12 You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything. 13 You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies. 14 And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead.
15 Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! 16 And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.” 17 But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
Terrie's Comments:
Pure Sex is a big deal to God. He created the sexual union between a man and a woman to go beyond just flesh and blood. It is a spiritual connection between the two. It is an image of Jesus Christ and his relationship to his bride, the church.
When we are Christians we are joined to Jesus Christ and we are one with him. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. Our bodies were bought at a high price and they belong to Jesus Christ. This is why we must honor God with our bodies. We must consider God in any decision that affects our body because we do not belong to ourselves any longer. Our bodies belong to God.
I love the image that verse 18 gives... Run from sexual sin! Sexual sin will suck you in and then keep you bound up longer than you ever intended it to. It lures you in with promises of immediate pleasures but forgets to tell you that you will never be satisfied beyond the moment. It will cause you to be entrapped by constantly driving you to look for a way to find satisfaction that can truly only be filled when you know how much you are loved by God alone. Just Run!! Don't even begin to flirt or experiment with it... IT ISN'T WORTH THE PRICE YOU WILL PAY!
Tori's Comments:
This is kind of random, but the fact that we won't have stomachs in heaven, that things like eating will be (I guess?) irrelevant, definitely stuck out to me.
But the mindset that we do not belong to ourselves, but to God, is something I want to keep.
And that sexual sin is different from other sins-never would have thought of it that way!
The symbolism is great. And that we are one in spirit with God? Also great.
I use waaaaayyy too many adjectives in these posts. But I can't help it.
They're just so great. :P
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