Podcast: 2025-03-16: Pastor Mark Quist – God be Glorified in my Body

God be glorified in my Body! (1 Corinthians 6:12-20)  The Apostle Paul waxes eloquent in delivering one of his most concise teachings on human sexuality for the follower of Christ.  His words and teaching are masterful.

He describes well the trouble of the struggles of our sexuality and gives us hope by pointing us to Jesus, the Lord and Savior of our body and soul.  Paul gives a powerfully convicting call to sexual integrity in the Lord and with one another.

We live in a hyper sexualized culture today.  Combined with a plethora of easy access fingertip technology, powerful media and social media influences, peer pressures, and an overly permissive spirit of this age, we experience powerful temptation, trial, suffering, and brokenness.  If nothing else, it can be attractive to compromise our sexual integrity, whether in the heart, the mind, or the body before God, growing guilt and shame, leading us to hide from God, pulling us away from the good and beautiful design for intimacy in relationships God has invited us into.

Is there a way out?  Is there a way forward?  Is there a way to freedom and sexual integrity?  Absolutely.  Jesus died and rose again and has given us his Spirit, who dwells within us.  Giving us grace, truth, and power to walk in faithfulness to God and with one another.

Our next text for Sunday comes to us from 1 Corinthians 6:12-20.  Already, we know from Paul, “In Christ, we are washed, sanctified and justified.”  What does that mean for the body that God has given us?  Paul is a master teacher on this one.

See you Sunday,
Pastor Mark