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You Were Bought at a Price

Date: Aug. 22, 2015

Passage

1 Corinthians 6:12-20 

Flee Sexual Immorality

12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

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Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 6:19b-20

19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

First, your bodies are members of Christ himself (12-17). Christ died to free us from the power of the law. Then how can we use our freedom? We should not use our freedom to give ourselves over to another master. Christ did not free us so that we could be ruled by desires for food, sex or anything else. He died in order to make us united with him who was raised from the dead. Christ died so that we, who were separated from God by the power of sin, might become members of Christ himself. We should use our freedom to offer our bodies to Christ.

Second, you are not your own (18-20). Paul teaches the spiritual truth of what sexual immorality is, and why it is a sin. Christ shed his precious blood to make us new. Our bodies are a temple of the indwelling Spirit, which God poured out as a free gift for his children. But the free gift came at a price. We are not our own; we belong to God, bought at the price of the death of his Son. When we offer our bodies to sin we reject this truth; when we offer our bodies to God we honor him, and we honor the one who bought us at the cost of his life.

Prayer: Lord, thank you for Jesus, who died for me. Help me to honor you with my body.

One Word: Honor God with your body

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Psalm 78:40-72

Key Verse: 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
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