November 08, 2021: SOAP #4358:  Job 33, 1Corinthians 1-3

SCRIPTURE:  1Corinthians (NIV) 3:1 Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ.  2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. 3 You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarrelling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men?
NOTE:  I wonder if today, Paul might have written the following verses like this:
For when one says, “I like the old songs,” and another, “I like the new songs,” are you not showing immaturity? What, after all, are the old songs? And what are the new songs? Only music styles being sung when you came to believe. The old songs were, and are a blessing to the older generation, the new songs bless the new generation, but God is blessed by them all. So, neither the old songs, nor the new songs are anything, but only the worship that blesses God.

OBSERVATION:  The church is the body of Christ.  Jesus is the head, and we are the members of the body.  The members move in coordination with the head.  The pleasure of the head is the goal of each member.  Yet our Head, cares for the members and coordinates the activities of the body for the benefit of the members.   

APPLICATION:  The church does not run on my preferences.  God’s preferences take priority.  My heart rejoices when I see young people worshipping God with their faces turned upwards and their hands raised, singing songs of worship that I do not know or have difficulty singing.  God is blessed and that makes my heart rejoice.  Sometimes their music is loud enough that I can worship with my own words and melody, and it does not bother them.  I sing words that agree with the thought of their song.     

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, you deserve the praise of all creation!  You deserve the worship of every generation!  Amen

Pastor Leon
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