KINGDOM LIVING: The Believer and Their Body

LIVING UNDER KINGDOM AUTHORITY

January 7, 2024

THE BELIEVER AND THEIR BODY

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Job 1—Lost

Romans 8:11 (NLT) The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

1 Corinthians 6:18 (NKJV) Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body. (NIV) Flee from sexual immorality…

Hebrews 13:4 (NIV) Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

1 Corinthians 6:12 (NIV) Everything is permissible for me

Romans 12:2 (NIV) Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV) The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

TEXT:

1 Corinthians 6:12-20 (NIV) ¹² “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. ¹³ You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴ By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. ¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” ¹⁷ But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

¹⁸ Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. ¹⁹ Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; ²⁰ you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.

FIVE TRUTHS ABOUT THE BODY BELIEVERS NEED TO KNOW IN ORDER TO LIVE UNDER KINGDOM AUTHORITY:

1.

1 Corinthians 6:12 (NIV) ¹² “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. (NKJV) 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.

Galatians 5:1 (NIV) It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

1 Corinthians 6:13 (NIV) You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:13b (NIV) The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:13c (NIV) The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Romans 12 :1 (NIV) …in view of God’s mercy, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 (NIV) May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 6:13c (NIV) The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (NIV) So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (NIV) So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

2.

1 Corinthians 6:14 (NIV) By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.

2 Corinthians 5:8 (NKJV) …to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.

Romans 1:4 (NIV) and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

3.

1 Corinthians 6:15 (NIV) Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

1 Corinthians 6:15-17 (NIV) Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” ¹⁷ But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

v. 15 …members of Christ…

Ephesians 5:30 (NKJV) For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.

1 Corinthians 12:27 (NIV) Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

1 Corinthians 6:17 (NIV) But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:16 (NIV) Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body?…

Matthew 5:8 (NIV) Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

4.

1 Corinthians 6:19 (NIV) Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own…

Romans 8:14 (NIV) For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

Romans 8:16 (NIV) The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

Ephesians 4:30 (NIV) And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

5.

1 Corinthians 6:20a (NIV) …you were bought at a price.

1 Peter 1:19 (NIV) …the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

1 Corinthians 6:20b (NIV) Therefore, honor God with your bodies.

Ephesians 2:10 (NIV) For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

CONCLUSION:

PRAYER:

ALTAR:

Proverbs 4:23-27 (NIV)

²³Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
²⁴ Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
²⁵ Let your eyes look straight ahead;
fix your gaze directly before you.
²⁶ Give careful thought to the paths for your feet
and be steadfast in all your ways.
²⁷ Do not turn to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.

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