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Download  		 Oct 23 2005 AM Worship Complete service Paul Stith
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Download  		 Oct 23 2005 AM Worship Sermon Looking for Justice in All the Wrong Places (1 Corinthians 6:1-8) Paul Stith
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Download  		 Oct 23 2005 Bible Study Set Apart to God: The Standard of Holiness Stan Reeve

 

Sermon Outline

 

Looking for Justice in All the Wrong Places

1 Corinthians 6:1-8

 

There are several reasons we should not take another Christian to court:

 

1.  We belong to the community of saints not the world. (1)

            See 1 John 2:15-17

            See also Matthew 6:19-21

 

2.  To do so is to ignore your responsibility in the matter (2-3)

             

3.  To do so is a rejection of God’s design (4-6)

             

4.  Taking another Christian to court is a no-win situation (7-8)

            

Four principles for conflict resolution:

 

1.  Glorify God  So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.  1 Co 10:31         

  

2.  Get the log out of your own eye.  You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.  Matthew 7:5 

 

3.  Go and show your brother his fault.  If you r brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone.  If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.  Matthew 18:15

 

4.  Go and be reconciled.  So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go.  First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.  Matthew 5:23-24

 

(Thanks to Ken Sande for these practical insights.  See The Peacemaker.)

 

 

 

Bible Study Outline

The Standard of Holiness

These go from general to specific:

A. God Himself -- Matt. 5:48, I Pet. 1:16; also embodied in Christ -- I Pet. 2:21-23, Phil. 2:5. Obedience is personal – based on the fact that we are made to reflect God’s image. God’s law is based on his character; disobedience is personally offensive to him.

B. The greatest commandment -- Matt. 22:37-40. There is very little here in the way of specific guidance. But it points us both to the loftiness of the goal and the internal motivation for all obedience. Notice that the Law and the Prophets explain these commandments in more detail.

C. The Ten Commandments -- Ex. 20:1-17. These are a summary of the major categories of the law. These are still valid under the new covenant – see Sermon on the Mount, Eph 6:1, Rom. 13:9

D. All Scripture -- 2 Tim. 3:16.

E. Sorting out the place of the law for the believer.

Many passages seem to say that the Christian is no longer subject to the law: Gal 2:19, Gal 3:13, Gal 5:18, Rom 6:14

But others clearly teach that the law is a valid standard: Rom 7:12, Rom 8:3-4

Resolution: The law is a valid standard, but it does not serve as a sufficient motivator.

God’s purpose in the new covenant is to turn our hearts to love his law: Heb. 8:6-10

 

Maintain your liberty in Christ by refusing to look any more to the law for justification, and by refusing to fear its words of condemnation. You are to live, in respect of your practice and obedience, as men who can neither be condemned by the law nor justified by it. It is a hard lesson to live above the law, and yet to walk according to the law. But this is the lesson a Christian has to learn, to walk in the law in respect of duty, but to live above it in respect of comfort, neither ex-pecting favour from the law in respect of his obedience nor fearing harsh treatment from the law in respect of his failings. Let the law come in to remind you of sin if you fall into sin, but you are not to suffer it to arrest you and drag you into the court to be tried and judged for your sins. This would be to make void Christ and grace. Indeed Christians too much live as though they were to expect life by works, and not by grace. We are too big in ourselves when we do well, and too little in Christ in our failings. O that we could learn to be nothing in ourselves in our strength, and to be all in Christ in our weak-ness! In a word, let us learn to walk in the law as a rule of sanctification, and yet to live upon Christ and the promises in respect of justification.

Taken from The True Bounds of Christian Freedom by Samuel Bolton (1604-1654)