Sermons on 1 Corinthians (Page 4)
Glorifying God in Singleness
What does it mean to glorify God in singleness? What does it look like to live for Christ and pursue marriage? What are some common issues singles face? We look at this important passage that tells us that singleness is good but it does lose it’s advantages someone struggles with self control.
Glorifying God in Marriage
How do married couples flee sexual immorality and glorify God in their bodies? By giving their bodies to one another, rendering affection to each other. This is not just a good idea, this is a marital obligation.
Flee Sexual Immorality
Sexual immorality is an especially serious sin. What are the tools to fight such sin? Laws? Will power? This passage wonderfully demonstrates how our identity in Christ is the power to fight serious sin. This text reminds us of the future bodily resurrection, our oneness with Christ, our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, and that God bought us with a high price. It’s remembering who we are that is going to give us the strength to flee immorality…
Such Were Some of You
We are not to be deceived, those who live immorally will not inherit the kingdom of God. A bold and stark warning. Thankfully this is not the end of the story. God has provided a way of forgiveness, a way of righteousness through Jesus Christ.
Handling Church Grievances
Want to win a fight in church? This this sermon is a must. We learn from this passage on how we are to handle grievances inside the church. Certainly all Christians must practice greater self-denial for the sake of Christ and his church.
Purging Immorality
Why do we and why must we keep the church pure by purging immoral “brothers”? This text is the longest text in the Bible about church discipline.
Dealing with Sexual Immorality
There was sexual immorality in the church at Corinth and it needed to be dealt with. Mourning and excommunication were the prescription, restoration and seeking the forgiving and transforming grace of Christ the anticipated outcome. This is not a Corinthian problem. Our sexualized culture has had a significant impact on the church. Pornography, for example, is common in our churches. We ought to mourn, we ought to deal with sin. May this text be a call to get right with…
The Way of Christ
Finishing the exhortation to be united and stop the divisions in the church at Corinth, Paul admonishes them to live in accordance with the way of Christ. This is how he lives and this is life consistent with following a crucified Messiah.
Stewards of the Mysteries of God
Divisions in Corinth caused by elevating certain teachers and tearing down others are addressed in the passage. The topic of proper judgment is dealt with. The key to proper judgment is humility, and the key to humility is recognizing the grace of God in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Becoming Fools
What does it mean to become a fool? This sermon seeks to demonstrate that we must ascribe and live by God’s wisdom even if we are regarded as fools in the world’s eyes.
Careful Building
One must be careful how they labor in service of Christ’s church. The foundation of the gospel has been laid and those who continue to build the church must be faithful to the gospel in all things. To those who labor well, commendation from God is received, to those who do not labor well, they are in danger of losing this reward. And to those who destroy the church, God will destroy them.
Spiritual Immaturity
Why could Paul only address the Corinthians as spiritually immature? They were acting like the world when it came to the matter of treating servants of Christ in the church. This is an important passage as the doctrine of a “carnal Christian” was born out of this text but such an idea is actually foreign to the text.