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From cross-theology towards obedience motivation

From cross-theology towards obedience motivation. D. Park and M. Nagasawa MITACF LG wrap up Mar 14, 2003. 1 Corinthians 6:12-20.

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From cross-theology towards obedience motivation

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  1. From cross-theology towards obedience motivation D. Park and M. Nagasawa MITACF LG wrap up Mar 14, 2003

  2. 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 • 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. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do 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! 16Do 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." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do 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; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

  3. Picture of the Cross: Debt Payment God the Father Anger & Wrath Jesus Forgiveness Non-believers Believers Non-believers

  4. Picture of the Cross: Identity Transformation The Old Age The Old Age will end God Non-believers: - Old Creations,- Objects of Wrath, - Disempowered - Separated from God Believers: - New Creations - Forgiven - Empowered - In Jesus by Spirit - God is a Father ONLY to those ‘in Jesus’ Jesus Death & Resurrection The New Age begins New Heavens & Earth

  5. Motivations for obedience • Debt-obligation • Grace denial: try to pay back the debt • Grace abuse: debt will just get cancelled again • Identity-obligation • Cross participation: we die and rise again w/X • Self worth: you are worth more than ___ • Sin: incompatible with new identity

  6. 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 • 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. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do 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! 16Do 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." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do 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; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

  7. References • Largely stolen from: Nagasawa, M. (2001) Asian American Spirituality in the Context of American Fundamentalism, http://regions.ivcf.org/multieth/2873 • Rom 6:1-11; Gal 2:20; Php 3:7-12; Col 2:12-13 • John 14:8-21, 15:1-9; Eph 1:1-14, 2:11-22 • Rom 8:9-11; 2 Cor 4-5; Eph 3:14-19

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