1 Corinthians 9:24-27 + 10:1-5 | Episode #992

July 29, 2025

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 + 10:1-5

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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Transcript

This is Chad Harrison, and you're listening to Hope.

Applying God's word to your daily life.

As we finish Faithful Finance, we want to produce our winter Bible study done at Lake Community Church on First Corinthians.

It'll be a fairly long Bible study.

We will break it up into different parts,

and so you will get a really good, really fast study through the book of First Corinthians before we move on to the book of Joshua.

Do you not know those who run the race all run?

Makes sense, doesn't it?

But one receives the prize run in such a way that you may obtain it.

Now here's the cool thing.

Everyone receives the prize. Who runs the race with Christ?

The prize set out for you.

But he's saying, you got to run.

This is a real big FCA passage, by the way. Okay? Because it's athletics and they love to use this one. It's a great passage. Everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things.

Meaning if,

if you're going to try to win a prize in a race, you can't.

You can't be eating pound cake and, and,

and red velvet cake and,

and ribs and macaroni and cheese all the time.

You got to be temperate in all things. You can't be. Can't be smart. Smoking in Marlboro and, and going out there and getting ready to run the race. It just doesn't work that way.

He says. He says what he's saying is you do what's necessary to receive the prize that you're seeking.

I tell people all the time,

and I had a pretty difficult learning experience learning this.

I thought as a child, as a teenager, that people needed to accept me.

I thought that if you didn't like me, that's just too bad.

But that's not scriptural.

It's not scriptural.

You gotta. You gotta be willing to understand that in this setting, I need to speak to this person this way to help them get it.

And he's telling them that. He's. He's telling them that. I. I really think he's talking to young pastors. For two centuries now,

everyone competes for a prize, is tempered in all things.

Now, they do it to obtain a perishable crown.

But we, for an imperishable meaning,

they do it to receive a reward that's earthly. We do it to receive a reward that's eternal.

He says, therefore I run thus,

not with uncertainty,

thus I fight not as one who beats the air. What he's saying is, I'm not doing this for no reason.

I'm doing it for a reason.

But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I might.

I myself should become disqualified.

What he's saying is, I push the flesh down so that I might in all ways be qualified.

That's not easy for anybody to read.

It's not easy for pastors to read chapter 10.

Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud,

all passed through the sea,

all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

Now, I want you to listen to me.

I want you to listen to me because there's a lot of fighting in. In the Christian in Christendom,

okay?

Between mainline denominations and non mainline denominations, okay?

One denomination wants to say that there's just one baptism,

and there is. The Bible says,

we have one baptism,

okay?

But then he uses the same idea or a very similar idea to say that there's more than one baptism.

And so many times I'll hear. People will say to me after they've heard me preach, well, do you believe in the second baptism? And the answer I always give them is yes, and I believe in the third, too.

Wasn't that what he's just said?

That aren't we all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea?

And now what he said.

All right, listen to me.

Don't get all caught up in using the word baptism,

okay? Come on back. Pull it back. Don't get all upset about it.

Are you with me?

Does not God do three separate works in our lives?

He does a work to our bodies,

he does a work to our souls, and he does a work to our spirit.

All those works are separate works.

We even have theological. We have theological words we use. Justification,

sanctification,

glorification.

Right?

Jesus was baptized in the Jordan.

Am I right?

Jesus was also born a tripart being.

So when he was born,

he was not only born with a soul and a body,

but he was conceived with the Spirit by the Holy Spirit in Mary.

So he was born again before he was born.

So he was given a spirit.

Are you following me?

He also was glorified.

Now you need to get this.

He has a glorified body now. And he was also glorified while he walked on the earth,

when he was transfigured on the mountain,

same way.

So his body had a glorification while he lived and is glorified now.

We've. We're studying it. In the Book of the Revelation, he is described as a glorified. Man.

He's got hair white as snow, eyes like lightning.

Okay?

He's got on a robe all the way down to his feet. His feet are burnt as bronze. I mean, you just read it. It's in Revelation 4 and 5,

okay?

We know he is glorified. He's a glorified in heaven.

He has a glorified body.

God does those works with us.

I want you to hear me, because we're going to start talking about.

As we move to spiritual things, we're going to start talking about speaking in tongues and prophets and all that kind of stuff.

And Paul deals with it.

But right here, I find it interesting that when everybody's fighting over whether what he says in this chapter, that chapter, they don't go and look.

Did he mention any of this before?

Was he talking about this? Is this what he's talking about?

Well,

he. He goes into this soliloquy about this, and I've. I really tell you the truth, I never heard anybody preach on it.

He says that they have a baptism in Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

Now, I believe the cloud's the Holy Spirit. So for all you Pentecostals, that would be the second baptism.

Okay? All right.

Moses would be in the law,

so you would hear the good news, you'd hear the truth of God, and you'd repent. So that would be justification, right?

All right.

And in the sea would be sanctification,

because what are you doing?

You're walking through the sea. That's on both sides.

You're walk. You're walking out your salvation.

Now, if I were going to split it up and preach a sermon on it, but I ain't got that much time,

I would explain it that way.

