September 22, 2024
24Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.
25Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable crown.
26So I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.
27Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (CSB)
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A)
(v24, Acts20:24, Eze.22:30, Is.6:8)
“There is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer”
Gen. James H. Doolittle
B)
(v25-26, Num.31:5, 2Tim.3:16-17, Heb.13:20-21)
“People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.”
John C. Maxwell
C)
(v27, Mal.3:1-2, Mt.10:22, 2Tim.2:11-13)
14But thanks be to God, who always leads us in Christ’s triumphal procession and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place.
15For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
16To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. Who is adequate for these things?
17For we do not market the word of God for profit like so many. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.
2 Corinthians 2:14-17 (CSB)
Darius Nable
Senior Pastor
The Church of the Good Shepherd Cherry Hill
856-332-5449