Book of 1 Corinthians - Ch. 6, Vs. 9-Ch. 7, Vs. 14 (12/24/2000)

All right, I tried to cheer you all up before we started. Because we have a lesson that's not very cheerful. Now therefore there there is utterly a fault we had that. Nay, you do wrong and defraud and that your brethren first Corinthians.

The Unrighteous Will Not Inherit the Kingdom of God

First Corinthians 6 9. Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Now we know that we know that the the people that persecute us Are not going to inherit the kingdom of God.

Be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind effeminate. They touched on that problem way back there who he who is not a child of God.

Has no right to the family inheritance. It's just that simple. For that inherent inheritance is for the children heirs heirs of God joint heirs with Christ. There are here ten classes of transgressions.

Transgressors which the Apostle excludes from the kingdom of God and any man who is guilty of any one of the evils Mentioned above is thereby excluded from this kingdom whether imply the church or Christ Here below or the state of glory hereafter several of the evils Here enumerated will be will not bear to be particularly explained.

They are however sufficiently plain of themselves and show us that abominations were commonly practiced among the Corinthians. It's hard to imagine a church practicing these. Nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor rivalers nor extortioners.

Shall inherit the kingdom of God now. Just so that will be clear. What makes an extortioner as predicted here, all right. What makes. What else to the list? What makes you a thief? Covetous drunkards revilers extortioners.

What makes you those? All right, it's not someone that does something one time. Now I would hope I would hope none of us do any of this. What'd you say. What are you laughing for. What'd you say? Yes.

Church Discipline and Exclusion from Fellowship

All Right, they are not to be accepted in the church and if for someone in the church doing them doing one of these things We're to go to them one on one if they will not adhere then we go with a group and If not, we bring it before the church and if not, then they're excluded.

Until they get right. The dishonest the unjust the impure and those who seek wealth honor and Pleasure are the chief good. Whatever their profession or to whatever their churches Whatever church they may externally belong.

If they continue such will with drunkards idolaters thieves robbers and so forth. Be forever excluded now the The enrollment of the church. We speak this quite often as pertaining to others. Because I think we have very little of it.

People that belong that are not Christian we may disagree among ourselves, but We agree on salvation and such were some of you. But you are washed. You have been washed. But you are excluded from heaven sanctified and Such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are excluded from heaven.

But you are justified in the name. I Don't get that. Well, someone read it to me the 11th verse. Okay, but you are excluded. Okay. Yes. That's what was thrown me off. I copied that out of it. I'm gonna have to go look that up.

We're sanctified In the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of God. We are set apart. We are sanctified forever. All things are lawful unto me. This is Paul speaking. He says all things are lawful unto me.

All things was in reason. Robin somebody isn't. That's not what he's talking about. But all things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient. It's not necessary that I do all things. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any and therein lies The key to success as a Christian.

I will not to be under the power of any. What do you mean joy? Richard. Richard. Well, what did it mean he will not be brought under the power of any thing. Bill. All right, that's the crux of the whole thing.

That nothing that I do. No thing that I do. Stand in the way between me and God, even though I'm doing something for God. He may change it. It wasn't wrong. All right. We cannot keep from offending people.

The best we can do. The watching everything that we do we will offend some but. Everything that we do depends on others and by that I mean Greg. Those with whom you associate you cannot do something that would go against them doing everything in the Christian way.

But maybe they haven't grown as much maybe they haven't come up to the point yet where they can do these things so It behooves all of us to live a life. In front of people and you're in front of people every day, even when you're by yourself.

You're in front of people so we have to Do the best we can with whatever we have wherever we are right now and that includes others that Christianity does not barely restrain us from doing of what is unlawful but from doing that which is expedient also.

It may be all right for us to eat meat. Eat meat offered to an idol. Take the extreme. But if it causes a weaker brother to stumble and not do it. So whenever you're invited to a meal and this is the time of season for being invited out.

Don't ask questions. Just enjoy what's put before you because if you know, then it makes a difference. Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both It and then now the body is not for fornication.

But for the Lord and the Lord for the body meat is for the belly and the belly is for the meat. What's he talking about?

Clarence. And then to close that verse out.

The body is not made for fornication, but the Lord in the the Lord for the body. What's he mean to that?

First our body is our body is but an extension of the Lord.

Now to look at some of you. It doesn't look like that but It is. Now do we keep it? Holy? Do we not keep it? Holy? Do we let it slip once in a while? Do we forget. That's the easiest thing to do is to forget things.

