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The following message was given
at Trinity Bible Church in Powell, Wyoming. I'm green. Closer to my mouth. Wow, I'm
such an amateur at this. I was hoping you wouldn't find
out until I actually started preaching. Oh, Lord. What a sad deal. 1 Corinthians 6 is where we're
at this morning. 1 Corinthians 6 is our text. Let me read the Word of God to
us, and may we hear it as such. 1 Corinthians 6, verse 9-20. Or do you not know that the unrighteous
will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither
the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice
homosexuality, nor thieves, nor greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were
some of you. 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. All things are lawful for
me, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful for me,
but I will not be dominated by anything. Food is meant for the
stomach, and the stomach for food. And God will destroy both,
one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual
immorality, but for the Lord and the Lord for the body. God
raised the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. Do
you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall
I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute?
Never. For do you not know that he who
is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For as it
is written, the two will become one flesh. but he who adjoins
to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits
is outside the body. A sexual immoral person sins
against his own body. Or do you not know that your
body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you? When you have
from God, you are not your own, for you were bought with a price."
So glorify God in your bodies. Amen. Let's pray. Father, indeed,
we come this morning to this text. We pray that you would
speak to us and encourage us, that we would be humbled as we
consider sin in your response to it. And they would be strengthened
to live lives that indeed glorify you. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Well Corinth, we're entering
into this letter right in the middle, just for a brief context. Paul is writing this letter to
a church in Corinth. Corinth is a very integral spot
in the trade that is happening in this region. About 150 years
before this letter was written, Rome came in and decimated the
entire area, and killed most of the men in this area. then
sold the women and children into slavery, and so this area was
pretty much annihilated. About 50 years prior to this
letter, Rome had started investing in this area again, and had rebuilt
it, and it had become a providential headquarters for Rome and the
government. And because the heritage of this area had somewhat been
disrupted because of the Roman invasion, we see then, that it
is now being built with all kinds of eclectic cultures and people
and nations were in this area. And so, it is a very diverse
area. It is a very prosperous area.
It became one of the most prosperous regions in this area. And Paul
had been there about 18 months total of ministering in this
area, starting this little church. He was very familiar with the
people and the culture. This letter is what we call 1 Corinthians,
but probably the second letter that he wrote, because he's answering
questions from a previous correspondence. We have a 2 Corinthians in our
Bibles that follow, but there's probably four letters all together
that are referenced. In this center, though, because
of the newness of it and the prosperity of it and the amount
of really transient people that came through this area because
of the marketing that was going on here, the trade, it became
known as what we would call Sin City. If you were referenced
as a Corinthian, it was not a good thing. A Corinth gal or a Corinth
woman was how they referenced prostitutes. This area became
known particularly for the sexual sin of the time in this area. Paul identifies other sins, but
he is specifically dealing with this sin because it is part of
the context of the culture In fact, the largest temple to Aphrodite's
in this cult, what we would refer to as a prostitution cult, where
they had over a thousand slave prostitutes, was in this area. And so sexual immorality was
a norm for the culture. It was an expected way of life.
It was just a given part of your experience as a human in this
part of the world. And Paul is now planning a church,
and he's having to deal with this amazing context and culture. And so he does so in this letter,
and we are blessed to have some of that. He begins dealing with
it in chapter five. He talks about this bizarre sin
that was happening, and he really strongly confronted the Corinthians
and said, listen, this is a sin that's not even named among the
Gentiles, and here you're allowing it to exist in the church. And
he said, you guys are You're not dealing with it. And actually,
it's known that you're not dealing with it. And he said, you guys
should mourn. This sin is being allowed in the church. And then
he begins to write this letter to help them work through this
very complicated, very pervasive sin in the church. It's interesting,
though, and my focus this morning is, how does he do this? What
is his focus when he's dealing with this very grievous, very
pervasive sin in the context of this church, What is his focus,
and what does he tell them that the solution and the help for
this sin is? Now, I initially titled this
message, Fighting Sin with the Power of the Gospel. I changed
the title to Fighting Sexual Sin with the Power of the Gospel,
because that's really the focus, but it is indeed a common way
to deal with sin. One of the things that we should
be taking from the ministry of the word as Pastor Brian has
been teaching and preaching for us is this idea that the gospel
is the power for trans to be transformed. It is the power
to overcome and to deal with sin. The law doesn't do it, the
gospel doesn't. It's what inflames us and causes
us to want to live this life for God's glory and to be transformed. And so we're going to deal with
sexual sin here, because that's the context of the letter, and
I think in our culture it is important that we regularly speak
into this, because we are living in a culture, well, maybe not
as perverse and overtly sexual as that culture, because of our
technology, it is every bit so. So my title is Fighting Sexual
Sin with the Power of the Gospel. I have three points. that's going
to help us work through this text. Our identity in Christ,
our union with Christ and our ownership or being owned by Christ. Verse six, or do you not know
that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do
not be deceived. He's saying, listen. This notion
that some of you have, because we live in the context of this
lifestyle, we're just commonplace to be engaged in the sense He
says, don't be deceived. If you're characterized by pursuing,
if this is the pattern of your life, if this is how you're known
and you're engaged in these sins, don't be deceived. He says, the
unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. We cannot
continue in these sins, be characterized by these sins, and also claim
to be a Christ follower, that the work of Christ has been applied
to us, and we're now going to continue to live in this sin.
