Glorify God In Your Body! Series

Sadly, this same type of attitude is worming its way into the church! Do you realize that many people who profess Christ as Savior have come out in support of homosexual Christianity?

They say that Jesus would not have judged them as we do and that we need to adjust our beliefs for the society today! Well, I am not standing in judgment of these people, but I stand firm in my belief in the Word of God!

I believe what Scripture tells me and that it has set forth a pattern we are to live by…I will preach it and teach it, until He takes me home. My calling is not to submit popular opinion but it is to preach the truth of Scripture!

It seems as if TRUTH very often gets in the way of popular opinion! TRUTH can often stymy what we desire as individuals! But what I have found as a pastor and as a human being is that when someone desires something enough, the truth will NOT stand in their way. If people want to do it they will…

Ever since the 1st church was established there has been a particular teaching that has perverted the doctrine of salvation. The doctrine of salvation is that we can do NOTHING to earn our salvation OR lose it, but that it is by GODs GRACE alone that we are saved and kept saved!

Out of this doctrine has creeped a very dangerous teaching and it can be summed up like this… “if I am saved by God’s grace, and there is nothing I can do to earn OR ‘lose’ that salvation then I can live my life like I please because His grace covers all my sin…’

This was the attitude being taught in Corinth and one of the reasons for Paul’s letter to the church. Paul had to deal with this in other churches as well… read his 1st letter to the church in Thessolonica!

It is also something we still deal with today in our churches… there are people in our church who openly profess Christ as their Lord and Savior, but they believe they can live their lives anyway they choose!

They believe that they can do what they want, that they can live like the world, and it is all good because of God’s grace for salvation!

Now I want us to understand that we ARE free in Christ and because of what Christ has done, we are FREE from the Law and the burden of the Law…

We ARE free from the consequences and guilt of ALL our sin, past, present and future… THAT IS ALL TRUE! BUT with that being said, God does NOT give us the right to live as we desire!

When we read this passage we can see that Paul was teaching with the godly view of the body and how it is to be ‘used’ for the glory of God…

In our world today we see the widespread decline in sexual values! We can even see it in our churches. One prime example is people professing Christ believing that sex before marriage is ok… or living together before they get married is just fine, as long as you love the person you are with… The issue is that is NOT what Scripture teaches us.

Now, Corinth was probably no worse than some of our cities today, but it was known in the 1st century for its unrestrained view of sexual indulgence!