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1 Corinthians 4:1–21 (NLT)
1 So look at Apollos and me as mere servants of Christ who have been put in charge of explaining God’s mysteries.
2 Now, a person who is put in charge as a manager must be faithful.
3 As for me, it matters very little how I might be evaluated by you or by any human authority.
I don’t even trust my own judgment on this point.
4 My conscience is clear, but that doesn’t prove I’m right.
It is the Lord himself who will examine me and decide.
5 So don’t make judgments about anyone ahead of time—before the Lord returns.
For he will bring our darkest secrets to light and will reveal our private motives.
Then God will give to each one whatever praise is due.
6 Dear brothers and sisters, I have used Apollos and myself to illustrate what I’ve been saying.
If you pay attention to what I have quoted from the Scriptures, you won’t be proud of one of your leaders at the expense of another.
7 For what gives you the right to make such a judgment?
What do you have that God hasn’t given you?
And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?
8 You think you already have everything you need.
You think you are already rich.
You have begun to reign in God’s kingdom without us!
I wish you really were reigning already, for then we would be reigning with you.
9 Instead, I sometimes think God has put us apostles on display, like prisoners of war at the end of a victor’s parade, condemned to die.
We have become a spectacle to the entire world—to people and angels alike.
10 Our dedication to Christ makes us look like fools, but you claim to be so wise in Christ!
We are weak, but you are so powerful!
You are honored, but we are ridiculed.
11 Even now we go hungry and thirsty, and we don’t have enough clothes to keep warm.
We are often beaten and have no home.
12 We work wearily with our own hands to earn our living.
We bless those who curse us.
We are patient with those who abuse us.
13 We appeal gently when evil things are said about us.
Yet we are treated like the world’s garbage, like everybody’s trash—right up to the present moment.
14 I am not writing these things to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
15 For even if you had ten thousand others to teach you about Christ, you have only one spiritual father.
For I became your father in Christ Jesus when I preached the Good News to you.
16 So I urge you to imitate me.
17 That’s why I have sent Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord.
He will remind you of how I follow Christ Jesus, just as I teach in all the churches wherever I go.
18 Some of you have become arrogant, thinking I will not visit you again.
19 But I will come—and soon—if the Lord lets me, and then I’ll find out whether these arrogant people just give pretentious speeches or whether they really have God’s power.
20 For the Kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk; it is living by God’s power.
21 Which do you choose?
Should I come with a rod to punish you, or should I come with love and a gentle spirit?
INTRODUCTION:
I- LEADERS ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP.
(1 Corinthians 4:1-7)
1 Corinthians 4:1–7 (NLT)
1 So look at Apollos and me as mere servants of Christ who have been put in charge of explaining God’s mysteries.
2 Now, a person who is put in charge as a manager must be faithful.
3 As for me, it matters very little how I might be evaluated by you or by any human authority.
I don’t even trust my own judgment on this point.
4 My conscience is clear, but that doesn’t prove I’m right.
It is the Lord himself who will examine me and decide.
5 So don’t make judgments about anyone ahead of time—before the Lord returns.
For he will bring our darkest secrets to light and will reveal our private motives.
Then God will give to each one whatever praise is due.
6 Dear brothers and sisters, I have used Apollos and myself to illustrate what I’ve been saying.
If you pay attention to what I have quoted from the Scriptures, you won’t be proud of one of your leaders at the expense of another.
7 For what gives you the right to make such a judgment?
What do you have that God hasn’t given you?
And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?
A- Leaders are accountable for specific tasks that they are assigned.
(1 Corinthians 4:1-2)
1 Corinthians 4:1–2 (NLT)
1 So look at Apollos and me as mere servants of Christ who have been put in charge of explaining God’s mysteries.
2 Now, a person who is put in charge as a manager must be faithful.
4:1 Οὕτως ἡμᾶς λογιζέσθω ἄνθρωπος ὡς ὑπηρέτας Χριστοῦ καὶ οἰκονόμους μυστηρίων θεοῦ.
2 ὧδε λοιπὸν ζητεῖται ἐν τοῖς οἰκονόμοις ἵνα πιστός τις εὑρεθῇ.
1- Called to be servants (v.
1a)
a- People should see them as servants of Christ, where servants is not the word used in 3:5 (διάκονοs), but ὑπηρέτας (which Paul uses only here).
It meant originally an ‘underrower’, i.e. one who rowed in the lower part of a large ship.
From this it came to signify service in general, though generally service of a lowly kind (‘subordinates’, neb), and subject to direction.
The New Testament presents the idea that we should all be servants of God and others.
Jesus set the example when he washed the disciples’ feet.
(John 13:1-15)
John 13:1–15 (NLT)
1 Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father.
He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.
2 It was time for supper, and the devil had already prompted Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
3 Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to God.
4 So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist,
5 and poured water into a basin.
Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.
6 When Jesus came to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
7 Jesus replied, “You don’t understand now what I am doing, but someday you will.”
8 “No,” Peter protested, “you will never ever wash my feet!” Jesus replied, “Unless I wash you, you won’t belong to me.”
9 Simon Peter exclaimed, “Then wash my hands and head as well, Lord, not just my feet!”
10 Jesus replied, “A person who has bathed all over does not need to wash, except for the feet, to be entirely clean.
And you disciples are clean, but not all of you.”
11 For Jesus knew who would betray him.
That is what he meant when he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
12 After washing their feet, he put on his robe again and sat down and asked, “Do you understand what I was doing?
13 You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right, because that’s what I am.
14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet.
15 I have given you an example to follow.
Do as I have done to you.
Jesus set the example for serving.
(Mark 10:45)
Mark 10:45 (NLT)
45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
2- Put in charge of explaining God’s mysteries-
(The preachers are also those entrusted with the secret things of God.
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