The Corinthian Grid
Being a person of strength
Do you often wonder how God feels about drinking, smoking, music, relationships, chewing
tobacco, drugs, kissing, bars, thoughts, speech, and other areas of your life? Many times we are
tempted to classify these areas in a category sometimes referred to as “gray areas”. Gray is a
combination of two totally opposite and distinct colors: black and white. Since gray falls
somewhere between black and white in color, and is neither clearly black nor white, we have a
tendency to categorize areas of unclarity as gray. This causes us to be unsure of ourselves in
these areas and easily influenced by others. A person who does not have clarity from God’s
word in these areas is a person who is “tossed here and there by the waves, and carried about
by every wind of doctrine (Ephesians 4:14).
On the other hand, God is a God of Truth and clarity. He is definitely not a gray God and
does not want His children to fall to deceit through unclarity. That is why He gives us His
written word from which we can discover unchanging principles on which we can structure our
lives. We can find principles from God’s word that apply to every area of our lives. God gives us
these principles so that we can have confidence in our relationship with God and develop our
own personal convictions in all areas.
In order to help you develop your own personal convictions, I have drawn up a grid made up
of general principles from 1 Corinthians. They were dealing with the same questions then that
you deal with now. Pick out a specific area of your life and take it through the grid. Look up the
passage and then meditate on the principle. Remember to read the passage in context by
reading the verses before and after the passage. Finally, apply the principle to the specific area by
asking yourself the application question. Be honest with yourself and with God and allow Him to
form your heart in the same mold as Christ’s.
1 Corinthians 8:9,1
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mdjhnson
Aug. 8, 2020
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IMPORT
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1 Corinthians 10:31ESV
Purpose
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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1 Corinthians 10:32-33ESV
That they may be saved
32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, 33 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
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1 Corinthians 6:12ESV
What is Helpful not Mastering?
12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
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1 Corinthians 6:18ESV
Flee from Sexual Immorality
18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
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1 Corinthians 8:9-13ESV
Stumbling Block
9 But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? 11 And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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1 Corinthians 9:19-23ESV
So I may win some
19 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. 23 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.
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Galatians 6:8ESV
Reap what you Sow
8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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Mark 9:42-47ESV
Better to Avoid Temptation
42 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. 43 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,