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Thankful who all who have made 
it this morning and pray. 

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That the things that are studied
here this morning with you guys.

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In the congregation here will be
uplifting and growing, our 

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knowledge for Christ and his 
desire for us. 

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If you have your Bibles in front
of you, please open it to First 

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Corinthians chapter 6. 
We're going to be studying 

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through verses 9 through 20 this
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studying about some difficult. 
Mainly, the topic of sexual 

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immorality and how the Bible 
teaches us how to deal with 

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that. 
My aim is to go through this 

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study, through God's word in a 
way that is appropriate for the 

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assembly this morning for 
everybody here. 

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And please don't be alarmed. 
I'm going to Do my best to make 

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sure that things we talked about
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And when we mention sexuality or
homosexuality and sexual 

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immorality in the church, 
sometimes we're afraid to 

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address these topics because of 
maybe how we have heard them 

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addressed in the past, or maybe 
not heard them addressed at all.

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But we're going to be walking 
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some biblical. 
Is that we can find in First 

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Corinthians 6 and my aim is to 
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myself, too. 
To show us how to love each 

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other in the church, how to love
each other in the community that

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we're in those that we may come 
in contact with outside of the 

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church, that may be struggling 
with some of these things that 

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we're going to be talking about.
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about these things, we need to 
remember the most foundational 

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thing when we talk about these 
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not each other's enemies. 
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always trying to change our 
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Who was trying to pull every one
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Every single person around us 
away from God's good design for 

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our bodies. 
So let's get into our study. 

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Were tempted to think that, you 
know, we may be living in unique

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days with unique challenges 
regarding sexuality, but we only

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think that way because we don't 
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understand what was happening in
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first century, when the book of 
1st Corinthians was written that

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city was known for rampant 
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and deception. 
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there in Corinth, where every 
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Corinth was a culture where 
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your body. 
However, you desire in the 1st 

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Corinthians 6. 
God gives us one of the most 

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comprehensive. 
Passages in the Bible about our 

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bodies and sexuality. 
So if it lets us listen and read

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verse First Corinthians 6 
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not know that the unrighteous 
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God? 
Do not be deceived, neither the 

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sexually immoral, nor idolaters 
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practice, social practice, 
homosexuality, nor thieves nor 

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the greedy, nor drunkards, nor 
revilers nor swindlers will 

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inherit the kingdom of God. 
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But you were washed, you were 
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in the name of the Lord Jesus. 
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And by the spirit of our God, 
all things are lawful for me but

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not all things are helpful. 
All things are lawful for me, 

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but I will not be dominated by 
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stomach and stomach is meant for
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And God will destroy both one. 
And the other, the body is meant

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for sexual and the body is not 
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for the Lord, and the Lord for 
the body, And if we this is the 

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first two times in our passions 
that we're going to see the word

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body here that that's reference.
And I want if you want to you 

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can either Circle in your Bible 
just make note of it every time 

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that we see the word body or 
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So we've already seen it two 
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So if we keep reading Says and 
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also raise up by his power. 
Do you not know that your bodies

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are members of Christ? 
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Then take the members of Christ 
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prostitute? 
Never or do you not know that he

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who is joined to a prostitute 
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it is written, the two will 
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But who is joined to, the Lord 
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flee from sexual immorality. 
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commits is outside the body, but
the sexually immoral person sins

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against his own body, or do you 
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temple of the Holy Spirit within
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You are not your own for. 
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So glorify God in your body. 
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the word body or bodies is 
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And that's significant because 
there's a lot of different 

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messages that we get from a lot 
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world today about our bodies and
how we're to view them, were use

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them. 
And while we hear these messages

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from the world, we need to 
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on how he Wants us to treat our 
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According to him, that is, what 
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what he's telling us about our 
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First point, I want to make your
body was created by God for his 

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glory and for your Earthly and 
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Everyone in that statement 
matters, your body are our body 

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right now. 
That was it was created for God 

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for his glory and for our 
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body was created by God. 
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in our Passage In many ways, 
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because this is how the 
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We see a phrase here that is, 
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that is, you know, food is meant
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meant for the food. 
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phrasing in Corinth was the 
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made for sexual activity and 
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body. 
That's what the Corinthians idea

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was at that time. 
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is made for the Lord and the 
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And I want us to think about 
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say that the Body is for the 
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starting point than every other 
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What we hear in the world the 
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It's very different were driven 
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or our bodies, the most 
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What we can see, we touch Doom, 
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We are drowning in a culture 
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please your own body. 
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us. 
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time to please God, in all that 
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So please yourself however you 
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please God, that's the 
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We need to ask ourselves what, 
what's our ultimate aim for our 

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bodies? 
Are we going to live in? 

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Self gratification for our 
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in God glorification with our 
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That's the fundamental question.
What it says here, in the next 

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part of the passage is so 
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God says here, your body is for 
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God says, I the Lord and for 
your body The Bible isn't saying

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your body is for God's just do 
whatever he says, make your body

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miserable, doesn't matter 
because it's really not about 

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you. 
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That's not what it's saying. 
Is the Bible saying, yes, your 

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body is for God and the good 
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We're talking about the The God 
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first place is for our body, so 
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You know, we want to back up all
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Bible. 
We realize that God is the one 

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who came up with the concept of 
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He designed it. 
He designed it in a way that 

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would bring us pleasure. 
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God created us with eyes. 
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around us. 
He created us with ears, so we 

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could hear music. 
He made us with taste that we 

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may enjoy the flavors. 
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might experience touch. 
He made us with faculties so we 

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could communicate with one 
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So we might have a relationship 
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other else, anything else in 
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He did that he didn't have to 
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Your body has been created 
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himself in his images, as first 
as Genesis 1:27 says, for his 

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glory and for your good on this 
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So it's important to realize God
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and even indifferent toward our 
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A lot of the Corinthians the 
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maybe many of us today, we're 
tempted to think that well God 

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cares only about my spiritual 
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He doesn't, he doesn't care 
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And they start to calm part 
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Just like we can come apart from
Clark compartmentalize and 

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separate our spiritual life. 
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life, over there in the Bible, 
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You cannot separate the two. 
God is the one who designed your

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physical life, your body for 
your good on this earth right 

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now? 
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is for our body, then we will 
inevitably buy into all kinds of

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Lies. 
That Satan tells us about our 

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bodies. 
We will question if God knew 

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what he was doing when he made 
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this disability or with that, 
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God knew what he was doing when 
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female. 
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don't do this with your body and
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going against what God has said.
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Because at the, at the route to 
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to forget that. 
God is for us and not against 

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You know, the all lies, all 
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universe formed our body and God
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Or anyone else in this world, 
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But, you know, we live in a in a
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is, nobody can tell me what to 
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mine. 
I can do whatever I want with my

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body. 
And that is the essence of sin 

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of pride and arrogance where we 
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you what is good for my body. 
Don't say that, don't have that 

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thought. 
The God Who is for your body? 

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He is for us. 
If he questioned this will live 

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in all kinds of confusion and 
deception, you know, the God who

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formed you is for you. 
God knows the way not just how 

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to satisfy your soul but to 
satisfy our bodies and we don't 

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want to You know, if we look at 
verse 14, God has made an 

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eternal investment in our body 
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It says it's talking about. 
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God brings the Lord Jesus from 
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up by his power. 
This is talking about God, he 

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raised Jesus from the dead and 
God is going to be raising up 

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our bodies from the dead. 
And that's why, I mean, what I 

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when I say that the first truth 
about her body was created for 

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God and His glory, and for our 
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He's not just, it's not just for
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Oakley good. 
But for Earthly, our Eternal 

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good, God doesn't just love you 
enough, to save your soul from 

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sin. 
God loves us so much that he 

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wants to redeem your body for 
eternity. 

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He wants to raise up and restore
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That we something that will be 
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This is what First Corinthian is
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If you want to turn the 1st 
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argument with first of the 
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live to fulfill our bodily 
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temporary. 
Then then our souls will go on 

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to eternal life and most have 
will have the best of both 

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worlds will be able to please 
our bodies in here and then 

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we'll have eternal life. 
And, you know, sometimes we tend

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to do that, you know, in some of
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church setting. 
You know, we separate the tune, 

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we cannot do that. 
We've created a whole version. 

