Adrian Rogers was a motivator, an encourager, and a leader of the faith. He was also passionate about presenting

scriptural application to everyday life circumstances, and you'll hear that in today's message.

Now, let's join Adrian Rogers. Be finding in your Bibles, 1 Corinthians chapter 6. First Corinthians chapter 6.

In a moment we're going to begin reading in verse 19,

an unknown person pay $3,000, $3,000 for one baseball.

$3 million, $5,000 for one baseball. $3,000 for one baseball.

The thing that made it different is it was Mark McGuire's 70th home run ball,

and somebody valued that baseball so much a baseball.

They could be bought for about $9,000 that they paid $3,000 for that one baseball.

Well, let me ask you a question. Would you like to have it? Well, let me tell you something

that you can have that is far more valuable. I think that God wants you to have, and that is fitness, health.

Health is far more valuable than Mark McGuire's baseball.

Would you agree with that?

I hope so.

The Bible says concerning our bodies that we are fearfully and wonderfully made and that our bodies are

the temple of the Holy Spirit of God. Look in verse 19. What? Know you not that your body is the temple

of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God? And ye are not your own. for you're bought with a price.

Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are gods.

God paid a greater price for you than that man paid for that baseball.

And you're not your own.

Therefore, God has enjoined you, yes, has commanded you to glorify God in your body

as well as in your spirit. Now the psalmist said concerning his body that he was fearfully and

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