Daily Bread 2010 1 Corinthians 6
Daily Bread 2010 – 1 Corinthians 6
Sexual Immorality12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.”
One of the issues facing the Corinthian church was that some of the believers were perverting the sense of the freedom God has given them. While we are no longer to slavishly adhere to the Old Testament laws, we also are to use our freedom to serve God not indulge for the sake of indulgence.
In Corinth, sexual immorality was rampant, especially the worship at the temple of the goddess Aphrodite, where 1,000 temple prostitutes served. The false thinking on the part of the Corinthians was that if the body was made for food, it didn’t matter how you treated it because it was not a spiritual issue. But Paul clarifies that how we use our bodies is a spiritual issue.
When Jesus’ physical body was raised from the dead it showed once and for all that our bodies are good and will be redeemed. The false assumptions were that the body was bad and that the soul/spirit was good. So this gave them license to do whatever they wanted with their bodies. because the body was bad anyways. You can see how this is a perversion of the holistic Gospel that when God saves us, he redeems our body, mind and soul.
How do you use your body to glorify God? What temptations are there in culture to use your body for pleasure only and how does that contradict what this passage is saying?
Jesus thank you that you came in a human body, and realized what it was like to be truly human. You ate, drank, slept and felt pain. We give thanks that when God raised you from the dead and gave you a new body in heaven that we too one day will be resurrected and given new bodies. But in the meantime you have given us this body as a temple of the Holy Spirit to be used to serve You. Amen.
Sexual Immorality12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.”
One of the issues facing the Corinthian church was that some of the believers were perverting the sense of the freedom God has given them. While we are no longer to slavishly adhere to the Old Testament laws, we also are to use our freedom to serve God not indulge for the sake of indulgence.
In Corinth, sexual immorality was rampant, especially the worship at the temple of the goddess Aphrodite, where 1,000 temple prostitutes served. The false thinking on the part of the Corinthians was that if the body was made for food, it didn’t matter how you treated it because it was not a spiritual issue. But Paul clarifies that how we use our bodies is a spiritual issue.
When Jesus’ physical body was raised from the dead it showed once and for all that our bodies are good and will be redeemed. The false assumptions were that the body was bad and that the soul/spirit was good. So this gave them license to do whatever they wanted with their bodies. because the body was bad anyways. You can see how this is a perversion of the holistic Gospel that when God saves us, he redeems our body, mind and soul.
How do you use your body to glorify God? What temptations are there in culture to use your body for pleasure only and how does that contradict what this passage is saying?
Jesus thank you that you came in a human body, and realized what it was like to be truly human. You ate, drank, slept and felt pain. We give thanks that when God raised you from the dead and gave you a new body in heaven that we too one day will be resurrected and given new bodies. But in the meantime you have given us this body as a temple of the Holy Spirit to be used to serve You. Amen.
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