1 Corinthians 6:9-20
The wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God. Wicked includes deceived, sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, home sexual offenders, thieves, greedy, drunkards , slanderers and swindlers. It was existing in Corinthians church. It is possible existing in our churches.
We are washed, we were sanctified, we were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Everything is permissible for me - but not everything is beneficial.
Food for the stomach and the stomach for food- but God will destroy both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
"The two will become one flesh". But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. How can let he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body.
Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God. Honor God with your body.
When we believed in Jesus Christ, we were washed and sanctified, we can't united with prostitute. Paul emphasized this do not allowed. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Why?
Food for the stomach so man doesn't live for food, but for the Lord.
We are free from sins when we became Christian. "no doubt". says Paul, 'but I for one will not let anything make free with me.' Sexual needs they argue, are like hunger: they must be satisfied. The body is not important anyway. But this is wrong thinking, a carry-over of old ideas(Greek).
Christian have been joined to Christ's body.
How?
Food and sexual is needed but not live for them. My body is live for the Lord. Don't think too much about the food, both will be destroyed. Our life is more important. I am sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord and his Spirit.
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