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Servants
This week in the men’s restroom there was many shrapnel of paper towels.
I am not sure what happens in there or how it happens but when we have that many young men using the restroom it sometimes looks like the boys exploded the paper towel dispenser and it went everywhere.
I started picking up what was in there with my hands and the thought occured to me if I ever get to high up in this church that I think I can’t pick up paper towels then I need to find something else to do.
Little did I know that the Lord was preparing my heart for this message.
Scripture uses the word what instead of who.
What is Apollos and what is Paul.
The word What where we expect the word who takes the attention away from the persons of the preachers and concentrates it on their functions.
Instead of who they are it leads us to what they do.
So what do they do?
Servants: translates diakonoi, a term which originally meant a table waiter.
It was a term to generally mean lowly service
and in the New Testament this term is used to signify service that any Christian should give to God.
This term was applied to what deacons should do in the church.
Deacons were servants or table waiters.
The term stresses the lowly character of the service rendered and ridicules the tendency to make much of preachers.
Let this be a caution to us today.
We may not be in the same place as the church at Corinth with these arguments, but I believe we must be cautious to make sure that we don’t let preachers become idols we worship.
More and more I here people say I will just stay home and watch so and so on tv for my church and sometimes there is a tendency to glorify the preacher and not the message that is being preached.
Paul says here that they are servants.
They are lowly table waiters for God.
Who would set servants on pedestals?
The real work is done by God; Paul and Apollos are no more than instruments through whom he does his work.
These ministers could work only ‘as the Lord gave’ to them.
Paul planted and Apollos watered but neither made the plants grow.
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Plant from the greenhouse
Jim helped to order the seeds.
Jay helped with irrigation, Tommy and Jerry, with some electrical, mission team on putting up the greenhouse, Noah planted and Noah did some watering and others have helped to fill in.
None of these things grew this plant.
They prepared the plant to grow but God made it grow.
With Paul and Apollos, God made it grow.
The focus is stripped from Paul and Apollos and placed upon God.
The structure of these words are such that the word planted and watered are completed but God’s activity in giving growth goes on.
1 Corinthians
Neither the planter or the waterer is important.
The attention of the Corinthians should have been fixated on God, who alone does all spiritual work, and not on his unimportant servants of Paul and Apollos.
There is unity in the one planting and the one watering.
They both have one purpose.
Neither can be successful without that of the other worker.
He does not minimize the individual work of each one.
The gifts you have are to be used for the Glory of Jesus and the gifts you have should not be minimized.
I am not as important as someone else in this church because my gift is not teaching or my gift is not music or my gift is not cooking.
Each gift is used for growth in the glory of Jesus and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
God’s fellow workers, God’s field and God’s building
Ministers and those they serve are no more than God’s instruments.
All is of God and all belong to God.
1 Corinthians 3:1-
The word skilled translates sophos, wise.
1 corinthians 3:11-15
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