He says, don't be deceived. And so he comes across strongly,
initially, and says, listen. And he tries to get their attention.
Do not be deceived. And he lists a variety of sins
to start with, with sexual immorality. But he goes through a long list.
Neither the sexually immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers,
or men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor greedy, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom
of God. And this is important that we
see that, first of all, this church in Corinth was filled
with sinners. Our church is filled with sinners.
If we were going to say, okay, let's take an inventory of the
sinful patterns that God saved us out of, as he collected and
built this church, we'd have a list similar to this. We shouldn't
be shocked. This is a description of us.
This is where we come from. This is the way that our humanness
is impacted. I would say that we see several
things listed there that are indeed related to sexual sin. One thing I would draw your attention
to that is somewhat surprising And because of the use of the
word, we don't actually even know what it means often, is
reviler. What is a reviler? It's listed
in there with some pretty amazing sins. What is a reviler? A reviler is what our culture
would call someone who is verbally abusive, harsh, critical, demanding. Oftentimes in our homes, when
we close the door, what happens that is kind of the acceptable
sin now within the context of homes? It's reviling. And it's
listed right here. It's a very serious sin, and
we should acknowledge it as such. Sexual immorality is the first
one. Those who are having sinful sexual
relationships outside the context of marriage, most often defined
as fornication. But any physical, sexual act
outside of marriage, idolaters, engaged in ceremonies and worship
activities of false gods. The Roman culture had its gods. The Greek culture had its gods.
We had Aphrodites. This church was just surrounded
with false gods, options to worship. And people were being saved out
of those into the Corinth church. And so this was a struggle to
really think through who is the true God and who are we worshiping?
Idolaters, those engaged in sexual activity with someone other than
their spouse. Practicing homosexuality, there's various translations
for that. Disengaging in activities with same-sex partners. Thieves.
Greedy. Drunkards. Again, characterized
by drunkenness. revilers, and swindlers. So this is the context of the
sin, and this is what Paul is seeking to address. What a mess!
Can you imagine being the pastor of this church, trying to write
a letter in hopes that you're going to help somehow to get
this church to understand and to get them on track? And so
Paul has this opportunity, and we can take from that his focus. My first point this morning is
Paul begins to empower the Corinthians to fight this sin by reminding
them of their identity, of who they really are. And he begins
that when he says, and such were some of you, verse 11, and such
were some of you. And he begins by saying, listen,
you may have come from any variety of background. You could have
been save for any context, any background, any sexual entrapment,
any sinful background. And you're here now, and your
primary identity is, such were some of you. That's not who you
are now. You have been radically changed. Your very identity before a God
Himself has been transformed. Such were some of you. Such was I. And we can come with
those backgrounds and be received. And we can be welcomed in to
this relationship with God. We have indeed been rescued from
these sins. They are no longer our identity
and reminds us of this new identity. And then he begins to lay out
the glory of this transformation. He says, and such were some of
you, but you were washed. But you were washed. You've been
cleansed from the filth and the indecency and the unrighteousness
and the vileness of your sin. You haven't been dusted off. You haven't been just covered
over. You have been scrubbed down to the very core of who
you are, and it has been removed. Your sin has been removed. It
has been completely, fully washed away. You are no longer dirty,
you are no longer contaminated by this former life. You have
been purified by the blood of Christ. The stain of your sin
has been removed. Not just covered, but completely
removed. The record of debt has been nailed
to the cross and your guilt has been absolved. You are now clean. You are pure. You are acceptable. You are a saint. He says, oh,
church. I know you're struggling with
this sin, and I know the background you came from. But let me first
remind you, you have been washed. You are not this person that
you were when you came in. You have been cleansed. Next
he says, you were sanctified. This term sanctified is used
two various ways in the Bible. One is to talk about this point
in time you have been set, been pulled out of this place and
set in this new place. You've been sanctified, set apart for
holy use. And then there's a progressive
setting apart, continuing in holiness and growth and maturity.
