mother of all other sin. It was pride that initially led to Satan's downfall. Isaiah 14 describes that for us. ''How you are fallen from heave ...
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