How To Honor God With Our Bodies
I want to give you three truths about honoring God with our bodies:
1. Our bodies belong to God (v.12-13)
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.
1. It was created to know him
John 17:3: And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
2. It was created to serve him
Ephesians 2:10: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
3. It was created to obey him
Romas 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.
4. It was created to glorify him
Isaiah 43:7: Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.
2. Our bodies unite with Christ (v.14-18)
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 sina person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
3. Our bodies house the Holy Spirit (v.19-20)
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.
1. Replace asking, “should I do this?” to “will this glorify God?
Colossians 3:17: And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
2. RUN from every form of sexual immorality and pursue righteousness
2 Timothy 2:22: So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
3. Treat your temple (body) with honor and care
1 Corinthians 3:16-17: 16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
