Introduction:
In a church dispute? Remember your Relationship… (1 Corinthians 6:1-11)
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To OTHER BELIEVERS: we RECONCILE. (1 Cor 6:1-5)
1 Corinthians 5:12 – For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
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To THE WORLD: we REPRESENT. (1 Cor 6:6-8)
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To SIN: we RENOUNCE. (1 Cor 6:9-10)
Genesis 2:16–17 – And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Titus 2:11–12 – For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
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To JESUS CHRIST: we are RENEWED. (1 Cor 6:11)
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Well, good morning, wherever you are today.
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Welcome.
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My name is Justin.
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I'm one of the elders here at Harvest.
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And as we get started, I would just like to ask that you would pray for me to faithfully and clearly communicate God's word, and I will pray for you to have hearts to receive it.
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Amen.
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Well, today we're going to be talking about dealing with disputes, disagreements, beef, as the kids say.
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Do the kids still say beef, Pastor Jeff?
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Okay, confirmed.
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I too was young once, but as a college student, one thing my roommates and I never had beef over was where to order pizza.
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Listen, four guys in an apartment, that's a big decision.
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But we found our place.
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Piazza's Pizza, home to the largest pizza that I've ever seen, the Big Piazza.
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It was the best price-to-food ratio in the city.
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The box was so big, it didn't even fit through the door.
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You had to tilt it just to get it inside.
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It would feed all of us for a whole weekend.
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And actually, one of those weekends, a few of my friends from home came up to visit.
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And so, of course, we wanted to treat them to a big piazza.
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But there was a dispute.
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My roommates and I tried to explain to them how enormous this pizza was, but my friends kept insisting, "Look, we need to order two." And we're like, "Guys, you haven't seen this pizza." And they're like, "Guys, you don't know how hungry we are.
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We need at least two.
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Okay?
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So eventually, we gave up, and we ordered two big piazzas.
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And, you know, after dinner, I couldn't believe it, but we actually finished half of one.
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And that's when the real dispute started, because we tried to tell them we just needed one, but the problem is, according to them, we didn't eat our share, because they insisted we needed to.
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So then wild claims started flying around both sides about how many slices each side ate.
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And this morning, I'd actually like to present you with some evidence so you can draw your own conclusions.
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Exhibit A, this is the big piazza.
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And even that, I tell you, the photo doesn't do it justice.
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But I added some analysis to this photo because one member of the opposition has repeatedly stated that he alone consumed 25 slices.
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Exhibit B, this is his claim.
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And I'm telling you, I was there that night.
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If he ate that much pizza in one sitting, we were going to spend the night in Rochester General Hospital.
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Okay?
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Church.
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It was crazy.
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Now, we are close to the 20th anniversary of that meal, and the battle is still raging on.
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As far as I'm aware, this is the longest-running dispute I've ever been a part of, debating it, step-by-step, recounting what happened, and of course, laughter.
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Because this dispute, though still being disputed, It didn't threaten our friendships.
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It's a silly dispute, but I share it with you because the way that we handle disputes, that often depends on our relationship to the other side, true or false.
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When we are in a dispute, our relationship to the person or our relationship to the situation, that determines our response.
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Best friends can accuse each other of pizza malpractice for decades and be totally fine.
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But for real disputes, think about it.
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Which ones are the hardest to resolve?
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The ones within a family, or with a close friend, or someone you looked up to.
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It's far more difficult to deal with offense from someone that you know deeply than from someone that you don't know at all.
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An argument that escalates, a disagreement grows into something much more.
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Most of us have been there.
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And that can even happen here, within the church family.
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How do we deal with those disputes?
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Well, if you have your Bibles, you can open them to 1 Corinthians 6, where we're going to dig into that.
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We deal with disputes because we're going after a church unified and purified.
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Amen?
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And last week, Pastor Jeff taught how to get purified when there's sin in the church.
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When someone claims Christ, yet is living in unrepentant sin, and they refuse help, they want their sin to be accepted.
