# 156. Year A - 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time: 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 - "We Are God's Building"

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Published: 2026-02-19T21:03:02+00:00
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Pulpit Notes One of the compliments that people often give when assessing a sermon is that it was “meaty.” What they often mean is that it was heavy in theology or history. It made them think about the text. Perhaps they learned something that they didn’t know before. In our text this morning Paul draws a contrast between milk and solid food. In most of our minds, our default understanding of this is to think of “milk” sort of like a Sunday school level of understanding the Christian faith. Or maybe it is the kind of message that might appeal to new believers. But we want “meat.” Good heavy sermons that you have to chew on for a while first before swallowing and digesting it. Just like a steak. I mean you wouldn’t feed steak to kids. They would just complain how hard it is to chew. So that is the contrast that we have in our minds as we hear Paul writing these words to the Corinthians. But this gets the whole passage wrong. We have to read chapter three here as an application of chapters one and two. In the previous chapters, Paul draws a contrast between the wisdom of the world, which is foolishness to God and the wisdom which comes from God. Paul explains that God’s wisdom comes out of the heart of God, taught to us by the Spirit of God. The man of the Spirit is the one who knows spiritual truths that come from the very heart of God. He is a man, filled with the Spirit, who meets God and is in contact with God throughout his life. The question that Paul is asking here is whether you have made the journey from spiritual infancy and childhood to adulthood. The adult is the one who communes with the heart of God himself by means of the Spirit. He is taught spiritual things by the Holy Spirit, the wisdom that resides in the secret places of God the Father himself. The qu…

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