Renovating our "house"
I had a thought for a sermon and thought I'd share part of it on my blog.
Today’s Sermon is Titled “Renovating our ‘house’”. Our house, referring to our bodies as the Temple of the Holy Spirit as stated in our text for today, 1 Corinthians 3: 5-17. The sermon hit me as I was working at the Huddle House, thinking of what I had to do that evening in preparation to the renovation of my mother-in-law’s house. It hit me that so many times we, as Christians, focus our energy on the physical things of the world without one thought to the spiritual side of our being. These days we don’t live in our houses for 50 plus years like we did in the last century. My grandfather still lives in the house he and my grandma bought and paid for in 1955, even after her passing. These days instead of staying put, we’re more often inclined to move around. With that being said, we still renovate our houses today. We make changes every 5 years, maybe more often, maybe less, but still yet, we make changes, no matter how minor. Sometimes people on the outside may not even be able to tell that you’ve changed something, but you indeed have.
When we walk in our Christian walk and let our “wiring”, “plumbing”, and our “rooms” fall apart, we need to take the initiative and “renovate” our Christian Homes. Sometimes our houses get old and need to be renovated but we’re stuck in the past and in our ways that we can’t see the forest for the trees. We are too stubborn to see our faults, our hearts have hardened and we in turn start to become stagnant and in dire need of an awakening to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 3:5-17 (NKJV)
Watering, Working, Warning
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
Don't let your "house" become rusty and stagnant. Make the renovation, the change needed to turn your life around. It is never too late. If you have never made the renovating change that comes with the acceptance of Christ as your Savior, I urge you to not waste another second. If you already have, please, take these words in and allow them to renovate the areas in your life that need to be taken care of. Ask the Lord to soften your heart and convict you of what needs changed.
Today’s Sermon is Titled “Renovating our ‘house’”. Our house, referring to our bodies as the Temple of the Holy Spirit as stated in our text for today, 1 Corinthians 3: 5-17. The sermon hit me as I was working at the Huddle House, thinking of what I had to do that evening in preparation to the renovation of my mother-in-law’s house. It hit me that so many times we, as Christians, focus our energy on the physical things of the world without one thought to the spiritual side of our being. These days we don’t live in our houses for 50 plus years like we did in the last century. My grandfather still lives in the house he and my grandma bought and paid for in 1955, even after her passing. These days instead of staying put, we’re more often inclined to move around. With that being said, we still renovate our houses today. We make changes every 5 years, maybe more often, maybe less, but still yet, we make changes, no matter how minor. Sometimes people on the outside may not even be able to tell that you’ve changed something, but you indeed have.
When we walk in our Christian walk and let our “wiring”, “plumbing”, and our “rooms” fall apart, we need to take the initiative and “renovate” our Christian Homes. Sometimes our houses get old and need to be renovated but we’re stuck in the past and in our ways that we can’t see the forest for the trees. We are too stubborn to see our faults, our hearts have hardened and we in turn start to become stagnant and in dire need of an awakening to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 3:5-17 (NKJV)
Watering, Working, Warning
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
Don't let your "house" become rusty and stagnant. Make the renovation, the change needed to turn your life around. It is never too late. If you have never made the renovating change that comes with the acceptance of Christ as your Savior, I urge you to not waste another second. If you already have, please, take these words in and allow them to renovate the areas in your life that need to be taken care of. Ask the Lord to soften your heart and convict you of what needs changed.
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