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What do you do with that person?
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The Bible says, "Let him who has done this be removed from among you." And you might think, harsh, that doesn't sound like a thing a church should do.
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Well, if you missed it, read 1 Corinthians 5 and listen to the sermon online.
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You'll find out that's what the church must do.
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Now this week, we read Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, discussing disputes within the church and just like arguments about pizza, we have to remember the relationships involved.
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So on your outline today, in a church dispute, remember your relationship.
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Number one, to other believers, we reconcile.
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So 1 Corinthians 6, are you there?
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Let's read the first verse.
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It says, "When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?" So Paul is calling out the Corinthians for dragging their disputes out into the court system.
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He says, "Church, why are you going before unrighteous, corrupt courts for this?" But please understand in this passage, Paul is talking about civil cases, not criminal cases.
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This is not about someone breaking the law and being charged with a crime, OK?
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This is about a private dispute between two parties, and they just can't figure it out.
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So they end up taking each other to court over something trivial.
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Now, we see trivial lawsuits today, don't we?
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Have you ever seen those courtroom shows where they give you the rundown up front?
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He's here suing for a $67 cell phone bill.
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You hired a lawyer and got on a plane to Los Angeles over $67.
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You're going to take someone to court over that.
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Same idea.
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You'll see the trivial part as we pick up in verse two.
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It says, "Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world?
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And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
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Do you not know that we are to judge angels?
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How much more then matters pertaining to this life?
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So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?
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I say this to your shame.
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Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers?
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We'll pause there for a moment.
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Paul is saying we should be able to resolve these disputes internally.
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He's saying we are called to judge.
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If that sounds familiar, we saw it in 1 Corinthians 5, where verse 12 says, "For what have I to do with judging outsiders?
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"Is it not those inside the church are to judge. Not judging motives, because we can't see the heart, but we are required to judge actions. We judge the fruit. Now, what does Paul mean with this "saints," meaning believers? What does he mean with this "judging the world and angels" business? Well, he's referring to the concept of the children of God reigning with Jesus Christ in his victory. True. But we're not even going to get into all that, because Paul is using it for irony.
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Like, "Oh, you who will judge the world, you who will judge angels, why are you taking all your disputes to small-claims court?" That's what they were doing.
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And actually, it was even worse than that.
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Because history tells us that in Paul's day, civil courts were completely corrupt.
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You couldn't even bring a case against someone who had a higher social standing than you.
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And when a case did make it to the courts, judges and juries would expect a kickback for a verdict in your favor, either a payment or something to help them with their standing.
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So the church in Corinth was not only suing each other, they were using the legal system to abuse or shake down fellow Christians of lower status.
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It's childish.
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And parents know, you train young children to resolve their disputes themselves, but it takes a lot of training.
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Use your words, talk it out.
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How would you feel if she said that to you?
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But until they mature, what's most often the outcome?
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Running to mom or dad to make a ruling.
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And sure, parents do need to step in sometimes, But more often than not, it's a dispute that could have been resolved with a conversation and some humility.
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But they're kids.
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They don't have the required patience or wisdom just yet.
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Paul is saying the church should be mature enough to use wisdom to resolve things internally instead of using lawsuits.
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But even if we avoid the courthouse, we can still struggle with disputes as a church.
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If a church member offends you, intentionally or unintentionally, you don't sue them, but how do you react?
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Do you let it go?
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Or if it's just too much to let it go, do you talk to them about it?
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Or do you just avoid them?
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Or how many churches have gone through gigantic disputes over decisions like the carpet color or chairs versus pews or the volume level during worship.
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Is stuff like that worth disunity with your brothers and sisters?
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Now, 1 Corinthians 6 doesn't outline practical steps that we should follow instead, but we know them from other places in scripture.
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Matthew 18, for example, tells us to go first the person directly, and if they don't listen, bring some others, and if they still don't listen, bring it before the church.
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That's the general path things should run, and some situations point us to other scripture too.
