Temple Baptist Church - 4-21-2024
1 Corinthians 15:58
Introduction:
A. The Corinthian Church was a carnal (fleshly) church and spent both their time and resources upon their natural, temporal desires. Paul loved this carnal, worldly church as it is the only one that Paul expressed his love for.
1 Corinthians 16:23-24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (24) My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
B. Chapter 15: 1-49, Paul speaks of their great salvation through the gospel. Verses 50-57, the victory that has been won as one day all the church of God will be at home.
C. The Holy Ghost admonishes the church to be heavenly minded in verse 58 because the real treasures are those that are eternal, not temporal. The therefore ties this verse to the preceding verses and is a summation or conclusion. His plea is based upon our blessed position in the body of Christ, the hope of His soon return in the rapture, and our eternal change.
D. “My” denotes ownership. “Beloved” denotes our dearness to both the Apostle and our Saviour. “Brethren” denotes a family relationship which is important because our dependence is not only upon the Saviour but also upon each other!
1. Steadfastness – deals with the possibility of quitting - Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. (People are quitting on every hand. Pastors, missionaries, evangelists, SS teachers, soul winners, church workers, etc.)
2. Immovability – deals with the possibility of being swayed - 2 Thessalonians 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. (We are in the midst of the “falling away.”)
3. Abounding – deals with possibility of sitting down instead of serving - 2 Corinthians 9:8 And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work. (The closer to the end of the church age, the more we should labor. Unfortunately, it is just the exact opposite is true.)
4. Knowledge – deals with the understanding that our labor is not in vain - Matthew 10:40-42 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. (Though we are in the gleanings stage or the Days of Noe, God is still in control of the harvest)
5. Reward – God will certainly reward us with fullness - 2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. (full reward) for our labors (Parable of those who labored through the heat of the day for a penny while others entered the fields much later and received the same.)
ALL OF THIS IS GOING TO TAKE TWO THINGS:
1. It Takes A Real Conversion – 1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
2. It Takes A Real Conviction – Jesus is coming again just like He said!
SOME THINGS WE NEED TO CONTINUE IN:
1. We Need To continue In One Accord
Acts 1:14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
2. We Need To Continue In Prayer
Acts 1:14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
Colossians 4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
3. We Need To Continue In Doctrine
Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
2 Timothy 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast earned them
4. We Need To Continue In Fellowship
Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
5. We Need To Continue In The Grace of God (Salvation’s Message)
Acts 13:43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
6. We Need To Continue In Encouragement
Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
7. We Need To Continue In Soul Winning (Both at home and abroad)
Acts 26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great
8. We Need To Continue To Live Godly
Romans 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
9. We Need To Continue Contending For The Faith
Galatians 2:5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
10. We Need To Continue In Service
James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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