THE POWER OF AN UNDIVIDED HEART (3 OF 6)
by Tim Melton
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:1-15
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The Power of an Undivided Heart (3 of 6)
Series: 1 Corinthians
Tim Melton
1 Corinthians 3:1-15
Paul was writing this letter to help the church in Corinth. Remember that this church had problems of divisions, false teachers, drunkenness, and sexual immortality, but still Paul spoke to them as saints and true believers in Christ. He thought back to how the testimony of Christ had been confirmed in them when He had seen their transformed lives. He knew that in Christ they had everything thing that they needed to live holy lives. But they had lost their focus, their allegiance, their first love and because of that their hearts had begun to resemble their old way of living before they came to Christ.
Have you ever past through a season like this. Where you have become spiritually distracted or disillusioned and have veered away from holiness and God's call on your life? You knew you were playing the prodigal but as you stayed away from God's Word, God's people and God's resources you found yourself becoming more calloused and more susceptible to the attacks of the evil one and the temptations of the world. This was the situation of those in the Corinthian church.
In 1 Corinthians 2 Paul reminded them that only the Spirit of God can comprehend the thoughts of God. He addressed those in Corinth as those who had received the Spirit of God. He wanted to bring them back to the fact that they, who were in Christ, had the Spirit and thus the capability to understand the spiritual truths given them by God.
In contrast, the natural man, the person still dead in their sin, did not and could not understand the things of God, because they are only spiritually discerned. The natural man are those who are focused on the seen material things of this world instead of the unseen realities of God. They are mastered by lusts, instinct and cravings rather than the Spirit of God. They are slaves to sin. Here in 1 Corinthians 2 the Greek word used for natural is actually ...
Series: 1 Corinthians
Tim Melton
1 Corinthians 3:1-15
Paul was writing this letter to help the church in Corinth. Remember that this church had problems of divisions, false teachers, drunkenness, and sexual immortality, but still Paul spoke to them as saints and true believers in Christ. He thought back to how the testimony of Christ had been confirmed in them when He had seen their transformed lives. He knew that in Christ they had everything thing that they needed to live holy lives. But they had lost their focus, their allegiance, their first love and because of that their hearts had begun to resemble their old way of living before they came to Christ.
Have you ever past through a season like this. Where you have become spiritually distracted or disillusioned and have veered away from holiness and God's call on your life? You knew you were playing the prodigal but as you stayed away from God's Word, God's people and God's resources you found yourself becoming more calloused and more susceptible to the attacks of the evil one and the temptations of the world. This was the situation of those in the Corinthian church.
In 1 Corinthians 2 Paul reminded them that only the Spirit of God can comprehend the thoughts of God. He addressed those in Corinth as those who had received the Spirit of God. He wanted to bring them back to the fact that they, who were in Christ, had the Spirit and thus the capability to understand the spiritual truths given them by God.
In contrast, the natural man, the person still dead in their sin, did not and could not understand the things of God, because they are only spiritually discerned. The natural man are those who are focused on the seen material things of this world instead of the unseen realities of God. They are mastered by lusts, instinct and cravings rather than the Spirit of God. They are slaves to sin. Here in 1 Corinthians 2 the Greek word used for natural is actually ...
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