Bought to Glorify God
Lessons On Ministry (from Corinthian Epistles) • Sermon • Submitted
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19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Series - Lessons On Ministry (1 Corinthians)
Background
Background
Paul continues his admonition to the saints in Corinth by emphasizing on the issue of ownership
- your bodies are members of Christ
Our bodies and spirits belong to Christ by purchase
- with His own blood
My Main Point
My Main Point
The blood-bought church has a responsibility to bring glory to His Master and Lord, in the believers’ bodies and spirits.
Sermon Points
Sermon Points
How to do I glorify God in my life?
Recognize that you are not your own!
Resist to be mastered by anything or any man
Reserve you body and spirit for God’s exlusive use
Recognize that you are not your own!
Recognize that you are not your own!
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
In reality, man was never his own
False notion - “He is own man”; “I am my own man”; “self-made man”
Why? We did not not exist on our own, we have a Creator
Why? natural birth brought us in bondage to sin
Why? obedience to the gospel brought to become servants of righteousness
17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
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21 Were you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it.
22 For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ’s slave.
We glorify God when we recognize His ownership of our lives.
Romans 14.7-8
7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
We glorify God when we relinguish our claim to this life and submit God’s authority.
20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
22 And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there,
23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.
24 But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 20.24
Resist to be mastered by anything or any man
Resist to be mastered by anything or any man
Although we have been delivered from the power of darkness, Satan will continue to tempt us back.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Romans 7.18-20
20 Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.
We glorify God when we resist to be mastered by sin
We glorify God when we resist to be mastered by “anything”
12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6.13-
We glorify God when we resist to be mastered by any man
23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
Note: this statement is mentioned within the context of marriage
Who can possibly enslave us?
our husband/wife
our children
our employers
our parents
Reserve you body and spirit for God’s exclusive use
Reserve you body and spirit for God’s exclusive use
Allow God to “dwell” in your whole being.
16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.”
2 Corinthians 6.16
I will not be brought under the power of anything
Allow God to keep you unto His coming
I will not become slave to men
23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Present your life for His service
19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 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.
Romans 6.19-20
Present - to offer, to yield
when you present your body to God, He is able to use it in whatever purpose or work.
when you present your body to God, that’s when it yields the fruit of holiness leading to everlasting life!
Conclusion
Conclusion
Service and salvation are two different experiences in the Christian life.
There are those who have been saved, but have not given their lives into service.
Have you offered your body into God’s service already?
What happens when God is glorified in our life on earth?
31 So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately.
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I Will Serve You
Lord I Offer My Life to You