1 Cor. 6:15-20

“Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For "THE TWO," He says, "SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.“ But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

“Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”

“For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”

1 Cor. 6:20

Purity Ownership Price

Purity

Corinth was infamous for immorality

Christians are joined with the Lord

Christians are members of the body of Christ

Purity

“Let every one that names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.” 2 Tim. 2:19

Purity

“Blessed are the pure in heart” Matt. 5:8

“refrain his tongue from evil” 1 Pet. 3:10

“perfecting holiness in the fear of God” 2 Cor.7:1

Think

Talk

Action

Purity

“..may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” 2 Cor.11:2

Clean, pure

“...much more precious than of gold that perishes...” 1 Pet. 1:7

Purity

Thinking of hope of heaven 1Jn.3:3

Admonition - Heb. 10:24

Ownership

Our body ~ Temple of Holy Spirit

Temple ~ Dwelling place of Deity

Our body is a suitable dwelling place for the Spirit when we obey the gospel.

Ownership

“That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”

Gal. 3:14

- “through faith” means through the gospel-Spirit is able to dwell in the body when we obey the gospel

Ownership

Morally Pure

Healthy Body Healthy spirit

Ownership

“you are not your own” Ransomed by sacred blood

Devote our body to the glory of his name

7. For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8. For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. Rom. 14:7-8

Price

“For you are bought with a price”

“...shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own bloodHis own blood”

Acts 20:28

Price

“For you are bought with a price”

“And they sang a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your bloodYour blood”

Rev. 5:9

Price

“you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ” 1 Pet. 1:18-19

Price

“who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree.”

1 Pet. 2:24

Price

7. For he who has died has been freed from sin.8. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,9. knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

10. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.11. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

If we have been bought, we are His. And He determines:

1.How we live for Him2.Speak about Him3.Worship Him4.Keep our bodies pure as the temple of the Holy Spirit

Jesus has only bought those who have obeyed Him.

How do I do that?

SalvationSalvation

Hear the gospel (Rom. 10:17)Believe In Jesus (Jn. 8:24)REPENT of your sins (Lk. 13:3)Confess your faith (Matt. 10:32-33)Baptized Into Christ (Acts 2:38)

Faithful until death (Rev. 2:10)

REMISSION OF SINS