2 Cities Church Podcast

Big Idea: Every student wants to imitate their master. 1 Corinthians 11:1 Imitate me, as I also imitate Christ. I. Just like Jesus. II. Just like Paul. III. Just like you. Next Steps:  Believe: I want to start my walk with Jesus today. Become: I will walk more like Jesus tomorrow.  Be Sent: I will start leading someone to walk with Jesus this week. Discussion Questions:  Who introduced you to Jesu...

Big Idea: Laying every decision at the throne of King Jesus. 1 Corinthians 10:23-33 I. Love people more than your personal freedom.  1 Corinthians 10:23-24 “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up. No one is to seek his own good, but the good of the other person. II. Listen to the Holy Spirit over your conscience. 1 Co...

Big Idea: Will you rise above your family's failures? 1 Corinthians 10:1-22 I. There are dark moments in every story.  1 Corinthians 10:1-5 Now I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same s...

Big Idea: Why race, if not to win? 1 Corinthians 9:15-27 I. Sacrifice to prepare for the race.  1 Corinthians 9:15-18 For my part I have used none of these rights, nor have I written these things that they may be applied in my case. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast! For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to preach...

Big Idea: No sacrifice is too great for …  1 Corinthians 9:1-14 I. … the Gospel,  1 Corinthians 9:1-6 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, because you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. My defense to those who examine me is this: Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?...

Big Idea: Law will always push out love… if you let it. 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 I. Wisdom without love only hurts people. 1 Corinthians 8:1-3 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it. But if anyone loves God, he is known by him. II. There’s no gre...

Big Idea: Every relationship grows stronger in better soil. 1 Corinthians 7:25-40 I. Beware- relationships are messy 1 Corinthians 7:25-28 Now about virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I do give an opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is faithful. Because of the present distress, I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released....

Big Idea: Growing your relationship with Jesus will also grow every other relationship.  - Part 2 1 Corinthians 7:10-24 1. Marriage is a covenant from God. 1 Corinthians 7:10-13 To the married I give this command-not I, but the Lord-a wife is not to leave her husband. But if she does leave, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband-and a husband is not to divorce his wife. But I (n...

Big Idea: Growing your relationship with Jesus will also grow every other relationship.  1 Corinthians 7:1-9 I. Sex can’t take the place of Jesus  1 Corinthians 7:1-2 Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman sho...

Big Idea: Only the Gospel can free you from your flesh. 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 I. Your body no longer belongs to you 1 Corinthians 6:12-14 “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. “Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not...

Big Idea: Let others take all they can today; we embrace eternal ethics! 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 I. Judge here like you’re preparing for Heaven. 1 Corinthians 6:1-4 If any of you has a dispute against another, how dare you take it to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Or don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to j...

Big Idea: Living like King Jesus- different but not disconnected! 1 Corinthians 5:9-13 I. Double down on those dead in sin.  1 Corinthians 5:9-10 I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world. II. Expect forgiveness of each other. 1 Corin...

Big Idea: It’s better to abandon your brother to Satan than to ignore his sin. 1 Corinthians 5:1-8 I. The Church’s Purpose.  1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles—a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.   II. The church’s Pain. 1 Corinthians 5:2-3 And you are arrogant! S...

Big Idea: The rescue mission was a triumph! Galatians 1:3-5 I. Rest despite the battle around you Galatians 1:3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ… II. Restored despite weakness inside you Galatians 1:4 …who gave himself for our sins… III. Rescued despite the evil before you Galatians 1:5 …to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God...

Big Idea: Dad’s love is different. 1 Corinthians 4:14-21 I. He challenges you out of your comfort zone. 1 Corinthians 4:14-15 I’m not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children. For you may have countless instructors in Christ, but you don’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. II. He corrects you when you get off track. 1 Corinthians...

Big Idea: Now Hiring: 1 Corinthians 4:1-13 I. Stewards to struggle against prejudice… 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 A person should think of us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of the mysteries of God. In this regard, it is required that managers be found faithful. It is of little importance to me that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I don’t even judge myself. For I...

Big Idea: Will your life leave a dent on Hell? 1 Corinthians 3:10-23 I. Quality that passes the toughest test  1 Corinthians 3:10-13 According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one is to be careful how he builds on it. For no one can lay any foundation other than what has been laid down. That foundation is...

Big Idea: You can’t buy running shoes for your hands and knees. 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 1. Only babies crawl on hands and knees   1 Corinthians 3:1-4 For my part, brothers and sisters, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, since you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready, becaus...

Big Idea: Can you read the mind of Christ? 1 Corinthians 2:10-16 I. Connecting with God at the spiritual level.  1 Corinthians 2:10-11 Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, since the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except his spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. II. Choo...

Big Idea: Only the Holy Spirit can translate the wisdom of the cross.  1 Corinthians 2:1-9 I. He shouts its message through weakness.  1 Corinthians 2:1-5 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, announcing the mystery of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom. I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness, in fear, an...

Big Idea: Is faith merely a crutch for weak people? 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 I. Embrace the demotion 1 Corinthians 1:26-27 Brothers and sisters, consider your calling: Not many were wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.  II. Kil...

Big Idea: The gospel is foolishness to nonbelievers, but to believers, it is the power of God for salvation.  1 Corinthians 1:18-25 I. The foolishness of the gospel. 1 Corinthians 1:18-23 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the intell...

Big Idea: No one wants to ride in a car with fighting children.  1 Corinthians 1:10-17 I. We have a common family.   1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction.  II. We can’t allow factions. 1 Cor...

Big Idea: God can grow saints in any soil. 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 I. Every plant starts from a seed. 1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul, called as an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Sosthenes our brother: II. Every saint starts from a sinner.  1 Corinthians 1:2-3 To the church of God at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name o...

Big Idea: Become humble or be humbled: which is more painful? Romans 9:30-33 I. Righteous through humble submission crushes… Romans 9:30-31 What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith. But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law. II. religious through...