Friendships 1 Corinthian 15:1-26 Text vs Key vs. 33

Text  1 Cor 15: Cor 15:33 (TMNT)  30 And why do you think I keep risking my neck in this dangerous work? 31 I look death in the face practically every day I live. Do you think I’d do this if I wasn’t convinced of your resurrection and mine as guaranteed by the resurrected Messiah Jesus? 32 Do you think I was just trying to act heroic when I fought the wild beasts at Ephesus, hoping it wouldn’t be the end of me? Not on your life! It’s resurrection, resurrection, always resurrection, that undergirds what I do and say, the way I live. If there’s no resurrection, “We eat, we drink, the next day we die,” and that’s all there is to it. 33 But don’t fool yourselves. Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by this anti-resurrection loose talk. “Bad company ruins good manners.”

Key Verse  1 Cor 15:33 (TMNT)  33 But don’t fool yourselves. Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by this anti- resurrection loose talk. “Bad company ruins good manners.”

Friendships  Purpose: To examine how your friendships can diminish or eliminate your faith in the resurrection of Christ and lead to unacceptable behavior.  Objective: To understand that faith in the resurrection of Christ gives us the power to live for Christ now and the hope of a better life to come.

Introduction  Paul assert and establishes the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, which some of the Corinthians flatly denied, v. 12. v. 12v. 12  He begins with a summary of the gospel in V. 1 and concludes with the following:  17 And if Christ wasn’t raised, then all you’re doing is wandering about in the dark, as lost as ever.  17 And if Christ wasn’t raised, then all you’re doing is wandering about in the dark, as lost as ever.  18 It’s even worse for those who died hoping in Christ and resurrection, because they’re already in their graves.  18 It’s even worse for those who died hoping in Christ and resurrection, because they’re already in their graves.  19 If all we get out of Christ is a little inspiration for a few short years, we’re a pretty sorry lot.  19 If all we get out of Christ is a little inspiration for a few short years, we’re a pretty sorry lot.

Introduction  Hope in Christ, enables men and women to forego all the comforts and pleasures here, and embrace poverty, contempt, misery, and death for Christ sake.

Introduction  The apostles and early Christians had that hope; but how sad, disappointing and foolish was their commitment to Christ if they had been deceived and abused the world with vain and false hopes in a risen Christ.

Three Points 1.Be careful regarding the friends you choose. Don’t be naive. 2.Do not debate with an unbeliever or listen to their rhetoric. Confusion is the result. 3.Association brings about Assimilation – You can become like your friends.

Three Points 1.Be careful regarding the friends you choose. Don’t be naive.  Paul says in vs. 33 “But don’t fool yourselves.  Sometime we can literally fool ourselves in thinking that our association with certain people/individuals is not influencing our thinking and actions.  Prov. 13:20 Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces..

Three Points 2.Do not debate with an unbeliever or listen to their rhetoric. Confusion is the result.  Paul said in vs. 33 “Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by this anti-resurrection loose talk.”  2 John 1: 7 There are a lot of smooth-talking charlatans loose in the world who refuse to believe that Jesus Christ was truly human, a flesh-and-blood human being. Give them their true title: Deceiver! Antichrist!

Three Points 3.Association brings about Assimilation – You can become like your friends.  Paul said in vs. 33 “Bad company ruins good manners.”  Prov. 14:7 Escape quickly from the company of fools; they’re a waste of your time, a waste of your words.

Three Points 3.Association brings about Assimilation – You can become like your friends.  Paul said in vs. 33 “Bad company ruins good manners.”  I john 2:15-17: Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.  I john 2:15-17: Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.  16 Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him.  16 Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him.  17 The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out— but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.

Friendships  Purpose: To examine how your friendships can diminish or eliminate your faith in the resurrection of Christ and lead to unacceptable behavior.  Objective: To understand that faith in the resurrection of Christ gives us the power to live for Christ now and the hope of a better life to come.

Friendships 1 Corinthian 15:1-26 Text vs Key vs. 33