1 Corinthians 12:1-11

1. Our new identity in the body is a gift.

2. The Godhead sovereignly distributes, oversees, and empowers the gifts.

3. The spiritual gifts are given to edify the body.

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

1. The Lord’s Supper is a place to display our love for God by loving the Church

2. The Lord’s Supper is a place to display our unity within the body

3. The Lord’s Supper is a place to feast on obedience

4. The Lord’s Supper is a place to grow together in sanctification

1 Corinthians 11:27-32

1. The Lord’s Supper is a time for us to examine ourselves.

2. The Lord’s Supper is a time for us to consider the severe mercy of a loving God.

Closing exhortations:

1. Joyfully and fearfully receive your trials as an opportunity to produce hope-filled

character.

2. Joyfully and fearfully receive the loving discipline of God to prepare you for the next trial.

3. Pray for and pursue a growing hatred for sin and a growing grateful love for God.

1 Corinthians 11:17-26

17. But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. 18. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, 19. for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. 20. When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. 21. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk. 22. What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not. 23. For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24. and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25. In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

1 Corinthians 11:2-16

1. God’s Creation Order

2. God’s Gospel Unity

3. The Church of God is to reflect biblical authority

4. The Church of God is to reflect proper adornment

Titus 2:11-14 “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12. training us to renounce

ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13.

waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14. who gave

himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who

are zealous for good works.”

Nahum 1

1 Corinthians 10:23 – 11:1

What does it mean to live for the glory of God?

1. To live for the glory of God means that we are God-centered.

2. To live for the glory of God means that we are a thankful people

3. To live for the glory of God means that we joyfully obey His Word.

4. To live for the glory of God means that we are fully satisfied in a God-centered God

5. To live for the glory of God means that we live for others to be fully satisfied in a God-centered God.

"If all of life is meant to be lived for the glory of God, then all living outside of the glory of God is sin."

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

4 questions for today:

1. Do idols have a real existence or not?

2. What does it mean to participate with demons?

3. In what ways might I be guilty of this today?

4. Do I think I am stronger than God?

1 Corinthians 10:12-13

1. God, in His wisdom, sovereignly uses tests to bring about sanctification in the believer.

2. God reveals His faithfulness in every test.

3. God calls His children to share in the suffering of resisting sin.

-1 Peter 4:12-14

-1 Peter 5:8-10

-1 Peter 2:11

-Matthew 6:13

4. God provides the way of escape through endurance.

-2 Timothy 3:10-11

-1 Peter 2:18-21

5. God has designed endurance to be the path to assurance.

-Romans 5:1-5

-James 1:2-4

1 Corinthians 10:1-14

Those who persevere to the end, and show themselves to be true believers, are those who:

1. Heed the Warnings of Idolatry

2. Kill the Root of Idolatry

3. Rebuke the Deception of Idolatry

-Presumption by Association

-Idolatry is most often adultery

4. Know the Danger of Idolatry