Spirit Led Living

1 Cor 6:13-20 "The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15 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! 16 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."    17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body." Sin is sin. Any sin no matter how minor in our eyes is enough to keep us from fellowship with God

1 Cor 6:12-13 "Everything is permissible for me"-but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"-but I will not be mastered by anything.” It is for freedom that I have been set free. I allow no one to put a yoke on me other than the one put there by the Lord. I can remember in my younger days watching my friends take all their rock albums and breaking them or throw them away after giving their lives to Christ. I knew the tremendous significance that this had for them, but I also knew that at some point later on they would wish they hadn’t done it. I had the grace to be able to enjoy the music without buying into the message I also enjoy having a glass of wine every now and again or a beer on a hot day. Having said all of this I am very careful not to exercise my freedom indiscriminately. For years I served as an addictions counselor. I knew that my freedom could easily become someone else’s stumbling block. Therefore, I chose not to drink

1 Cor 6:9-11 “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God ? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God . 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.’ This is where we start hitting up against situational ethics and the moral codes of this era. Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God . His approach wais to love people into His kingdom and for His followers to do the same. He meets people exactly where they are and shows them the Father’s love. Sadly, for many this means that we tolerate the sin, or worse, that we find a way not to call it sin at all. The first argument is the cultural argument. Paul and Peter write against braided hair, short hair