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Sometimes of Christianity, where
we see our souls as sealed in 

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heaven, but we go on living for 
the temporary pleasures of our 

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bodies. 
However, we want to on this 

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Earth, we're okay with it as 
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but that is not Christianity. 
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Bible and in 1st Corinthians, 15
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laying down my own body. 
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I'm missing out on a lot in this
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that God is for me and know that
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this body, just like he did with
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beginning first 51, It says 
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I tell you a mystery. 
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shall all be changed in a 
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In a twinkling of an eye. 
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trumpet will sound, and the dead
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we shall be changed for this 
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Body being body must put on the 
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body must put on immortality 
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imperishable and the Mortal puts
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to pass the saying. 
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Death is swallowed up in 
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Oh death, where is your Victory 
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Death. 
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The Sting of death is sin and 
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But thanks be to God, who gives 
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Jesus Christ. 
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body of Jesus from a tomb. 
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raising, our bodies as well. 
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Corinthians 15, God not only 
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good but he created for Eternal 
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So if we put all this together, 
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that we've been molded and 
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Creator who loves us so much. 
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you know, of to thrive forever 
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God, Then why would we trust 
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our bodies more than God? 
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to not believe this. 
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know what's better for my body 
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In this broken world, we all 
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broken world. 
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And before I show you this, in 
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The first sin in the world 
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using their bodies outside of 
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Genesis 3. 
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eat from a particular tree. 
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craving of your body in this 
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However, that physical desire. 
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us with with the physical 
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created that we have the desire 
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But that fiscal desired could 
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outside of God's design, which 
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desires. 
Eat from enjoy. 

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All the fruit from all these 
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But God also taught them that 
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their desires said, do not eat 
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He gave them the design from the
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Synod even entered the world. 
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physical desires that were 
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specific certain ways. 
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time, so we don't miss it 
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Seeing even entered the world. 
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desires that were intended to be
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not to fulfilled in other ways. 
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chapter 3 is man and woman does 
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And the result was Brokenness 
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and their relationship with God.
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in their relationship with each 
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Brokenness between man and woman
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ways that would not just affect 
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Including you and I we live in a
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sin which affects each of us in 
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in the same way. 
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ways. 
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world. 
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world of weakness and disability
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There's many people whose bodies
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should in different ways and 
everybody persons bought 

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everybody's body will eventually
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we look at the picture of 
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light of sexuality, and First 
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physical desires for opposite 
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That leads us to think that 
think thoughts about others have

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desires for others or do things 
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That are not pleasing to God. 
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physical desires for the same 
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desire, do things that are not 
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To God. some have questions 
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sexually to the point where 
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don't fit or belong in their own
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our bodies have significant 
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sexual disability and fertility 
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prone to fulfill physical 
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All of us have at some point in 
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the present have sought to 
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in ways that are contrary to 
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Abused and or broken by people 
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bodies, contrary to God's word 
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the point is that each of us are
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Our experiences, even some of 
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Brokenness in this world, but in
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broken world. 
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ways that significantly affect 
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Some of the realities of bodily 
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Bodily sin. 
Harms. 

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Inevitably In First Corinthians 
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bodily sin specifically harms us
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bodies, our sin that someone 
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bodies. 
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12 of our passage, some of the 
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harm in practicing prostitution.
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lawful. 
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helpful to others bodies? 
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allowed, or you're able to do 
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Bodily sin is not helpful to you
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others. 
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God says, all things are lawful 
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dominated by in anything they're
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all things are lawful. 
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you can be careful, be warned, 
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things. 
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control so quickly. 
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You don't remember back in 
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Gave his Birthright away for 
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For a bowl of soup. 
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away his Birthright for a bowl 
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Impulses can a can cause you and
I to do extremely foolish things

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That last for a lifetime bodily 
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needs leads to the next Point. 
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painfully. 
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talking about. 
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that sexual immorality, unites 
you and another person Affecting

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all in a way that's different. 
From any other thing we can read

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about. 
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person commits is outside the 
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here but the sexual sexually 
immoral persons sins against his

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own body. 
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saying, don't underestimate at 
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particularly sexual sin. 
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It breaks marriages shatters 
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hurt and pain, and it leads to 
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Lying stealing, cheating, 
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gossip unforgiveness, even 
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physical desire. 
Sin with Bathsheba in a way that

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eventually led to the murder of 
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a sword. 
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David's house, David's life, and
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devastated, as a result of one 
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Bodily sin, devastates painfully
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condemns eternally. 
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God says, or do you not know 
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inherit the kingdom of God? 
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sexually immoral, nor doubt, nor
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men who practice, homosexuality,
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Really nor drunkards nor 
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inherit the kingdom of God. 
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addressed here in many different
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miss the overall language here, 
pertain to all these ways, those

