DISCIPLES OF JESUS MINISTRY

1Co 6:9 Don't you realize that this is not the way to live? Unjust people who don't care about God will not be joining in his kingdom. Those who use and abuse each other, use and abuse sex,

1Co 6:10 use and abuse the earth and everything in it, don't qualify as citizens in God's kingdom.

1Co 6:11 A number of you know from experience what I'm talking about, for not so long ago you were on that list. Since then, you've been cleaned up and given a fresh start by Jesus, our Master, our Messiah, and by our God present in us, the Spirit.

1Co 6:12 Just because something is technically legal doesn't mean that it's spiritually appropriate. If I went around doing whatever I thought I could get by with, I'd be a slave to my whims.

1Co 6:13 You know the old saying, "First you eat to live, and then you live to eat"? Well, it may be true that the body is only a temporary thing, but that's no excuse for stuffing your body with food, or indulging it with sex. Since the Master honors you with a body, honor him with your body!

1Co 6:14 God honored the Master's body by raising it from the grave. He'll treat yours with the same resurrection power.

1Co 6:15 Until that time, remember that your bodies are created with the same dignity as the Master's body. You wouldn't take the Master's body off to a whorehouse, would you? I should hope not.

1Co 6:16 There's more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, "The two become one."

1Co 6:17 Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever--the kind of sex that can never "become one."

1Co 6:18 There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for "becoming one" with another.

1Co 6:19 Or didn't you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don't you see that you can't live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you.

1Co 6:20 God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body. (MSG)

    Our bodies are not our own, It is important for Christian young people to realise that they need to keep themselves pure for the one they will marry. God ordained that sex should be between a man  and wife. The two become one flesh.

    I remember as a Christian young person thinking that taboos for believers did not include petting and sadly going a little too far. That was sin. Looking at a person of the opposite sex or indeed most definetely the same sex with lust is a sin, it is commiting adultery in one's heart.

  Our bodies are sacred, they are the temple of the Holy Spirit. How can we as Christians abuse our bodies knowing that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and yet I struggle myself with eating too many sweet things?

     We are called to be holy for He is holy.

1Pe 2:9 But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God's instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you--