Spiritual Sickness 1 Cor 11 30 For this

Spiritual Sickness (1 Cor 11: 30) “For this cause many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. ”

Spiritual Hypochondria • Think they can’t do anything for the Lord • One – Talent Man – (Matt 25: 25) “And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. ” • The Spies – (Num 13: 31) “But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. ” • All things are possible with God – (Mark 9: 23) “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. ” – (Rom 8: 3) “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? ”

Spiritual Heart Disease • Evil conduct comes from a diseased heart – (Matt 15: 19 -20) “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man. ”

Spiritual Heart Disease • “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. ” (Prov 4: 23) – Your life is based on the condition of your spiritual heart – Must take care of our hearts

Spiritual Heart Workout • (1 Tim 4: 7 -8) “But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. ” – How do we exercise ourselves unto godliness?

Spiritual Heart Workout • Word of God – Works out the heart – (Heb 4: 12) “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ”

Result of not Working out our Spiritual Heart! • (Heb 4: 7) “…Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. ” – If we reject his word, not exercised, then our hearts will become harden. – Spiritual Heart failure

Spiritual Farsightedness • Some can see big and distant things in the Lord’s work but cannot see the little things close by. – Good at spreading a feast – Not Good at giving a cup of water • (Matt 10: 42) “And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. ”

Spiritual Delusions of Grandeur • (Prov 6: 16 -19) “These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. ” • All of these abominable acts could be done in the name of putting oneself up higher than the rest.

Spiritual Delusions of Grandeur • Pride will cause us to Fail – (Prov 16: 18) “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. ” – (Prov 11: 2) “When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. ” – Pride will cause us to think we need no one including God!

Spiritual Delusions of Grandeur • We must put off Pride – (Matt 18: 4) “Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. ” – (Col 3: 12 -13) “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. ” – (1 Peter 5: 5) “Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. ”

Spiritual Chills • Spiritually brought on by sin – (Matt 24: 12) “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. ”

Spiritual Fever • Spiritually a hot temper – (James 1: 19 -20) “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. ” – Wrath should have no part in our lives

Spiritual Fever • Anger is an emotion – Not a sin to be angry – Sin to let anger have it’s way in wrath • (Eph 4: 26 -27) “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. ”

Spiritual Fever • Christ was angry yet he didn’t sin – (Mark 3: 1 -5) “And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand. And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth. And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace. And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

Spiritual Fever • Anger will motivate – Right • Cause us to take action against things that are wrong, like Jesus did. • Words and actions will be used in love • God’s word will not be violated by righteous anger – Wrong • Precipitates wrong words or actions. • Causes resentment, wrath, malice • God’s word will be violated by spiritual fever

Spiritual Atrophy • Wasting away of any part of the body; – Lack of growth from want of nourishment • The Body of Christ is the Church – (Eph 1: 22 -23) “And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. ”

Spiritual Atrophy • We are members of this Body – (Eph 5: 29 -30) “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. ” • The Lord loves his Body and gives us nourishment – He can’t force feed us, however.

Spiritual Atrophy • Our nourishment – His Word • (1 Pet 2: 2) “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: ” • Always been a serious problem in the church even in the days of the Apostles – nothing new – (1 Cor 3: 1 -2) “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. ”

Spiritual Poison Ivy • (2 Tim 4: 3 -4) “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. ” • (2 Tim 4: 2) “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. ”

Sleeping Sickness • Many are afflicted with this sickness • (1 Thess 5: 6) “Therefore let us not sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober. ” • (Eph 5: 14) “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. ”

Sleeping Sickness • Those in sin are asleep spiritually • They are dead in sin. – (Eph 2: 1) “And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses, and sins. ” • Death means separation – Spiritual death (Isaiah 59: 2) “But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. ”

Sleeping Sickness • Cure this disease with Jesus Christ! – With faith in his word and repentance one can be buried with him in water to be raised up in a newness of life – (Rom 6: 3 -4) “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. ”

Spiritual Hydrophobia • Fear of Water – Pharisees and Lawyers had it • (Luke 7: 30) “But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. ” – Those that are afflicted with this sickness can never enjoy the remission of sins or come into Christ. (Acts 2: 38)