Immorality and the Body of Christ
"Everything is permissible for me", but not everything is helpful. "Everything is permissible for me," but I will not be brought under control of anything. "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food", but God will put an end to both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.
Don't you know that your bodies are a part of Christ's body? So should I take part of Christ's body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not! Don't you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For scripture says, "The two will become one flesh." But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Run from sexual immorality! Every sin a person can commit is outside the body. On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against this own body. Don't you know your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body. 1Cor 6: 12-20
A truly hard heart believes that these scriptures do not apply to them. I remember a man I knew saying, "Scripture says: everything is permissible for me." He was justifying his sin. Isn't it amazing that if the above scriptures have the italics taken away we don't realise that Paul was addressing the comments of others. The an I am referring to believed he could expand his sexual appetite to areas his wife felt degraded by and then accused her of thinking him dirty. What a ratbag!
When we seek to justify our sinful appetites and impose them on others, with little regard for their worth we sin against the body of Christ, not just our spouse or ourselves but our God.
It is time to understand the body of Christ. It is time to respect it, totally! If we can't respect others in Christ, how can we affect the world in sin? Come on! Get it together! Time to repent!
Don't you know that your bodies are a part of Christ's body? So should I take part of Christ's body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not! Don't you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For scripture says, "The two will become one flesh." But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Run from sexual immorality! Every sin a person can commit is outside the body. On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against this own body. Don't you know your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body. 1Cor 6: 12-20
A truly hard heart believes that these scriptures do not apply to them. I remember a man I knew saying, "Scripture says: everything is permissible for me." He was justifying his sin. Isn't it amazing that if the above scriptures have the italics taken away we don't realise that Paul was addressing the comments of others. The an I am referring to believed he could expand his sexual appetite to areas his wife felt degraded by and then accused her of thinking him dirty. What a ratbag!
When we seek to justify our sinful appetites and impose them on others, with little regard for their worth we sin against the body of Christ, not just our spouse or ourselves but our God.
It is time to understand the body of Christ. It is time to respect it, totally! If we can't respect others in Christ, how can we affect the world in sin? Come on! Get it together! Time to repent!
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