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1 Corinthians 3

1 Corinthians 3. Advanced Christianity II: Christian Stewardship. The Defectiveness of Human Wisdom. For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not mere men? 1Cor.3:4.

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1 Corinthians 3

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  1. 1 Corinthians 3 Advanced Christianity II:Christian Stewardship

  2. The Defectiveness ofHuman Wisdom For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not mere men? 1Cor.3:4 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become foolish that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. 21 So then let no one boast in men. 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 28 God has chosen, the things that are not, that He might nullify the things that are, that no man should boast before God. 31"Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord."

  3. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Servanthood is real love. What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. 1Cor.3:5 "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.John 15:13

  4. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Servanthood is real love. • Depending on God’s Opportunities What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. 1Cor.3:5

  5. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Servanthood is real love. • Depending on God’s Opportunities • Depending on God’s Power I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.1 Cor. 3:6-7

  6. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Servanthood is real love. • Depending on God’s Opportunities • Depending on God’s Power • GROWING UP! I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready - 1 Corinthians 3:2

  7. POWER! WEAKNESS!

  8. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Gaining an Eternal Perspective Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.1 Cor. 3:8-9

  9. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Gaining an Eternal Perspective According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it. But let each man be careful how he builds upon it. For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ1 Cor. 3:10-11

  10. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Gaining an Eternal Perspective Now if any man builds upon the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire; and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work. 1 Cor. 3:12-13

  11. The Bema Seat at Corinth

  12. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Gaining an Eternal Perspective • Eternal Rewards [14] If any man's work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward. [15] If any man's work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire.1 Cor. 3:14-15 1 Cor. 4:5; Chapter 9, 15; 1 Thes. 2; 2 Tim. 4:8; 2 Cor. 5:10ff

  13. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Gaining an Eternal Perspective • Eternal Rewards If any man's work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire Now if any man builds upon the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire; and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.

  14. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Gaining an Eternal Perspective • Eternal Rewards • Loving Servanthood… For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

  15. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Gaining an Eternal Perspective • Eternal Rewards • Loving Servanthood… • MOTIVES ARE IMPORTANT! Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts; and then each man's praise will come to him from God. 1 Corinthians 4:5

  16. Human Wisdom: Antidotes • Learning Servanthood • Gaining an Eternal Perspective • Eternal Rewards • Loving Servanthood… • MOTIVES ARE IMPORTANT! • Cut our losses! “If any man's work is burned up, he shall suffer loss…”

  17. A Positive Message! 1 Cor. 4:5 and then each man's praise will come to him from God. Luke 19:17 “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, be in authority over ten cities.’” Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? …Do you not know that we shall judge angels? 1 Corinthians 6:2-3

  18. A New Order 2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up... 2 Peter 3:11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness

  19. Building A Future • And God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28

  20. Building A Future God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. Hebrews 1:1-2 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ. Romans 8:16-17

  21. Mental Transformation:Building A Future When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11

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