He's talking about three baptisms,

by the way. I didn't explain to y' all, Jesus.

Jesus was born with a spirit which would have been born again, but he didn't have to be born again because he's already born with it.

He.

He said. He said he was. He was baptized in the Jordan river.

And he said, this is a baptism to fulfill all righteousness. Remember, righteousness is faith, Right?

So he was doing this to prove that he was.

That. That as a man it was necessary that he would hear God, believe God and act upon what God has told him to do.

So that would be what we would call our normal baptism.

And then what did he say?

Was that enough?

No, he says another baptism I have to undergo.

He says a baptism by fire.

Right? What was that?

That was a crucifixion okay?

And out of the crucifixion, he. He came out glorified.

All authority in heaven on earth's been given to me. I am in charge. I'm in control. I'm glorified. I have taken my rightful position. I have a name that's above every name.

So listen to me. If you believe in only one baptism and you're arguing with somebody else who believes in two baptisms, I'm going to take a third table and say, I believe in three.

And if you'll read it and study it, you'll realize,

well, Paul thought there was.

All ate the same spiritual food,

all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them. And the rock was.

Now you're gonna get that.

You just logged that in the back of your brain, okay?

He's the rock in the wilderness. He was the rock where the water came from.

And they carried the rock with them.

Isn't that what it just said?

By the way, why didn't Moses get to go into the Promised Land?

Because he struck the rock. And God told him not to do that twice.

But by the way, God had told him to strike it before.

He just got a little proud and struck it twice. And you go, well, that seems like a minor thing. Well, it's not a minor thing when you think of. That's Jesus makes it a major thing, doesn't it?

But with most of them were.

But with most of them, God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Now he's making it. You've given them understanding, these people. He's. Listen to me.

He is saying they went through all of the stuff.

All the stuff.

What do you mean by all the stuff?

Justification, sanctification, glorification.

And yet what happened to them?

They didn't go into promised Land. They didn't get the promises of God.

Pastor, do you mean that I can be born again?

That I can be saved?

For those of you come from the mainline denominational background of America, saved for you is being born again and being saved at the same time. Okay?

Salvation,

you being sanctified,

I can be born again. I can be sanctified, and eventually I can be glorified and not receive the promises of God. And the answer is,

yes,

you can.

You can.

That's what he says here.

Does that mean you go to hell?

No, it just means you missed out on the promises.

Did they pass through the blood of the doorpost?

Did they pass through the sea?

Did they receive the revelation of God,

did they go into the promised land?

No, they didn't.

Now, I want you to hear me.

You go, what's the difference? Because the promises of God. Listen to me.

The promises of God. And by the way I stood, I've quoted a passage Wednesday night. And then I went back and looked at it, and I realized that something's left out.

And I go and I'm. I quoted it, putting it in there, but it's not in there.

He says in. He says in Romans 8, for those God foreknew, he predestined.

And then he goes on and says, those he predestined, he calls.

Those he calls, he justified.

Those he justify,

he does glorify.

What did he miss?

Sanctify.

And as I was thinking about that yesterday,

I realized God's telling me he foreknew, foreknows. He does all that he predestines, he does all that he justifies, which means he gives you the new birth and makes you okay with Him.

He glorifies, which means he takes your dead body and gives you a new body and gives you a glorified life.

He gives you eternal life.

But there is one work that is done where you get to be a part of it. You get to joining,

and that is salvation or being sanctified.

Which means I get to take the promises of God. I. I get to run the race,

right? I get to do the things I get to be. As Jesus was walking around,

I get to. Actually,

I don't just get to. You know, how many times have we said, man, I'd love to been there for that last week's sermon when Jesus said, you know, I'm the living water.

All you are thirsty, come to me. I mean, how many of y' all loved to been there that day?

I mean, I would love to been there that day where it's all quiet and in front of all of Israel. He said, if any of you thirst,

come to me and drink.

Whoa,

that'd be some good stuff.

Jesus said, the miracles I do, you shall do any greater than these.

We're going to get to that in John,

what he's saying is you get the chance to walk around in the same power I walked around in. You get to be like me.

And that's sanctification.

And how many churches are full of people who are not really ever truly being sanctified?

They're struggling and they're not being changed because the sanctification is a prop. Is the part where you get to go,

I think about my granddaughter I think about a child I saw this week.

She can't do anything.

She, she really well now she's getting pretty good. She can count and stuff like that.

She's full, full blown girl. She talk all the time.

She's going,

she's apple. I pulled out a picture today, was sitting up the office. It's the best picture I ever took.

It just kind of shows just a little bit of me leaning down, holding my finger out and she's holding my finger and looking back at the camera.

She loved to walk around with Bop Bop.

She couldn't do anything.

If anything happened, Bop Bop had to do it.

But she's walking around like she was Bop Bop.

I want you to hear me. Sanctification is not, is not. It's not that you gotta get it done. You're not in charge of the results, but you get to walk around like you're the king of kings yourself.

You get to walk around like you are a co heir with Christ.

You didn't do anything to be the co heir, but he made it possible that you should. And so sanctification's about that.

Pastor, you are going slow.

Let's move as you go. Today I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you, that he'll make his face to shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.