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But the charge in these verses is to judge wisely.
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But these Matthew 18 conversations or conversations going to someone for counsel, they cannot be about gossip.
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That's just as destructive as a lawsuit.
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These conversations must be done with one goal in mind, reconciliation.
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As believers, we ask for forgiveness and forgive each other in order to be reconciled.
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That's who we are.
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That's what God's family does.
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By His grace, some of us grew up in God-fearing homes that demonstrated that's how a family works.
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But many of us either grew up in, or we've seen, family situations where that's not the case, where there is no repentance, no forgiveness, no reconciliation.
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might think, "Yeah, I've seen bitterness and I've seen grudges in a family, but reconciliation, forgiving one another? I've never seen a family like that." And that's why, as a church, we must show the world that in Christ, we are different.
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We have to show them what God's family is like.
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which is why, number two on your outline, in a church dispute, remember your relationship, number two, to the world we represent. So as believers, what does our relationship to the world have to do with our disputes? Well, rewind to the end of verse five.
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It says, "Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers? But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?" Before unbelievers. That's similar to what we saw back in verse 1, before the unrighteous.
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We talked about the Corinthians lacking godly wisdom, but there's another problem.
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taking all these disputes out into the world, what does that do to our witness?
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If the city of Corinth always saw the church in scandal or suing each other, what did that communicate to them about the gospel message? We have to remember that part of our relationship to the world is that Jesus called us to represent him to the world, re-present Jesus to the world.
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Now, listen, I'm not saying we should be concerned about image in the sense that we are "marketing" church and reality is another thing.
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No.
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Our concern is authentically following Jesus.
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We want people to see what it looks like to be transformed by Christ and living in a Christ-centered community.
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It's not about projecting some image.
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It's about our identity.
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Our witness is being like Jesus and telling people about him.
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So infighting, legal battles, manipulation, that's what everybody else does.
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God's people are called to be different.
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If we act like the world, we've already lost.
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like it says in verse 7. It says, "To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?
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But you yourselves wrong and defraud, even your own brothers." Now again, let me emphasize that we are not talking about criminal cases. But Paul is saying it it would be better to just lose your money in the dispute than sue your church brother over these petty issues.
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Or again, maybe you're not actually going to court, but you still might need to suffer wrong.
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What do I mean?
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Have you ever been in a dispute where maybe you're 10 percent wrong and the other person is 90 percent wrong?
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Sometimes we still want to justify ourselves and bang the table about how less wrong we were.
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What about humbling yourself?
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What about taking the hit and saying, "You know, you're right.
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"I was wrong.
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"Will you please forgive me?" Our natural reaction is, "Why should I humble myself when they're wrong too?" Because of who we represent.
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Jesus is our example of humility, and we are that example to those around us.
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So to claim Christ and act like Paul describes here is a failure in our job as representatives.
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And you know, I talked a little bit about pizza earlier, but you know what else I like?
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Frozen bananas.
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Well, I should be specific, chocolate-covered frozen bananas, delicious.
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One time, I went into an ice cream shop where I had gotten one before, but I didn't see any in the case in the front.
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So I thought, "Oh, they might have some in the back in the freezer." So I asked the woman working, "Do you have any frozen bananas?" And my friends who were there still quote her answer to me because she said, "Does it look like we have any frozen bananas?" Okay.
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I said, "Thank you." And I walked out without any dessert.
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Now, do you think the owner of the ice cream shop felt like she represented the store well that day?
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No.
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Just like employees represent their workplace, as a body of believers, we represent Christ.
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If you claim Christ, you are his representative, period.
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In a world where everyone's flying off the handle at every disagreement, screaming or storming out of every issue, imagine the witness of a church that works through things together in love, using the highest authority of our life, God's word, to untangle the issue.
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No, it's not always easy, but the world will look and say, "What's going on over there?
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"I wanna be a part of that." But we have to step back and review for a moment, because I don't want anyone to walk away with the wrong idea.
