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Title: What would you give up for Christ?


1
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • 1 Corinthians 813 (NKJV) - Therefore, if food
    makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat
    meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

2
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • Earlier we saw the unselfish heart of love but
    now we will see the relentless attacks of
    Pauls critics.

3
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • Earlier we saw the unselfish heart of love but
    now we will see the relentless attacks of
    Pauls critics.
  • Some were trying to destroy Pauls influence out
    of a spirit of envy. (1 Cor 34-5)

4
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • 1 Corinthians 34-5 (NKJV) - For when one says,
    I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos,
    are you not carnal? 5 Who then is Paul, and who
    is Apollos, but ministers through whom you
    believed, as the Lord gave to each one?

5
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • In their attempt to attack Paul they were
    gathering any and all ammunition in an attempt
    to destroy his influence. (1 Cor 43-5)

6
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • 1 Corinthians 43-5 (NKJV) - But with me it is a
    very small thing that I should be judged by you
    or by a human court. In fact, I do not even judge
    myself. 4 For I know of nothing against myself,
    yet I am not justified by this but He who judges
    me is the Lord.

7
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until
    the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the
    hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels
    of the hearts. Then each ones praise will come
    from God.

8
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • We need the proper kind of criticism. We may
    even gain from unfair criticism.

9
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • We need the proper kind of criticism. We may
    even gain from unfair criticism.
  • Paul knew that He too could go astray and thus
    needed rebuke! (1 Cor 927)

10
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • 1 Corinthians 927 (NKJV) - But I discipline my
    body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I
    have preached to others, I myself should become
    disqualified.

11
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • He wanted to see himself as God did and not be
    moved by men. (Gal 110)

12
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • Galatians 110 (NKJV) - For do I now persuade
    men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I
    still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant
    of Christ.

13
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • How does one respond to the hyper-critical?

14
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • How does one respond to the hyper-critical?
  • Those caught up in this are putting their souls
    at risk!

15
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • How does one respond to the hyper-critical?
  • Those caught up in this are putting their souls
    at risk!
  • There would be two kinds involved in this
    followers and leaders.

16
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • The followers could be helped to see their wrong.

17
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • The followers could be helped to see their wrong.
  • The leaders likely would need another approach.
    (Titus 310)

18
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • Titus 310 (NKJV) - Reject a divisive man after
    the first and second admonition,

19
"What would you give up for Christ?"
  • Paul's answer was by his life. He invited his
    critics to do something they would never do in
    their present frame of mind, that is join him in
    a selfless sacrifice!

20
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • 1 Corinthians 91-5 (NKJV) - Am I not an
    apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus
    Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
    2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless
    I am to you. For you are the seal of my
    apostleship in the Lord. 3 My defense to those
    who examine me is this 4 Do we have no right to
    eat and drink?

21
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • 5 Do we have no right to take along a believing
    wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers
    of the Lord, and Cephas?

22
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Four questions with an obvious answer.

23
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Four questions with an obvious answer.
  • Am I not an Apostle? (91 2 Cor 1212)

24
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • 2 Corinthians 1212 (NKJV) - Truly the signs of
    an apostle were accomplished among you with all
    perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty
    deeds.

25
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • If no, then what did that make of the
    Corinthians? (92)

26
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • If no, then what did that make of the
    Corinthians? (92)
  • Consistency will be a major problem for these
    critics.

27
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • If no, then what did that make of the
    Corinthians? (92)
  • Consistency will be a major problem for these
    critics.
  • Am I not free? (91 John 832)

28
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • John 832 (NKJV) - And you shall know the truth,
    and the truth shall make you free.

29
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • We are free also from the rules and whims of men!
    (431 Pt 415)

30
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • 1 Corinthians 43 (NKJV) - But with me it is a
    very small thing that I should be judged by you
    or by a human court. In fact, I do not even judge
    myself.

31
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • 1 Peter 415 (NKJV) - But let none of you suffer
    as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a
    busybody in other peoples matters.

32
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Those who intimidate with their tongues are
    looking for slaves to own.

33
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?

