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Have you ever played with someone who was so competitive they took the fun out of whatever you were doing?
Have you ever been that person?
- Competition...
At least I’m not that guy…Comparison...
Often we have conflicts in our relationships because we’re comparing or competing rather than connecting & collaborating.
Self-Centered attempts to gain:
Acceptance
Security
Significance
There are lot of things that can cause conflict…we’re going to look at Comparison & Competition in 1 Corinthians 3 to see how Paul encouraged the church of Corinth to come out of that conflict.
1 Corinthians 3:1-23 Just Reference
Comparison, Competition, and Criticism
Compare-A-Sin
Comparison & Competition are often a search for Significance.
Jealousy, Quarreling, Competition
Greed…self-centeredness…
What causes fights and quarrels?
James 4:1-3 What causes fights and quarrels among you?
Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
You desire but do not have, so you kill.
You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight.
You do not have because you do not ask God.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Envy & Jealousy
Vocabulary.com:
Envy is when you want what someone else has, but jealousy is when you're worried someone's trying to take what you have.
If you want your neighbor's new convertible, you feel envy.
If she takes your husband for a ride, you feel jealousy.
Jealousy involves resentment towards the person…Envy wants what the other person has…Jealousy would want it and feel resentful that you have it.
Selfishness & Greed
Greed = More for Me
+ Scarcity mindset…it is the LOVE of money that is the root of all kinds of evils!
+ Stinginess = not wanting to lose what you have...Tight-Fisted
Generosity = More for Others
+ Abundance mindset
+ Giving = Stewardship (all is a gift of grace) and trusting that God will provide for you and that He has placed you here to be a blessing to others.
+ Open Handed
“I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God.
If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.”
- David Livingstone
In Christ we HAVE Significance:
We are ONE in Identity & Value
Same field
Same building (temple)
Children of God (John 3, Galatians 3-4, Romans 8, etc.)
All equal at the foot of the cross
+ My value is not determined by being right…or doing right…but by WHOSE I AM…by who I belong to…
Comparison & Competition
We are ONE in Purpose
+ All servants…
Same Lord (we are all servants)
Connotation is Servants OF God and WITH God…
+ Co-workers in God’s field
Planting, Watering, Harvesting…you could even add breaking ground…all necessary parts and not one more honorable than the other in God’s eyes.
+ Co-workers in God’s building
Laying foundation, building of different parts…
+ Build with good materials!
How we spend our time, talent, and treasures will be judged…did you invest in lasting things?
HOW we live our lives, our attitudes, choices, priorities are building something…is it of eternal significance???
We are ALL one Temple together
+ We are one temple…together.
Paul later uses the picture of being one body and each part having a different function…
What helps one, helps us all…if we’re a body, it is for the common good.
There’s no reason for comparison or competition.
We have everything that we need for life and godliness IN CHRIST (2 Peter 1:3)
We have this already “In Christ!” we don’t need to strive…compete or compare!
+ HIS divine power has given us everything we need!
Conflict & Community
Challenge to repent of and renounce comparison, competition, and criticism…envy, jealousy, selfishness, and greed...
Reject the lies that your identity is tied to being right, winning, success, wealth, status, etc.
Invitation to receive…maybe for the first…or to receive again.
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