CARNAL CHRISTIANITY (9 OF 53)
by Mike Stone
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:1-9
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Carnal Christianity (9 of 53)
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed-Up Church
Mike Stone
1 Corinthians 3:1-9
The world ''carnal'' is based on the Greek word for ''flesh.''
But this word isn't really talking about the meat of your body.
It's talking about your fleshly ways...sinful ways...carnal ways.
One trusted lexicon says the word ''carnal'' speaks of your birth or your genetics.
It references the way you were born and the condition into which you were born.
Paul wants the Corinthians to grow up in their faith and to stop living according to the nature with which they were BORN and to begin living according to their new nature into which they were BORN AGAIN.
As we read his pastoral confrontation, he reveals 3 things about the often-misunderstood subject of carnal Christianity.
1. The rebuke of carnal Christianity (1-3a)
Christian speakers are all over the map on the issue of carnal Christianity. Some see it as a contradiction of terms. These well-intentioned teachers wrongly teach that a belief in carnal Christianity denies the Lordship of Christ.
There are two things that are true that we need to see right away.
1. It is possible to be a Christian who is temporarily carnal.
2. If you are living in carnality, God will rebuke you.
In fact, if you are living in sin and rebellion to God, one of the good graces of Jesus is that He has you hear today to listen to this sermon. If it causes you to run to the cross and fall on His mercy, you are most likely a believer.
If it irritates you, there is equal reason to see that anger as a sign of a calloused heart that has never been redeemed.
A. A soft address (1a)
There is a rebuke here but you get a sense of pastoral love. Paul uses the root word for ''Philadelphia,'' or brotherly love. He is about to cut them with the scalpel of rebuke. But not before he numbs the spot with the anesthesia of brotherly love.
The nice thing about ''brethren'' is that it puts them on the same ...
Series: Straight Up Truth for a Messed-Up Church
Mike Stone
1 Corinthians 3:1-9
The world ''carnal'' is based on the Greek word for ''flesh.''
But this word isn't really talking about the meat of your body.
It's talking about your fleshly ways...sinful ways...carnal ways.
One trusted lexicon says the word ''carnal'' speaks of your birth or your genetics.
It references the way you were born and the condition into which you were born.
Paul wants the Corinthians to grow up in their faith and to stop living according to the nature with which they were BORN and to begin living according to their new nature into which they were BORN AGAIN.
As we read his pastoral confrontation, he reveals 3 things about the often-misunderstood subject of carnal Christianity.
1. The rebuke of carnal Christianity (1-3a)
Christian speakers are all over the map on the issue of carnal Christianity. Some see it as a contradiction of terms. These well-intentioned teachers wrongly teach that a belief in carnal Christianity denies the Lordship of Christ.
There are two things that are true that we need to see right away.
1. It is possible to be a Christian who is temporarily carnal.
2. If you are living in carnality, God will rebuke you.
In fact, if you are living in sin and rebellion to God, one of the good graces of Jesus is that He has you hear today to listen to this sermon. If it causes you to run to the cross and fall on His mercy, you are most likely a believer.
If it irritates you, there is equal reason to see that anger as a sign of a calloused heart that has never been redeemed.
A. A soft address (1a)
There is a rebuke here but you get a sense of pastoral love. Paul uses the root word for ''Philadelphia,'' or brotherly love. He is about to cut them with the scalpel of rebuke. But not before he numbs the spot with the anesthesia of brotherly love.
The nice thing about ''brethren'' is that it puts them on the same ...
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