He continues the theme in 7:16 in the questions of should I marry or should I remain single, mostly stimulated by a wrongful idea of sexual intimacy in marriage. That’s everything that Jesus came to do and to be in us, so he reminds them of that in chapter 6. In 1 Corinthians 6:19 he says, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” Do you not know this? Verse 20 says, “For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.” The word “glorify” means to give Him the proper estimation, let Him be recognized in and through your body. In the context of immorality, he brings that theme to the surface and shows them what they are supposed to be. Now Paul noticeably picked the theme up and made it very clear in 6:19-20. But when inwardly you love Him and bow before Him and are looking upwardly to see what He wants you to do and be, then by His grace, outwardly people see His life in you. When you don’t have the inward and the upward, then the outward is going to look like the church at Corinth. It starts inwardly, looks upwardly and is seen outwardly. They weren’t listening.īut we are to be conduits through which God does His work, and the only way to do that is to be such a conduit that nothing hinders the flow of the life of Christ through us, unhindered by any fleshly sin. They have to attach themselves to something that makes them feel good, something that they can rationalize and reason out. Babies cannot trust what they cannot see. They were attaching themselves to Paul, to Apollos, to Cephas, to flesh, to anything they could see, touch and feel. You know, at the church of Corinth, they weren’t doing that. He has to live attached to Him and Him only. What is that theme? The theme is that the believer is not to be distracted from his life’s purpose of being a vessel through which God can do His work. It was a theme that the Corinthians particularly refused to listen to, and that is the problems that they were facing. It is holding up the teaching of what Paul is saying. Sometimes it is silent, in the background, underneath. Have you noticed the silent theme in chapter 7? It is all through the Scriptures, particularly in Corinthians. He has to live attached to Him and Him only.ġ Corinthians 7:34 Our Supreme Goal in Life – Part 2 Have you noticed the silent theme in chapter 7? The theme is that the believer is not to be distracted from his life’s purpose of being a vessel through which God can do His work.
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