Windell Gann
1 Corinthians 6:1
Problems in the church at Corinth:
# 3 Members going to court against members before heathen judges - ch. 6
III. Moral Disorders In The Church
A. Incest - ch. 5
B. Going to court with brethren - 1 Corinthians 6:1-8
C. Immoral Conduct - 1 Corinthians 6:9-20
B. The Problem of Taking Fellow Christians Into Court Before Non-Believers. ch. 6:1-8
Lesson: We should suffer wrong rather than parade our complaints against fellow Christians before unbelievers. v. 7
1 Corinthians 6:7
Lesson: We should suffer wrong rather than parade our complaints against fellow Christians before unbelievers. v. 7
1 Corinthians 6:9
C. Immoral Conduct - 1 Corinthians 6:9-20
(How to Consider the Body - Carnally)
Vs. 9-20 Warning Against Immoral Conduct
1. Sinners will not go to heaven vs. 9-11
2. Moral sins against the body are condemned. v. 12-20
Lesson: All kinds of sinners can be forgiven. v. 11
Life in Christ is different from the way of the world.
See Romans 1:27 note on GAYS (Homosexuals, Sodomites) and Lesbians In The Bible
1 Corinthians 6:11
Lesson: All kinds of sinners can be forgiven. v. 11 See Romans 1:27 note on GAYS (Homosexuals, Sodomites) and Lesbians In The Bible
Life in Christ is different from the way of the world.
Sanctified -- Titus 3:5; John 3:3-5; John 15:3; Ephesians 5:26; Hebrews 10:22;
1 Corinthians 6:12
Vs. 9-20 Warning Against Immoral Conduct
1. Sinners will not go to heaven vs. 9-11
2. Moral sins against the body are condemned. v. 12-20
Lesson: The body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and we should keep it pure.
False slogan, "Everything is lawful."
Wrong:
1. Some things are not expedient
2. Some things are enslaving
3. Some things are out-right wrong.
1 Corinthians 6:19
(cf. 1 Corinthians 3:16 Where Paul speaks in the plural of the church as the temple of God.)
Bought -- [ # 3 REDEMPTION - Picture of a Freed-Man.
1 Corinthians 7:23; 1 Peter 1:18-19; 2 Peter 2:1;
NIV "purchased" Note the song in Revelation, Revelation 5:9
Illustration of a slave anb belonging to a pagan god.
(next Paul’s Pic from History, Redeemed Colossians 1:14)