I didn't have room for the notes in my Bible,
so I put my cards in the morning. No, actually,
I wanted to show you this, so I still have to
put this in my office this week. It's the name
of one member in six of our junior high and senior
higher. Who has, before God, pledged themselves
to make sure that this was your life until the
time that the Lord turned him into the right.
Are we done? I rejoiced in this. I rejoiced in
this, because thank you. We want to thank you.
It is remarkable, isn't it, to get in the game
when our government is passing laws now. You
can't buy cigarettes until you're 27, something
like that. They expect to have self -control,
and yet they do not comment in the high school
media. Father, we give thanks to you for the
good things happening in our history. would have
seen what your word teaches regarding the definite
cause of charity. And we pray that you will strengthen
them, if they might keep their pledge. For there
will be times of temptation to come, when this
pride will be imparted upon them. And we pray
that that moment will remind them of what they
have said to you. Allow the Holy Spirit to keep
the children. Father, as we fight... I'm going
to begin reading verse 5, which will be our text
today, verse 5 through 17, verse 15 -3. We gave
opportunity to each one. I planted the tallest
water that God would cause me to grow. So they
needed the ones who planted the ones who watered
the same thing. But God who caused us to grow.
Now he will plant and he will water no one. But
each will receive his own reward according to
his own labor. But we are God's double workers.
You are God's field. For no man can lay a foundation
other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ. God has been man -built for the foundation
of gold. For the day will tell us if our day
is to be revealed with fire. And the fire itself
will test the quality of each man's work. If
any man's work which he instills upon his remains,
he shall receive a reward. If any man's work
is turned up, he shall suffer loss. But the instill
shall be saved yet as to the fire. We are not
known. He says, do you not know that you are
a temple of God and that the spirit of God is
known to you? He is of all views. In other words,
he is not talking about your body, his being
a temple of the Holy Spirit, it will be that
and not the spirit. You are the temple of God,
and you have destroyed the temple of God. God
will destroy again, for the temple of God is
holy, and that is what you are. They hardly accept
their heroes up, with the exclusion of or the
downgrading of others from God's prison. There
may have been some in the church who would say,
men should hear Apollo preach. The sermon of
our folks at the meeting is so dynamic, there's
no one who preaches like Apollo. There may have
been others who said, well, let us keep this.
As some of ours and everyone should have... You
haven't learned your principles. You haven't
arrived yet. That's the problem with our church.
Every once in a while, we listen to beginners,
to all kinds of practical advice. And then there
was another group that had to ascend. Pastor
Paul was a real soul winner. Why, he had 18 months
of preaching walking, of being with Christ 70
years since. I don't think it's wrong for God's
people to have their preferences as preachers.
We all do different steps. I don't think it's
wrong for us to like one style of teaching or
preaching over another that's normal. But when
these preferences result in... as the measure
of all the rest. It's not the way out to the
mean or to the rich, the gentle and ministry
of others who are just too different. Those who
teach and lead God's people are not lords over
them, says Paul. For rather, they are servants
to them. It's not that they serve the man, but
they serve the Lord. God's designed them to serve.
in the words of the Jews in verse 5. It is the
word, Yakama. When we get out of Word Deacon,
the whole journey is not talking about the office
of Deacon. It is that word in the context of
that day. All the things that we have as ministry
leaders are table waiters. That's the word. We
are waiters. We are those who are firm enough
to prove to the people of God that's all we are.
Leaders are not servants. Our servants rather
they're not celebrities. The text of course lays
out the truth about God's servants. I would sum
it up with this idea that you must be leaders.
Our God's servants, not worldly celebrities.
No one here can be idolized by the people of
God. God's people are to honor ministry leaders.
