Blood-Bought Body
Lessons From 1 Corinthians • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
0 ratings
· 21 viewsNotes
Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Theme: Lessons From 1 Corinthians
Hope: To learn from the vast numbers of different doctrines discussed from this great letter and those topics that can and do flow forth from such.
Last week, we discussed the “Kingdom of God.”
How we enter the Christ’s kingdom.
How we stay in Christ’s kingdom.
Today, in our text found in 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, we are going to look at the “Blood-Bought Body.”
Let’s read our text now.
12 “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.
Here it is clear that the church had several issues relating to sexual sin.
For whatever reason, sexual sin, has always been a thorn in the church’s side and continues even today.
However, though sexual immorality is the sin, the main focus is not on sexual sin but on the “Blood Bought Body” of the Holy Spirit.
We, the church, are the “temple of the Holy Spirit” or the “house of God” (1 Timothy 3:15).
Therefore, tonight, we are going to examine how this is.
How should the church of Christ, you and I that have obeyed God’s gospel plan of salvation, explain what it means to be “blood-bought?”
To be blood-bought means to be…
Purchased
Purchased
A Price Was Paid.
A Price Was Paid.
The cost of our redemption was steep.
God had to “give up heaven” for a time.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
God had to be tempted and found perfect.
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
God had to lay down his life as the perfect sacrifice.
16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
God had to take on our sins.
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
God then redeemed us from spiritual death.
14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
To be a part of the blood bought body means to understand that high cost of our redemption.
It was God’s blood that purchased us back or redeemed us from spiritual sin.
14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Therefore, it is God who owns our soul.
Romans 6:16–17 (ESV)
16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed
20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Summary
Summary
There is no greater honour for a human being than to be adopted into God’s family and to be a part of the church of Christ that Jesus purchased with his own blood.
28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
To be blood-bought means to be purchased and therefore…
Pardoned
Pardoned
A Remission Of Penalty.
A Remission Of Penalty.
Jesus went through all he did so that you and I could be pardoned.
To be pardoned means to have a remission of own’s penalty.
The penalty for sin is death.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Spiritual death was all of humanities future.
Romans 3:23 (ESV)
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
When Jesus purchased the church with his blood he made an avenue by which we could fine pardon for the very thing we are guilty of committing.
To be clear, humans pardon because a wrong has taken place.
In recent news, Sergeant Daniel Perry was found guilty of murder for what everyone, including the police, said was self-defense. Governor Abbott has already said he will be pardoning Perry for what he says was a wrongful conviction.
Jesus’ blood doesn’t pardon “us” because we have been wrongfully convicted.
We cannot rightfully say we have been found guilty without cause.
We are guilty of breaking God’s law and thus dishonoring our God.
Romans 3:9 (ESV)
9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin
Summary
Summary
When Jesus purchased his church with his blood he redeemed our eternal souls.
He is waiting patiently for everyone to seek their pardon through repentance.
9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
To be blood-bought means to be purchased, pardoned and therefore…
Purified
Purified
A Cleaning.
A Cleaning.
When we reenact the gospel in baptism we are made spiritually pure or clean.
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
Again that purification comes with an expectation.
God washed away our sins (Acts 22:16) and “expects us to stay pure and clean.”
Here in our text we find the apostle Paul finding the church in Corinth lacking.
The church was not staying “pure” but rather decaying their soul with sexual immorality.
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!
As Christians we are to flee sin and therefore uncleanliness “at all cost.”
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.
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
Summary
Summary
It is only the pure that “see God.”
8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
When we accept the condition of salvation and are purified it is to “see God” and have a life with him.
Oh, what a wonderful life that will be if we stay pure.
To be blood-bought means to be purchased, pardoned, purified, and lastly…
Productive
Productive
Fruit Bearing.
Fruit Bearing.
God spent thousand of years preparing the fulness of time (Ephesians 1:3-10).
From the promise to Adam (Genesis 3:15) to the coming of Christ God spent a lot of time getting everything just right.
God sent his “only begotten Son” to this earth to be sacrificed (John 3:16).
God’s love for us is so great it pleased him to do so (Isaiah 53:10).
If then God was willing to do all this just to have a relationship with us would it not behove us to “be productive in his kingdom?”
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.
Matthew 6:33 (ESV)
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness…
Summary
Summary
To be blood-bought means to be purchased, pardoned, purified, and productive.
Conclusion
Conclusion
…
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.