3Circle Church
Sincerely, Paul Week 2
Locations & Times
3Circle Church - Fairhope Campus
10274 AL-104, Fairhope, AL 36532, USA
Thursday 4:00 PM
Campus Times
We would be honored to have you join us for our Sunday gatherings at one of our five campuses serving these Alabama communities:
Fairhope Campus - 8A | 9:30A | 11:15A
Daphne Campus - 8A | 9:30A | 11A
Midtown Campus - 10:30A
Thomasville Campus - 10:30A
Robertsdale Campus - 9:00A | 10:30A
Fairhope Campus - 8A | 9:30A | 11:15A
Daphne Campus - 8A | 9:30A | 11A
Midtown Campus - 10:30A
Thomasville Campus - 10:30A
Robertsdale Campus - 9:00A | 10:30A
1 Corinthians 6:12-20 (ESV)
“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. 13 “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. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 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? Never! 16 Or 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.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
“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. 13 “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. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 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? Never! 16 Or 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.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Two biblical concepts hold this section together like bookends (v. 12, 19-20).
Bookend #1 = Christian liberty: freedom to and freedom from
Just because you can does not mean you should.
Galatians 5:1
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Bookend # 2 = Union with Christ
We must move from tool to temple.
Romans 12:1
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
The Holy Spirit empowers Christians to dominate our appetites, rather than be dominated by them.
Romans 6:10-11
For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
All sin breaks God’s law, but sexual sin results in unique consequences (v. 18).
“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!” - Abraham Kuyper
The Christian life is a constant prayer and realignment from “mine” to “Yours” (v. 20).
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