And this is referring to this, you have been set apart. You
reached into the pit and he grabbed you and he set you apart. He
cleaned you off and now you are honorable. for kingdom purposes. You have been set apart. You
are now a vessel of honor instead of a vessel of brokenness, a
vessel of unrighteousness. You have been pulled from the
pit and set upon the altar as an instrument to be used by the
Lord. You have been sanctified. Oh,
church, remember, you have been set apart. You're no longer cast
out in dishonor, but brought near as an honorable vessel. You are washed and now receive
all the blessings in the heavenly places because you have been
brought near and sanctified. Next, you are justified. You
have been declared righteous in the highest court in heaven
with the all-knowing, all-powerful judge whose judgment is perfect
and eternal. The declaration is righteous
before the holy judge. And how could that be? Oh, because
your sin and the curse of your sin, the consequences of your
sin were put on Christ and they were paid for. And Christ took
them all and he paid for them all. And then his record of righteousness
was put on you. And the judge looks at you in
that righteousness and says, it is so. You are righteous.
You have been justified. You've been put back into right
relationship with the eternal living God. And you are justified. As Jesus takes our curse, condemnation,
and wrath, we are declared not guilty. In fact, we're ever seen
and treated as fully forgiven and righteous." And then he closes
this, "...in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the
Spirit of our God. In the name you once cursed and
denied, this name is the one that is your guarantee." This
is the seal at the end of the document that says, this contract
has been satisfied and it is certified now as finished. The deal is done. The promises
are yours. The name of Christ has been applied
to it. The work has been certified as
complete. And this is really a picture of our baptism. One of the things that has been
beautiful about over the last two months, we've had six or
seven weeks of baptisms, and every week we get to hear this
and see this proclamation of God saying, you were once this,
Such were some of you, but you have been washed, you have been
sanctified and justified by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
and by the Spirit." Applied to you by the Spirit. And it really
is a picture of our baptism. And often, Paul does this. He
says, hey, remember your baptism. Romans 6, hey, remember your
baptism. You who are struggling with sin,
thinking about living a life of sin. Remember your baptism.
He's doing exactly the same thing here for the Corinthians, and
He's doing the same thing for us. Such were some of you, but
you have been washed. You have been sanctified. You
have been justified by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and
applied to you by His Spirit. Don't forget who you are. As
we experience the temptations of this life, as we find ourselves
engaged in sin, and we are struggling with the things that we battle
in this life, we have to go back to the very basics. If you're
struggling with temptation, if you're struggling with discouragement,
if you're struggling with any of the difficulties of this life,
The first thing we must do is to apprehend who we are in Christ. We must go back and speak to
ourselves the very truths that we have been washed, that we
have been sanctified, that we are justified, and that we can
stand before the living God not based on our sin, such as we
were, but in our new identity as His children. Oh, the power
for change comes from the gospel. It doesn't come from him just
telling you to get your act together. And that's really what I want
us to see is that this identity is the power for change. Paul
doesn't say, hey, you wicked Corinthians, I can't believe
you're still engaged in these things. You need to get your
act together. You're pathetic losers. Wait till I get there.
He says, remember, remember who you are. The question for us
really, though, is do we believe these things? Really, where do
we find out most where we believe these things? It's in the conversations
we have with ourselves Does your conversation go like
that when you're struggling with sin and you and you kind of stop
and you say I'm washed I've been sanctified. I've been justified
and we back away from it. We have it to stays for it Or
do we just take out the stick and start beating ourselves with
it? I am pathetic failure. I cannot believe that I'm still
struggling with this. I'm unworthy and I'm defiled
and I don't deserve this. I'm unacceptable. I could never
be truly loved. Struggling with this sin still.
Where's our conversation? To remind ourselves of the work
of Christ on our behalf. The power comes from the gospel.
