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Introduction: The yearning to compare.
Comparison can be helpful in somethings, but is usually destructive in everything else.
We compare ourselves to others: better, worse, more important, less important.
Comparison can lead you to think you are indispensable or useless; the source of ministry or the focal point of ministry.
Comparison will always lead to the lack of humility or a distortion of humility and that destroys the unity of the Church.
Being transformed = changing our minds to think of the world like Christ thinks.
This process causes our awareness of God’s will to grow.
That awareness is now applied to several areas of the Believer’s life.
Key phrases to notice: “by the grace given me” and “according to the measure of faith that God has assigned”
“measure of faith” may mean amount of faith given by God, but that lacks support textually.
It is better to understand it as God’s grace given equally to all who believe.
Paul’s authority as an apostle comes from God’s grace and our correct thinking of ourselves should be directed by God’s grace given to us.
ὑπερφρονέω = haughty, high thoughts vs.σωφρονέω = think rightly, be sane In light of God’s gift of grace/faith we can neither see ourselves as better or worse.
{So, what is the sane way to think of ourselves?}
3 big ideas: The first, we are one body of Christ.
No lone Christians, like individual coals in a fire, we continue to glow as we stay connected to the whole.
So, our identity as the body of Christ is greater than our individual identity.
1 Cor.
12:12-13
The second, we all function in different ways.
Like parts of the body. 1 Cor.
12:14-19
The third, we are tied together.
Eph.
4:11-16
{But there is a fourth way in which we believers should understand ourselves and the Church.}
“let us use them” supplied.
Romans 12:6
Romans 12:6
Romans 12:6
We must see the imperative that is implied.
Use your gift!
Romans 12:6-8
4 important things about spiritual gifts: Holy Spirit gives them 1 Cor.
12:4-11
Not everyone has the same gift.
They are given to be used in the church and for the church.
1 Peter 4:10
There are not set gifts but varieties of gifts to meet the need of the Church.
It isn’t important that you know your gift before you use it, only that you are willing to be used.
Conclusion:
Review
4 ways to think about ourselves:
No lone Christians
we all function in different ways
we are tied together.
You have at least one give so, use your gift!
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