These Things Ought Not So To Be
A. FAILURE TO CONTROL TONGUE WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT.
1. The lied, swore, gossiped, etc.
2. The same mouths praised God.
3. Were these people Christians?
B. OF COURSE: "THESE THINGS OUGHT NOT SO TO BE."
A. CORINTH AND ITS DIVISION( 1 Cor. 1:10-17 ).
1. The cause: carnality( 1 Cor. 3:1-4 ).
2. How ought things to be( Eph. 4:1-3 ).
3. We who have been baptized are one in Jesus( Gal. 3:28 ).
B. THE FORNICATOR IN CORINTH( 1 Cor. 5:1-2 ). SOLUTION( vs. 9-13 ).
C. CORINTH AND THE LORD'S SUPPER( 11:17-22; vs. 33-34 ).
D. GALATIA & JUDAISM( Gal. 1:6-7; 3:1; 4:8-11; 5:1-2 )
E. EPHESUS & FALSE TEACHERS( 2 Tim. 4:3-4 ).
1. The effect of false teachers( 1 Tim. 1:19-20; 2 Tim. 2:16-18 ).
2. How things ought to be( 2 Tim. 1:13-14; 2:1-2 ).
3. What should be done?( 2 Tim. 4:1-3; Jude 3 ).
F. LACK OF GROWTH IN THE HEBREWS( Heb. 5:11-14; 6:1-3; 2 Tim. 2:15 ).
A. MANY WORLDLY MINDED( Col. 3:1-2; 1 John 2:15-17 ).
B. LITTLE ZEAL( Acts 5:41-42; Acts 17:11; Heb. 6:11-12 ).
C. MANY ARE FACTIOUS( Titus 3:10; Phil. 2:3-4 ).
D. TOO MANY SERVE OTHER MASTERS( Matt. 6:24; 6:33 ).
E. MANY ARE DISRESPECTFUL TO GOD DURING WORSHIP.
1. Contrast then and now( Neh. 8 ).
2. Not the Jews response( vs. 13-15, 17 ).
3. We need the same reverence( Heb. 12:28-29 ).
A. ANYTHING THAT WOULD HINDER SERVICE WE WOULD GIVE UP.
B. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS OUR SOUL( Matt. 16:25 ).
C. WHAT COULD BE WORTH SACRIFICING THAT?
[1]This section can be adapted to any problem in the church. Emphasize that surely we would want things to be right, the way they ought to be, and we would be willing to all to make them right.