Not turning back to the law. not in correcting yourselves
or getting your act together or cleansing yourselves. That's
what we want to do, right? We want to wash ourselves before
we come back. We want to sanctify ourselves,
fix us, repair all the cracks before we come back. We want
to justify ourselves before we come back. God says, no, no,
remember first who you are. Come back and be reminded, be
strengthened. The next thing Paul does is to
remind us of our union with Christ, starting in verse 12. Before
he really gets into the meat of that, he deals with three
sayings. And in my translation, verse
12 starts with quotation marks. Some translations don't include
the quotation marks because, as we know, Greek didn't use
quotation marks. But these are common sayings
of the time, is the way most people understand this. All things
are lawful for me. And then he answers that, but
not all things are helpful. And he says it again, all things
are lawful for me. This is a common saying in the
context of this culture to minimize sin or to justify sin. Like, hey, listen, I've been
saved. Look, this is amazing, this freedom and this liberty
I've now been given. And now they're living out a licentious
lifestyle. They're disregarding the law.
They're not considering what it means to glorify God. And
so there's these phrases that are being used to justify sin,
and he's dealing with it right away. But not all things are
helpful, and you will not be dominated by anything. And he
really is saying to them, listen, there's more principles than
your liberty as a Christian. You have to consider also, is
this helpful? Is this the way that God would
want to use you now for the good of the kingdom? Are you being
helpful? And are you dominated by this? And it's still the same
questions we have to ask today in regard to our liberties. The
statement doesn't end with, all things are lawful. No, it says,
but are we now using them for the glory of God? Are we not
being dominated then? So we're still being controlled
by the love of Christ? So there's other principles, and he addresses
those quickly. The third statement that's kind
of floating around is, food is meant for the stomach, and stomach
for food. What they're really saying is,
this is a natural appetite. This is a God-given natural appetite,
and our bodies are created for it, so what's the big deal? It's just a natural part of life.
And he addresses that, and God will destroy both one and the
other. They are temporal. They are not
to be masters. They have been created for a
purpose. While they had great liberty
in the foods they ate and the appetites of their stomach, that
is not now the guiding principle to determine how the appetite
is satisfied. Paul writes in Galatians, for
you were called the freedom brothers, not only to use your freedom,
but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh,
but through love serve one another." There's more principles than
just, you now have this newfound freedom, so exercise it. So he
deals with some of the common objections, and then he moves
right into this very robust understanding of your union with Christ. So first, we have a new identity
in Christ, and now we have this union with Christ. And it really
is through this union we have with Christ that He builds a
case for, hey listen, we can't be engaged in this type of sin.
We just can't. You have a much higher thing
going on in your existence now. Verse 13, the body is not meant
for sexual morality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the
body. Paul is now beginning to impress
upon the Corinthians that the bodies are more than just a physical
entity, but has a specific purpose. The body is not meant to just
live independently of who they are in Christ. Their union with
Christ includes the body. The Gnostic said there was a
separation, right? There's the spiritual and the physical. As
long as we're good spiritually, we can kind of engage and do
whatever we want physically. So that's part of the culture.
But it's a way to justify this behavior. To say, I have been
united to Christ spiritually, but it doesn't matter what I
necessarily do with my body, it's going to die, right? And
you say, no, wait a second. Your union with Christ includes
both your spirit and your body. And he starts making this connection.
Continues, and God raised the Lord and will also raise us up
by his power. Well, this is why our baptism
is important. There's a sense of the resurrection
that Paul is bringing here, like there's a coming day where you
will be raised. This body that you now have will
be raised in a resurrection unto eternal life. And he says that
here, it makes this connection that there is that God raised
the Lord and will also raise you up by his power. But that
resurrection flows out of our spiritual resurrection we have
in our new life in Christ. This full resurrection, final
resurrection, happens because you have been resurrected with
Christ now. That baptism shows it. You have died, your old man
has died with Christ, you've been washed, and you've been
raised to a newness of life. Both your body and your spirit
are now united to Christ, both in the death, burial, and resurrection. And we are to live according
to this resurrected life and looking for the final resurrection
of our bodies. But, oh, dear saints, we indeed
are united to Christ, both body and spirit, now through the resurrection
of Christ. But today we await on our spiritual
union, our final union with Christ. But both our body and souls are
united. Our sexual desires, our sexual
bodies, our eyes, our ears, our hands, our feet, are all united
to Christ in His resurrection. Nothing is not His. Nothing has
not been united. Nothing we get to claim as our
own. Oh, that part wasn't united.
No. We, in our entirety, are united to Christ in our resurrected spirit and body with Christ.
Paul then connects this union to sexual immorality in very
concrete ways by asking several more rhetorical questions. Verse
15. Do you not know that your bodies
are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members
of Christ and make them members of a prostitute?" He says, okay,
if this is true, this resurrection, body, spirit, you're united to
Christ in this mystical, but true, real sense. Are you now
going to take that body and unite it to a prostitute? He's saying,
you can't take your union and use it for those reasons. You
can't take Christ there. And you can't go by yourself
if you're truly a believer with the spirit dwelling in you. Shall
I take this resurrected body and unite it to Christ and unite
it to members of a prostitute? And his answer, never, never. The most emphatic way he can
say it, never shall it be. We would say the same thing and
we would include in that. Our eyes. Can we unite? our eyes, the very eyes of Christ
that are united to us, and can we engage pornography with them?
Can we do that? Can we unite the body of Christ
to these things that we can expose ourselves to? Drunkenness, gossip,
slander, jealousy, you can name any sin, and the same thing applies.
First our identity, who we are, and now this union with Christ.
We do not sin independent of this union with Christ. There's
so much power for us as we consider that we are truly united to Christ,
both body and spirit, as shown in our baptism. The Lord proclaims
that to us. Why? So we can fight sin. So we can live this life that
He has now provided for us in Christ. The power for us to fight
these things truly comes through the gospel. Paul then sets this
sin apart, and he goes on. Every other sin... Actually,
I skipped a part. For do you not know that he who
joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For as it
is written, the two shall become one flesh. But he who is joined
to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Again, he asks this
rhetorical question. Can we do this? You who have
become one flesh with Jesus through your salvation, shall you take
this resurrected and redeemed body and create one flesh with
the prostitute and defile the Lord himself?" And he answers,
again, not only never, but flee. Like, flee from these things. I should have titled my sermon,
I thought about this last night, instead of fight sin, flee from
sin. I mean, that's his response. Like, we have to drop everything
and flee. We must do everything in our power to remove ourselves
from that context, to take the very united body of Christ out
from there. Paul then sets apart this particular
sin from others when he says, every other sin a person commits
is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins
against his own body. This verse has created a lot
of difficulty in translation. But I think it is very, very
important that we think about it. Because what it's saying
is that sexual sin is not like any other sin. This is a different
category. See, I think we would like to,
as the Corinthians would like to say, it's all just sin. But Paul's saying, listen, There's
something different about sexual sin. I think we know instinctively
that that is true. Sexual sin is different. Because
of the beauty of the gift, and because it is the most intimate
relationship that humans have been given, expressing the deepest
sense of vulnerability in relationship, used in the context of marriage,
the most glorious and magnificent Part of that relationship, sin
is different. It is sin against the very unified,
resurrected body, for sure. The sexual union has such intimacy. And it unites you to one another
in such a vital way, it is actually a sin against both the body and
against Christ. This cannot be compared to eating
food as a glutton, or injection of drugs as an addict, or theft,
or reviling, or greed. All those are sins we commit.
But with sexual sin, first of all, the sexual relationship
has this glorious thing that it projects, right? The love
of Christ whose church and the most intimate part of the marriage
union. And it portrays this very beautiful,
very glorious relationship. And when sin is in relation to
that part of our experience, it impacts us
differently because it is such a vulnerable, special part of
our human experience. and because it mars the very
representation of Christ's love for his church. Only this relationship is referred
to as a one flesh relationship. And that is much more than our
sexual union, but it is for sure that's part of it. That we take
two entities and they become one entity, and part of that
is the intimate sexual relationship. But when there's sex, when there's
sin, at that vulnerable, very personal part of our life that
was given to us for this use of drawing us so intimately close
as a husband and wife, and helping us understand the love of Christ
for us, it impacts us differently. It does something different to
us. This is one of the reasons that
if you've experienced trauma, a sexual trauma, it is often
a long-lasting, impactful thing. It's hard to understand how profoundly
people that have struggled or had sexual trauma are impacted
by it. It's not like getting your arm
cut off. It's different. And why is it different? Because
of this very passage right here that Paul is just saying that
every other sin a person commits outside the body with a sexual
morality, a person sins against his own body. You're human. It's this very special thing,
and now united to Christ. And it's a different sin. It's
different than just injecting drugs. Paul, if you've ever experienced betrayal,
sexually or even in your marital relationships in a sexual way.
