Sermon
The Trivial and The Eternal
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Matt Heerema
March 8, 2026 · 33 min
Identity in ChristGraceConflict ResolutionGospel1 Corinthians 6:1–111 Corinthians 6:9–111 Corinthians 5
Summary
Paul confronts Corinthian believers taking each other to court over trivial financial matters, revealing their failure to recognize their true identity in Christ. The central issue is not the lawsuits themselves but a distorted sense of identity—they act like worldly Corinthians rather than Christians. Understanding the eternal verdict already rendered through Christ's work (washed, sanctified, justified) should reorient how believers handle disputes and treat one another.
Highlights
They're acting like Corinthians, not like Christians. That's their main problem.
Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather lose the money and keep your brother? In the process, show the whole world something mind-bending, that the very thing that the whole world thinks is the most important, money, is a trivial matter in light of eternity.
When you know God's verdict over our life, because of Christ, clean, holy, forgiven, you no longer have to spend your life chasing after the trivial things of this world.