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🗓️ 30 November 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:12.8 | Today, Paul continues his letter to the church he started at Corinth. You may notice that |
0:16.7 | every time he rebukes them for something or addresses a problem they have, he presents the |
0:20.5 | gospel in response to it. One of the themes that shows up frequently is that those who follow every time he rebukes them for something or addresses a problem they have, he presents the gospel |
0:20.9 | in response to it. One of the themes that shows up frequently is that those who follow Christ |
0:25.6 | should view every aspect of their lives through the lens of the gospel and live it out empowered |
0:29.8 | by the work of the Spirit. This is not what the Corinthians are doing. They're not only living |
0:34.3 | lives of sexual debauchery, but they're praising it. They do things not even the pagans do, and they try to use God's grace as an excuse for why it's okay. |
0:42.7 | It's an abuse of grace. |
0:44.4 | We're free in Christ, they say. |
0:46.3 | But freedom in Christ isn't freedom to sin. |
0:48.7 | Freedom in Christ is freedom from sin. |
0:50.6 | It means we're no longer enslaved to sin, and we actually have the power of the Spirit |
0:54.5 | to help us obey God. Any version of God's grace that treats sin as no big deal is a crude |
1:00.4 | misrepresentation. Grace is an agent of change. It's God's favor on us to help us walk |
1:06.6 | according to His ways. It redirects us, away from the works of the flesh and toward the fruit of the |
1:11.9 | spirit. On the other hand, anything that lets us continue in sin unchecked and carefree |
1:17.2 | isn't grace, it's passive wrath. The church at Corinth doesn't get this at all. One problem with sexual |
1:24.2 | sin is that it dishonors people by disassociating their body from their soul, |
1:28.8 | using them for our own pleasure. In short, it's not loving, it's selfish. He addresses this topic |
1:34.6 | again in chapter six with even heavier words. He says, if you're a believer, you have the |
1:39.5 | spirit of God living inside you. And when you force the spirit of God into sexual situations |
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