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1 Corinthians 6:12-20. Maximum Sex. Aphrodite. 1 Cor. 6:12-20 Background. Paul’s Goal: “But we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Cor. 2:16
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1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Maximum Sex
Aphrodite 1 Cor. 6:12-20Background • Paul’s Goal: “But we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Cor. 2:16 • Yet: “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? May it never be!” 1 Cor. 6:15
Paul Affirms Grace Yet, God has a design that can’t be violated! 1 Cor.6:12-13Sexuality: The Corinthian View • We’re under Grace! • 1 Cor. 6:12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
1 Cor.6:12-13Sexuality: The Corinthian View • We’re under Grace! • It’s Natural! The “Dirty” View • Man is an animal? • A me-focused “Love”. 1 Cor. 6:13 Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food; but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body. “Burnin’, burnin’, I got the fever!One thing’s for sure:there ain’t no cure!”
Illegitimacy in the US • 400% Increase since 1963, despite abortions and birth control. • 33% of all live births are illegitimate. • Detroit: 75%, Cleveland: 68%, Inner City: 80% Source: William J. Bennett, The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), p. 48 “Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time--more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.” Charles Murray, Harvard Sociologist. 1 Cor. 6:12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
1 Cor.6:13-19Sexuality: The Biblical View • The Body: a permanent part of you. • Its Purpose: Union with God 1 Cor. 6:13-14 Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body. [14] Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power. Rev. 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me.” 1 Cor. 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 1 Cor. 6:17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
1 Cor.6:13-19Sexuality: The Biblical View • The Body: a permanent part of you. • Sexuality: Made in the Image of God. Genesis 1:27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 1 Cor. 6:16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her? For He says, "The two will become one flesh." Genesis 2:24 For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
1 Cor.6:13-19Sexuality: The Biblical View • The Body: a permanent part of you. • Sexuality: Made in the Image of God. • Unity (intimacy) is the purpose. 1 Cor. 6:16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her? For He says, "The two will become one flesh."
1 Cor.6:13-19Myths about Immorality • It Won’t Hurt My Spiritual Relationship. 1 Cor. 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? May it never be!
1 Cor.6:13-19Myths about Immorality • It Won’t Hurt My Spiritual Relationship. • Casual Sex is OK. 1 Cor. 6:18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
1 Cor.6:13-19Myths about Immorality • It Won’t Hurt My Spiritual Relationship. • Casual Sex is OK. • “Try Now, Buy Later.”
Healing Sexual Damage • Understand your new identity. 1 Cor. 6:11 And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
Healing Sexual Damage • Understand your new identity. • Flee Immorality. 1 Cor. 6:18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
Healing Sexual Damage • Understand your new identity. • Flee Immorality. • Pursue Spiritual Growth 1 Cor. 6:20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.