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Sometimes, I watch TV.
Most of the time, Maggie and I watch Hallmark together.
Sometimes, I catch up on MeTV and old shows like Gunsmoke.
On a rare occurrence, I will watch a news show.
Most of the time, I try to skip commercials, but sometimes I am stuck with them.
Have you ever counted how many commercials are about the body?
Cosmetics, eyeglasses, diapers, clothes.
Walk into a supermarket, like Walmart, or a pharmacy, and how much of that store is dedicated to the body, making the body look good for this life.
And, then we die, and someone pays a mortician a lot of money to make the dead body look good.
Our culture puts a lot of value on the body, making the body look good and fulfilling the desires of the body.
That’s a discussion in itself.
We won’t go into all the commercials and the flood of money going to fulfilling the desires of the body.
Cultures have always put a lot of value into making the body look good and fulfilling the desires of the body.
As a reaction, many churches and denominations have pushed back, devaluing the body, preaching against vanity and bodily desires, exulting the spirit.
The epitome is the stories of Puritans who removed all mirrors from their homes, so that no one would focus on the body.
Other denominations have said, “you know, culture is right.”
And they have tried to encourage people to pursue happiness in this life, following their heart, which naturally wants to fulfill the desires of the body.
Which side is right?
Is our culture or is the churches which devalue the body?
Trick question, because neither side is right.
Too often, instead of creating an understanding of truth from the Bible, we create this understanding based upon culture or based upon a reaction to culture.
So, let’s look at what Scripture says about the body.
After reading this passage, if we were in my office, you might look at me and say that this passage is talking about sexual immorality, not about commercials on a tv.
You would be right.
However, to understand sexual immorality, we must understand the body.
So, we are going to spend two weeks on this passage.
This week, we are going to talk about the body.
Next week, we are going to talk about sexual immorality.
Hopefully, next week, we can correct some misconceptions on what is and is not sexual immorality.
Hopefully, we can remove the discussion from a legalistic list of do’s and dont’s, and place it back into the spirit in which this passage was given, especially after we have learned about the body.
Today, we are going to discuss our identity and then the implications of our identity.
Our identity
In our passage, Paul makes three statements about our identity.
We have been redeemed
He says that we have been redeemed.
In the last verse, Paul says:
I looked back in my records, and I quoted this verse in February, March, and April.
It is a short verse, the the point of the verse is big, which is why I have quoted it so much.
In February, when I quoted this verse, I was talking about redemption.
I had these handcuffs and a brave boy who shall remain nameless allowed me to handcuff him during the service.
I talked about how redemption has three parts.
First, there is liberation from some state of bondage, jeopardy, suffering, or humiliation.
The second part to this term requires some act of personal cost.
I asked if anyone was willing to pay me $500 to let my great volunteer out of the handcuffs.
No one was willing to.
But, if someone had paid me that money, and I had let the volunteer out of the handcuffs, the guy would not have been redeemed.
There is a third part to the term.
The third part: Where you receive freedom from this bondage to serve someone else.
If someone paid me and I let the volunteer out of his handcuffs and he commits to serving that person for the rest of his life, he has been redeemed.
Redemption: Humanity is in chains to sin, death, and the devil.
We were this way from birth, and every day that we live, we add chains because of what we do.
These chains are leading us to destruction.
Nothing we can do can remove these chains or change the result of our lives.
Sin, death, and the devil definitely are not removing them.
Redemption: Jesus paid the price that we might remove the chains of slavery to sin, death, and the devil, so that we might be slaves of Christ.
Paul lived at a very interesting time.
People were not judged based upon whether they were free or not.
They were judged based upon who they served.
There were some poor people who willingly sold themselves into slavery to a prominent citizen, because they realized they would have more status being slaves to a rich guy than being poor and free.
It wasn’t shameful being a slave, especially if you were a slave to the right person.
Paul says that if we have turned to Jesus in faith, we are slaves to him.
Before we were nothing, doomed to destruction.
Now we have been redeemed.
We have status, because we are slaves to the creator of the universe.
We have been redeemed.
We have been united
Not only have we been redeemed, but we have been united.
Paul writes:
Before we turned to Jesus in faith, we were his enemy.
Paul writes:
We were the opposite of united.
We were opposed to him.
We were at war, by our actions, by our mindset.
But, then God reached into our life and won us over, not by sword, but by love.
Through the death of Jesus Christ, we who were his enemies are brought close.
We are united with him.
What does that mean?
So many things.
It speaks of our salvaation.
We are united with him in his death.
As he died, so have we died to our sins and our former way of life.
We are united with him in his resurrection.
We live a new life not defined by our sin anymore.
It speaks of our sanctification.
We are united with him in baptism, taking on a new identity that is revealed in our actions.
Paul writes
That clothing is a picture of how we show ourselves to others.
Our actions.
We are united with him in our attitude.
We could keep going.
But, Paul sums it up with this verse:
We are united with Christ.
Therefore, Christ lives his life through us, and through that connectedness, we receive every good that we enjoy: saving good, eternal good, God-exalting good, soul-satisfying good, all through that connectedness to Christ.
Before Christ, we were united with the devil, and through that union, we recieved despair, doom, and a promised destruction.
What is our identity?
We are redeemed.
We are united with Christ.
We will be resurrected
We will be resurrected.
A necessary part of the Gospel is that Jesus was raised from the dead.
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