Knowing that we can do certain things in life because it’s not against the law doesn’t always mean that it is right or beneficial for others or even for myself. The Corinthian Church was no exception to this principle either. As you read 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 let’s keep in mind that the misuse of liberty can still lead a person to sin against God and against others as well. The Corinthians were using the natural appetites for food to justify their natural appetites for sexual immorality. Paul reminded them that although “everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. Paul reminds the Corithinians that God will destroy both the stomach and the food that was put in the stomach. So gluttony or any other food disorder that we serve does not glorify God. God is able to destroy both. The body is not for sexual immorality either no matter what the population is saying. The body is meant for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. No matter what your flavor of sexual immorality is, it is a sin against the Living God who is holy! God being a righteous and just Judge, judges sin. He is the only one who can. If you will not repent of your sexual immorality God will deliver you over to the desires of your heart to sexual impurity. (Romans 1:24-25) Here is a scary thought, you know the sin that you are living in, you hear the sermons preached, you get under conviction that you are sinning against God and you say no to God because you believe that God made you that way. Later you will never feel the conviction of sin from the Holy Spirit and you go on sinning in your sexual immorality with no remorse just like a hog wallows in the mud. The reason why sexual immorality is a sin is because the person is taking their bodies that was giving to the Lord and joining them with a prostitute and becoming one with that person. Every time a person sins in this capacity they are taking the Lord Jesus with them in sin. We are commanded to flee sexual immorality because our body’s are a temple of the Holy Spirit. The Lord will never leave us nor forsake us he is with us twenty four hours a day seven days a week. This is why seeking first the kingdom of God is so important. The Lord helps us to take off the old man who has been crucified with Christ and helps us to put on the new man who is being renewed in Christ. We can start by presenting our minds and the parts of our bodies to be a living sacrifice to the Lord. We can renew our minds so that we can know the Lord’s will so that we can walk in it. (Romans 12:1-2) Will you present whole yourself to the Lord and live for him?
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