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Might need to cut some of this into.
A bunch of guys from the church and a few other friends came over to our house about a year ago to help with some demolition.
The house we bought was in really sad shape and needed some major work done.
So we took the opportunity to do some remodeling at the same time.
There was a wall that spanned the full width of the house, front to back.
I’d already been up in the rafters and had determined the wall was not a load bearing wall.
That means that I can remove the wall without the roof caving in.
So, I told the guys to take it out, but a few of them disagreed with me.
They said, no way, if we take that wall the roof will fall in.
Now, I could have stuck to my guns and said to take it out.
I could have settled the dispute that way.
It was my house and my problem.
But, I didn’t do that.
I don’t usually do that.
So, I called my buddy Kurt who is a building inspector and a really great carpenter.
And he came over to take a look.
He got up in the rafters and took a look and agreed with me.
And then he coached the guys to pull the wall out.
I was fortunate to have a friend who was an expert that I could call for that situation.
But, we don’t always go to the appropriate people when we have problems.
Sometimes I’m working on computer code and it starts to make my head spin, so I’ll sit and try to talk to Jami about it.
And it’s just not her thing.
She can’t really help me settle the issue.
Well ,that’s a problem we find in the church and in living the Christian life.
Sometimes we seek out unspiritual answers to spiritual problems.
We appeal to an inferior authority, and needlessly.
In our text today, we see that the church in the city of Corinth was going to the local courts to settle disputes between believers in the church.
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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And Paul almost seems confused by this.
He writes, “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?”
He says that people who identify with their immorality will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Notice, for Paul this is a Kingdom issue.
No longer are they citizens of Corinth, but citizens of God’s Kingdom.
If you know Jesus as Lord, then you belong to God’s Kingdom, not the Kingdom of the United States, not the Kingdom of California.
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We throw the term ‘Lord’ around a lot in the church, so much that it starts to lose it’s meaning.
The biblical word Lord means the lord of a state or a nation.
It’s like a casual term for a governor or king.
And that is what we mean when we say, ‘Lord Jesus.’
He’s not just master of the house; he’s King of God’s people who reigns over God’s Kingdom.
So, where’s your loyalty?
Is your loyalty to the United States of America?
Is it to another country?
Or do you pledge allegiance to Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God who sits on the throne in heaven, ruling over His Kingdom here on earth?
Is your loyalty to the United States of Americ?
Or do you pledge allegiance to the Jesus Christ?
Intro: Verse 9-11.
We cannot go to the Kingdom of the World to solve Kingdom of God issues.
Notice, Paul puts the immoral people in the Kingdom of the world, and he puts the righteous people, those who obey Jesus as Lord, in the Kingdom of God.
But, lest we be arrogant, he reminds us that we were once the immoral people of the world.
He writes,
And such were some of you.
But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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I mean, what can you say?
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I’m an American and I do it this way!
You know that’s not a reasonable excuse.
Paul says that we were washed.
We are cleansed from our immorality.
Our status as immoral people is gone.
He says we were sanctified.
Sanctified means ‘set apart.’
When we decided to follow Jesus as King, we were set apart from the world and set into the Kingdom of God.
Our citizenship in this world was revoked, because we have a new sovereign, Jesus.
Intro: Verse 9-11.
We cannot go to the Kingdom of the World to solve Kingdom of God issues.
And we were justified.
Justified means, ‘Just as is if I’d never sinned.’
Justification means that God has chosen not see our former citizenship in the Kingdom of the World as rebellion against God’s Kingdom.
Justification means a clean slate.
It’s political amnesty.
All the things of the former life have been erased.
Jesus made that happen by the power of the Spirit of God.
OK, so what should we do when we have disputes as Christians?
Should we…
I want to be clear, these are disputes between two or more Christians, not disputes between Christians and people in the world.
So, the first thing to ask is, should we…
Let the world settle disputes?
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Peter Coleman, director of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, says this:
Kids fight over many of the same things adults do…They fight over ownership of stuff, over envy and jealousy, over status and pecking order…over disappointed expectations in their relationship, over perceived incidents of unfairness or injustice, and because they are tired or bored and just feel like fighting.
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It’s easy to see how little kids fight this way, but honestly, most disputes that bigger kids, teens, and adults have fall into these same categories.
We fight over stuff, because it’s mine, or because we want it or we like it.
We may fight for something we don’t even care about because of jealousy or because we feel empowered by winning.
Sometimes we fight because, well, it’s just not fair.
And sometimes, we have disputes because deep down inside we’re just cranky 2-year olds who are bored and tired.
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This is interesting to me, because when adults have conflicts, we want to settle it by making things fair and right.
We want to hear both sides of the story and we want to figure out whose at fault.
But—have you ever noticed this?—we tend to deal with kids differently.
At least most parents do.
When we deal with kids we don’t care so much who is right or wrong.
We care that they fight in the first place.
When our kids fight, we don’t usually hold a trial to find out who was wronged.
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