1 Corinthians 6:12 (Part 30) Exercise of Liberty

I Corinthians 6:12

Exercise of liberty

• Is it beneficial in some way

• Is it going to control you

• There is always risk involved

Legalism

• Will substitute rules for judgment

• Will substitute peer pressure for individual decision

• Rules become the standard of spirituality

Mature judgment

• Consider consequences

• Will it affect personal discipline

Logical error—misapplication of 6:12

• Food is for the belly

• Like the body is for fornication

Resurrection body—6:14, 15:42-44

• Same body

• But different

The corrective teaching, vv. 14-20

• The future of our bodies, v. 14

• The union of the body, vv. 15-17

• The use of the body, v. 18: 1) The command about fornication—“flee”; 2) The uniqueness of fornication—the only sin that is against the body

• The ownership of the body, vv. 19-20: 1) Its resident; 2) Its redeemer

*Principle—sexual relationship is not merely physical it forms a union

*The only rights we have as believers is to live in the confines of the will of God