It feels good now, this is exact injunction. Yes, ma 'am. That just because you don't have a lot satisfied that that just because It gives you a temporary pleasure. Whatever it is. That doesn't mean that you that you should That you should engage in that activity.

What you should do is to? Recognize that Those things they do are Should be affected by the presence of God even All right now. Let me find something here.

Before I forget it. All right.

He is saying as if he's saying you put the body to a use for which it was never intended. Like what you put the body to a use for which it was never intended. What's he been talking about? Thank you All right.

You put the body to a use for which it was never intended. It was never intended to run your life. It was never intended to Be the uppermost thing in your life, and we're all guilty of that. That we let our body run our life by body, I mean the desires of the appetites that we have as if he.

The belly was made for meat, but the body was not for fornication. But the Lord that is for the Lord's use and service and the Lord is for the body. That is that the good and salvation of the body the body does not run the thing the body does not sit in the throne and.

And God hath both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by his own power as if he had said where. Where were your bodies to be finally lost in the dust then were it no great matter How you use them or abuse them is your body to be lost.

Is your body going? No place right so We we may get trapped into the thought of thinking that our body is going to be changed. Anyhow, it's going to going to be Destroyed it's going to be lost. It's going to be this or that.

But it's the only body I have. And it is this body that's going to be changed. I know you not. That your bodies are the members of Christ. He says I know that shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of the harlot.

God forbid such a thing. A third argument here follows our bodies aren't the members of Christ. Even though they're going to be changed. They're the members of Christ as well as our souls that is the union is made between Christ and us consisting of soul and body are both.

What then know you not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body for two saith he shall. That looks wrong. What? Know you not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body as everybody have that.

For two saith he shall be okay for two saith. He shall be one place if you're joined to a harlot. A wonderful married man Which is joined to his wife goes out and Joins a harlot as it is used here in one.

One incident. What about that Greg? Yes so.

You must be very very careful. How closely and immediately believers are united unto Jesus Christ. Our body is The house of Christ. They are nearer than one place. They are one spirit with him. They have both one father one house one home one art one interest and one acquaintances.

One time you don't need to be just one of them over the spirit and that is false. So I think that one who does that will find a punishment in his life just like Moses did when he destroyed that time. So we have to be very careful with our marriages and our young people.

As they are thinking about the fact that someday they may be married and realize that whoever they choose I used to be the one that God has for them. They will be forever for us. They will destroy the beautiful time.

I think he also talks.

That when we marry outside our beliefs That's the meaning of soul or embrace We will have problems Because we bring in the false gods The false idols. And that's the danger. That when you marry someone That for instance his family Who are Buddhists You are exposing your children And your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren To that same doctrine In a lot of cases they are lost.

And that's what he fears about. Right. And brother you got an even better example Of that constantly In what Mohammed did. What Mohammed thought when he started his religion. He thought that For him What he thought was The best of all three major religions Of Islam The best of Christianity And the best of Judaism.

And he packaged all that in the bundle That the whole world he thought could accept. And then he was shocked That the Jews would not compromise For the Christians. And that's what brought the great animosity Between the Muslims and the Israelis And the Jews.

Because one group Wanted to compromise With the other one In mind we can't afford We can't allow compromise.

No we cannot And I say that Sincerely. Well But he that is joined unto the Lord's one spirit We're one. Flee. Fornication. Every sin that a man doeth Is without the body. But he that commiteth fornication Sinneth against his own body.

What? Know you not that your body Is the temple of the Holy Ghost. Which is in you, which you have of God And you are not your own. Our body is the holy temple. Since our bodies are the temple Of the Holy Spirit We are to keep them holy.

That just makes sense. The body is but a. The body is but an instrument Of ours and as such it can do Only what we demand of it. The body can do Only what we demand of it. The The question Of shall I or shall I not.

If Well if you have to ask a question Then it's wrong. But we slip And do these things. Thinking. Nobody knows But our Lord knows. The body is not an instrument Of others and as such it can Do only what we demand.

We're never to let it run By itself. How long. You haven't now but before you were Saved how many of you Just did whatever come. I think we'd all have to answer yes. We are never to let it run by itself.

We are to keep it under control at all times. It is the temple of the Holy Spirit. So I must keep it controlled At all times are you. For you are bought With a price. Therefore glorify God in your body And in your Spirit which are Christ.

The spirit we have Is of Christ. The body we have is of Christ. Have the slave Who is purchased By his master for a sum of money. Money is the sole property of that master. Is that true Or false. Then if you're a slave to food And you eat all of the time Are you controlling your body.

