863 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 3 Book 72 - The Big Picture Salvation and Good Works 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 72 THE BIG PICTURE SALVATION & GOOD WORKS - 3 Okay, once again I see you’ve all got your coffee cups and you’re back, and we can go into program three this afternoon. We’re going to start right in where we left off in our last program. That was in I Corinthians chapter 3 and we’re going to be talking about the whole idea that as a believer now we work, not for salvation, but we labor for reward. A lot of people don’t like that, but it’s still a fact of Scripture, and it wasn’t just Paul’s idea. We’re going to see where it was also even part of the language of the apostles. But for now let’s start at I Corinthians chapter 3, and again, I want to thank my television audience, as well as all of you here, for your prayers and your financial support and your letters. My, how we enjoy our mail time, we hardly ever – my, we haven’t had a bad letter in a long time. That doesn’t happen very often. Once in a great while, but it’s pretty rare. Again, we just thank you out there, every one of you, for your encouragement. All right, we’re going to look at the whole idea of works and rewards for a little bit in this next half hour. Chapter 3 of I Corinthians and we looked at it in our closing moments to sort of whet our appetites. I Corinthians 3:9-10a “For we are laborers (And that immediately speaks of activity. You can’t be a laborer sitting in your easy chair.) together with God: (Now Paul puts the finger on us.) ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building. 10. According to the grace of God which is given unto me,…” Now Paul never takes any credit for anything other than the Grace of God. He knew he deserved nothing because of all the havoc he had caused to the Jewish believers of Christ’s earthly ministry. I Corinthians 3:10a “According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, (In other words, the contractor—Paul is the one who literally set the stakes and dug the ditch for the foundation.) I have laid the foundation,…” Now, is that so hard to understand? How in the world can people not see from just that one statement that everything that is foundational to our Age of Grace comes from this one man? They can’t see it, but here it is. He is the master builder—the one and only. And what’s the master builder? He’s the one who started the building. He didn’t come in when the first floor was finished. When people try to say that the church began back there in Acts chapter 2 under Peter and the Eleven, and then Paul comes in at some later time and continues what was begun, that doesn’t make sense, because then he’s not the master builder. Then he didn’t lay the foundation. But the Holy Spirit tells us he did. I Corinthians 3:10b “…I am the master builder, I have laid the foundation, (Just like we pour the concrete in the ditch.) and another buildeth thereon. (That’s where we come in.) But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.” We have to be careful. You know, there is no more responsible activity than when you open the Book and share it with someone. I don’t care whether it’s me or whether it’s you or anybody else. When you open this Book to share it with someone, you are taking on a tremendous responsibility. I’ll tell you what, preachers had better wake up. They are going to stand accountable for what they have preached over the years. Like I shared earlier this afternoon, and I get them all the time, “How could I miss all this for forty years?” One of them even went so far as to say, “Les, will God forgive me for misleading people for forty years?” Well, of course He will. God is a forgiving God. But at least that man had the wherewithal to admit that he had misled people. It’s horrible. I can remember way back when I was real young and teaching a class of high school boys. I remembered, just here a while ago it struck me, telling those kids then already, that preachers who mislead their people are going to have the hottest corner in the Lake of Fire. And I still say it. What a horrible responsibility to have misled people. I don’t care whether it’s a dime a dozen or whether it’s thousands and a mega-church. If you’re misleading people with regard to eternity, you’re going to answer for it. All right, so Paul says that you’d better be careful how you build on this foundation. All right, now what’s the foundation? #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible