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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?
Who's giving that lecture at this time of night?"
The man replied, "That would be my wife."
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Paul preached the gospel in Corinth in the early 50s AD during his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1–18).
When opposition grew fierce there, the Lord Jesus spoke to him in a vision assuring him that he had ‘many people’ in the city (Acts 18:10).
With this encouragement, Paul stayed on for eighteen months, ‘teaching them the word of God’ (Acts 18:11).
God used Paul’s ministry to bring about the birth and establishment of the church in Corinth.
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Life Point- Don’t Use Freedom As An Excuse For Sin
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During this time many Christians were using the slogan “All things are lawful for me”
This is truly the case when it comes to matters of eatings meats sacrificed to idols or when it comes to long lists of legalism.
This is not true as it pertains to sin.
It had become a slogan to do whatever one pleases.
Specifically, Paul was writing about and referring to the sexual immorality of the Corinthian church.
To say that all things are permissible, including sin, would bring us into the bondage of sin.
Sin will cost you more than you want to pay, and keep you longer than you want to stay.
We have an epidemic today in most churches across America.
Churches have redefined what things truly are.
We no longer call it adultery, we call it an Affair
We no longer call it gossip, we call it prayer requests
We no longer call it sin, we call it a mistake
No longer do we call things what they are.
why?
Because that might offend someone and make them leave our church.
You know what, let it be then.
we have unsaved, unregenerate people sitting in pews who don’t get offended because the Gospel is so watered down they don’t know what they should be offended about!
There are too many people who go and start a church, but do not care about the Gospel.
They are just looking for people to come give them a pat on the back or, in some cases, want to be worshipped themselves!
Some of these people are like Simon the sorcerer in the book of acts.
He was a warlock, heard the word of God and burned all his books.
It seemed like he got saved, but he didn’t
He tried to buy from Peter the power to lay hands on people and receive the Holy Spirit and Peter said to him, “may your money perish with you!”
He was seeking power and adoration over other people.
Life Point - Your Sin Hurts Everyone
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As a Christian, the sin that you will to do actually hurts the body of Christ, not just you.
Your spiritual journey is not only affected when you sin, but the local body of believers are affected as well.
How?
When you sin, you remove yourself from being effective in the kingdom.
You are focused on your sin, not on kingdom building.
Not on evangelizing those around you.
Not on sharing spiritual beliefs and concepts with a dark world.
Your mind is in a dark place when you are in sin.
You are also setting a bad example for those that are not saved from sin.
They think, “why should I go to the church?
They are just as bad as I am.”
Have you ever noticed sin is inherently “you” focused?
It’s not about others, but about your selfish desires.
Sin makes a person selfish.
Why?
Because that is the weakness in all people.
If I can get you to focus on your favorite person, that is yourself, then you aren’t focusing on Jesus, His work, or the body of believers.
You see we are all needed in the body of Christ, in the local church.
We will get there later, so I will only briefly touch on this:
Life Point - Flee Sin & Honor God
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This is an interesting comment about this particular sin.
Many people have thought this is talking about disease and there certainly is an aspect in the teaching.
However that is not what is in view here.
What is in view is our spirituality.
That which we are bound to spiritually.
This union, this joining of the two is a great mystery.
Then Paul here says that he is also speaking about our unity with Christ.
Marriage is a sacred union that is to be honored, cherished, and protected.
In doing so you protect yourself.
To take this great mystery and taint yourself possibly physically but definitely spiritually with sexual immorality is a great wickedness.
When a spouse steps out on the other, they entangled themselves in emotions with that person as well.
You see they are no longer themselves only but they have become part of each other.
Even if the adultery ends, they will never be the same.
Can they be redeemed?
You bet they can.
Will they ever be the same?
Nope.
Nine times out of ten when a spouse steps out and commits that sin, they will separate.
Why?
Because they are now joined, albeit it in a counterfeit way, to the other person.
Sexual immorality is so pernicious because, amongst other things, it changes who we are mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
This is why it is called the sin against the body.
It strikes at the core of who we are and whose we are.
Paul reminds us though that even if we want to commit our bodies to sin, our very beings to sin.
We are not permitted to do so.
God bought you; body, mind, and soul for a price.
You are His slave and you do not belong to yourself.
Would you do such a terrible thing in the physical presence of God?
Well if you do commit this sin you are doing it in His presence.
The Holy Spirit is inside you.
By the way The Holy Spirit is a He, not an it.
He is a person, the Third in the Trinity.
So what does command of you?
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