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Do you remember when you finished school?
Whenever it was, whichever level it was.
Do you remember the last day you were in high school?
I do.
But, it wasn’t that long ago.
The world was at my fingertips.
I had finally conquered education.
I knew all that there was to know.
I could go and make my way in the world.
Sure, I was going to college, but they weren’t going to teach me anything radically earth-shattering.
I had the basic knowledge of anything I needed.
I had arrived.
It’s amazing the perspective of someone when they are 18 versus the perspective when their brain actually matures.
Something starts happening when we turn 25, which slowly grows and takes over.
We start realizing how much we don’t know.
We start realizing that we have not arrived.
And if we don’t realize that soon enough, we start realizing how much of a mess we have made of our lives.
The Corinthians thought that they had arrived because they were saved.
They had all the knowledge that they needed.
They had the Holy Spirit.
They couldn’t do anything wrong.
They couldn’t believe wrong.
They were good.
Unfortunately, their lives, their daily testimony showed the opposite.
Continually, throughout this letter, Paul is trying to convince the Corinthians of the truth he present specifically in this passage.
Our daily testimony should be inline with our salvation.
Which does not come naturally, nor immediately.
Let’s read the passage:
Our daily testimony should be in line with our salvation.
Let’s pray.
1. Salvation Is Not Sanctification
The Corinthians thought that they were good, because they were saved.
They had turned to Jesus in faith.
They were not trusting in their good works.
They had followed the formula.
So, what’s the big deal.
Paul, I have arrived at holiness.
Paul says, “Nope.
You are far from it.”
We have already discussed the Corinthian’s pride.
Their lack of love.
Their sexual immorality.
And we could keep going down the laundry list.
Yes, they were saved, but their lives did not show it.
Salvation is not sanctification
A. Salvation reconciles us with God
So what is salvation?
Salvation is a way to reconcile us with God.
God created humanity to have a close relationship with him.
However, we chose to go our own way.
We chose to live for ourselves and not him.
We chose to become his enemies.
When Adam and Eve ate the fruit in the Garden of Eden, humanities ability to have a relationship with their creator was destroyed.
Picture a beautiful dress ripped.
It cannot be worn until it is repaired.
Reconciliation is when you line up the two side to match and then you sew them together.
If you think about budgets.
Reconciliation is when you look at your bank statement and your house records.
You work through them, adding to your house records, until finally everything matches.
Reconciliation with friends is when you line up both people, so that they understand and agree about what happened, and their friendship is restored.
Normally that requires a mediator and some restitution.
Jesus Christ died that we might have a restored relationship with God.
That we might be reconciled.
What we did to God was too great for us to handle on our own.
We needed a mediator and we needed someone to pay our restitution.
Jesus died to pay our debt.
Through him, we can approach God again, not in fear, but as a friend.
Salvation reconciles us with God.
C. Neither removes God’s discipline
Salvation takes care of our eternal punishment.
In Christ, we are guaranteed to live forever in eternity on this earth.
As John said: Even so come quickly Lord Jesus!
Sanctification takes care of our temporal punishment.
You see, Scripture is clear that God disciplines those he loves.
We as humans don’t really stop doing bad things unless we realize the consequences, or the seriousness of our actions.
I remember some situations when I was taught about the seriousness of my actions.
I did something wrong and my dad sent me to my room to reflect on the evilness of my life, and he was going to follow to impress on my body the evilness of my life.
I got the bright idea of locking my door so he couldn’t come it.
Little did I know that he could unlock that door.
And he convinced very well to never do that again.
I understood the seriousness of my actions.
To further convince me, he reversed the door handles so that I could never do it again, in case I had forgotten the lesson in the moment of passion.
Paul tells the Corinthians about the Israelites.
They possessed everything that the Corinthians claimed to have.
They had experienced God’s miraculous salvation.
They had been identified with God through baptism.
They participated in a form of communion.
They were following the direction and provision of Jesus Christ.
But, they refused to align their lives with the holiness of God.
So, Paul writes:
Everyone over the age of 20, except Caleb and Joshua, were killed because of their disobedience.
This is not speaking of loss of salvation.
This is speaking of discipline.
God protects his holiness, and when someone refuses to reflect his holiness, God will discipline them.
This doesn’t mean that God is a sniper and whenever we do something wrong he will knock us off.
It does mean that he might reverse the handles on our door so that we won’t do it again.
It does mean that pain might happen to remind us of the seriousness of our actions.
God desires our holiness.
Those who have turned to Jesus will pursue his holiness, or they will face God’s discipline.
Salvation is not sanctification.
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