Will Followers of Jesus Be Judged by God?

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Will Followers of Jesus Be Judged by God?

1 Corinthians 3:1-15

“Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly – mere infants in Christ.” (v. 1)

1. Although you have the Spirit of God living within you, you are acting as though you do.

“I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.” (v. 2)

2. You are thinking that I gave you milk and not solid food because you are in your thinking.

“You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? For when one says, ‘I follow Paul,’ and another, ‘I follow Apollos,’ are you not mere human beings?” (vv. 3-4)

3. Your behavior shows that you are more in tune with the realm, than you are with the realm.

4. When you divide into packs and fight with each other, isn’t that what do?

“What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe – as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.” (vv. 5-9)

5. Why are you focusing upon the farming instead of the ?

Why are you focusing upon the construction instead of the ?

“By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care.

For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light.” (vv. 10-13a)

6. The and the that you are making are like building materials.

Some materials are than other materials.

“It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.

If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved – even though only as one escaping through the flames.” (vv. 13b-15)

7. Paul is not talking about eternal ; Paul is talking about eternal .

8. What will be rewarded is a .

a. You what Jesus believed.

b. You what Jesus taught.

c. You like Jesus lived.

d. You like Jesus loved.

Today’s “Life Hack”…

A life that is Jesus, is guaranteed to be Jesus.