QUALIFIED To DECIDE-VI—1Corinthians 6:1-11
OR Qualified To Rectify
Paul rebuked the Corinthian Christians because they sought out & trusted secular sources to rectify/correct personal grievances among themselves.
‘Grievance’—‘A real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment.’
‘Rectify’—‘To put(something) right; To correct.’
The Church & Christians are uniquely fitted for properly rectifying/correcting personal grievances among themselves.
How/When are Christians fit to rectifying personal grievances?
6 confirmations that Christians are uniquely qualified to properly rectify personal grievances.
We have already found that Christians are qualified to rectify grievances thru Their...
1. DARING/Boldness(:1)
2. DESTINY(:2a & :3a)
3. INFERENCE(s)(:2b & :3b-4)
4. WISDOM(:5-6)
5. SELFLESS/Loving CONCERN(:7-8)
6. CONTRASTING LIFESTYLE-A(:9-10...)
(CONT...)6—Christians are qualified to rectify grievances thru Their...
CONTRASTING LIFESTYLE-B(...:11)
:11—“And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus & by the Spirit of our God.”
The Christians at Corinth, “WERE” at some point in their past, characterized by & were thus ‘professors’/purveyors of those ungodly things(:9-10).
Those ungodly things, along with the attitudes that maintain them, are the very things they now disdain & are appalled at as Christians.
What ‘turns the tide’ for those with a history of sinfulness(all mankind!) is their being “washed,” “sanctified,” & “justified.”
Such action was applied to them on the part of God by means of their faith in Him thru Jesus.
Thus it is stated that they were “washed,” “sanctified,” & “justified” “in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
They were ALSO “washed,” “sanctified,” & “justified” “by the Spirit of our God.”
The God of all Christians offers no confusion as to the object of our service—It is to be God Himself!
God’s role/function in His scheme of life & living, definitely comes into play. But God’s Divine role does not remove your/my individual responsibility as a Christian to obey God’s desire for your/my calling & ministry!
So yes, when you darken the door of the church meeting house, having given your life wholly to sin, knowing that something must be done in your life, please don’t be shocked that we are shocked at your lifestyle. But know this...our shock does not mean there we have no love for you, just that there is a hatred of the sin itself! Nor does our shock mean that we will neglect you. If we truly love you then we will do our part to help you get close to the Lord God & discover the same assurance, freedom, & peace we have in Christ Jesus.
a. “Washed”—‘Eternally cleansed & made acceptable by Jesus’ blood.’
“While this washing was not their own act, it did not take place without an act of their own.”—BECNT
Isa. 1:15-17—“When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.”
Zech. 13:1-3—“In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David & for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin & for uncleanness.[descriptive of washing] It shall be in that day,” says the LORD of hosts, “that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, & they shall no longer be remembered. I will also cause the prophets & the unclean spirit to depart from the land. It shall come to pass that if anyone still prophesies, then his father & mother who begot him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, because you have spoken lies in the name of the LORD.’ And his father & mother who begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.”[descriptive of the closed canon]
Titus 3:4-7—“But when the kindness & the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration & renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”
Rev. 1:4-6—“John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you & peace from Him who is & who was & who is to come, & from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, & from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, & the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us & washed us from our sins in His own blood, & has made us kings & priests to His God & Father, to Him be glory & dominion forever & ever. Amen.”
Eph. 5:2—“And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us & given Himself for us, an offering & a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.”
1Jn. 4:9-11—“In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us & sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
1Jn. 1:6-7—“If we say that we have fellowship with Him, & walk in darkness, we lie & do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, & the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”
Rev. 7:9-14—“After these things I looked, & behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, & tongues, standing before the throne & before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, & crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, & to the Lamb!” All the angels stood around the throne & the elders & the four living creatures, & fell on their faces before the throne & worshiped God, saying: “Amen! Blessing & glory & wisdom, Thanksgiving & honor & power & might, Be to our God forever & ever. Amen.” Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in white robes, & where did they come from?” And I said to him, “Sir, you know.” So he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, & washed their robes & made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
“Washed”—apolouw—Aorist Middle Indicative 2nd Plural—1) To wash off or away. Strong—To wash fully, i.e. figuratively--Have remitted(reflexively). Used 2X.
From—apo—a primary particle; “Off,” i.e. Away(from something near).—&—louw—a primary verb; To bathe(the whole person; whereas niptw means to wet a part only, & plunw to wash, cleanse garments exclusively).
b. “Sanctified”—‘Being ‘set apart’ for God from all else.’
