Sermon January 11
“This week our Sermon was from 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
As the Apostle Paul continues his work in cleaning up the Corinthian Church he addresses sexual immorality; it was a big problem. Paul begins with parroting back to the Church the things he had heard them say many times: “I have the right to do anything.” “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” Because they’d been taught that grace would cover their sins they took it to the extreme and began to excuse sexual immorality as permissible; covered by grace. Why would they do this? Because our DESIRES are LOUD. The sin nature is at war with the Spirit. They are completely opposed. If you don’t like the confines of God’s moral will you find excuses to ignore Him. BE CAREFUL NOT TO TRUST IN YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. Paul says, there is something you may have missed here: “The two will become one flesh.” THERE IS A VERY REAL, SPIRITUAL CONNECTION THAT COMES WITH A SEXUAL CONNECTION. IT’S SUPERNATURAL; DEEPER THAN WHAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND AND MORE DAMAGING THAN YOU REALIZE. “Flee from sexual immorality.” This is an act of RESOLVE. When you are playing Freeze Tag how do you keep from getting frozen? RUN!!! When sexual temptation comes you need to know where to run. Choose a worship song and cue it up on your phone or memorize a Scripture and say it over and over the moment temptation comes knocking. “All other sins a person commits are outside of the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.” How do you see sexual sin? If it is just another sin it is easy to find yourself in the place of, “Well, I’m never going to be perfect. Grace will always be my only hope. So, I can let grace cover my sexual sin. This is just too hard.” BUT IT’S NOT! Sexual sin is different; it comes with an additional wound. This is how you destroy your Spiritual connection with the Holy Spirit; you cannot hear the Spirit, get prayers answered, or find peace.
Discussion Questions
1. How have the temptations towards sexual immorality changed from the context of the Corinthian Church until now? How have they remained the same?
2. What is the cost of sexual immorality? What is the remedy? What has worked for you?
