Sunday, September 24, 2017

The Daily Devotional from Monday, 18 September 2017 through Sunday, 24 September 2017 at First United Methodist Church in San diego, California, United States - Sermon Theme: "Vital Signs" - Text to read: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

The Daily Devotional from Monday, 18 September 2017 through Sunday, 24 September 2017 at First United Methodist Church in San diego, California, United States - Sermon Theme: "Vital Signs" - Text to read: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 6:
12 You say, “For me, everything is permitted”? Maybe, but not everything is helpful. “For me, everything is permitted”? Maybe, but as far as I am concerned, I am not going to let anything gain control over me. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”? Maybe, but God will put an end to both of them. Anyhow, the body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. 14 God raised up the Lord, and he will raise us up too by his power.
15 Don’t you know that your bodies are parts of the Messiah? So, am I to take parts of the Messiah and make them parts of a prostitute? Heaven forbid! 16 Don’t you know that a man who joins himself to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? For the Tanakh says, “The two will become one flesh”;[1 Corinthians 6:16 Genesis 2:24] 17 but the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18 Run from sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the fornicator sins against his own body. 19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple for the Ruach HaKodesh who lives inside you, whom you received from God? The fact is, you don’t belong to yourselves; 20 for you were bought at a price. So use your bodies to glorify God.
John Wesley's Notes-Commentary: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Verse 12
[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 — Which are lawful for you.
Are lawful for me, but all things are not always expedient — Particularly when anything would offend my weak brother; or when it would enslave my own soul. For though all things are lawful for me, yet I will not be brought under the power of any - So as to be uneasy when I abstain from it; for, if so, then I am under the power of it.
Verse 13
[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.
As if he had said, I speak this chiefly with regard to meats; (and would to God all Christians would consider it!) particularly with regard to those offered to idols, and those forbidden in the Mosaic law. These, I grant, are all indifferent, and have their use, though it is only for a time: then meats, and the organs which receive them, will together moulder into dust. But the case is quite otherwise with fornication. This is not indifferent, but at all times evil.
For the body is for the Lord — Designed only for his service. And the Lord, in an important sense, for the body - Being the Saviour of this, as well as of the soul; in proof of which God hath already raised him from the dead.
Verse 16
[16] What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24.
Verse 17
[17] But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
But he that is joined to the Lord — By faith.
Is one spirit with him — And shall he make himself one flesh with an harlot?
Verse 18
[18] Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Flee fornication — All unlawful commerce with women, with speed, with abhorrence, with all your might. Every sin that a man commits against his neighbour terminates upon an object out of himself, and does not so immediately pollute his body, though it does his soul.
But he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body — Pollutes, dishonours, and degrades it to a level with brute beasts.
Verse 19
[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?
And even your body is not, strictly speaking, your own even this is the temple of the Holy Ghost - Dedicated to him, and inhabited by him. What the apostle calls elsewhere "the temple of God," 1 Corinthians 3:16,17, and "the temple of the living God," 2 Corinthians 6:16, he here styles the temple of the Holy Ghost; plainly showing that the Holy Ghost is the living God.
Verse 20
[20] For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Glorify God with your body, and your spirit — Yield your bodies and all their members, as well as your souls and all their faculties, as instruments of righteousness to God. Devote and employ all ye have, and all ye are, entirely, unreservedly, and for ever, to his glory.
Daily Devotional:
Daily Devotional
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Sermon Theme: "Vital Signs"
Text to read: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
  • Pray for those who abuse their bodies in any fashion.

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Daily Devotional
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Sermon Theme: "Vital Signs"
Text to read: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
  • What are our bodies to be used FOR?
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Daily Devotional
Friday, September 22, 2017
Sermon Theme: "Vital Signs"
Text to read: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
  • How do you balance freedom with being “bought with a price?”
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Daily Devotional
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Posted: 20 Sep 2017 06:14 PM PDT
Sermon Theme: "Vital Signs"
Text to read: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
  • What does “your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit” mean to you?

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Daily Devotional
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Sermon Theme: "Vital Signs"
Text to read: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
  • What kinds of misuses of the body is Paul really talking about?
  • How would they relate to today?
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Daily Devotional
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Sermon Theme: "Vital Signs"
Text to read: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
  • Read 1 Corinthians 6:12-20.
  • What relationship is there between our bodies and spirit?
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Daily Devotional
Monday, September 18, 2017
Sermon Theme: "Vital Signs"
Text to read: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
  • What are your practices for physical fitness?
  • Why is that an important spiritual question?
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