PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
PERSONAL
LIBERTY
V:12
"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.
A. We can do most things that we
imagine.
1. The problem is that some things that
cross our minds are not
Beneficial to us.
2. There are some things that we have
the liberty to do that are detrimental to us.
3. Everything that feels good is not
good for us.
B. If we don’t control our thoughts and actions,
they will control us.
1. I love to eat all kinds of food.
2. However, too much eating can destroy
my health.
Philippians 4:5
Let your moderation be
known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
C. In America, you can have what you can
pay for.
1. Everything I can pay for is not good
for me
2. We have a personal responsibility to
do only that which is
Beneficial to us and
those around us.
3. We are the masters of our souls, not
the stuff we can obtain.
4. If we don’t control our appetites, we
become a slave to our
Desires.
D. An athlete must focus all his/her
energy on excelling in the sport.
1. Christians must focus all their
energy on excelling in God’s
Righteousness.
2. All the fleshly stuff we desire will
be destroyed by the Lord.
3. Heaven and earth will be consumed by
fire but God’s word
Is eternal.
Matthew 5:18-19
I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth
disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
OUR
BODIES ARE FOR THE LORD
V:13. The
body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the
body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us
also. 15 Do 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!
A. Corinth was a city where sexual
immorality was the norm.
1. 1000 prostitutes were at the service
of the public in their temple.
2. When prostitution is culturally
accepted by everyone around you,
The desire is hard to get
rid of.
3. With the power of God, the desire to
sin can be eliminated.
B. We recognize that any man in Christ
is a new creation.
1. The problem is a change in attitude
takes time.
2. We need to be reminded from time to
time that we are
Part of the body of Christ.
3. We can glean from Paul’s letter that
participation in normal
Sexual activities of the community
were happening among
Church members.
4. Putting Biblical doctrine into practice
requires us to speak to the
Issues that are
displeasing to God in the Church.
C. Understanding that our bodies are the
temple of the Lord is
Important.
1. The process of sanctification was
begun when we were baptized
Into the death of Jesus.
2. We were raised into the newness of
life with his resurrection.
3. The sins of the world are the dead
things to us.
4. Sexual immorality of any kind is one
of the dead things to believers.
5. We should not bring dead things into
the temple of the Lord.
6. Sex with a prostitute is joining as
one with him/her.
7. We cannot unite ourselves with
prostitution.
a. To do so is to deny Christ control
over our lives.
b. To do so also is reject our
commitment with Christ.
c. To do so also is to make ourselves
slaves to sin.
d. To do so also is to reject the saving
grace of Christ.
UNITED
WITH CHRIST ONLY
V:16 Do 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." 17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is
one with him in spirit.
A. We have two choices in life that
count.
1. Unite with Christ
2. Or stay united with the world.
B. To unite with Christ is to change our
attitude.
1. From an attitude of sinfulness to an
attitude of righteousness.
2. To unite with Christ is a change in our
destination.
From a destination of
hell to a destination of heaven.
3. To unite with Chris is a change of ownership.
From being owned by Satan
and his demons to being owned
By Christ.
4. To be one with Christ is to be one
with the eternal spirit
Of life.
5. To be one with Jesus is one with all
wisdom
6. To be one with Jesus is to be one
with all power.
7. To be one with Jesus is to be one
with the universal creator.
C. To be one with Satan is to be one
with eternal hell.
1. To be one with Satan is to be one
with eternal darkness
2. To be one with Satan is to be one
with a defeated foe.
D. All believers are married to Christ.
1. Christ is the bridegroom, and we are His
bride.
2. Consider this; adultery is
detrimental to any marriage.
3. To be united to sexual immorality is spiritual
adultery.
4. Sexual immorality is self-destructive.
KNOW THE
REALITY OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY.
V:18 Flee
from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but
he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do 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; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God
with your body.
A. There are sins inside the body and
sins outside the body.
1. Sexual sin is a sin against one’s own
body.
2. Sexual immorality grieves the Holy
Spirit that indwells us.
3. We cannot be one with a man or woman
we are not
Married to and one with the
Holy Spirit at the same time.
B. Sexual immorality grieves God the
Father who call us out of darkness into
His marvelous light.
1. The lust of the flesh pulls the
believer back into the darkness he/ she was freed from.
C. Sexual immorality grieves the God the Son who
died on the cross
In payment for our sins.
1. We are not our own. We belong to Christ.
2. Because of the destructiveness of
sexual immorality, we are commanded to flee.
3. We are commanded to honor God with
our bodies.
THANK GOD
WHO GIVES US THE STRENGTH TO FIGHT IMMORALITY.
Rev. M.
Mitchell
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