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"Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?"

Text: 1 Corinthians 6:15

THE PROBLEM OF HARLOTRY

Corinth was a city that was ignominiously famous for prostitution! It was so common that many accepted it almost as a way of life. Paul disagreed!

“Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?
Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members
of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is
joined to a harlot is one body with her?
For ‘the two,’ He says, ‘shall become one flesh.’
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.”
1 Corinthians 6:15-17

1. Our spiritual union with the Lord Jesus Christ

a) Our bodies are members of Christ.

b) Our spirits are joined to the Lord as “one spirit”.

2. Ramifications

a) As Christ Jesus is holy, so should we be!

b) We cannot defile the body through prostitution.

3. Arguments against prostitution

a) Prostitution involves physical union.

b) This union means that the person is “one flesh” with the prostitute.

c) This is impossible if the believer truly understands what it means to be one with Christ in the spirit.

4. “Do you not know”

a) The problem seems to be that of “ignorance”.

i) Biblical ignorance

ii) Spiritual ignorance

b) Or it may be compounded with accepting the views of the world.

i) That prostitution is “all right”.

ii) That no wrong is done.

iii) That it does not harm our relationship with the Lord.

iv) The soul has compromised with the world.

v) The individual has gone far from the Lord and living in disobedience.