INTRODUCTION

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. 12 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. 13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. (NKJV)

1 Corinthians 6:14-20

And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. 15 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! 16 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.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 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? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. (NKJV

BODY is mentioned 8 times in this passage

3 foundational truths about our bodies:

Your body was created by God, for His glory, and for your earthly and eternal good.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods… (NKJV)

1 Corinthians 6:13

…Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. (NKJV)

Self-gratification or God-glorification

1 Corinthians 6:13

…for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (NKJV)

If you don’t believe that God is for your body, then you will inevitably buy into all kinds of lies from the adversary about your body.

God is for you!

3 foundational truths about our bodies:

1Your body was created by God, for His glory, and for your earthly and eternal good.
In this broken world, we all have broken bodies.

God had given man and woman physical desires that were intended to be fulfilled in certain ways.

Brokenness

Because of brokenness, we are all prone to fulfill physical desires in ways that are contrary to God’s Word.

4 Realities about Brokenness:

Bodily sin harms inevitably.
Bodily sin controls quickly.
Not only does it control, but bodily sin devastates painfully.

1 Corinthians 6:18

…Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he

who commits sexual immorality sins against his own

body. (NKJV)

4 Realities about Brokenness:

Bodily sin harms inevitably.
Bodily sin controls quickly.
Not only does it control, but bodily sin devastates painfully.
And ultimately bodily sin condemns eternally.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. (NKJV)

Those who go outside of God’s good design for our bodies, “will not inherit the kingdom of God.”

3 foundational truths about our bodies

Your body was created by God, for His glory, and for your earthly and eternal good.
In this broken world, we all have broken bodies.
Our bodies are God’s temple.

1 Corinthians 6:19

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God… (NKJV)

APPLICATION

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee sexual immorality… (NKJV)

Whenever God gives us a negative command, He is really giving us two positives.

One, God is pointing us to something better.
And two, God is protecting us from something worse.

Sexual immorality: Any and all sexual activity, outside of a marriage between a man and a woman

The presence of a desire doesn’t mean we act on that desire in order to be whole, or in order to be fully ourselves.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. (NKJV)

CONCLUSION

John 6:35

…“I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.” (NKJV)

Luke 9:23-24

Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. (NKJV)

1 Corinthians 6:6

And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. (NKJV)