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We have all had parents.
Some of us are parents.
Some of us are actively living with our parents.
We have all probably been in a situation where we really needed to know what our parents wanted.
When you get a certain age, parents start saying things like: Well, do you what you think is best.
And they say it in that certain tone, which means that they would prefer that you didn’t do that.
Do you ever wish that you had a button when you needed it that would produce thought bubbles from your parent’s head, so you knew exactly what they wanted and what they expected from you in that moment?
So, valuable.
The amazing thing is that we don’t have to guess or wonder with God.
He has made it clear in the Bible.
And Paul jumps right into a core issue with the Corinthians.
Unity.
What does God want?
He wants unity for the sake of the Gospel.
Read 1 Corinthians 1:10-17
Pray
1A.
God desires Unity
God desires unity.
Do we understand how much he desires unity among his church?
The word that Paul uses for divisions here in verse 10 is schism.
In Greek it speaks of something being ripped apart.
Luke, Matthew, and Mark all use the verb of this word for when the curtain of the temple is being torn in two pieces.
So, picture what Paul is saying: urges the Corinthian church to not rip the body of Christ apart, limb from limb.
It’s pretty graphic what he is saying.
It’s painful.
And when a church decides to rip apart, it hurts.
When believers who will worship God together in eternity someday decides to rip apart, it hurts.
God desires unity.
What Paul is saying is not something new.
Over and over in John, Jesus urged his followers to love one another.
John 15:12 (NIV)
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
And then, in John 17, Jesus prays:
John 17:20–21 (NIV)
20 “My prayer is not for them alone.
I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.
May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
There are over 100 verses in the Bible about unity.
What does this unity look like?
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Centered on Christ
This unity is centered on Christ.
Read V. 10
This is the tenth time Paul mentioned Christ in the first 10 verses.
He is clear in whom our faith is.
He is clear who our focus should be on.
Not only does Paul mention Christ, but he urges the Corinthians to be united in the name of Jesus.
This should remind us of teachings on prayer.
Many people end their prayers with the phrase “in Jesus’ name.”
They pull that from Jesus in John 14
John 14:13–14 (NIV)
13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
But, this doesn’t speak of a miracle phrase.
It’s speaks of a cultural understanding.
Someone’s name carried one’s character and reputation in the public.
When you pray in someone’s name, you are saying that you are praying something in line with someone’s character, reputation, will.
When you urge someone to do something in someone’s name, you are urging them in line with someone’s character, reputation, will.
Say you are looking for a commentary.
You don’t know which one to buy, so you call me.
I make a recommendation.
I stake my character and reputation that this product will be quality.
If you watch commercials, celebrities are asked to endorse products.
They are staking their character and reputation on the quality of that product.
For Paul to plead in the name of Jesus, means that he is urging the Corinthians to accept it for the sake all that Christ is known to be and have done.
Our unity is based on Christ.
This is important to remember, because sometimes we get confused.
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Held regardless of little differences on doctrine and teachers
Our unity is based on Christ and should be maintained regardless of little differences on doctrine and teachers.
The Corinthians got confused.
Read verse 11-12
The Corinthians thought their unity was based on who taught them.
But, that doesn’t work.
Let’s do an exercise.
(split congregation up into Apollos, Paul, Peter, and Christ)
Now say who you are following all at once.
Yup, that doesn’t sound like unity.
Because it isn’t.
Let’s look at what the Corinthians were doing.
Now, what I am about to say is informed conjecture.
We don’t know if this was what the split was over, but it makes sense.
Apollos was the new teacher on the block.
He was passionate, flowery, exciting to listen to.
People like to listen to him and they could remember what he said.
Paul was the one who founded this church.
He wasn’t easy to listen to, but he was solid and carried tradition.
The older generation loved him.
Peter was the founder of the global church.
He is the one Christ placed as head.
Compared to Peter, Paul was the newcomer.
Peter got his teaching straight from Jesus, God Himself!
So, shouldn’t he be the one listened to?
But, truthfully, why get all caught up with what a human said or wrote?
Shouldn’t we follow what Jesus said alone?
So, there were the super spiritual ones who said: we are not going to spend our time on human stuff, what human’s wrote, we are followers of Christ.
Put it into our own situation.
We have those people who are followers of John Calvin and those who are followers of John Wesley, and they fight about theology, because they don’t like the other’s label.
Then you have those who say: I am a Biblicist.
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