1 Corinthians 6 & 7

Corinthian Church had about 100 members. Legal matters were splitting church.

Judge Angels- Greek “krino” means to rule or govern.

Hebrews 1:14 “Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?”

1 Corinthians 5:9 NKJV

I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.

Bad company corrupts good morals

1 Corinthians 6:9 TPT

Surely you must know that people who practice evil cannot possess God’s kingdom realm. Stop being deceived! People who continue to engage in sexual immorality, idolatry, adultery, sexual perversion, homosexuality,

1 Corinthians 6:10 TPT

fraud, greed, drunkenness, verbal abuse, or extortion—these will not inherit God’s kingdom realm.

Let’s not elevate the directions above the destination.

You were washed, sanctified, and justified.

Washed

Titus 3:5 NKJV

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Sanctified

Romans 6:22 NKJV

But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

Justified

1 Peter 3:18 NKJV

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

One Flesh

Genesis 2:24 NKJV

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Mark 10:6–7 NKJV

But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,

Mark 10:8 NKJV

and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Mark 10:9 NKJV

Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Glorify God in your Body!

1 Corinthians 6:20 TPT

You were God’s expensive purchase, paid for with tears of blood, so by all means, then, use your body to bring glory to God!

Questions:

Marriage vs Single Life

1750 to 1800 Marriages shifted from arranged to love based. Industrial Revolution (1750-1890) in England

Divorce

Mark 10:5 “And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.”

Circumcision

Slavery

Prescriptive vs Descriptive