Message Notes for May 12, 2024

Series: Under the Hood

Title: Building Upon a Solid Foundation

1 Corinthians 3 ESV But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human? 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are Gods field, God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. 16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” 20 and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” 21 So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

Notes:

What limits our spiritual growth? 

What positions us for spiritual maturity?

Build to last!

Don’t settle for our petty little kingdoms when you have inherited all things in Christ.

Family/Group Study Notes for the week of May 12, 2024

Series: Under the Hood

Title: Building Upon a Solid Foundation

* Describe the attributes of someone who is spiritually mature. What characteristics stand out? How do they shine in a crowd? How does their life make a difference?

* What are the patterns that help you grow spiritually? What are the patterns for others in your group or family? How can you encourage someone else’s spiritual growth?

* Read 1 Corinthians chapter 3. Share with each other some impactful spiritual teachers in your life. How did they help you grow? What attributes did you admire most? How do you display some of those to people you mentor in faith?

* What are the characteristics of a life that is like a field ready to be planted or a building ready to be built in faith? How have you been like that in a season of spiritual growth? What has your life been like in seasons of very little spiritual growth?

* What does it mean to be God’s temple with His Spirit in your life? How would that stand out in the world? In what ways can God’s temple in you or others be messed up by other Christians? How can we guard against that?

* Read again vs. 18-20. What does Paul mean in this passage? What does this have to do with building with precious stones vs. that which can be consumed by fire? What kind of spiritual maturity does Paul want us to have? What does this mean in raising children or mentoring others? What kind of foundation should we be laying and what kind of wisdom should we be planting into them so it is not consumed by fire?

* Gather with each other and pray for your own spiritual growth and new patterns that could be established to grow deeper and serve others in the same way.