Day 69 - 2 Corinthians 6:11-18

11 Oh, dear Corinthian friends! We have spoken honestly with you, and our hearts are open to you. 12 There is no lack of love on our part, but you have withheld your love from us. 13 I am asking you to respond as if you were my own children. Open your hearts to us!
14 Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? 15 What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? 16 And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said:
“I will live in them
    and walk among them.
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.
17 Therefore, come out from among unbelievers,
    and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord.
Don’t touch their filthy things,
    and I will welcome you.
18 And I will be your Father,
    and you will be my sons and daughters,
    says the Lord Almighty.”

Tori's Comments:

It reminds me of the verse that says you can't serve both God and money. We each must choose one, a choice that is ultimately to serve God or ourselves.

Terrie's Comments:

What harmony can their be between Christ and the Devil?  This passage causes me to reflect into my life to see if there are any ways that I have "partnered with" or "enabled" the Devil to work in my life or the lives around me.  Are there any thoughts or attitudes that I need to give to God and line up with Him or return into His care?  

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Day 16 - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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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Day 15 - 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

6 When one of you has a dispute with another believer, how dare you file a lawsuit and ask a secular court to decide the matter instead of taking it to other believers! 2 Don’t you realize that someday we believers will judge the world? And since you are going to judge the world, can’t you decide even these little things among yourselves? 3 Don’t you realize that we will judge angels? So you should surely be able to resolve ordinary disputes in this life. 4 If you have legal disputes about such matters, why go to outside judges who are not respected by the church? 5 I am saying this to shame you. Isn’t there anyone in all the church who is wise enough to decide these issues? 6 But instead, one believer sues another—right in front of unbelievers!

7 Even to have such lawsuits with one another is a defeat for you. Why not just accept the injustice and leave it at that? Why not let yourselves be cheated? 8 Instead, you yourselves are the ones who do wrong and cheat even your fellow believers.

9 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Tori's Comments:

I have to keep in mind that at all times I am an ambassador of Christ, that the whole church represents God's kingdom and that my witness to unbelievers should be strong, despite circumstances. 

So is the author inferring immediate spiritual renewal by and healing? Like, when we decide to follow Christ we shouldn't struggle with those things? I suppose that wouldn't make sense, because immediately that passage about doing the things you don't wish you were doing and... Yeah, you know the one... So what exactly is he referring to? 


Terrie's Comments:
The word "indulge" appears once again here.  (See yesterday's post for my comments if you missed them)  The list that follows is quite clear and each one opposes the character of God:

• sexual sin
• worship idols
• commit adultery
• male prostitutes
• practice homosexuality
• theives
• greedy people
• drunkards
• abusive
• cheat people

Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

There is hope for every person among us who indulges in such things.  The hope is in calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God we can be cleansed, made holy, made right with God again!!!  Hallelujah!

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