Sunday Morning 7-29-12 1 Corinthians 14:1-26

1. You Build Me Up
1 Corinthians 14:1-26
Tallapoosa church of Christ
Sunday Evening, July 29, 2012

2. What are our Goals?

3. Desire Excellence for the Church
1 Corinthians 14:1-3 NKJV (1) Pursue
love, and desire spiritual gifts, but
especially that you may prophesy. (2)
For he who speaks in a tongue does not
speak to men but to God, for no one
understands him; however, in the spirit
he speaks mysteries. (3) But he who
prophesies speaks edification and
exhortation and comfort to men.

4. Desire Excellence for the Church
1 Corinthians 12:28 NKJV (28) And
God has appointed these in the church:
first apostles, second prophets, third
teachers, after that miracles, then gifts
of healings, helps, administrations,
varieties of tongues.

5. Desire Excellence for the Church
Purpose of Miracles
Mark 16:20 NKJV And they went out and
preached everywhere, the Lord working
with them and confirming the word through
the accompanying signs. Amen.

6. Desire Excellence for the Church
Purpose of Miracles
Hebrews 2:2-4 NKJV For if the word spoken through
angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and
disobedience received a just reward, (3) how shall
we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at
the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was
confirmed to us by those who heard Him, (4) God
also bearing witness both with signs and wonders,
with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit,
according to His own will?

7. Desire Excellence for the Church
Better to Build Up
1 Corinthians 14:4-5 NKJV (4) He who speaks in a
tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies
the church. (5) I wish you all spoke with tongues,
but even more that you prophesied; for he who
prophesies is greater than he who speaks with
tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church
may receive edification.

8. Desire Excellence for the Church
Better to Build Up
Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV And he gave the apostles,
the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and
teachers, (12) to equip the saints for the work of
ministry, for building up the body of Christ, (13)
until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood,
to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

9. Desire Excellence for the Church
Ephesians 4:11-16 continued (14) so that we may no
longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves
and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by
human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
(15) Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to
grow up in every way into him who is the head, into
Christ, (16) from whom the whole body, joined and
held together by every joint with which it is
equipped, when each part is working properly, makes
the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

10. Worship with the Spirit & Understanding
1 Corinthians 14:15-17 ESV (15) What am I
to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray
with my mind also; I will sing praise with my
spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. (16)
Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit,
how can anyone in the position of an outsider
say "Amen" to your thanksgiving when he
does not know what you are saying? (17) For
you may be giving thanks well enough, but the
other person is not being built up.

11. Worship with the Spirit & Understanding
John 4:23-24 NKJV But the hour is coming,
and now is, when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the
Father is seeking such to worship Him. (24)
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him
must worship in spirit and truth.”

12. Worship with the Spirit & Understanding
John 4:23-24 NKJV But the hour is coming,
and now is, when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the
Father is seeking such to worship Him. (24)
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him
must worship in spirit and truth.”

13. Worship with the Spirit & Understanding
John 4:23-24 NKJV But the hour is coming,
and now is, when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the
Father is seeking such to worship Him. (24)
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him
must worship in spirit and truth.”
Ephesians 5:19 NKJV speaking to one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and
making melody in your heart to the Lord,

14. Worship with the Spirit & Understanding
1 Corinthians 14:12 NKJV (12) Even so you,
since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be
for the edification of the church that you seek
to excel.
1 Corinthians 14:19 NKJV (19) yet in the church I would
rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach
others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

15. All Things to Build the Church
It’s time to Grow Up
1 Corinthians 14:20-21 NKJV (20) Brethren,
do not be children in understanding; however,
in malice be babes, but in understanding be
mature. (21) In the law it is written: "WITH
MEN OF OTHER TONGUES AND OTHER
LIPS I WILL SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE;
AND YET, FOR ALL THAT, THEY WILL
NOT HEAR ME," says the Lord.

16. All Things to Build the Church
It’s time to Grow Up
1 Corinthians 14:23-25 NKJV (23) Therefore if the whole church
comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there
come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will they not say
that you are out of your mind? (24) But if all prophesy, and an
unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by
all, he is convicted by all. (25) And thus the secrets of his heart
are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God
and report that God is truly among you.

17. All Things to Build the Church
It’s time to Grow Up
1 Corinthians 14:26 NKJV (26)
How is it then, brethren? Whenever
you come together, each of you has
a psalm, has a teaching, has a
tongue, has a revelation, has an
interpretation. Let all things be
done for edification.

18. All Things to Build the Church
It’s time to Grow Up
Ephesians 2:19-22 NKJV Now, therefore, you are no
longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with
the saints and members of the household of God, (20)
having been built on the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief
cornerstone, (21) in whom the whole building, being
fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
(22) in whom you also are being built together for a
dwelling place of God in the Spirit.