- Previously…
- Chapter 11
- Covering the Head (v2-16)
- Discerning the Body (v17-34)
- Dinner in Corinth (v17-22)
- The meaning of the meal (v23-26)
- Paul’s instructions (v27-34)
To see the gospel bear fruit in the Inner West and the World as we commit, grow, engage and send.
Sermons by David Starling
- Three commitments
- The good of our brothers and sisters (ch 8)
- The salvation of the lost (ch 9)
- The honour of Christ (10:11-22)
- Warnings from Israel’s history (v1-13)
- Two tables (v14-22)
- The freedom of a Christian (v23-31)
- In your own life (v23-28)
- In each other’s lives (10:29-30)
- A triple quest
- The glory of God (v31)
- The good of others (v23-24, 32-33)
- The salvation of the lost (10:33)
- Freedom, commitment and teh example of Christ (v11:1)
- Freedom
- Paul’s defence (v1-14)
- Paul’s example
- Labour and sacrifice (v12, 15-18)
- Flexibility and accomodation (v19-23)
- Discipline and purpose (v24-27)
- What it’s not about
- Asceticism and self-hatred
- The ‘missionary double-standard’
- What it is about
- Purposefulness in the service of the Gospel
- Self-denial for the sake of the Gospel
- An invitation…
- The Corinthian argument: Knowledge and Freedom
- Paul’s response: Love, Conscience, and the Death of Jesus
- What does this look like for us?
- Introduction
- ‘There remain with God’ (v24)
- ‘The present crisis’ (v26)
- ‘The time is short…from now on’ (v29)
- Reasons to stay single (v32-35)
- Decisions for the betrothed and the widowed (v36-40)
- Conclusions
- Love in an age of manufactured discontent
- Particular issues…
- For the married: sex or celibacy? (v1-7)
- For widows and the unmarried: to (re)marry or not to (re)marry? (v8-9)
- For those married to a fellow believer: to stay together or to separate? (v10-11)
- For those married to an unbeliever: to stay or to leave? and if your partner leaves?
- General Principles…
- Accepting God’s gifts (v7, 17, 21)
- Keeping God’s commandments (v10, 19)
- Responding to God’s call (v17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24)
- Living in God’s freedom (v23)
- A scandal in suburbia
- Two scandals in Corinth
- A man and his step-father (5:1-13)
- Predatory lawsuits (6:1-11)
- “Do you not know” Six things the Corinthians had forgotten
- “Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?” (5:6)
- “Do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world?” (6:2, cf. v3)
- “Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?” (6:9)
- “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?” (6:15)
- “Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body?” (6:16)
- “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit?” (6:19)
- You are not your own
- Why care about leadership?
- The Corinthians and their leaders
- Boasting (v 6-7, 18)
- Judging (v 3-5)
- What are leaders?
- Servants (v 1-5)
- Slaves and fools (v 8-13)
- Examples to imitate (v 14-21)
- Polls, Popularity and Power
- Leadership in Corinth (3:1-4)
- Reframing leaders (3:5-9)
- Reframing leadership (3:10-17)
- Careful work (3:10-15)
- Sacred work (3:16-17)
- Final warnings and reminders
- Boasting and wisdom
- Boasting and belonging
- Alexamenos worships his God
- The Wisdom of God (1:18-31)
- Foolishness…and power (1:18)
- God and the ‘Wise’ (1:19-25; cf. Isaiah 29:10-20)
- God and the ‘Foolish’ (1:26-31)
- Therefore we speak…(2:1-16)
- …not with human wisdom (2:1-5)
- …but with the wisdom revealed by the Spirit (2:6-16)
- Alexamenos fidelis