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What forms our conduct? 16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. I am God’s temple. We, the church, are God’s temple. Unity as God’s temple. 1 This is…

Intro : How do you response to gifts this Christmas? Thankfulness Care How does the giver feel when you don’t take care of the hard earned, well thought out gifts that have been given? Context: Paul is continuing to address sin in the Corinthian church and he is trying to pastor the hearts of the people…

WWJD (What Would Jesus Do)?

Announcements Are there any announcements? Introduction Good morning and thank you for your prayers and for taking care of the church while I was gone. What blessing to have Brother Brent and Pastor Dave cover! Again, thank you for all you do! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas season and that you…

The temple in Jerusalem was a sacred building dedicated to the worship of God. According to Paul, the church was the equivalent of the temple. God’s presence resided in the church, and the church was to maintain holiness. In like manner, we are also the temple of the spirit of God, and are required to…

25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown . 26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest,…

Secular - A man was stopped by the police around 2 am. The officer asked him where he was going at that time of night. The man replied, "I'm on my way to a lecture about alcohol abuse and the effects it has on the human body, as well as smoking and staying out late." The officer then asked, "Really?…

Last week we began this message on, “Our Bodies Are not Our Own.” My desire for us is that I want you to see based on God’s Word that Our bodies are not our own because God is ultimately the one who has given them to us. He has uniquely designed each and everyone of us and He has fearfully and wonderfully…

C.S. Lewis once said, “Christians have talked as if Christianity thinks that sex or the body, or the pleasure we experience within our bodies were bad in themselves. But they are wrong. Christianity is almost the only one of the great religions that throughly approves of the body, which believes that…

1 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge…

A spiritual life that truly transforms the believer from the damage of sin comes from that believer’s participation in God’s tool of confession. It says in 1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” This confession…

Please open your bibles to 1 Corinthians 6 . We are picking up our study in 1 Corinthians, and we are finding Paul transitioning to yet another issue in the church. He has been chastising them for wrong thoughts and behaviors, primarily stemming from their pride. They tried to boast about which Christian…

Introduction 9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone…

Introduction The prevailing message in our culture is that your thoughts, feelings, and desires are more important than anything else. If you want something, you should have it. If there is something that offends or frustrates you, it should not exist. The message we are receiving over and over and over…

The seventh commandment is about more than marriage faithfulness; it is about honoring our bodies as temples of the holy Spirit.

11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. We left off last week with YOU ARE WASHED. YOU ARE SANCTIFIED. YOU ARE JUSTIFIED. IN THE NAME OF JESUS BY THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT Paul was aware of…

This September I will turn 60 years old. As I reflect upon the changes that have occured in all areas of life I am appalled. Progressives, as their self-given name implies, like to imagine themselves as those who are advancing human society and improving upon the human condition, but when judged by the…

Everything we do in life is connected to our vision. Vision defines our purpose. It is the connection to our destiny. The Vision of the Church is to serve our community and touch our world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Value of Vision Read: Habakkuk 2 :2-3 2 And the Lord answered me: “Write the…

God gives, and his people receive. This is the most basic relation between God and his people. From the beginning of time until today, God gives many gifts along with his greatest gift. More often than not, however, the people of God act like spoiled children. They complain about God’s gifts at best…

Introduction: Have you ever thought about that pausing someone. Putting someone on silent. Turn them off. Do you remember the movie Click ? Where Adam Sandler could rewind and pause his life he could skip things he could pause things. The people in his life were being controlled by the remote. Sometimes…

What is the content of divine wisdom? How can wisdom be known? What problem did the Corinthians have regarding division?

42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. 43 Now when the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace…

Introduction: When the Lord speaks of a sanctuary in the Old Testament he says the Sanctuary the Most Holy Place. So this is the district you shall measure: twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide; in it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place . It shall be a holy section of the land,…

Lawsuits No hiding the fact that in our society lawsuits seem to be a way of life. In the Corinthian church it was a problem and Paul deals with the problem and offers some problem solving 101 solutions to that and issues with the Corinthian mindset about the body. Simple facts (2018) statistics in the…

Some difficulties in this passage Subject is sexual immorality ( porneia ) Prostitution? General? Something more specific? General principle applied to a specific situation. 12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated…