The sexual life of the unmarried person is a great concern to God.

Even though you who are here this morning who have not entrusted yourselves to God as Savior

nor love Him with your whole heart, you are obligated to obey what God has to say about what is best

for you.

Though you rebel are his leadership.

You are his.

He made you.

He has absolute right over everyone to tell them what is good for them.

And he sent Jesus Christ into the world to overcome the rebellion that exists between

you and him and to make peace by the blood of his cross.

And my prayer as I begin this morning is that those of you in that category might forsake that rebellion and lay hold on Christ for salvation and live from this day forward for the glory of God.

And then I'll be able to say to everyone in this room, do you not know that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?

You are not your own. You have been bought with a price therefore glorify God in your

bodies that is an offensive word to our fallen human nature, isn't it? The body in which you

live is not yours to do with merely as you please. God bought your body with an infinite

price from the curse of the sin by the payment of his own son.

And your body should serve one overarching goal, the glory of that God.

Paul said in Romans 612, let not sin

therefore reign in your mortal bodies to make you obey their passions.

Do not yield yourselves to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death

to life and your bodily parts as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you because you are not

under law but under grace. God is concerned about what you do with your bodies. Very concerned. He created them, he bought them, he owns them. he endwells them and what we do with them demonstrates who

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