It impacts the marriage differently than drunkenness does or indifference
does. It has a different impact on
our relationships. This is why we have to take very
seriously sexual immorality as a people. We have to, we cannot
take our cues from our culture that says, hey, listen, we're
just, we're just, it's just a natural function of life. These are natural
things that people are experiencing, the images that we're looking
at, the ways we're experiencing, the interactions with this. This
sin is different than every other sin. And we must know that as
a people and take heed to that. If you are in a marriage relationship
and your spouse is viewing pornography, it impacts that marriage. More
significantly than any other type of sin that I've seen and
dealt with. Being lazy, not being able to
keep a job, drunkenness, I mean all these other things are hurtful
for sure. That one there is devastating. And there are many of us that
are healing and trying to work through these complexities because
we as a culture do not see the harm. But Paul reminds us of
this great need to see this sin is a sin unto itself, and we
must take heed. The last gospel motivation is
indeed that we are owned by God. Or do you not know that your
body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have
from God? That the God Himself dwells in
us, and His resurrected, redeemed body is the temple of the living
God, and it should be considered in such. God Himself unites to
us and resides in us. And then His final proclamation
of gospel truth to motivate us is, you are not your own, for
you were bought with the price. The blood of Christ was given
for you. You were the slave. You were the helpless, hopeless
one. You were the one that had no possible way to free yourself
from your slavery to your sin, your slavery to this world and
to Satan. And God graciously sent His Son,
who came for you. And the Master said, what's the
price today for this wretched servant or slave? And the master
said, it's your blood. I require your blood to free
this one. And Christ said, I will give
it. I will give it for you. I will give my blood for you,
for each of you. I will free you today. I will take you and put my name
upon you and bring you into my home. you will live for eternity
with the King. He says, do not forget that you
are not your own. You have been purchased by the
blood of Christ. So dear brothers and sisters, we have a new identity.
We have a union with Christ. We've been purchased by the blood
of Christ. And so his final claim, dealing
with this grievous sin in this church, and this is what he offers
as the power for change. And then he says, so glorify
God in your body. So live as a washed, sanctified,
justified, united, resurrected saint. Live according to your
new identity. Live according to your union
with Christ. Live and live showing the value of your purchase. Live
the life you have been purchased for. Glorify God in your body. This life is available to all
those that come to Christ. Anyone that calls upon the name
of Christ will be saved. Washed, set apart, justified,
brought in. And so, if you're here this morning,
and you're saying, man, I'm not sure the saying could be such
worthsome of you, because I'm still there. I've never really
dealt with my sin. The offer to you this morning
has come. Put your faith in Christ. Call upon His name. And He will
save you. He will bring you in. He will
wash you. And for those of us that are
struggling, even as believers with this sin, God gives us the
power through the gospel. My last message is for those
that are hurting. I know this is a tough message
for people in this room. We are hurt together. We have
a whole population of people in this room that experience
sexual trauma. And we hurt with you. And we're
thankful that God comforts us. He receives us. He heals us. He binds us up. And we can do that as a people
as we know one another and we encourage one another to draw
each other back to the Lord. We as a people have much healing
to do, and may the Lord help us to do that together. Father,
we're thankful. We're thankful for the Lord Jesus
Christ who knew us in our sin, knew us in our rebelliousness,
in our defiance, in our filth, and yet was willing to come to
receive us, to rescue us, to cleanse us, to set us apart. to bind us up. O Lord, we pray
this morning that you would indeed do that work in us, that we would
live transformed lives because of this work in us. And Lord,
that you would heal us where we are broken, strengthen us
where we are weak, and set our feet on the path of righteousness
out of great gratitude for all the work you've done in us. We
pray in Jesus' name. Amen. You have been listening to a
message from Trinity Bible Church in Powell, Wyoming. To receive
more information about Trinity Bible Church or to support the
ministry, go to tbcwyoming.com. That is tbcwyoming.com.
Sex to the Glory of God - I
Series Sex
How our identity in Jesus, union with Jesus, and ownership by Jesus helps our sexual lives glorify God.
| Sermon ID | 5723185317918 |
| Duration | 42:21 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - AM |
| Bible Text | 1 Corinthians 6:9-20 |
| Language | English |
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