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1 Corinthians 14:15-23 Don't be Spiritually Selfish - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: May 15, 2011

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 14:16)

We should be more and more spiritually considerate of others. We are a part of a spiritual team, community and family.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 14:17)

It is possible to be too spiritually selfish.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 14:18)

I need every gift God has for me to serve Him the best I can.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 14:19)

We all need building up but, there is a time to be poured into and a time to pour out.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 14:20)

God's gifts are given by grace, not as spiritual rewards.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Rom 8:26 NLT

And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don't know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

Jude 20 NKJV

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

Phil 2:4-5 NLT

4 Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. 5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

Matt 18:19-20 NKJV

19 "Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."

1 Cor 14:20 NLT

Dear brothers and sisters, don't be childish in your understanding of these things. Be innocent as babies when it comes to evil, but be mature in understanding matters of this kind.

Rom 16:19 NKJV

For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil.

Acts 10:46-47 NKJV

46 For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Peter answered, 47 "Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?"

Acts 11:17 NKJV

If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?"

1 Cor 14:22 NLT

So you see that speaking in tongues is a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for the benefit of believers, not unbelievers.

1 Cor 14:23 NLT

Even so, if unbelievers or people who don't understand these things come into your church meeting and hear everyone speaking in an unknown language, they will think you are crazy.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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