Freedom with Limits
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Freedom with Limits

What is the nature of Christian freedom? Responses range from excessive license to do whatever you want to excessive restriction through added rules and regulations. Paul clarified that even when something is permissible, it may not be beneficial, helpful, or advisable. Alistair Begg examines liberty and immorality through the lens of Paul’s qualifications and God’s purpose for our bodies.

Series Containing This Sermon

A Study in 1 Corinthians, Volume 2

License and Litigation 1 Corinthians 5:1–6:18 Series ID: 14602


Flee Sexual Immorality

12“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16Or do you not know that he who is joined4 to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin5 a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

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Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.

Alistair Begg
Alistair Begg is Senior Pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Bible teacher on Truth For Life, which is heard on the radio and online around the world.