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So far, we've talked about resolving disputes in-house, not dragging disagreements to the court, and how we are presenting ourselves to the world.
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Those concepts could be sinfully twisted into an excuse to cover up sin. Now, we don't need to review all the sickening things that have been covered up by churches all over the world. Sinful men have tried to hide their sin, tried to hide abuse by saying things like, "Let's keep this in house." No, they are wrong.
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This passage is not about covering things up or ignoring sin.
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Abuse, in court or otherwise, is sin.
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Covering up sin is sin.
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A forced reconciliation is a false reconciliation.
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Ignoring sin for the sake of the church's witness is a false witness.
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If someone's sinful act is a criminal act, then the correct response is to hand them over to the authorities.
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And that's God's idea, not mine.
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See Romans 13.
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I just want to be crystal clear.
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Paul, just like in chapter 5, is calling for the opposite of a cover-up.
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He's calling us to recognize and remove flagrant, unrepentant sin.
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And that distinction is important because we all sin.
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It's not like, "Oh, I was coveting my friend's car yesterday, and last week, last week, I had a lustful thought.
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Guess I have to leave Harvest Bible Chapel." No, of course all of us struggle with sin, but we commit that as a family, we're here to walk with each other in becoming purified by our Lord.
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We need each other's support and encouragement as each one of us turns away from our sin daily to become more like Jesus Christ. In fact, in him, we must renounce any relationship that we have to sin. Point number three on your outline today. In a church dispute, remember your relationship, Number three, to sin.
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We renounce.
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Let's pick up in verse nine.
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It says, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous "will not inherit the kingdom of God?
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"Do not be deceived.
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"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." Now, reading this after the previous section can seem jarring. Paul is talking about disputes, the courts, and then he drops into this list of sins for which someone will not enter heaven. Now, understand that Paul is talking about a lifestyle of unrepentant, continual sin. Committing one of these sins, or any sin in isolation, does not automatically banish a person from heaven if that person repents of their sin and believes in the work of Jesus for their forgiveness. But what is the connection here to verses one to eight? Well, two things. First, verse one asked if believers dare take their case before the unrighteous. And then here it says, "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?" Paul is saying, Church, you should resolve your disputes instead of bringing them before people who are living in reckless sin for them to decide. You're like, "Don't worry, I keep beef out of the legal system." Okay, well, do you bring your church disputes before unbelieving friends or family? Do you complain about the church or people in the church at work or on social media, that is bringing your case before the unrighteous for them to judge.
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Now, as for the second connection, recall the underhanded dealings of these civil courts.
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People in the church were using their influence and status to manipulate other Christians via lawsuits to take advantage of their own brothers for their gain. That sin belongs in this list too. See, this isn't a random list of sinfulness. This list is about not being content and reaching out of bounds to get more. And really, that goes all the way back to the first sin, doesn't it? Back in Genesis, God told Adam, "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, 'You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.'" But Adam and Eve ultimately were not content with that.
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And so they reached outside the bounds that God created.
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That's the same root as every sin in this list.
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God says that sexual intimacy is between one man and one woman within the covenant of marriage.
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But people say, "I'm not content with that." be it adultery, homosexuality, or any form of sexual immorality, instead of receiving God's gift as He intended, they reach outside God's design to take something else or idolatry.
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God says we should worship Him and only Him, but people say, "I'm not content with that." They worship money, success, celebrity. They reach outside of what they know in their heart to worship anything but God. What about drunkards or revilers, people who abuse alcohol or verbally abuse others? God set a boundary around drunkenness and a boundary on our speech, but they say, "I'm not content with that.
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I will drink how I want and I'll say what I want." Or thieves, the greedy, swindlers, whatever they have, they say, "I'm not content with that.
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I want more, and I'm willing to reach out and take it, even if it means stealing from my own family." And that's where the Corinthian church was, reaching out of bounds to take from their brothers and sisters.
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Paul says their sin is the same as these.
