Sermon outline for Lord’s Day worship

– 1Cor 12.1-3; 14.20-22a –
Narcissism and Nobility — Sermon 21
The “Tongues Passage” — Getting Our Bearings

1Cor 12.1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant: 2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led. 3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.    . . .    14:20 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. 22 Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers . . . .

* Intro.

* The modern charismatic movement.

* Be mature; be babes.

* “Jesus is Lord”

— The proof of the Spirit and demarcation of the Christian.

— Common ground and common rebuke.

* “Be babes” — be open-hearted.

* “Be mature” — understand.

— Redemptive history — “once for all” in Christ.

— Christ’s glorification and Pentecost.

— “Once for all” applied to each.

— Tongues, a sign to unbelieving Jews.

— Isaiah 28 – 29.

— What did tongues signify to Israel?

— The sign gifts in the Apostolic era.

* The challenge — “Be filled with the Spirit.”

* The test — “Jesus is Lord.”