by ray | Dec 15, 2011 | 1 Cor, NT, Sermons
How can we glorify God? Let’s focus our attention on 1 Cor 6:12–14. 12 “Everything is permissible for me”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for...
by ray | Dec 15, 2011 | 1 Cor, NT, Sermons
Read text. I found this text to be very challenging and relevant for our congregation so I am going to spend 3 weeks on this passage. The key idea I want to focus on over the 3 weeks is found in the latter half of v13. The Lord for the Body – in a nutshell, this...
by ray | Nov 29, 2011 | 1 Cor, NT, Sermons
What then is repentance? One thing that repentance is not. Repentance is NOT feeling bad. You are living in a way that is contrary to the will of God, you know what you are doing is not right, but you feel bad. That’s not enough. That’s not repentance. That is just...
by ray | Nov 29, 2011 | 1 Cor, NT, Sermons
Now, let’s take a look at this text and why Paul is bringing in this idea of the future kingdom with this lawsuit at Corinth. 1 If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? 2 Do you not know...
by ray | Nov 29, 2011 | 1 Cor, NT, Sermons
I want to talk about repentance. What does it mean in v9 when it says the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? To answer that, let’s set the stage. One brother is taking another brother to court. We read about it in v6. There is some wrongdoing. The specifics...
by ray | Nov 21, 2011 | Sermons
We are about to partake in the Lord’s Supper in a moment. And if you’ve been a Christian for a while attending church, you might have taken the Lord’s Supper as frequently as every week and as infrequently as once a year. In any case, if you’ve been in church before,...
