OUR FATHER FROM WHOM WE CAME

In the book of  I Corinthians chapter 6 verses 12 - 20, the apostle Paul continued his letter to the Corinthians by describing the economy of the new life in Christ and he said that even though though they were free from the law, activities that they undertook should be practiced based on whether they were helpul toward the goal or whether they were not. 

The apostle also warned them to flee from sexual immorality and he explained why it was such a hazard to the believer to be brought under the power of sexual immorality.

12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God both raised up 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 harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Paul describes sexual sin as sins that damage the body and since the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, it is not advisable to defile the temple of God.

When in Christ, we are not our own but we are Godˋs. We should therefore not join Christ to immorality because sexual contact joins people in the flesh and as such, to be in Christ and then to do be immoral exposes Christ to .

Instead, we should always seek how to glorify God in our body and spirit because we were a costly acquisition and we should, at the very least, attribute the same high value to God as He valued us.

Amen.

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