If you drink coke All of the time You just have to have a coke. Simply Can't win. Well let's talk about coke a while. I'm a doctor. Well the point I'm making is That we are the master Of our body. Now let's start acting like it.

The Danger of Self-Confidence and Half-Converted Religion

Yes.

We're more vulnerable than The people who are totally wretched And do all these horrible things That when they are convicted And God calls them and God advises them They have this totally Repentant heart and realize how far What God has done to them.

The ones who are semi-good Say it semi-precocious No one is good other than God. Then we have this false Sense of security That we're good And we don't see the great sacrifice The great That Jesus has done for us.

And we kind of delude ourselves In thinking that we will Just hang on the branch of religion But not embrace it.

The closer you are to Christ The more you see If you will close your eyes To the truth Yet you are part of the truth Then you have Very little problem. But there's something Inherent in each one of us.

He puts in each of us To study his word To find out the truth. And the more I learn The more deplorable I see That I am. So it's just A never-ending Vicious circle. Now concerning the things Where we wrote You wrote unto me It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Marriage, Abstinence, and Mutual Conjugal Duty

He He said it's not. It is good that a man not touch A woman that he didn't say his wife. Nevertheless To avoid fornication Let every man have his own wife. Let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto his wife Due benevolence.

When likewise also the wife Unto the husband. The wife hath not power over her own body But the husband Likewise also the husband Hath not power over his own body. But the wife Defraud you one Defraud you not One another.

Except it be with Consent for a time That you may give yourself to fasting Prayer and come together again. That Satan tempt you not. For your inconsistency Defraud. He's giving the warning Of defrauding.

I get from that the picture of Of Of doing something without the other's Consent. And he says don't do that. For I speak this by Permission and not of Commandment. Paul is the only one that I know of That wrote Such words Now by permission.

This was a subject about which Persons were permitted To judge for themselves and on Which they should Exercise and enlighten And replenish Christian Doctrine. We know what's right Even though it's not spelled out in the bible.

The bible's not a book That you can go to and look up in the index And find the answer To everything. There is general principles That create The truth for everything. For if I would For I would That all men Were even as I myself.

But every man hath his Proper gift of God One after this manner Another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried And the widows it is good for them If they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain Let them marry.

For it is better to marry than to burn. It is better to marry. It would be better to marry Than to commit adultery. And unto the married I command Ye not I but the Lord. He broke into his Words he was giving That I give this by permission.

Well even the permission of Paul Was far above Most of us. And unto the married I command yet not I but the Lord. Let not the wife depart From her husband. But and if she Depart let her remain unmarried Or be reconciled To her husband and let not the husband Put away his wife.

But to the rest Speak I not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth Not and she Be pleased to dwell with him Let him not put her away. And the woman Which hath a husband That believeth not And if it pleased to dwell with her Let her not Leave him.

If they have become saved After they were married Let not the one Depart from the other. There's some folks have the idea That when they're married They need to quit their job. They need to start over They need to.

God took you right where you were. He has His own Schedule His own plan for you No matter where you are Or what you are. And he'll move you out of where you are. Now I speak generally. There are some cases That As they become saved After they're married If they Have become saved And they immediately need to stop that business.

But that's Very rare. For the unbelieving husband is Sanctified by the wife. And the unbelieving wife Is sanctified by the husband Else where Else where Else Where your children Were your children unclean.

But now they're both Legitimate. Now this is Besides hard to read. It is A little confusing. Because The wife cannot save the husband. Nor the husband save the wife. What's it talking about When it says Lest your children are unclean.

Anyone else care to Give a word before I pronounce.

Or to say my husband Or my wife is not a Christian. And it would be better that I take him Out of this environment Or say that that's not the case.

No and you touched on one One word. Legitimacy. To mean that your Children are not bastard. All marriages Outside of the church. That's what their children are Concerned are Are. What word are I considered.

They're all considered bastards. That means without Father or mother Legitimately. And Diane touched on the very Heart of it that what he's Talking about is Legitimate marriage. Now if there's one Saved one not saved.

Stay together. If at all Possible We need to stop here. Okay we'll start with Fifteen. I wish you'd do something for me This next week. Just for one week only. I know it's going to be hard. But you can do it.

Don't use the word I Just don't use it. Say we. Or don't talk one or the other. Let's see If we can go all week And come Next Sunday. I'll ask how many Did it. And I'll check you today. Whether in this class or Out of this class.

Don't use the Word I. Does everybody Understand the assignment.

Don't use The word I. You can put God willing in there. It'll work every time.

Don't add I. After that Bill would you dismiss us today please.