TWISTING
GOD'S TRUTH--PART IV
SERMON
TITLE: COMPLICATING YOUR
LIFE
SERMON
THEME: KEEPING THE PROPER PERSPECTIVE
WHEN INTIMACY IS TAKEN OUT OF PROPER CONTEXT, IT WILL COMPLICATE
YOUR LIFE.
I
CORINTHIANS 6:12
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.
·
THE PEOPLE OF
CORINTH CONCLUDED THAT THEY WERE FREE IN
CHRIST TO EXPRESS THEIR SEXUALITY IN ANY
FORM.
II
TIMOTHY 3:16-17
16 All
Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking,
correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so
that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
THE
TWIST: THE WORLD SAYS
THAT INTIMACY IS OK OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE, BUT IN THE END
IT ONLY MAKES YOUR LIFE MORE COMPLICATED.
WHAT DOES THE BODY GOT TO DO WITH IT?
I) YOU MUST ACT ON
WISDOM.
I
CORINTHIANS 6:13-14
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.
·
YOU ARE NOT FREE AS A CHRISTIAN
TO DO AS YOU PLEASE, BECAUSE THAT IS NOT FREEDOM, BUT RATHER A FORM OF BONDAGE.
HEBREWS
10:26
26 If we deliberately keep on
sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no
sacrifice for sins is left,
·
YOUR BODY IS AN ETERNAL INSTRUMENT WHICH THE GRACE OF GOD IS DISPLAYED
AND A VESSEL THAT WAS CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD.
II) YOU MUST ACT
ON WHOLENESS.
I
CORINTHIANS 6:15-17
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
·
AS CHRISTIANS WE
CAN NEVER TREAT OUR BODIES, OR CONSIDER
OUR SEXUALITY, AS SOMETHING APART FROM OUR SPIRITUAL
LIVES.
JOHN
15:4-5
4 Remain in me, as I also remain
in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine.
Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5 “I am the vine; you
are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much
fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
·
AS A BELIEVER YOUR BODY
IS JOINED TO CHRIST'S OWN BODY THAT WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD.
I
CORINTHIANS 6:18
18 Flee from sexual
immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but
whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
·
WHEN IT COMES TO SEXUAL ACTIVITY OR SENSUALITY
OUTSIDE THE CONTEXT OF MARRIAGE YOU ARE
TO RUN AWAY.
·
PURITY IS ALWAYS SMART, IMPURITY
IS ALWAYS STUPID.
III) YOU MUST ACT
ON WORSHIP.
I
CORINTHIANS 6:19-20
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.
·
IN THE PERSON OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT, GOD IS MAKING EACH ONE
OF US HIS RESIDENCE.
LEVITICUS
10:8-10
8 Then
the Lord said to Aaron, 9 “You
and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented drink whenever
you go into the tent of meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for
the generations to come, 10 so
that you can distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean
and the clean,
·
WHEN IT COMES TO
GOD'S RESIDENCE, HIS TEMPLE, THERE IS A PROPER EXPECTATION OF PURITY.
CONCLUSION: GOD HAS GIVEN US BODIES
TO USE FOR HIS GLORY WHEN WE FOLLOW HIS
DESIGN OF SEXUALITY.
ROMANS
12:1-2
Therefore,
I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true
and proper worship. 2 Do
not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what
God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.