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Sermon Notes

UNDERSTAND?

Speaker: Pastor Keith Goullette
Theme: Church Life
Thesis: Be Edified
Scripture Text: I Corinthians 14:15-19 (next week I Corinthians 14:20-25)
I. Both - v. 15-17
II. Bottommost - v. 18-19

Scripture Readings

ROMANS 14:19
So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.

I CORINTHIANS 14:4-5
One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church. Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.

II CORINTHIANS 12:19-21
All this time you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. Actually, it is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ; and all for your upbuilding, beloved. For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances; I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which they have practiced.

EPHESIANS 5:19
Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord.

COLOSSIANS 3:16
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

SCRIPTURE TEXT—I CORINTHIANS 14:15-19
What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also. Otherwise if you bless in the spirit only, how will the one who fills the place of the ungifted say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying? For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not edified. I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all; however, in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Sermon length: 42:20