34
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?
  • This was a requirement to be an apostle. (Acts
    122, 25-26)

35
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Acts 122 (NKJV) - beginning from the baptism of
    John to that day when He was taken up from us,
    one of these must become a witness with us of His
    resurrection.

36
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Acts 125-26 (NKJV) - to take part in this
    ministry and apostleship from which Judas by
    transgression fell, that he might go to his own
    place. 26And they cast their lots, and the lot
    fell on Matthias. And he was numbered with the
    eleven apostles.

37
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Are you not my work in the Lord? (1 Cor 415)

38
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • 1 Corinthians 415 (NKJV) - For though you might
    have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you
    do not have many fathers for in Christ Jesus I
    have begotten you through the gospel.

39
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • He appeals to their memory. Pauls past work and
    example was powerful.

40
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • The inconsistency of the critics scream out at
    them. Their very words discredits themselves.
    Sadly some run on emotion rather than reason.

41
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • The inconsistency of the critics scream out at
    them. Their very words discredits themselves.
    Sadly some run on emotion rather than reason.
  • Questions about the rights of an apostle.

42
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • The inconsistency of the critics scream out at
    them. Their very words discredits themselves.
    Sadly some run on emotion rather than reason.
  • Questions about the rights of an apostle.
  • This was a reasoned defense that any could
    examine. No emotional twisted whims of a
    disgruntled Christian! (1 Cor 93 1 Peter 315)

43
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • 1 Corinthians 93 (NKJV) - My defense to those
    who examine me is this

44
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • 1 Peter 315 (NKJV) - But sanctify the Lord God
    in your hearts, and always be ready to give a
    defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the
    hope that is in you, with meekness and fear

45
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • These questions are common to the rights of all
    Christians! Some in jealousy and envy put others
    to standards they would never touch.

46
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • These questions are common to the rights of all
    Christians! Some in jealousy and envy put others
    to standards they would never touch.
  • "Do we have no right to eat and drink?" (94)

47
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • 1 Corinthians 94 (NKJV) - Do we have no right
    to eat and drink?

48
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Note the critics in the ministry of Christ. (Luke
    733-35)

49
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Luke 733-35 (NKJV) - For John the Baptist came
    neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you
    say, He has a demon. 34 The Son of Man has come
    eating and drinking, and you say, Look, a
    glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax
    collectors and sinners! 35 But wisdom is
    justified by all her children.

50
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • In this case it did not matter what Christ did!

51
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Do we have no right to take along a believing
    wife, as do also the other apostles, the
    brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?" (95)

52
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Was Peter married? He had a mother in law.
    (Matthew 814)

53
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Matthew 814 (NKJV) - Now when Jesus had come
    into Peters house, He saw his wifes mother
    lying sick with a fever.

54
The Proof and the Rights of an Apostle. (91-5)
  • Many critics are isolated and do not welcome
    serious thought about their charges. They choose
    to only be with those who agree with them.

55
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • Questions about the support of an Apostle.
    (96-13)

56
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • 1 Corinthians 96-13 (NKJV) - Or is it only
    Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from
    working? 7Who ever goes to war at his own
    expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat
    of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not
    drink of the milk of the flock?

57
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • 8 Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does
    not the law say the same also? 9 For it is
    written in the law of Moses, You shall not
    muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. Is
    it oxen God is concerned about? 10 Or does He say
    it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no
    doubt, this is written, that he who plows should
    plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should
    be partaker of his hope.

58
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • 11 If we have sown spiritual things for you, is
    it a great thing if we reap your material things?
    12 If others are partakers of this right over
    you, are we not even more? Nevertheless we have
    not used this right, but endure all things lest
    we hinder the gospel of Christ.

59
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • 13 Do you not know that those who minister the
    holy things eat of the things of the temple, and
    those who serve at the altar partake of the
    offerings of the altar?

60
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • (1.) Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no
    right to refrain from working?

61
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • (1.) Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no
    right to refrain from working?
  • (2.) Who ever goes to war at his own expense?

62
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • (3.) Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of
    its fruit?

