
Hello everyone. In this morning's Bible study we continue our journey down the road to understanding biblical foundational truths; What about our bodies?
There has been over the centuries, especially in the early church, a misunderstanding of the physical body. In many of the Roman aligned and former Greek cities, we must remember just how pagan these people truly were.
Unlike today, the people of cities like Corinth open worshipped and bowed to many false deities and their so-called images which were carved out of stone. Today, many of us would find that practice repugnant however during the first century it was repugnant not to bow to statues.
Corinth was also a very very immoral city hence many of its residents who were being saved had this type of background. They used their bodies to perform and practice some of the most horrific religious and sexual deviancy.
After being born again and being reformed by the preaching of the gospel and the teaching of the word of God, there came some of the religious gentiles and Jews who brought in with them false doctrine. One of the false doctrines was that physical matter is evil but the spirit is good.
This basically meant that since the physical body was evil, the believer was free from obedience because the body was evil. This of course is a false doctrine as there is nothing inherently evil regarding our physical bodies.
Then what is God's perspective on our physical bodies.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (NKJV)
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
2 Corinthians 6:16 (NKJV)
16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Our bodies are God's temple whom He uses to minister the truth of the gospel and declare His attributes. Hence our bodies are not to be used for evil nor our own purposes but for the glory of the One who called us out of darkness and into His most glorious light, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Today's study is 1 hour and 21 minutes in duration. I have broken it into 10 segments. This is segment 10 of 10 titled God calls our bodies out of the world and flesh represented by Egypt Part 2
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