tested by fire
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Part 2 of the series "One Body...many members" recorded in January 2011 at the South Shore Communnity Church in Montreal QuebecTRANSCRIPT
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Tested by Fire
1 Corinthians
Chapter 3
Pastor Tony Silveira
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1 C
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INTH
IAN
S 31 But I,
brothers, could
not address you
as spiritual
people, but as
people of the
flesh, as infants
in Christ.
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1 C
OR
INTH
IAN
S 32 I fed you with
milk, not solid
food, for you
were not ready
for it. And even
now you are not
yet ready,
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1 C
OR
INTH
IAN
S 33 for you are still
of the flesh. For
while there is
jealousy and strife
among you, are
you not of the
flesh and
behaving only in a
human way?
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1 C
OR
INTH
IAN
S 34 For when one
says, “I follow
Paul,” and
another, “I
follow Apollos,”
are you not
being merely
human?
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1 C
OR
INTH
IAN
S 35 What then is
Apollos? What is
Paul? Servants
through whom
you believed, as
the Lord
assigned to each.
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OR
INTH
IAN
S 3
6 I planted,
Apollos
watered, but
God gave
the growth.
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A. Spiritual people
versus People of
the flesh
He tells the
congregation that
they are:
People of the flesh
Infants in Christ
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Babie
s gro
w a
nd
repla
ce m
ilk b
y so
lid f
ood
Paul is telling them that their growth stopped
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CH
URC
H IS N
OT A
PLA
CE T
O A
TTEN
D
BU
T A
PLA
CE T
O
SERV
E
Christian service is about partnership and not rivalry!
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B. The Apostle
builds a
foundation then
others build upon it
Without a good
foundation buildings are
at risk to collapse. The
same is true about our
Spiritual Life!
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nth
ians
3
8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
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10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.
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11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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This statement is not a doctrinal
issue but a practical matter. There
are plenty of situations in which a
Church can have the wrong
foundation.
The foundation which is
Jesus Christ is
established by Apostolic
authority. The Church is
then called to built upon
it.
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BAD FOUNDATION
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The Wrong
Foundation
Churches with a
fellowship foundation.
Everything they do is
centred in social events,
dinners, tea parties,
fellowship retreats, small
group gatherings with the
purpose of fellowship, etc.
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The Wrong
Foundation
Churches with a "Bless me"
foundation. All the activities are
centred in receiving and getting.
Receive the anointing, receive the
gifts, receive prosperity, receive
encouragement, receive
deliverance. People are not
encourage to give anything else
than their money to support the
ministry.
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The Wrong
Foundation
Churches with a
leadership
foundation. Everything
they do is centred in
promoting the leaders
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C. Tested by fire -
God tests to
approve and not to
condemn
VERSE 17
Paul then warns that
their work for the Lord
will be put to the test.
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Genesi
s 22:1
After Abraham had walked with God for over 50 years, he was tested to go to a higher level. "After these things, that God
did test Abraham"
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1 C
orin
thia
ns 3
12 Now if
anyone builds
on the
foundation with
gold, silver,
precious
stones, wood,
hay, straw
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1 C
orin
thia
ns 3
13 each one's work
will become
manifest, for the Day
will disclose it,
because it will be
revealed by fire, and
the fire will test what
sort of work each one
has done.
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1 C
orin
thia
ns 3
14 If the work
that anyone has
built on the
foundation
survives, he will
receive a reward.
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orin
thia
ns 3
15 If anyone's
work is burned
up, he will suffer
loss, though he
himself will be
saved, but only
as through fire.
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What is th
e Te
st of
Fire?Hebrews
12:29 "for
our God is a
consuming
fire."
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What is th
e Te
st of
Fire?Deuteronomy
4: "For the
LORD your God
is a consuming
fire, a jealous
God."
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God is a
consu
min
g fi
rethere are two
different kinds of
things that will be
touched by the fire.
Some things will be
consumed and they
disappear,
a second group will
resist the fire and will
remain.
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Only G
od ca
n ju
dge
us rig
hte
ously"How can you
judge what you
don't know?
How can you
evaluate what
you don't
understand?"
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GO
D W
IL JUD
GE U
S
Will our work be
judged as gold, silver
and costly stones, or
is it wood, hay or
straw?
God will judge our
work one day and he
will reward us
according to the
quality of what we do
for him.
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1C
orin
thia
ns 3
15 If anyone's work
is burned up, he will
suffer loss, though
he himself will be
saved, but only as
through fire.
Our Salvation is
not put in doubt
but our reward is.
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SA
LVATIO
N
Like people running
away from a burning
house some
Christians will not
loose their salvation
but God's reward
will be completely
lost when the test of
fire is missed.
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Matth
ew
6:4
so that your
giving may be
in secret. And
your Father
who sees in
secret will
reward you.
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ENDURANCE
WILL YOU PASS THE
TEST?
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2 Tim
oth
y 4:7I have fought
a good fight, I
have finished
[my] course, I
have kept the
faith
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2 Tim
oth
y 4:7I have fought
a good fight, I
have finished
[my] course, I
have kept the
faith
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D. God will destroy
whoever destroys
his Church
VERSE 17
Paul finishes this part of
the letter to the
Corinthians by giving
them a very severe
warning.
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ians
3
16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in
you?
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17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy,
and you are that temple.
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ESV
Bib
le
com
menta
ry
The one who destroys
God's temple (in this
context, the church)
is not part of God's people and so faces eternal destruction on
the final day, just as
God eventually destroyed the Babylonians who had
destroyed Solomon's
temple.
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ARROGANCE
is at the root of the
divisiveness in Corinth
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ESV
Bib
le
com
menta
ry
The Corinthians need
to learn that they ultimately belong to
God, not to the leader
who baptized them ( 1:13–17 ), who was
himself only fulfilling
God's purposes ( 3:7 ,
11 ; 4:1 ). They should, therefore, boast only in God ( 1:29 , 31 ).
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Webst
er’
s D
icti
onary
defines arrogance as an attitude of superiority manifested in an
overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions
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Prove
rbs
10:1
7
People who listen when they are corrected will live, but those who will not admit that they
are wrong are in danger.
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Let
us
subm
it, le
arn
and p
ass
the t
est
.
You and I need to ask ourselves- Is my relationship with God producing fruit?
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ians
14:2
0
Brothers and sisters, don't think like children. When it comes to evil, be like babies, but think like mature people.
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AR
RO
GA
NC
E
Arrogance brings destruction and arrogant people will not pass the test of fire.
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