63
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • (3.) Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of
    its fruit?
  • (4.) Or who tends a flock and does not drink of
    the milk of the flock?

64
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • (3.) Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of
    its fruit?
  • (4.) Or who tends a flock and does not drink of
    the milk of the flock?
  • (5.) Do I say these things as a mere man?

65
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • (3.) Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of
    its fruit?
  • (4.) Or who tends a flock and does not drink of
    the milk of the flock?
  • (5.) Do I say these things as a mere man?
  • (6.) Or does not the law say the same also?

66
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • (7.) For it is written in the law of Moses, "You
    shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the
    grain." Is it oxen God is concerned about?

67
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • (7.) For it is written in the law of Moses, "You
    shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the
    grain." Is it oxen God is concerned about?
  • (8.) Or does He say it altogether for our sakes?
    For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that he
    who plows should plow in hope, and he who
    threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

68
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • (9.) If we have sown spiritual things for you,
    is it a great thing if we reap your material
    things?

69
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • (9.) If we have sown spiritual things for you,
    is it a great thing if we reap your material
    things?
  • (10.) If others are partakers of this right over
    you, are we not even more? Nevertheless we have
    not used this right, but endure all things lest
    we hinder the gospel of Christ.

70
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • (11.) Do you not know that those who minister the
    holy things eat of the things of the temple, and
    those who serve at the altar partake of the
    offerings of the altar?

71
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • Paul had a right to refuse support in order to
    silence his critics! (914-18)

72
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • 1 Corinthians 914-18 (NKJV) - Even so the Lord
    has commanded that those who preach the gospel
    should live from the gospel. 15 But I have used
    none of these things, nor have I written these
    things that it should be done so to me for it
    would be better for me to die than that anyone
    should make my boasting void.

73
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to
    boast of, for necessity is laid upon me yes, woe
    is me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 For if I
    do this willingly, I have a reward but if
    against my will, I have been entrusted with a
    stewardship. 18 What is my reward then? That when
    I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of
    Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my
    authority in the gospel.

74
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • Your life may silence your critics before
    reasonable men.

75
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • Your life may silence your critics before
    reasonable men.
  • Paul wanted his critics to attempt to follow him
    in terms of sacrifice and service! The carnal man
    would never do this. (Romans 114-15)

76
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • Romans 114-15 (NKJV) - I am a debtor both to
    Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to
    unwise. 15So, as much as is in me, I am ready to
    preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.

77
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • The servant of Christ has no time for pettiness
    and hyper-critical judging.

78
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • The servant of Christ has no time for pettiness
    and hyper-critical judging.
  • He is looking at the Lord. (2 Cor 118-12)

79
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • 2 Corinthians 118-12 (NKJV) - I robbed other
    churches, taking wages from them to minister to
    you. 9And when I was present with you, and in
    need, I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked
    the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied.
    And in everything I kept myself from being
    burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself.

80
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall
    stop me from this boasting in the regions of
    Achaia. 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God
    knows! 12 But what I do, I will also continue to
    do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those
    who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as
    we are in the things of which they boast.

81
Arguments about the right to receive support and
to refuse support (96-18)
  • Paul was involved with building men, not personal
    kingdoms.

82
The Sacrifices of Paul in order to see the
Gospel Spread. (919-23)
  • 1 Corinthians 919-23 (NKJV) - For though I am
    free from all men, I have made myself a servant
    to all, that I might win the more 20 and to the
    Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews to
    those who are under the law, as under the law,
    that I might win those who are under the law

83
The Sacrifices of Paul in order to see the
Gospel Spread. (919-23)
  • 21 to those who are without law, as without law
    (not being without law toward God, but under law
    toward Christ), that I might win those who are
    without law 22 to the weak I became as weak,
    that I might win the weak. I have become all
    things to all men, that I might by all means save
    some. 23 Now this I do for the gospels sake,
    that I may be partaker of it with you.

84
The Sacrifices of Paul in order to see the
Gospel Spread. (919-23)
  • Many do not have the all consuming desire to see
    others brought to the Lord in maturity.
    (Romans 151)

85
The Sacrifices of Paul in order to see the
Gospel Spread. (919-23)
  • Romans 151 (NKJV) 1We then who are strong ought
    to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to
    please ourselves.

