God's Fellow Workers

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God's Fellow Workers

Date: Mar. 20, 2021

Passage

1 Corinthians 3:1-9 (ESV)

1 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 God’s field, God’s building.

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Daily Bread

Key Verse: 3:9

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.

1. Not spiritual, but worldly (1-4)

Paul rebuked the Corinthian Christians as unspiritual. They had fallen into divisions and argued based on whose fellowship they belonged to. Mature Christians do not do such things. There must be no quarreling and no jealousy in the body of Christ. When we do these things, we show ourselves to be worldly-not mature servants of Christ.

2. We are only servants (5-9)

The quarreling among the Corinthian Christians was all the more troublesome because they were quarreling over mere servants of Christ! Apollos, Paul, and any other Bible teacher were servants of the Risen Christ, sent to bring the word of God and point the way to Christ and his salvation. They were all part of the body of Christ-the family of God. There was no point in arguing about who their Bible teacher was. The same is true today. There should be no quarrels amongst denominations. We all belong to the body of Christ. We are all God's co-workers; God's field, God's building.

Prayer: Father, thank you for calling me into the body of Christ. Help me to be useful to your work, as your fellow worker.

One Word: We are God's co-workers

The Lamb Will Triumph

Revelation 17:1-18

Key Verse: 17:14

They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”

Today's Question

What is creation?

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