ARE YOU EATING STEAK, OR DRINKING FROM THE BOTTLE?
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:1-10
Are You Eating Steak, or Drinking From the Bottle?
Marvin Patterson
I Corinthians 3:1-10
Introduction We all love to see a little baby that has just been born. You watch it slowly grow until it has grown up. The baby wears diapers, but if the child is five or ten and still in diapers, something is wrong. And the same is true about milk and meat! You eventually want to start eating solid foods, and the same could be said of Christian growth! It is said that the grand soldier of the South, General Robert E. Lee, waited out his last days in near poverty. One day, some men approached him to offer him an unusual proposition. If he would merely sign a piece of paper, they would not ask him to make decisions not put in office hours. They simply wanted the use of his good name.
General Lee took up his cane and said, ‘‘Men, I lost my home in the war; I lost my fortune in the way; I lost everything in the way, except my name. And but I am not ready to sell my good name to anyone, no matter how much it may be worth, especially for a product of doubtful repute.’’ A lady cornered Dr. R. G. Lee after one of his ‘‘rip snorting’’ sermons on sin, and said, ‘‘Dr. Lee, I didn’t appreciate that sermon.’’ R. G. Lee said, ‘‘The devil didn’t either, lady, so classify yourself.’’ In this passage there are three types of people mentioned, and in order to make the most impact for Christ, we should strive to be one of these three! Body 1-The Problem 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. So here we have the third class. He is the unnatural Christian or the unnatural man. We learned about the natural man, also we learned about the spiritual man-whom we can call the supernatural man. Here we have the unnatural man. He is unnatural because he is a Christian but is still carnal. He is still a babe in Christ.
Paul says that the church was so fragmented and divided that he could not even teach them the great ...
Marvin Patterson
I Corinthians 3:1-10
Introduction We all love to see a little baby that has just been born. You watch it slowly grow until it has grown up. The baby wears diapers, but if the child is five or ten and still in diapers, something is wrong. And the same is true about milk and meat! You eventually want to start eating solid foods, and the same could be said of Christian growth! It is said that the grand soldier of the South, General Robert E. Lee, waited out his last days in near poverty. One day, some men approached him to offer him an unusual proposition. If he would merely sign a piece of paper, they would not ask him to make decisions not put in office hours. They simply wanted the use of his good name.
General Lee took up his cane and said, ‘‘Men, I lost my home in the war; I lost my fortune in the way; I lost everything in the way, except my name. And but I am not ready to sell my good name to anyone, no matter how much it may be worth, especially for a product of doubtful repute.’’ A lady cornered Dr. R. G. Lee after one of his ‘‘rip snorting’’ sermons on sin, and said, ‘‘Dr. Lee, I didn’t appreciate that sermon.’’ R. G. Lee said, ‘‘The devil didn’t either, lady, so classify yourself.’’ In this passage there are three types of people mentioned, and in order to make the most impact for Christ, we should strive to be one of these three! Body 1-The Problem 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. So here we have the third class. He is the unnatural Christian or the unnatural man. We learned about the natural man, also we learned about the spiritual man-whom we can call the supernatural man. Here we have the unnatural man. He is unnatural because he is a Christian but is still carnal. He is still a babe in Christ.
Paul says that the church was so fragmented and divided that he could not even teach them the great ...
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