Grace & The Church Powerpoint

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&its effect on the church

Wednesday, January 18, 12

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grace helps us build one another up1 Corinthians 8

• Knowledge of Christ's work is not permission to shame others for not being in the same place• We are called to do what is loving for the mutual edification

of each other

1 Corinthians 8:9 - But take care that this freedom of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

• Our behavior should not cause others to fall back into sin1 Corinthians 8:11-12 - And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.


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grace brings all kinds of people together for a common

cause1 Corinthians 12

• Each person is blessed in such a way to make Christ known1 Corinthians 12:7 - To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

• The cause of Christ is what holds the Church together1 Corinthians 12:13 - For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slavest or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

• No one is deficient (v 14-17)• No one is better (v 21-25)• When one suffers, we all suffer (v 26)


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grace allows us to forgive & receive each otherPhilemon

• The hard part about loving people is that they aren't perfect• The great part about a Christian's sin against us is that

Christ paid for it

Philemon 1:17-20 - So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me. If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account. I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self. Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.

• There is great benefit and refreshment to be had by the Church when we forgive the least and the greatest sins committed against us


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grace allows us to work out conflict amongst ourselves

1 Corinthians 6:1-8

• Commonly this is referred to in the cases of actual law suits, however there are several principles we can take out of this scenario:

1 Corinthians 6:2 - Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?

• We are able to resolve matters amongst ourselves

1 Corinthians 6:5-6 - I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?

• We are able to trust the judgement of fellow believers when we aren't able to resolve matters one-on-one


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grace allows us to work out conflict amongst ourselves

1 Corinthians 6:1-8

1 Corinthians 6:6-7a - Brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you.

• We are presently defeated by our own pride when we hold petty grudges or don't work out conflict with each other

1 Corinthians 6:7b-8 - Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!

• It is far better to admit defeat for the sake of building another up


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practical application

• Commit yourself to loving God and the Church Luke 10:27 - And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."

Ephesians 4:1-6 - I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.


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• Commit yourself to spending time with the saints

Hebrews 10:24-25 - And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

• Commit yourself to praying for and with others Matthew 18:19 - Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.


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• Commit yourself to helping shoulder the responsibility of the Church Exodus 17:12 - But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 - Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.


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