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who sin, who go outside of God's
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inherit the kingdom of God. 
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passions will not inherit the 
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How we use our bodies on Earth, 
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So if we put all this together 
and it's not a very good picture

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of our bodies, it started out 
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Bible, but it is not good. 
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Potter's hand you and I were 
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God himself, and His Image 
fearfully, and wonderfully made 

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all of us without any exception 
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Perfect by God. 
Yet all of us have chosen to sin

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against God with our bodies. 
Many of us have been sinned 

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against in our bodies by others.
Some of us have whether it's 

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sing we've committed or sin that
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We can seeing the effects. 
We can just read about in the 

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Bible. 
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bodily sin harms inevitably. 
In many cases control so 

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quickly. 
Devastates painfully and 

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ultimately condemns eternally 
that which was beautifully 

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designed By God and that's the 
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That's the picture. 
It's really clear with Clay when

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we think about it. 
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Is it breaks. 
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This is a picture of every one 
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world. 
All of us without exception have

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broken bodies and the evidence, 
which is scatter all over our 

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lives. 
If we think about it, it's pain 

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and hurt that seems like won't 
ever go away in some of our 

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lives. 
Maybe it's guilt from the past 

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that we can't ever Shake. 
Maybe it's struggles in the 

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present that we can't ever seem 
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It's questions. 
Like why do I always go back to 

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this temptation over and over 
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or maybe it's confusion about 
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have these desires. 
Why wouldn't God take, this 

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desire away from me? 
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Why is he doing this to me? 
I have this desire that nobody 

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else can understand. 
Or maybe it's a constant battle 

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with unfulfilled desire. 
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Broken hearts. 
Broken relationships. 

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Broken marriages. 
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bodies. 
This is our reality in this 

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broken world as we all are 
susceptible to these broken 

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things that we can deal with. 
So is there any hope for people 

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with broken bodies in a broken 
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And I am here to say yes, there 
is hope number three, Jesus gave

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his body to make your body new. 
Jesus gave his body to make your

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body new 1st Corinthians 6. 
Verse 11. 

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And such were some of you but 
you were washed, you were 

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Sanctified, you were justified 
in the name of the Lord Jesus 

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Christ and by the spirit of our 
God such were some of you. 

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You were, you were this, but 
something changed something 

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happened. 
You were washed. 

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Take, Jesus Takes that, which is
dirty and he makes it clean, he 

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washes. 
You were Sanctified that word 

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means. 
Made holy to be made. 

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Holy you were Justified that 
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Justified, how is it possible 
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How is it possible for the 
guilty to be made innocent or 

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the broken to be made whole, it 
is only possible in the name of 

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the Lord Jesus Christ. 
And by the spirit of our God, as

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it says here, We might run in to
someone who might say what's so 

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special about Jesus big deal is 
Jesus what can he do? 

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How can what makes them? 
The only one who can make my 

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body knew what can I just figure
this out on my own or go this 

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route or that route? 
Look at verse 19. 

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Here's what makes Jesus uniquely
able to make your body new or do

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you not know that your body is a
temple of the Holy Spirit within

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you whom you have from God? 
You are not your own for you 

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were bought with a price. 
Here's why Jesus is the only one

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is a hope for a broken body, 
made new the heart and core of 

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the Bible is that God comes to 
this broken world in the body of

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Jesus. 
God In the Flesh, God in the 

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body. 
Jesus God in a body living, 

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perfectly Among Us. 
Never once sitting in his body 

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and as a result, he never 
deserved to experience the 

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penalty of sin, which is death 
bodily, physical death. 

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Yet he chose to die on a cross. 
Why to pay the price for the 

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sins of everybody who obeys his 
Gospel of Salvation and lives 

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for him. 
He paid the price. 

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Forcing on a cross. 
Then he physically rose from the

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dead in victory, over sin is 
body walking around alive. 

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So that anybody who trusts in 
Jesus, as the Son of God and is 

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baptized will be forgiven of all
your sin and filled with his 

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holy spirit, the spirit of God 
living in this. 

