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Scripture: Colossians 3:8-11 & 1 Corinthians 15:51-54 I. You reflect God’s image by remembering that you have taken off Adam. A. In Colossians 3:8-9 we see commands for the church to put away angry attitudes and the bad words that come with rage. If Jesus lives in you, your words will necessarily change. The commands of the New Testament are…
2 Corinthians 3:16-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:42-49 I. The Holy Spirit transformed Jesus into a life-giving Spirit. A. We know that the Holy Spirit is the one who gives life because of what we read in 2 Corinthians 3:6: “The Spirit gives life.” The first person that the Holy Spirit gave bodily resurrection life to was Jesus. Romans 8:11: “If the Spirit of him…
1 Corinthians 1:30 & Romans 8:18-25 I. You have hope that you will have freedom from death. A. Jesus and you are both redeemed (1 Corinthians 1:30). Jesus did not need to be redeemed from sin. What did Jesus need to be set free from? Death. Hebrews 13:20: “Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord…
1 Corinthians 1:30 & Romans 6:1-14 I. You must be holy as a Christian because you are united with Christ. A. Our union with Christ as Christians is stated in 1 Corinthians 1:30. Sanctification in this verse means holiness. Jesus is holy, and because we are united with Jesus, we are holy. The Christians in Corinth had already been…
1 Corinthians 1:28-31 & Romans 4:23-25, 8:31-34 I. Your righteousness in Christ means you can be confident God loves you. A. We Christians are in Christ Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:30). We are united with the resurrected Jesus so that what is true of Jesus is now true of us. One thing that is true of Jesus is that…
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:28-31 & Colossians 2:1-3, 3:1-4 I. Your wisdom is revealed in seeking Christ. A. If Colossians 2:3 is correct that in Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, that tells us who we Christians are to be. We are to be archeologists. We dig for the treasure of wisdom that is hidden in Christ. The…
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 I. Living together doesn’t make sense to God because it is sexually immoral. A. 1 Corinthians 5 describes an unusually perverse living arrangement. In verse 1 we read about a man in the church who has his father’s wife. In verse 1, Paul calls this behavior sexual immorality. And in vs. 9…
Scripture: Genesis 2:18 | 1 Corinthians 7:32-35 I. Singleness is hard, but you can be content. A. Genesis 2:18 does not teach that unless I am married, I am bound to be lonely. All that Genesis 2:18 teaches is that Adam had a big job (he was to have dominion over all the earth according…
Scripture: Genesis 1:26-28 | 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 | Hebrews 13:4 I. It’s not just sex because sex pictures the Gospel. A. The very first chapter of the Bible addresses the topic of sex and marriage. How did God make us? Genesis 1:27 says He created us male and female. Sex then was God’s idea. And…
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 & 2 Corinthians 8:8-11 I. Jesus came down at Christmas and gave away His riches for you. A. We see the Apostle Paul discuss how Jesus gave Himself away at Christmas in 2 Cor. 8:9. We know that Jesus is a giver because Paul speaks about the grace of our Lord Jesus…
