Have you first read all three parts of the introduction to this blog?
Here is a guide to the meaning of the colors I use...
Here is a guide to the meaning of the colors I use...
- Black -- General insights the Lord shows me as I read.
- Blue -- Specific things I need to do.
- Red -- Things I need to be thankful for.
- Green -- Prayers I need to pray.
Let's get started...
Today, read 1 Corinthians 6 on your own at least one time. (It is a pretty short chapter.) As you read, make notes in a notebook or in the margins of your Bible. Record all of the insights God gives you. Don't read my remarks until you have first done this yourself.
Here are the insights I wrote down along with the verses they go with...
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6:1-5 (NKJ) Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?
Christians should have the wisdom and fairness and humility to solve any interpersonal conflict between believers.
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6:5 (NLT) I am saying this to shame you. Isn’t there anyone in all the church who is wise enough to decide these issues?
Lord, please fill our church with wise people who are growing in their faith. Help me to always grow in wisdom and humility.
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6:7 (NKJ) Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?
The reputation and harmony of the church is more important than my rights!
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6:11 (NKJ) And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Thank you Lord, that you forgive us and restore us from any sin!
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6:13 (NLT) You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies.
We must not be as casual about sexual sin as we often are about the foods we eat.
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6:15-17 (NLT) Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.” But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
We cannot even begin to comprehend the seriousness of sexual sin!
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6:18 (NKJ) Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Lord, I want this to be a guiding truth and instruction in my life.
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6:20 (NKJ) For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Praise Jesus for His mighty sacrifice and praise God for His sacrifice in sending His Son!
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Don't forget to spend time in prayer... CHAT...
Pastor Noel
Today, read 1 Corinthians 6 on your own at least one time. (It is a pretty short chapter.) As you read, make notes in a notebook or in the margins of your Bible. Record all of the insights God gives you. Don't read my remarks until you have first done this yourself.
Here are the insights I wrote down along with the verses they go with...
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6:1-5 (NKJ) Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?
Christians should have the wisdom and fairness and humility to solve any interpersonal conflict between believers.
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6:5 (NLT) I am saying this to shame you. Isn’t there anyone in all the church who is wise enough to decide these issues?
Lord, please fill our church with wise people who are growing in their faith. Help me to always grow in wisdom and humility.
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6:7 (NKJ) Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?
The reputation and harmony of the church is more important than my rights!
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6:11 (NKJ) And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Thank you Lord, that you forgive us and restore us from any sin!
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6:13 (NLT) You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies.
We must not be as casual about sexual sin as we often are about the foods we eat.
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6:15-17 (NLT) Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.” But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
We cannot even begin to comprehend the seriousness of sexual sin!
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6:18 (NKJ) Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Lord, I want this to be a guiding truth and instruction in my life.
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6:20 (NKJ) For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Praise Jesus for His mighty sacrifice and praise God for His sacrifice in sending His Son!
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Don't forget to spend time in prayer... CHAT...
Pastor Noel
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