HOOKED ON SERVING JESUS (52 OF 53)
by Mike Stone
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 16:15-18
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Hooked on Serving Jesus (52 of 53)
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed Up Church
Mike Stone
1 Corinthians 16:15-18
I usually preach from the NASB. But there is a word in verse 15 in the KJV that grabbed my attention. It says that the household of Stephanas had ''addicted themselves'' to the ministry.
We live in a world of addicts. In 2016 the Surgeon General estimated that 1 in 7 Americans is addicted to drugs. Over 50% of the country has an immediate family member who is an addict.
The country is reeling from an Opioid crisis, an alcoholism crisis, and a crisis of addiction to prescription pain pills. That doesn't even include the addictions to pornography, gambling, and smoking. And God knows we are almost all addicted to cell phones and social media.
But in the closing verses of this chapter, we learn about an addiction that would actually be a good thing. I mean we'd all be better if more people tested positive for this one...if the blood work, the saliva swab, and the breathalyzer confirmed that a person was addicted...to serving Jesus Christ.
1. The record of this addict
Addicted = appointed themselves, devoted, ordained, determined, set aside, designated
A. His personal belief
Achaia is the region that contained Corinth and Athens. Paul came to Athens in Acts 17 and to Corinth in Acts 18. Paul had a great evangelistic ministry in Corinth and one of the first converts, perhaps THE first, was Stephanas.
I don't know how it happened...I know their services were not exactly like ours today. But Acts 18:5 says that when Paul came to Corinth he was ''pressed in his spirit and testified that Jesus was the Christ.''
Maybe after he preached one day, a man came walking down aisle and said, ''I'm a sinner and I need to be saved.'' I can't be dogmatic but I wonder if Paul went home with Stephanas and led his wife and kids to the Lord.
That's basically what had happened back in Philippi when the prison guard got saved. The whole f ...
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed Up Church
Mike Stone
1 Corinthians 16:15-18
I usually preach from the NASB. But there is a word in verse 15 in the KJV that grabbed my attention. It says that the household of Stephanas had ''addicted themselves'' to the ministry.
We live in a world of addicts. In 2016 the Surgeon General estimated that 1 in 7 Americans is addicted to drugs. Over 50% of the country has an immediate family member who is an addict.
The country is reeling from an Opioid crisis, an alcoholism crisis, and a crisis of addiction to prescription pain pills. That doesn't even include the addictions to pornography, gambling, and smoking. And God knows we are almost all addicted to cell phones and social media.
But in the closing verses of this chapter, we learn about an addiction that would actually be a good thing. I mean we'd all be better if more people tested positive for this one...if the blood work, the saliva swab, and the breathalyzer confirmed that a person was addicted...to serving Jesus Christ.
1. The record of this addict
Addicted = appointed themselves, devoted, ordained, determined, set aside, designated
A. His personal belief
Achaia is the region that contained Corinth and Athens. Paul came to Athens in Acts 17 and to Corinth in Acts 18. Paul had a great evangelistic ministry in Corinth and one of the first converts, perhaps THE first, was Stephanas.
I don't know how it happened...I know their services were not exactly like ours today. But Acts 18:5 says that when Paul came to Corinth he was ''pressed in his spirit and testified that Jesus was the Christ.''
Maybe after he preached one day, a man came walking down aisle and said, ''I'm a sinner and I need to be saved.'' I can't be dogmatic but I wonder if Paul went home with Stephanas and led his wife and kids to the Lord.
That's basically what had happened back in Philippi when the prison guard got saved. The whole f ...
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