86
The Sacrifices of Paul in order to see the
Gospel Spread. (919-23)
  • What did these things involve Paul giving up?

87
The Sacrifices of Paul in order to see the
Gospel Spread. (919-23)
  • What are the limits of these kind of compromises?
    (Acts 163Gal 23-5)

88
The Sacrifices of Paul in order to see the
Gospel Spread. (919-23)
  • Acts 163 (NKJV) - Paul wanted to have him go on
    with him. And he took him and circumcised him
    because of the Jews who were in that region, for
    they all knew that his father was Greek.

89
The Sacrifices of Paul in order to see the
Gospel Spread. (919-23)
  • Galatians 23-5 (NKJV) - Yet not even Titus who
    was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be
    circumcised. 4And this occurred because of false
    brethren secretly brought in (who came in by
    stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in
    Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into
    bondage),

90
The Sacrifices of Paul in order to see the
Gospel Spread. (919-23)
  • to whom we did not yield submission even for an
    hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue
    with you.

91
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • 1 Corinthians 924-27 (NKJV) - Do you not know
    that those who run in a race all run, but one
    receives the prize? Run in such a way that you
    may obtain it. 25 And everyone who competes for
    the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do
    it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an
    imperishable crown.

92
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • 26 Therefore I run thus not with uncertainty.
    Thus I fight not as one who beats the air. 27
    But I discipline my body and bring it into
    subjection, lest, when I have preached to others,
    I myself should become disqualified.

93
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • Do you want the crown only God can Give? (2 Tim
    48 Jas 112 Rev 210)

94
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • 2 Timothy 48 (NKJV) - Finally, there is laid up
    for me the crown of righteousness, which the
    Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on
    that Day, and not to me only but also to all who
    have loved His appearing.

95
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • James 112 (NKJV) - Blessed is the man who
    endures temptation for when he has been
    approved, he will receive the crown of life which
    the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

96
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • Revelation 210 (NKJV) - Do not fear any of
    those things which you are about to suffer.
    Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you
    into prison, that you may be tested, and you will
    have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until
    death, and I will give you the crown of life.

97
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • Paul poured out his very life for others. (Phil
    217)

98
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • Philippians 217 (NKJV) 17Yes, and if I am being
    poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice
    and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice
    with you all.

99
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • This was a labor of joy!

100
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • This was a labor of joy!
  • Are there things you need to give up for the
    cause of Christ? You will not regret it.

101
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • This was a labor of joy!
  • Are there things you need to give up for the
    cause of Christ? You will not regret it.
  • Some may need to begin with their hearts and then
    their tongues. (Jas 31-5)

102
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • James 31-5 (NKJV) - My brethren, let not many
    of you become teachers, knowing that we shall
    receive a stricter judgment. 2 For we all stumble
    in many things. If anyone does not stumble in
    word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle
    the whole body. 3 Indeed, we put bits in horses
    mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their
    whole body.

103
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • 4 Look also at ships although they are so large
    and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned
    by a very small rudder wherever the pilot
    desires. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member
    and boasts great things.

104
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • See how great a forest a little fire kindles!

105
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • See how great a forest a little fire kindles!
  • Some need to change their dress, their habits,
    their hobbies and schedules!

106
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • The Christian life is a God centered life.

107
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • The Christian life is a God centered life.
  • When based upon God, the whims of man do not stop
    you from your work.

108
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • The Christian life is a God centered life.
  • When based upon God, the whims of man do not stop
    you from your work.
  • Because of the teaching of Gods Spirit, we deny
    the flesh. (Gal 517 Rom 87)

109
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • Galatians 517 (NKJV) - For the flesh lusts
    against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the
    flesh and these are contrary to one another, so
    that you do not do the things that you wish.

110
The Christian's Race --- A Single Minded Devotion
(924-27)
  • Romans 87 (NKJV) - Because the carnal mind is
    enmity against God for it is not subject to the
    law of God, nor indeed can be.
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