Power Body of Power

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Body of Power

The Human Body

It has the ability to smell, taste, hear, see, and touch

It is able to experience great pleasure and great pain

By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?

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; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

What you smell, taste, hear, see, and touch is to honor Christ and His body

Don’t make light of anything you do in the body because

Christ paid a great price for you and your body

Which He will someday by His power raise from the dead

Body of Power

The Human Body…

It is amazing.

It is what we live in.

It has the ability to smell, taste, hear, see, and touch.

It is able to experience great pleasure and great pain.

The body has a cycle, it gains strength and then loses it.

The body needs food.

"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"

 _{1 Corinthians 6:13}

Food becomes part of us, we become

one with it and it becomes one with us.

There is a lot of truth in the statement…

 “You are what you eat”.

The body’s health is greatly affected by what it eats.

As the body has strong desire for

food, it has a strong desire for sex.

Paul in 1 Corinthians 6 is warning us of the powers

that destroy the body and the power that gives life.

Just like food has a uniting

effect with our body so does sex.

“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."

1 Corinthians 6:16

It seems that the question of legality gets

brought up by the believers at Corinth is the

first few verses of Chapter 6 of 1 Corinthians.

 Paul rebukes them because they have

lost the ability to judge the matters of life.

I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among

you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers?
1 Corinthians 6:5

The church should be a place where even the

weakest believer can judge right and wrong.

This pertains to matters between

one another as well as food we eat.

Paul takes this point to the area of sex.

In America sex advertises everything.

It seems the law of the land is if

two people consent to sex it is ok.

There are advertisings that say…

 “Life is short have an affair”.

Our bodies have a strong drive for lust and for love.

Flirty women are everywhere, most are not

looking for sex, but use it to get other favors.

When a woman, other than the wife with her husband, flirts

with sweet words, or reveals parts of her body or is just

willing to take a man to bed for some benefit she is prostituting.

That alluring will draw a man to become one with her.

His attention, time and energy will be with her.

Becoming one is connecting.

Paul is warning of the dangers of the things we connect to.

Because the things we connect to make us one with that thing.

Paul says…

"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 believers that they left the things they

were one with in the world for the Kingdom of God.

Paul reminds them of the dangers of the power that

can destroy their bodies in this life and the life to come.

Paul reminds them of God’s power

to raise the body from the dead.

The power to give us an eternal body. 

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!

Our bodies are meant to be one with Christ.

Our bodies are to be part of His body.

If we are one with Christ we will be

connected to others who are connected to

Jesus Christ who is the Head of His Body.

We will not connect with those things

that keep us from being one with Him.

 Remember…

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;  you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

What you smell, taste, hear, see, and

touch is to honor Christ and His body.

Don’t make light of anything you do in the body because…

Christ paid a great price for you and your body,

which He will someday by His power raise from the dead.

Scripture Reading

1 Corinthians 6:9-20 NIV

9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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. 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! 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.

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.