The detestment tells us that God's people are
to esteem them highly in love for their work's
sake. The Bible further says that God's people
are to submit to ministry leaders. But at the
same time, God's people must also recognize that
ministry leaders have deeds of piety like everyone
else. He says they are God's instrument. We are
used by God to bring others to faith. All faiths
here are the settings through whom you believe,
even as the Lord gave to each one. As your leader,
I was God's servant to help others come to faith
and then to grow in faith. That is an important
role for the because they're scared that they
have a particular function. There are some minister
leaders who plant, there are others who water.
They do what God designed them to do. They fulfill
the law that God gave to them, but in doing that,
they are just instruments. Because of God, he
says, he gives the increase to time, he says.
It is not the cause of the growth. Not exactly.
It's not exactly what you're supposed to feel
and what it is. It has to go on all your life.
But it is not the cause of the growth. Again,
it is surprising that I don't want to listen
to you because God does not cause the growth
of a vacuum. to our own response to him, whether
we will obey and we will believe your words.
And if we will, then God is delighted to cause
the real someone with us. God's servants are
like his instruments. So the second principle
of this theme, that is, that they are cold people,
is that we're servants. These are the ones. is
anything. He says the seven is nothing really.
Whatever his role, whatever the function God
has assigned to him in his property, the seven
of those given the role is important to compare
to God. God's work does not rest upon any one
particular question. There is no seven of God
that is so important to you in this because of
his personality and because of his gifts. When
they plant something in water, it's only nothing.
It all rests upon the God. Therefore, it's only
God who lives to be revered, not his servants.
It's only God who lives to be adored and held
up, not his servants. The servants are truly
equal, in that they're all in comparison to greatness
and a man of good God, to promise the growth.
There's a third principle, and that is that they
function as one. They're part of our state. Our
new plants and new waters are one and all. God
is all. how important that person is when you
talk to that person, the whole is not what it
is. We need to have the big picture, and see
that they all function as one, whatever their
role may be. A certain amount of supply is the
staff. It applies as well to volunteer workers
within the church. We all have a role where we
fit in God's large plan to the building of church.
God doesn't have too many different plans. He
has one, and we all have a place to fit into
that. So the weather we are watering, so whether
we are stowing, so whether we are weeping. for
all that good one done, called it, giving this
one one purpose, and that is that the church
become what it ought to become. Before Christ
was founded, the last part of our faith, where
it says it only comes to one very thing, reward
it, twice again it says, his own reward. The
reward they're talking about here, of the workmen.
Our word stands here that ministry leaders will
be rewarded for the work that they do. The word
labor doesn't emphasize the results of this work
so much as the energy can be put down in it.
And so it's also important how many knocks that
he has on himself as it is the fact that his
heart is in what he's doing. Thank you. I think
the context argues to the latter. We are fulfilling
the role that God has given us. and we belong
together to God. Woe to the purpose of forgetting
who it is that is hurt. The ministry leaders
would be given to serve people as one who won't
succeed. The ministry leaders belong to the Lord,
the Lord possesses the ministry leaders. The
church doesn't possess them. With the I .F .S
.A. service out there working, it won't send
them to the principal because they're going to
live in our day very well. They believe in having
celebrity leaders. It's always an ounce of that.
It might even have a certain principle to help
all of us understand the proper perspective of
our institution. on the way before us is quite
an unforgotten service. Again, this application
to all of us, but primarily we have in mind military
leaders. The plan of God for God's service is
this. They are on a building project, notice
any changes around the floor at first sight.
Is that your God? There is the awesome God's
building and that is now the metaphor he's going
to build upon in the next few versions of the
building. Notice the aspects of God's building
project. First of all, he tells us who the builders
are and where he's been. Paul identifies himself
in the Kingdom of Chorus as the temple architect
and the lion. what the builder is when we get
our English word octopus. The name is more here
though in the same context than the designer
of a building. They refer to one as also builder.
It's the designer builder. The followers identify
themselves as the one that came in when there
was nothing. And who designed and started building.
