BBD 10.08.15 You Belong to God (Classic)
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The Burning
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Classic
from 2008
10.08.15
You
Belong to God
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but
he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know
that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have
from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore
glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. - 1 Corinthians
6:18-20 NKJV.
Listen to this news report. “Gambling, robbery, sexual immorality, and violence is prevalent. Half of
all children are born out of wedlock; purity and fidelity to the marriage vow
are sneered out of fashion. Corruption in politics is rampant. The world is
broken.” That news report was from the year 1694, but
it sounds like it could have been a news report from 2008.
Immorality is not a new thing, and it has been a problem
for as long as there have been human beings. We look around our world today,
and we know that there are huge problems of all kinds, and sometimes it looks
like the whole world is going to hell in a handbasket.
When our friends and neighbors are involved in immoral
activities, we may come to think that because everyone around us is doing what
is wrong, that it is okay for us to do those things too. We begin to slide into
the gray area between black and white, and before long we are closer to the
black than we are the white. Before long we are not coming to church, we stop
reading out Bibles, we stop praying, we stay away from other Christians, and we
may not think it; but down there in our heart of hearts, we think that God is
okay with it, because He hasn‘t struck us dead with lightning or something
else.
Let me remind you what God thinks about that kind of
thinking and living. He says, “You are not
your own. You were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in
your spirit, which are God's.” You as a
child of God are not your own. You belong to God. Your body belongs to God.
Your spirit belongs to God. You are accountable to God.
When you stop coming to church, when you don't read your
Bibles, when you don't pray, when you don't live like you ought to live – you
are not getting away with something. No, you are shooting yourself in the foot.
Because you are accountable to God and God is not deceived. As the apostle Paul
says in Galatians 6:7-8, “Do not be deceived, God is
not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to
his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will
of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”
We live in a society where no one wants to admit to their
own mistakes or to their faults. We see so many politicians wanting to take
credit for the good things that are done or that occur and then when something
bad happens or goes wrong - they are more than ready to point their finger at
someone else! We are ready to do that too, but it simply will not work with
God, don’t be deceived about that because, “God is not mocked.” Paul says, “... for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to
his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption….”
How do we sow to our flesh? We sow to our flesh any time
that we sin. We sow to our flesh by doing what we want to do instead of what
God wants us to do (Things like going to church, reading the Bible, praying,
witnessing, serving, etc.). When we spend money selfishly that should have been
given to the Lord, we are sowing to the flesh. When we look at the wrong
things, tell lies, steal, blaspheme God by the way we live our lives we are
sowing to the flesh.
Instead of sowing to the flesh and reaping harvest after
harvest of bad things we must instead sow more to the Spirit, to reap more of
what the Spirit has for us. “You are not
your own. You were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in
your spirit, which are God's.”
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