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SLIDE – How would you like to have our church look like this?
Renovations allowed for people to enter both of these but it took some
different kinds of people: slaves and slave owners, rich and poor,
First he deals with his issues (1-6) and then their questions (7-16).
When he came before he fed them milk because they were babies
He couldn’t give them a steak because they weren’t old enough but now
They are still acting like little kids – tantrums and fits
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When some of you say, “I follow Paul” and others say, “I follow Apollos,”
aren’t you acting like sinful humans?
I’m not going to play with YOU because you’re not one of us
It’s NOT about whose in YOUR gang! Who you like or don’t like
Those who know Jesus and those who haven’t met him yet.
Paul says they are still building but they’re using the wrong stuff
What works?
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The day will make what each one does clearly visible because fire will
reveal it. That fire will determine what kind of work each person has done.
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If what a person has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15If his work
is burned up, he will suffer the loss. However, he will be saved, though it
will be like going through a fire.
What we do now – what you’re doing & I’m doing – will all be reviewed!
Our thoughts, our actions, our intentions, our maturity and childishness
EVERYTHING
If it’s not – you miss out on the reward - going through your own fire
God will save you! But everyone will know how you spent your life
Your life will be on display for every human to see just as God sees it
SLIDE - 16Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit
lives in you? 17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him
because God’s temple is holy. You are that holy temple! 1 Cor 3.16-17 GW
He seems to jump to another subject but this is still the same issue
You’re a brick and you’re a brick and you’re a brick and I’m a brick
And how we treat each other is actually how we’re treating God’s Temple
I think we’ve grieved God’s Spirit a lot – you and me – in our actions