QUOTE(Nathan @ Dec 23 2006, 11:02 PM) [snapback]96510[/snapback]
This verse is all too often taken way out of context. Just so you know, 1 Cor. 6:19 is in reference to sexual immorality.
1 Corinthians 6:12-20Flee Sexual Immorality 12"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved 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. 14And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15Do 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! 16Or 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." 17But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19Or 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, 20for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.The only way to destroy "the temple" is by sexual immorality.
I noted that as I made my post, but the main frame of my post was that "you were bought with a price." That is why I titled this post, "Ownership." It is pretty much the norm to have to dissect a scripture because God has a way of saying much in a few words....Thanks for pointing that out....I think under all circumstances it may be reflected upon with validity that we are not our own....
I am going through a morphing stage from an ugly caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly and so the thing I am seeing much now is the intrinsic need to be at one with God...to have the desire and the "want to" to to hand all control over to Him....to at long last not be a servant to sin but a bond servent and even a bond slave to the Lord.
All things are relative, for in a sense there is no freedom which is a freedom to serve self, as anarchy is the result of self serving. But of course, God is not a God of chaos, He desires a family who will love and respect Him and pay homage to the fact that we were redeemed by His blood. Redemption is a matter of being paid for...you redeem something by buying it back. Christ paid for us in blood so we may be led from captivity to being captive...Eph 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. Being a captive of God is indeed a gift of the highest magnitude...much like the magnitude of the star over His birthplace. I am preaching myself happy!
