The Sunday School Lesson Working Through Church Problems by Glenda Dibert
Feb 25, 2024
Working Through Church Problems (39:17)
Referenced Scriptures: Acts 15:1-29; 1 Corinthians 3:1-8; 1 Peter 5:5-7; Revelation 3:14-22; 1 Corinthians 12:13
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Acts 15:1-29
1) Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can‘t be saved."
2) Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
3) They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
4) When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.
5) But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses."
6) The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
7) When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
8) God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
9) He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
10) Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11) But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are."
12) All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
13) After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen to me.
14) Simeon has reported how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
15) This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
16) ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tent of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up:
17) That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.
18) All his works are known to God from eternity.‘
19) "Therefore my judgment is that we don‘t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
20) but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
21) For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath."
22) Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.
23) They wrote these things by their hand: "The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: greetings.
24) Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,‘ to whom we gave no commandment;
25) it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26) men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27) We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
28) For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
29) that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
1 Corinthians 3:1-8
1) Brothers, I couldn‘t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.
2) I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren‘t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
3) for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren‘t you fleshly, and don‘t you walk in the ways of men?
4) For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren‘t you fleshly?
5) Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
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 the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
1 Peter 5:5-7
5) Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
6) Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;
7) casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
Revelation 3:14-22
14) "To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God‘s creation, says these things:
15) "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
16) So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.
17) Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;‘ and don‘t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
18) I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
19) As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
20) Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
21) He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
22) He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies."
1 Corinthians 12:13
13) For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink into one Spirit.
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