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Title: Living Right Side Up In an


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Living Right Side Up In an
Upside Down World
  • Text 1Co 31-9 Selected

Pastor Dave Martin Cross Creek Community Church
Oct 22, 2006
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Ancient City of Corinth
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Outdoor theater that seated 20,000 people
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Remains of the great temple of Aphrodite
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People were wealthy, highly educated, powerful,
influential
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Drunkenness, False Religions Sexual Immorality
was rampart in Corinth
Sounds like a World Upside Down
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  • 1 Corinthians 31-4 Brothers, I could not address
    you as spiritual but as worldly--mere infants in
    Christ. 2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for
    you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are
    still not ready. 3 You are still worldly. For
    since there is jealousy and quarreling among you,
    are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere
    men? For when one says, "I follow Paul," and
    another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere
    men?

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  • 1 Peter 22-3 Like newborn babies, crave pure
    spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in
    your salvation, now that you have tasted that the
    Lord is good.

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I. Struggling to Live Right Side Up
Characteristics
  • Worldly
  • Undeveloped
  • Ignorance
  • Problematic

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II. Two Possible Reasons
  • False Believer.
  • 1 John 39-10 No one who is born of God will
    continue to sin, because God's seed remains in
    him he cannot go on sinning, because he has been
    born of God. This is how we know who the children
    of God are and who the children of the devil are
    Anyone who does not do what is right is not a
    child of God nor is anyone who does not love his
    brother.

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Matthew 1324-30 "The kingdom of heaven is like a
man who sowed good seed in his field. But while
everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed
weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the
wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds
also appeared
  • Wheat

Tares
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II. Two Possible Reasons
  • False Believer.
  • Stunted Believer.
  • Hebrews 511-14 We have much to say about this,
    but it is hard to explain because you are slow to
    learn. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought
    to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the
    elementary truths of God's word all over again.
    You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who
    lives on milk, being still an infant, is not
    acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.
    14 But solid food is for the mature, who by
    constant use have trained themselves to
    distinguish good from evil.

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III. Spiritual Checkup
  • 2 Corinthians 135 Examine yourselves to see
    whether you are in the faith test yourselves. Do
    you not realize that Christ Jesus is in
    you--unless, of course, you fail the test?

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My Personal Exam
  • Is Jesus Lord?
  • Hows my attitude?
  • What am I feeding on?
  • Am I growing spiritually?
  • 2 Peter 318 But grow in the grace and knowledge
    of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be
    glory both now and forever! Amen.

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Seven Rules for Growth
  • Daily Food.
  • Fresh Air.
  • 3. Regular Exercise.
  • 4. Adequate Rest.
  • 5. Clean Surroundings.
  • 6. Loving Care.
  • 7. Periodic Checkups.

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IV. God calls us to be Faithful Servants
  • 1 Corinthians 35-9 What, after all, is Apollos?
    And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you
    came to believe--as the Lord has assigned to each
    his task. 6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered
    it, but God made it grow. 7 So neither he who
    plants nor he who waters is anything, but only
    God, who makes things grow. 8 The man who plants
    and the man who waters have one purpose, and each
    will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9
    For we are God's fellow workers you are God's
    field, God's building.

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Be Faithful Servants
  • In tasks at hand
  • In ministry to others
  • In dependence on God
  • In unified purpose vision
  • In bearing fruit reaping rewards

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Right Side Up for Jesus!
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