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And if you live a life of unrepentant, habitual sin, a life reaching out of bounds, you will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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So, church, we have to ask ourselves, What should our relationship be to sin?
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Titus 2.11 says, "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age." We must renounce sin.
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That's our relationship. Not embracing it, not excusing it, but rejecting it, turning away, running away. How do we do that? Well, praise the Lord, we are about to read some of the most incredible words in scripture on that topic. Our last point today. You must remember your relationship, number four, to Jesus Christ. We are renewed. 1st Corinthians chapter 6 verse 11, it says, "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 the Spirit of our God. And such were some of you." Some translations say, "And this is what some of you used to be." Paul is saying, "You used to do these things, but God sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to take the punishment for your sin upon himself. He bore that sin in his death on the cross, and then conquering death, rose And this verse applies to anyone who will repent and believe in him as their savior.
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Now, you might think that stuff that you used to do is too much to overcome.
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You're afraid Jesus knows who you were.
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Well, Jesus knows your whole story and he still invites you into a relationship with him.
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He wants to release you from your sin and bring you true contentment.
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So repent and believe.
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As it says here, if you believe, you were washed clean.
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Sin from your past, present, and future has been washed away in the name of Jesus.
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You were sanctified, meaning you were set apart as holy, and you are being made holy.
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God is shaping you into what he already calls you.
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and you were justified, meaning the charges of sin against you have been dropped.
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You're innocent.
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That lifestyle of unrepentant sin, that's who you used to be.
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You are made new.
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In a dispute, you must remember your relationship with Jesus Christ because that relationship determines all other relationships.
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But some might think, if I have that relationship with Christ, And if I'm made new, why do I still sin?
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Why do we still have disputes and disagreements and fights?
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I read one scholar put it this way.
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Imagine, I know this is gonna be hard to believe, that you were caught in a snowstorm.
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Shouldn't be too hard.
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You're covered in snow, totally freezing, and you feel like you might not make it.
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But somehow, you crawl and you make it back to your house, and you get inside.
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The room is warm.
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Maybe a fireplace is going.
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You're saved!
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But even though you're safe, standing in the warmth, it's going to take some time for the ice in your pockets to thaw out.
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You see the picture.
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You are secure in Christ, but not all of your sin has melted away yet.
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That won't be totally complete until we reach heaven.
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Until then, through our relationship with Christ, we are safe indoors being justified, and we're thawing out being sanctified at the same time.
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So as we close, I hope you see how and why the church must deal with disputes in a godly way.
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We should be able to handle that stuff through Jesus.
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Next time you're in a dispute, step back and remember, this is my brother or sister in Christ.
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My goal is to be reconciled with them.
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Remember that we are representing Christ to the world.
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The way that we interact should reflect our Lord, showing the world that Jesus works.
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Remember that we've renounced sin, and we lovingly help each other do that.
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We don't manipulate others.
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We don't reach out of bounds, grabbing for more.
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That's not who we are.
33:58-33:59
Because who are we?
34:01-35:00
that in Jesus we are a people renewed. We don't serve sin or our selfish desires anymore. Together, unified and purified, we serve our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Let's pray together. Lord God, I thank you for your word. God, I thank you for the church, and I pray God that when we face disputes, we would face with godly wisdom and character, love and patience, God, that we may be reconciled, that we may be a light into the world around us. We pray and ask for your mercy, God, upon us now and we ask for you to guide us in these matters. Let us be a church unified and purified for your glory, Lord God. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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Amen.
Small Group Discussion
Read 1 Corinthians 6:1-11
What was your big take-away from this passage / message?
How should disputes within the church family be resolved? How does that process differ for disputes with unbelievers?
How and why must the church faithfully guard its witness to the world?
Paul says those listed in 1 Cor. 6:9-10 will not inherit the kingdom of God. What does he mean by that?
If we are made new in Jesus Christ, why do we still struggle with sin? How can we come alongside each other as believers in that struggle?
Breakout
Pray for one another.