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Some like, you know, tend to 
thank you know, what what do I 

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do with all these desires that 
still might remain even if we 

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choose this path of 
Christianity, is this just a 

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life of unfulfilled, you know, 
daily desires that I'm going to 

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have? 
Well Jesus came to give you life

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to the fullest of by the power 
of His spirit in. 

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You knowing that one day, when 
your body wears out and dies, 

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you will ultimately live with a 
fully redeemed, fully restored, 

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The new body that is free from 
all sin, free from all 

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suffering. 
Free from all Unholy desire, 

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free to experience the full 
pleasure of God that he is 

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designed for your body for the 
next 10 billion years and 

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Beyond. 
So I want to urge all of us 

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today, if we have never trusted 
in Jesus, today, we can be 

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washed Sanctified Justified 
before God by him through faith,

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repentance confession and 
baptizing baptism. 

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And for all of us who believed 
and Obey and are Christians and 

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obey obey Christ, I want to 
remind all of us today this in 

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this world, with all of our 
broken bodies and broken World, 

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Jesus has bought Your body on a 
cross. 

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He has filled your body with his
holy spirit. 

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He is committed to Bringing 
healing amidst your hurt. 

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He is committed to Bringing 
victory in your struggles. 

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Jesus loves all of us and is 
committed to giving us 

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everything we need to keep 
experiencing Earthly and eternal

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good. 
As we glorify God in our body. 

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If only we will trust in him 
looking to him leaning on him 

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believing that he is making and 
will make your body new. 

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I know, I know, I know that 
Satan gets in our head sometimes

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and temps us and he says, don't 
believe all this stuff. you 

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know, don't Healing. 
You know Victory made new really

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you think you guys can get all 
that. 

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That's what Satan tries to tempt
us with and tell us sometimes, 

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just look at all these. 
Look at all these broken pieces 

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up here and some of us, think 
I'm broken Beyond repair. 

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Some deal with those struggles. 
So if we start to take these 

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pieces and saying you know, I'm 
going to try to put them back 

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together but if we start trying 
to piece things back together, 

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the reality is you know there 
are still breaks and gaps. 

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Satan tries to tell us that we 
are to broken. 

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I know that that Satan tells 
some some of those things right 

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now, but I want us to know that 
we are not broken Beyond repair,

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none of us, are I want to give 
us another picture? 

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There is a Japanese art form 
called kintsugi which means 

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golden joinery. 
It is a form of art that takes 

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broken pottery and puts the 
broken pieces back together. 

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But instead of hiding the cracks
in the broken pieces, they 

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actually fill those breaks and 
gaps with gold. 

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The whole idea is that the 
artist intentionally takes 

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something that was broken. 
And instead of seeing those 

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breaks as something to hide or 
disguise and pretend like 

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they're not there, the artist 
fills, those breaks with gold. 

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Intern in the process, he turns 
it into an entirely new piece of

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pottery. 
That which is beautiful in a 

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completely different way. 
And stunning way were once, 

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there were breaks, there is now 
Beauty. 

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And in this picture, I want you 
to see and believe that the 

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master artist The God who formed
you. 

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The God, who formed us is able 
to do this with our broken 

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lives? 
I'm not saying it's easier 

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course or maybe it takes a long 
time. 

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What I'm saying is the Bible is 
saying that, which is that's the

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reason Jesus came. 
That's why he came here to give 

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his body to make our body new in
a way that takes your Brokenness

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and my Brokenness and makes us 
Beautiful, not with gold. 

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But was something much more 
precious than gold, the blood of

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Jesus Christ. 
He has the power to make your 

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body glorious, no matter what 
your past is, or your present. 

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This is what God's desire for 
your future is. 

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So I want to invite all of you 
to believe that Jesus died on a 

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cross to save us from sin. 
That's why he died. 

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He rose from the dead and 
victory over sin. 

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So that today we can follow him 
as a Savior and Lord of our 

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life. 
God will make you new. 

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He will wash you sanctify. 
You and justify you in the name 

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of Jesus. 
If only we will submit to him to

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the gospel of South to gospel 
Plan of Salvation, to believe to

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change of our old ways to submit
to God's instruction confess the

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name of Christ, as the Son of 
God and be baptized in order to 

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have your sins washed clean. 
If you're a Christian and never 

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obeyed that gospel, but have 
sinned. 

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Send against your body that 
needs a public confession. 

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Anyway, please come while we 
stand in while we see. 

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