Five Apostolic Leadership Revelations in 1 Corinthians 2 and 3
April 13, 2019      |     By: Sam McVay, Jr.      |      Category: Sermons      |      Location: Wichita
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1 Corinthians 2:12-16
12 “Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. 
14 The natural (soulish) person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
16 "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.”

1 Corinthians 3:1-15
1 “But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,
3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 
4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not being merely human?
5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 
8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 
11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—
13 each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 
14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
15 If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.”

Revelation #1: The Church is living and ministering either as a spiritual people or a soulish people. 1 Corinthians 2:14-15
Revelation #2: A clear indicator that the Church is walking as a soulish people is - division in their midst. 1 Corinthians 3:3-4
Revelation #3: Believers/Leaders have clear and differing assignments in the kingdom. 1 Corinthians 3:5-8
Revelation #4: God makes things grow, not believers or leaders. 1 Corinthians 3:6-7
Revelation #5: Jesus Christ is the only Foundation upon which all things are eternally built. 1 Corinthians 3:10-15