Jn. 17:13-19—[Jesus’ High Priestly prayer]—“But now I come to You, & these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your word; & the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. “They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.”
Titus 3:4-7—“But when the kindness & the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration & renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”
1Pet. 1:1, 2—“Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, & Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience & sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you & peace be multiplied.”
Eph. 5:25-27—“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church & gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify & cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy & without blemish.”
“Sanctified”—agiazw—Aorist Passive Indicative 2nd Plural—1) To render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow; 2) To separate from profane things & dedicate to God—2a) Consecrate things to God, 2b) Dedicate people to Go; 3) To purify—3a) To cleanse externally, 3b) To purify by expiation: free from the guilt of sin, 3c) To purify internally by renewing of the soul. Strong—from agiov; To make holy, i.e. ceremonially--Purify or consecrate; mentally--To venerate.
c. “Justified”—‘A new standing before God.’
Titus 3:4-7—“But when the kindness & the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration & renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”
Rom. 3:21-26—“But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law & the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all & on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned & fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just & the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”
Rom. 5:8-9—“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.”
Rom. 4:24-25—“...It[God’s righteousness by faith alone] shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, & was raised because of our justification.”
“Justified”—dikaiow—Verb—1) To render righteous or such he ought to be; 2) To show, exhibit, evince, one to be righteous, such as he is & wishes himself to be considered; 3) To declare, pronounce, one to be just, righteous, or such as he ought to be. Strong—To render(i.e. show or regard as) just or innocent.
*Being “washed”, “sanctified”, & “justified”—describes the power of the ‘new man’(in Christ) to vanquish the resistance of the ‘old man’(flesh) described herein(:9c-10).
2Cor. 5:17—“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation(Jn. 3:3-7); old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
Jn. 3:3-7—“Jesus answered & said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb & be born?” Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water & the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, & that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’”
cf.-:4
Argumentation:
Mat. 7:13-14—“Enter[the kingdom of God/heaven] by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate & broad is the way that leads to destruction, & there are many who go in by it. “Because narrow is the gate & difficult is the way which leads to life, & there are few who find it.”
1Thess. 2:10-12—“You are witnesses, & God also, how devoutly & justly & blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe; as you know how we exhorted, & comforted, & charged every one of you, as a father does his own children, that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom & glory.”
1Jn. 1:5-10—“This is the message which we have heard from Him & declare to you, that God is light & in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, & walk in darkness, we lie & do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, & the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, & the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful & just to forgive us our sins & to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, & His word is not in us.”
Rom. 6:3-7, 11, 13—“Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.”.....“Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”.....“And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, & your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”
Gal. 2:20, 21—“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; & the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me & gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”
Gal. 5:16-17, 19-26—“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, & you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, & the Spirit against the flesh; & these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.”.....“Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, & the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions & desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.”
Gal. 6:14, 15—“But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, & I to the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.”
?Have you taken up your cross...the Cross of Christ?
Col. 3:1-10—“If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, & your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, & covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, & have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all & in all.”
Heb. 13:7-10—“Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, & forever. Do not be carried about with various & strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them. We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.”
Eph. 4:11-16—“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, & some pastors & teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith & of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to & fro & carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ-- from whom the whole body, joined & knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
Illustration:
Michael Phelps is a multi-Gold Medal Olympian swimmer/He is known to have eaten 12,000 calories per day(~4000 per meal) while training for the 2008 Beijing Olympics!/Then, Phelps swam at least 5 hours per day for 6 days per week & stated to NBC, “Eat, sleep & swim. That’s all I can do.”/
*In contrast to that lifestyle, consider the obese man highlighted on the TV show ‘My 600lb Life’—One young 31 year-old who weighed 777lbs. discovered that his supposed eating ‘healthy’ was was killing him. Because while having a sedentary lifestyle, he was eating ~10,000 calories per day!/CONTRASTING LIFESTYLE
Application:
?Your CONTRASTING LIFESTYLE Qualify or Dis-Qualify you to Rectify Personal Grievances?
?You Qualified/Fit to properly Rectify Personal Grievances?
CONCLUSION:
Action:
Christians are qualified to rectify grievances thru Their...
6. CONTRASTING LIFESTYLE-B(...:11)
1. DARING/Boldness(:1)
2. DESTINY(:2a & :3a)
3. INFERENCE(s)(:2b & :3b-4)
4. WISDOM(:5-6)
5. SELFLESS/Loving CONCERN(:7-8)
6. CONTRASTING LIFESTYLE-A(:9-10...)
Pt. 6-B(:11) only! -END SERIES- presented 09/24/2017am to:
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