And now another is building upon it. A family
team had been there to call it. He doesn't identify
it really moving. Another is, it must have been
the person who was the victim of the pastor,
Vin Korn, as he was writing this letter. It's
all fair, there are others who build upon what
I have laid there. But the application, as I
say, is to pass. to offer to other leaders to
govern and manage and speak within the congregation.
We will all lay in the foundation. The foundation
is laid. And then others to come along later
build above us. We will all be devoted to learning
in the last part of our time. Paul may have given
here a shot across the bow of the pastor of this
church. We'll say we don't know who he was, but
some of the language here could have been understood
in such a way that it would indicate that this
man, whoever he was, was leading the church away
from Paul and his direction to that lucky north.
He said, Another is building it on it. It says,
let everyone be careful how to build it. It means,
everyone wants the matter. It was secure to build.
Most of the applications here, not only for those
who are in full time ministry, but for every
one of us. Everyone of us needs a Bible study.
Everyone of us needs a Bible study. about the
Doleman Project in terms of the foundation that
we rely on. That foundation is Jesus Christ alone.
And then they're not talking about the individual
person's life or the rest of the application.
They're talking about the church. talking about
correct doctrine. That means people through a
personal knowledge of Christ. That means that
when there is an expanding of the redemption
of the cross, all that that means for believers,
that is the foundation. Now, how do they credit
the context there, like if that's up to space,
I would have to say that it also... There is
no other foundation than Jesus Christ, and if
today you are building upon the foundation of
art from his fleshful relationship to him, your
structure will collapse. It will not make it
into eternity. The only light that will make
it into... He goes on to talk about destruction.
And in verse 9, verse 16, verse 17, he says that
you, you, you are the structure of the church.
He's not talking about personality. He's talking
about connections and emotions. the thousands
of their own methods and methods of death last.
They are worthy. They are valid. They are permanent,
gold, and silver -plated stones. On the other
hand, it is possible to attempt to build a church
with methods and methods, yet are started very
soon. The doctrine and the character of the life
of the builders. I saw a page of the sign of
prayer. It gave me the assurance that the people
in the corner community had never signed it yet.
Because the corner had a number of temples. One
of them was out standing on the temple to the
god Apollo. The result was just tremendous and
just amazing. And with that label, it's still
standing as a matter of fact that we're one of
our still present today, a thousand years later.
It was a temple built for us, and it did. And
when it stood on building with quality materials,
they were a part of that temple. On the other
hand, their own home is a - for that. I want
to build a problem I know is my building collapsed,
or my building quickly collapsed. But quickly
or not quickly, I was born out of new history.
Because it was going to be tested. The cremation
of the war will become evident. It is the fire
going to consume the infected without the dead
living to it. And people will walk in smoke,
nothing will be left. But never having that which
is lasting will consume the virus. Thank you.
He says, the work of the past and the success
will be rewarded. He has nothing to do with salvation.
Just follow his discoveries. He talks to you
about condemnation, about living, praying, from
God to God, who has built you well upon the salvation
of Jesus Christ. When he is writing about death,
because the country that we are not allowed to
sell anything again but the loss of water, the
loss of... There's a warning here for those who
are destroying the church. For destroying them
means to spoil, to defile it, to ruin it by their
own choice. He is speaking to those who are destroying
them by their false teachings, by their fleshly
behavior. Those who are tearing down the work
of God for the local church. The things that
are being followed. The withdrawing of God's
people is a little quick. In fact, these are
followers of the person who destroyed the army.
All of our friends just destroyed God's temple.
And it is very painful. Very painful. They are
going to the church. It's dangerous to the people
who are so involved in the destructive activity.
How they are all needed. But he summarized it
very quickly. First of all, thank God for his
service. For God willing, the president of the
7th Army is hard on getting to the ministry.
Focus on me. And by the will of God, I can have
given you the body. And the way in which God
feels is no less a temple of sin towards which
he may rise on you. That's right. And it becomes
the Lord's table today, in which the opportunity
for us to focus on you. I think that's it for
today. I'll meet you all later.