December 28, 2022 WE HAVE BEEN BOUGHT
1 Corinthians 6:11, 15, 17, 19-20 “And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.” “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? May it never be!” “But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.” “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.”
The fact that we do not belong to ourselves but have been purchased by God and belong to Him, seems to be a reality many believers have difficulty accepting. We are quick to say that our spirits belong to the Lord, but no so quick to say that our bodies also belong to the Lord. The point that Paul is making in 1 Corinthians 6 is that we are no longer our own. Paul is addressing the sin of immorality in particular, but what he says applies to sin in general. We are not to have the view that what really matters is our spirit while neglecting the importance of what we do in our bodies-our flesh and bones. The point for us to get is that our spirits and our bodies, including our minds, belong to God; we have been washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord-now we are to live that way. It is an amazing fact, but we as believers, are one spirit with the Lord! And, we are temples of the Holy Spirit-the Spirit of God lives in us! God purchased a package deal-He bought every part of us-body, soul and spirit. Once we begin to grasp the fact that we in total belong to the Lord, we are motivated to live in such a way that all we do in our spirits, in our bodies, and in our minds is to glorify God-the one we belong too. In light of the truths we find in the above passages, let us be reminded that we are truly not our own, but have been joined to the Lord and are one spirit with Him. Let it be our commitment to glorify God in our bodies. We glorify Him in our bodies by using the members of our bodies as instruments of righteousness-doing what is pleasing to Him. We are to flee immorality and any sin or anything that is not pleasing to Him. We are to use our bodies to serve Him, and a big part of serving Him is to do what blesses others and what pleases Him.
Colossians 3:23-24 “Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men; knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.”
Romans 6:11-13 “Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lust, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”
Blessings,
Buddy
RSS Feed