Notes
on Sex, Law, and the Spirit
1 Corinthians 6:12
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are
not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but
I will not be brought under the power of any.
- All things are lawful for me, but not all
things are good for me: all things are
lawful for me, but I will not be brought
under the power of any.
- We are bought with a price and
belong to the Lord. If we become
enslaved by something else then
we are not slaves of Christ and
no man can serve two masters. For
instance there is nothing
inherently wrong with a shot of
heroin. It is an opiate and
nearly identical opiates are used
to alleviate pain. However the
problem with heroin is that use
leads to addiction. The addict is
a slave to the drug and a slave
of a drug can not be a slave of
Jesus. So it is the effect of
distancing oneself from God that
is the objection and not the
action itself.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but
God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body
is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the
Lord for the body.
- Food for the stomach and the stomach for
food, but God shall destroy them both.
The body is not to be used for
fornication, the body for the Lord and
the Lord for the body.
- When one speaks of "Food for
the stomach" it is a
reference to the dropping of the
dietary restrictions in the New
Covenant. In Matthew
15:17 it tells us that it is
not what we eat but what we say
that makes us unclean so one may
extrapolate that if it does not
matter what we eat then it stands
to reason that it is not what we
do sexually that makes us
unclean. Paul is making it clear
that this line of reason is
fallacious. The body is not for
sexually immoral behavior it is
for God.
1 Corinthians 6:14
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will
also raise up us by his own power.
- By his power God raised the Lord from the
dead, and he will raise us up as well.
- Jesus defeated death by being
buried and rising again on the
third day. 1
Corinthians 15:4 So just as
sure as Elisha revived the
woman's son fron death 2 Kings 4:35
so will be be rauised from the
dead.
1 Corinthians 6:15
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of
Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ,
and make them the members of an harlot? God
forbid.
- Your body is that of Jesus, will you join
the body of Jesus with that of a
prostitute? God forbid.
- (There is a mystical union of a
man and a woman when they have
intercourse. Genesis 2:24
and Ephesians
5:30 - 31 . If one has
intercourse with a prostitute
then you are joining God within
you with a prostitute.
1 Corinthians 6:16
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an
whore is one body? for two, saith he, shall be
one flesh.
- When you have intercourse with a whore,
you become one body with her. For God
said "two become one flesh".
- (In Genesis
1:26 - 27 God made man in his
own image and then seperated
woman from man in Genesis 2:21
so when man and woman join
together in one fleh they
together mirror thoes attributes
of the creator. )
1 Corinthians 6:17
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one
spirit.
- He that is joined to the Lord is of one
spirit with the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is
without the body; but he that committeth
fornication sinneth against his own body.
- Flee from illicit sex. Every sin that a
man does is outside of his body. But he
that commits fornication sins against his
own body.
1 Corinthians 6:19
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of
God, and ye are not your own?
- Don't you know that your body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit. What you have
is of God, you are no longer your own.
- (In the baptism of the Holy
Spirit the Holy Spirit comes into
us. A temple is that which holds
God so our bodies become temples
when God as the Holy Spirit. When
the Spirit comes into us we
become "of God" and not
of the world. We are his.Contrast
how Jesus described bis body as a
temple to the main temple in
Corinth which was a temple to the
goddess Aphrodite where the
priestesses were prostitutes. John 2: 21
)
1 Corinthians 6:20
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify
God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God's.
- You are bought with a price so glorify
God in your body and in your spirit.
- (When we come into the family of
God as one of his chosen people
God pays for our life here with
salvation i.e. eternal life. So
we should seek to Glorify the
Lord in what we do. See Doulos Christos.)
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References in
Scripture Genesis 2:24
Matthew 15:17
Acts 2:4
1
Corinthians 6:12 - 20
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Genesis 1:26
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image
of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis Chapter 1 - Full Text
Genesis 2:21
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Genesis Chapter 2 - Full Text
Genesis 2:24
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be
one flesh.
Genesis Chapter 2 - Full Text
2 Kings 4:35
35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and
fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the
child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
Matthew 15:17
17 Do not ye yet understand, that
whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly,
and is cast out into the draught?
Mathew Chapter 15
- Full Text
John 2: 21
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
John Chapter 2
Acts 2:4
4 And they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts Chapter 2
- Full Text
1 Corinthians 5:1
1 It is reported commonly that
there is fornication among you,
and such fornication as is not so
much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have
his father's wife.
1 Corinthians Chapter 5
1
Corinthians 6:12 - 20
12 All things are lawful unto me, but
all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for
me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly
for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now
the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and
the Lord for the body.
14 And God hath both raised up the
Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are
the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of
Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God
forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is
joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall
be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the
Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a
man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth
fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body
is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye
have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are
bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Corinthians 10:17
17 For we being many are one
bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one
bread.
1 Corinthians Chapter 10 -
Full Text
1 Corinthians 15:4
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the
third day according to the scriptures:
1 Corinthians Chapter 15 -
Full Text
Galatians 5:19 - 26
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations,
wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and
such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also
told you in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh
with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the
Spirit.
26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one
another, envying one another.
Galatians Chapter 5 - Full Text
Ephesians 5:30 - 31
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and
of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and
mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two
shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:30
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and
of his bones.
Ephesians Chapter 5 - Full Text
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