“Discipleship Empowerment Keys”!
Title: Giving of Wisdom! (Part 5) Maturity!
Key Verses: “Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase” 1 Corinthians 3:5-6
Key Background: 1 Cor 2:6-16
- But we speak the wisdom of God v6-8
- But God revealed through His Spirit v10
- But receive the Spirit who is from God v12
- But we speak and teach which the Holy Spirit teaches v13-14
Key Framework and Points: 1 Cor 3:1-8
1) Could not speak to spiritual people v1
a. But as carnal
b. But as babies
2) Could not receive solid food but only milk v2
3) Could not understand because still walking in v3
a. Envy, strife, division
4) Could not see the problem v4
a. Carnal in your thinking concerning Paul and Apollos
5) Could not understand that the Lord God is the One who gives to you v5-6
a. Paul planted and Apollos’s water, but God gave the increase
b. It in not them that is important but the One who gives the increase
6) Could not comprehend how the blesses and rewards only come from God v8

Key Words:
- carnal – bodily, fleshly, worldly C/R Rom 7:14, Rom 8:6, 2 Cor 10:4
- received – obtain, except, established C/R Ps 49:15, John 20:22, Gal 3:14, 1 John 3:22
- envy – jealousy, greedy, bitterness C/R Ps 106:16, Prov 14:30, Gal 5:26, 1 Tim 6:4
- strife – discord, conflict, rivalry, fighting C/R Ps 55:9, Rom 13:13, Gal 5:20, Phil 2:3
- division – divided, separated, battle C/R Rom 16:17, 1 Cor 1:10, 1 Cor 11:18
- planting – sowing, seeding, nurturing C/R Ps 144:12, Is 53:2, Rom 6:6
- increase – harvest, reward, growth C/R Deut 14:22, Is 40:29, Acts 6:7, Col 1:10
- maturity – development, experienced, reliable C/R (fruit) Matt7:16-17, John 4:36, Phil 4:17
Key Discipleship Principle:
The disciple must walk and proclaim the wisdom and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, getting into the Word of God and letting the Word of God get into our lives, which will give to us daily power, strength, and maturity in God by the Holy Spirit.
Key Personal Application:
We must be willing to see and hear what the Spirit of God is trying to speak to us on how we should grow as a seed and how we should plant into the lives of others around us through Christ Jesus.
Key Prayer Focus for Today: To pray that God will reveal in our heart His true wisdom and understanding of the full power of the Holy Spirit, so that we can become more mature in Christ Jesus through the Holy Spirit.
Feb 7, 2022. #683