June 8, glorify God in your body. You were bought with a price, so glorify God in your body

for Scrantian 620. Worship is a term we use to cover all the acts of the heart and mind and body

that intentionally express the infinite worth of God. This is what we were created for.

It might be singing in church, it might be sweeping the kitchen floor. Don't just think about worship

services when you think about worship. That is a huge limitation which is not in the Bible.

All of life is supposed to be worship. Take breakfast for example. First Corinthians 1031 says,

whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Now, eating and drinking are about as basic as you can get. What could be more real or more

ordinarily human than eating and drinking? And Paul says in effect, let your eating and drinking

be worship or take sex. Paul says the alternative to fornication is worship,

flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body but the

sexually immoral person sins against his own body or do you not know that your body is the

temple of the Holy Spirit within you whom you have from God. You are not your own for you were bought

with a price so glorify God in your body for Corinthians 618 to 20. That is worship with your body

by the way you handle your sexuality or take death for a final example. We will experience death

in our bodies. In fact, it will be the last act of the body on this earth. The body bids farewell.

How shall we worship in that last act of the body? We see the answer in Philippians 1, 20 and 21.

Paul says that his hope is that Christ would be magnified, worshipped, shown to be worthy,

in his body by death. Then he adds 4 to me to die is gain. We express the infinite worth of Christ

in dying by counting death as gain. You have a body but it is not yours. You were bought with a

price so glorify God in your body. You are always in a temple, always worship.