2. A Greenhouse

3. The Greenhouse

4. Acts 18:1-3 (NIV)
1 After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,
3 and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.…

5. Acts 18:4 (NIV)
4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

6. 1Corinthians 10:25-26 (NIV)
25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, 26 for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”

7. 1Corinthians 10:27-28 (NIV)
27 If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience.
28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,”,” then do not eat it…

8. Don’t we have a right to food and drink?
1 Corinthians 9 (NIV)
Don’t we have a right to food and drink?

9. Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
1 Corinthians 9:7 (NIV)
Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
Reason #1:
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk?

11. Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
1 Corinthians 9:9-10 (NIV)
Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
Reason #2:
9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

12. Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
1 Corinthians 9:9-10 (NIV)
Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
Reason #2:
10 Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.

14. Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
1 Corinthians 9:12 (NIV)
Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
Reason #3:
12 If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more?

15. Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
1 Corinthians 9:13 (NIV)
Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
Reason #4:
13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and those those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?

16. Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
1 Corinthians 9:14 (NIV)
Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
Reason #5:
14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

17. 1Corinthians 9:12b (NIV)
“But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.”

18. 1 Corinthians 9:12 (NIV) 3 Reasons why Paul gave up his rights:
1. Church Start

19. 1 Corinthians 9:12 (NIV) 3 Reasons why Paul gave up his rights:
Church Start
Patronage

20. 1 Corinthians 9:12 (NIV) 3 Reasons why Paul gave up his rights:
Church Start
Patronage
Grace Giving God

21. 1 Corinthians 9:12 (NIV) 3 Reasons why Paul gave up his rights:
Church Start
Patronage
Grace Giving God
Paul’s Motives