My Self & My God (1 Corinthians 6:19-20‪)‬ Cityview Community Church - Sermons

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My Body & My God
April 14, 2024 | Brandon Cooper

This sermon discusses how our bodies belong to God and are meant to honor him through worship, sanctification, and discipline. It addresses sins related to the body like lust, gluttony, and sloth. It encourages caring for our bodies through exercise, diet, and rest while recognizing our resurrected bodies will be fully submitted to God. Our worth comes from Jesus purchasing us with his blood, not from our physical appearance.








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Good morning church. Well, Kyle is not kidding. We're about to tip over again. He'll sit on this side today. All right, that's fine. That's fine. Go ahead, grab your Bibles open up to First Corinthians six will be in verses 19 and 20, especially this morning, although we'll be jumping around a bit as we did last week as we try to develop this Theology of the Body. As you're turning there. It was in 1966, the English men's national team won their first and only World Cup in the sport that they invented soccer or football as it's more properly called. They're in their home stadium at Wembley. And so they want under the captaincy of Sir Bobby Moore. And so he had the privilege of receiving the trophy from Queen Elizabeth the second. And he's ascending the steps in your thinking like this is the crowning glory of his life, except it wasn't as glorious a moment as you might have thought. Why? Because as he's ascending the steps, he notices that the Queen is wearing pristine white gloves. And he has to shake her hand. And he is not pristine anymore. He is caked in mud, including his hands. So as you can see on the video, he's actually frantically wiping his hands on his you know, wherever he can find a dry spot, trying to get them clean enough to shake the Queen's hands. I mentioned this. Why? Because it's how many of us feel as we worship God bodily. Like how dare we approach God when we're as as filthy as we are, as we start wiping our hands, in the hopes that that will make some difference, not without reason, by the way, like I understand why Bobby Moore was actually caked in mud, we are actually caked in filth, we use our bodies to sin, to offend God and defile ourselves regularly. Paul talks about this all over the place. Here's Romans seven, for example, he says, For I delight in the law of God in my inner being. But I see in my members, that is the parts of my body, another law waging war against the law of my mind and make me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members, wretched man that I am Who will deliver me from this body of deaths marked by death characterized by death, we use our bodies to sin. And perhaps most egregiously, as we'll see, in the passage we're looking at this morning, sexual immorality would be one really obvious example. And that's not all we're going to talk about this morning, but it is the context. So as I mentioned, gonna be in First Corinthians 619, and 20. I'm gonna read 12 to 20, though, just so we've got some context, as we get to these all important verses. Let me read it for us. Starting first Corinthians six, verse 12, I have the right to do anything you say. But not everything is beneficial. I have the right to do anything, but I will not be mastered by anything. You say food for the stomach and the stomach for food and God will destroy them both. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord and the Lord for the body. By His power, God raised the Lord from the dead and He will raise us also, do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ Himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never, do not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her and body for the said the...