Sermon Tone Analysis

Will you go out with me in prayer?

Heavenly father.

Thank you so much that we can trust you.

Thank you, that we can trust you based upon our experiences.

That we can trust you based upon the testimony of others, but most of all we thank you that we can trust you because you saying your word that you are worthy of our trust.

And we stake Our Lives upon what you have told us in your word that it is sufficient to tells us everything we need to know about who you are in about who we are and who we can be in you.

help us to live out that trust this day in our lives, this week in our community, this year, as we interact with people, God, we pray for the the needs in our immediate church family.

We pray that you will give

travel safety to the many people who are traveling.

That you will protect them from.

Sickness and disease and even sunburned as people are swimming and camping.

And Having a good family time.

We pray for those, in our midst to RNR.

Recent out of the hospital that you will.

not just deliver them from the hard time God but that you will walk with them through the hard time, that you will show your presence and teach them more about who you are through your Community.

That's body the church through your word and through their own experiences and that they can say, I have proved that I can trust him even in the hard times and it's in the name of Jesus.

We pray.

Amen.

1st Corinthians.

16 chapters 6 months worth of sermons and today is the last one.

So if you have your scripture Journal at scripture Journal that we handed out in and January, encourage you to get it out of, we're going to briefly go through 1st Corinthians and remind us as we close exactly who it is.

That Paul is writing to what he's trying to communicate and then kind of end along with the Apostle Paul of this resident, reality of the sermon on the amount.

Something I have borrowed and stolen from other shamelessly.

That occasionally will try to have a maybe even annually a sermon on the amount.

And so when you see the same title come up year, after year it's intentional a little bit of play on words but also a little bit of a tackling its subject that nobody likes to talk about him.

But that's important to talk about Corinthians a letter written by Paul to a church, the church in Corinth, a church that he founded was a part of founding along with the other Apostles and some of the other early Christians, And what did he say?

He said, I passed on to you of first importance that which I have received received from Jesus Christ himself received from faithful witnesses, that Christ died.

That he was buried in that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures that he appeared to Peter to the 12 and then to over 500 of the brothers at once and the Corinthians had heard believed they had received and then they began to embody this reality of living out the Christian Life in something that we have come to call the ekklesia or the church.

but, you know, the thing about living a life, That is marked by grace.

Sometimes we ask now, what do I have to do?

What am I supposed to do?

I have this great experience.

I came to Jesus, I had my sins forgiven, and if you have not had your sins forgiven by coming to Jesus, then do so.

It is the primary call of this book.

It is the first thing that we put on the wall, come to Jesus.

We as the church exists to see people in Kirksville in around the world come to Christ.

If you've not made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ then do.

So he is worth putting your all into.

You can go all in on Jesus.

We have proven him trustworthy.

But more than that, it's who he is.

He is trustworthy, who we are, is people who trust in him.

That's why we can sing a song.

Like we just Proclaim together that we want to prove that we can trust him more and more through our experiences and the, the people in Corinth, they were rebelling against the idea of, that's all it was.

That's all they need is Faith.

It's just Grace.

That, that we believe in a dead crucified and Risen Savior.

That's not very Just not cool.

Paul.

Until they tried to go beyond the gospel as though you could go beyond the savior.

In the first six chapters, Paul, just kind of rails on them that they think that they could go beyond Jesus that they have criticized call, and they said you should not be an apostle by their practice.

A kind of said this that we don't need you anymore.

We don't need this, this, this crucifixion that you keep talking about.

That's an unflattering to us.

It doesn't make us look good.

We want to be wise in the world.

We want to go beyond this natural existence that we are living these bodies that we live with.

And we kind of want to want to reach the higher spiritual plane in keeping with some of the religious teachings of the day.

And soap.

All right to them and he reminds them right off the bat, Paul called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus.

And our brothers sauce Fitness and he writes to the church in Coeur d'Alene to have been Sanctified in Christ.

Sanctified being a perfect, being conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ.

It's the work of every Christian that the spirit does in us to make us more like Christ to the glory of God, the Father Right off the bat, he reminds them, you're being transformed into the likeness of Christ.

You're not being transformed into the likeness of having your body discarded so that you can exist in the spiritual, only plane.

And he attacks the divisions that they have, not so much the divisions in the church but the divisions that they have caused between him and them.

That Paul is not worthy of our understanding is not worthy of our attention.

That worthy of our time, we have developed their own, Sophia, our own wisdom and we like it and verse 18 of chapter 14, the word of the Cross is folly to those who are perishing, IE, those who are going to spend eternity.

Apart from the Blessed presence of God.

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the discernment of the Discerning.

I will thwart verse 19.

And Paul reminds them that the wisdom of the world is not Wise.

It's foolish, but it was that wisdom, they were playing into it.

Was that wisdom, they were trying to embody without their bodies and it because they were trying to go post flesh.

They discarded.

So many of The Commandments that God has given to them.

About what they were to do in their bodies.

The moral foundation of the Old Testament, in the words of Jesus were somewhat discarded and they were doing things that had been abominable even to the non-believers.

Paul says, in verse 9 of chapter 2, what no eye has seen.

Nor ear has heard nor the heart of man.

Imagine what God has prepared for those who love them.

This is not the wisdom of the world.

This is the wisdom of God, then you can't make this kind of stuff up.

It's not man's idea.

It's God's.

Idea.

He continues to write continue to challenge their presuppositions, their actions.

They have taken that lead away from the cross that lead away from a life of obedience to God.

And then chapter 7 comes along and chapter 7 is the first of of six.

Now concerning 7 chapter 17, 25 81121 16. 16 this is Paul responding to letters or some sort of Correspondence that we probably no longer have.

Some of theorize that this could be 2nd Corinthians and 2nd Corinthians to be 1st Corinthians.

There were probably at least three Corinthian letters that Paul wrote, maybe for maybe more but but three we can be pretty certain of and Paul then reminds them of the six things.

Now concerning

71 now concerning the matters which you wrote about it is good for a man not to have sexual relations with the women.

He's he's quoting them and then responding.

Again, in 725.

Now, concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord.

8th chapter 1. Concerning food.

Offered to Idols, we know that all of us possess knowledge, They were so intrigued by this idea of knowledge, this this wisdom and in understanding that they had come up with impulses knowledge puffs up.

It's not a legend about love, love builds up.

Nearest Regions to focus their attention.