1 Corinthians 6:18-20 (New International Version)
18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

I. Fleeing sexual immorality (v. 18)
• What is true of any

of these sins is true of

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.
•

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of sexual sin is orientation towards spiritual inheritance while

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of sexual sin is orientation towards disinheritance.
•

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and

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removes sex from both reality and relationship while confining sexuality to

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and

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.
• Intimate sexual union is compatible with Christ, but always requires a

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. (1 Cor. 6:16-17)
• If God doesn’t judge all sin then he is

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, and if God doesn’t allow all sin then he is

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.
II. Sexuality is expression not identification (vv. 18-19)
• Sexual sin is uniquely depraved because it

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and

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a person’s God-given identity.
• Heterosexuality and homosexuality are

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of sex behavior not revelations of identity.
• Humans cannot have

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or

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sex.
• Every act of sex is a

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experience.
III. Temples of Holy Spirit (vv. 19-20)
• There is a theological

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if God is real.
• Every act of sex creates a physical bond due to

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that results in a

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. (6:16-17)
• Our bodies are designed

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to correlate with our soul and spirit in our

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of God.
•

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orientation or

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orientation as our standard of identification is a declaration of worship.
• Sexual immorality is prostitution of the temple of our body which
is

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.

TAKE OFF
Share about a time when you ran away from something – either literally or figuratively. Why did you act so quickly?
TEXT
1. What thoughts or feelings did you have during this week’s sermon?
2. What sin does the apostle Paul tell the Corinthian church to “flee” from (v. 18)? What other sins involve the body? How is sexual immorality more degrading than these other sins?
3. How does the knowledge that our “bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit” impact your view of decisions you make with your body (v. 19)? How can we honor God with our bodies in terms of our sexuality?
4. What is the “price” that Christians have been bought for (v. 20)? How can remembering this help us to overcome sexual temptation and sin?
TAKE AWAY
What steps can you take to help remind you to run from sexual sin? How can you put them into practice this week?