Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, October 13th.

Most of us know good nutrition is vital to good health, but often that doesn't impact the choices we make.

Today we'll see that being a good steward of our physical body is a factor in reaching our full potential.

We oftentimes overlook a very key factor in helping us reach our potential in life.

We are in this series entitled How to Reach Our Full Potential.

We've talked about a clean heart, we've talked about a clear mind, a balanced schedule, and this morning I want to talk about a healthy body.

Now, we can't reach our full potential unless we do take care of our bodies because our bodies are very important.

I want you to turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 6 for a moment. I want us to read a passage here.

I just want us to read this as a jumping off place because I don't want to expound the passage except to say the Apostle Paul had been dealing with the Corinthians and they misinterpreted something he said.

Twice he said, for example, in the 12th verse of the 6th chapter, he said,

all things are lawful for me. He said it twice, and he said it twice in the 10th chapter.

Well, some of those Corinthian believers took that to say that they had all kinds of freedom.

In other words, Paul said all things are lawful for me. He didn't say anything was.

But he was speaking of a certain aspect of the Christian life and things that the law required and so forth.

And so what they did is they decided that since they were free in Christ, they were free to have any kind of sexual relationships they wanted in life.

And so what he's writing about here is to clarify that. And so he comes down to the last couple of verses and he says,

do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have from God and that you're not your own,

but you have been bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body.

And so he ends the passage that way and I would simply want to emphasize those last two verses.

When he says that our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and he says it's not your own and it never will be.

That is our bodies have not been our own and they're not our own today and they never will be our own.

We're his possession created by him and he says to bring him glory and honor.

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