“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. 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. By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 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! 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.” But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 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; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. I Corinthians 6:12-20
What is salvation? Some would say it is the saving of a person’s soul from Hell and they would be right. Yet it is more than that. Paul tells us here that Christ paid the price for “you” – all of you, not just your soul.
As a believer, your body, soul and spirit is one with Christ. Can you imagine Jesus violating himself through sins of the flesh? It is unthinkable. Yet when we commit sins in our flesh, we are dragging Him along with us.
Sin will not stop with just a corner of your life. It eats away at the substance of your being like a slow acid until it has destroyed every inch of who you are.
We are “Christians” – each of us like little bits of Christ spread all across the world. The Shekhinah glory of the ancient temple dwells inside of us. Our bodies are for the Lord and everything we do with them reflects upon Him.
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