Are you ready to be reprimanded?
Well read 1 Corinthians Chapter 6.
This is one harsh chapter, Paul is really annoyed with the Corinthian Christians, and keep that in mind. Paul's letter is written to the church at Corinth. Those people who are born again believers. He is not writing to those people outside of the church.
The list of sins is very long and includes many different sins. If we sin in any way, we have no right to point our fingers at another who is sinning.
Do you recall reading the encounter that Jesus had with the woman who was caught in adultery? Well to refresh you a bit, there were those that wanted to stone her. But Jesus said what? He said that whoever was without sin, should cast the first stone. Well...now we have a problem, Jesus was the only one there without sin. This was what Christ was trying to get across to them. If you have any sin in you or in your life, and only you know what these sins may be, because let's face it we commonly keep things secret. We may not want to, but we, I am pretty sure do. Why, just this morning at 4:50 AM as I was sitting here listening to David Guzik's Commentary on 1 Corinthians Chapter 6, I had three pieces of chocolate with my morning coffee, does this mean I am being glutenous? Yes, I was not being responsible as far as my body and my health is concerned, chocolate is not a good breakfast....but it sure tasted good...but I was sinning against my body...do you see? It is easy to sin! It doesn't have to be adultery, it doesn't have to be deceit...there are so many sins.
In verse 19 of Chapter 6, we are told that our bodies are not our own! Now I want you to think about this...if you borrow something from a friend, say their car, or maybe a suit or a dress... when you are finished using this item and you are going to return it to your friend, if you borrowed their car, you will probably make sure that it is clean and shinny, if you borrowed a piece of clothing, you will probably wash and dry it, or dry clean it, before returning it, or at least that is what I would do.
Well our bodies are not our own, we are borrowing them from God, so don't you think we should take good care of them...let us not commit sins against God's property...let us not commit sins period...what might you have to work on.
Well read 1 Corinthians Chapter 6.
This is one harsh chapter, Paul is really annoyed with the Corinthian Christians, and keep that in mind. Paul's letter is written to the church at Corinth. Those people who are born again believers. He is not writing to those people outside of the church.
The list of sins is very long and includes many different sins. If we sin in any way, we have no right to point our fingers at another who is sinning.
Do you recall reading the encounter that Jesus had with the woman who was caught in adultery? Well to refresh you a bit, there were those that wanted to stone her. But Jesus said what? He said that whoever was without sin, should cast the first stone. Well...now we have a problem, Jesus was the only one there without sin. This was what Christ was trying to get across to them. If you have any sin in you or in your life, and only you know what these sins may be, because let's face it we commonly keep things secret. We may not want to, but we, I am pretty sure do. Why, just this morning at 4:50 AM as I was sitting here listening to David Guzik's Commentary on 1 Corinthians Chapter 6, I had three pieces of chocolate with my morning coffee, does this mean I am being glutenous? Yes, I was not being responsible as far as my body and my health is concerned, chocolate is not a good breakfast....but it sure tasted good...but I was sinning against my body...do you see? It is easy to sin! It doesn't have to be adultery, it doesn't have to be deceit...there are so many sins.
In verse 19 of Chapter 6, we are told that our bodies are not our own! Now I want you to think about this...if you borrow something from a friend, say their car, or maybe a suit or a dress... when you are finished using this item and you are going to return it to your friend, if you borrowed their car, you will probably make sure that it is clean and shinny, if you borrowed a piece of clothing, you will probably wash and dry it, or dry clean it, before returning it, or at least that is what I would do.
Well our bodies are not our own, we are borrowing them from God, so don't you think we should take good care of them...let us not commit sins against God's property...let us not commit sins period...what might you have to work on.
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