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StartUp – Monday May 16, 2016
Good Day Passionate Youth Reaching Out, today is Monday May 16, 2016. My name is Grant and this is Start Up, helping you start your day with an upward focus.
Today’s scripture is 1 Corinthians 6:12–17 (HCSB)
12 “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything. 13 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. 15 Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not! 16 Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh. 17 But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Our past two youth events have put a focus on purity, and that has lined up perfectly with Pastor Shafer’s message from 1 Corinthians 6 yesterday. 1 Corinthians 6:12 quotes a phrase that had become popular in the Corinthian Church, “Everything is permissible for me”. It seems that the members of the Church were saying that there was absolutely nothing that they were willing to abstain from. Paul adds his thought to there phrase, “Everything is permissible, but not everything is helpful.”
Sin wants to make you its slave. It wants to bring you under its control. Paul knows this, he knows that exercising freedom in certain areas of life is extremely dangerous and will likely cause great harm to many people. Somehow these Corinthian church members had talked themselves into justifying sexual immorality, and Paul is helping them to see that they are in danger.
Paul makes the point that sexual immorality is a big deal. He shows this by putting Jesus himself in our shoes, it would be incomprehensible for us to see Jesus practicing the morality that many of us try to justify, and so clearly it can’t be justified.
If you are justifying some sort of sexual immorality, imagine trying to justify Jesus doing that same thing. If you can’t see him doing it, or thinking it, then you shouldn’t be doing it or thinking it either.
The Challenge for this week is to Examine your heart. What are the things that your heart is drawn to? Would you say that your heart is pure? More importantly, would God say that your heart is pure. I challenge you to examine your heart, and to also pray and ask God to examine your heart. See if there are any sinful ways in you, and then in those areas repent and ask for forgiveness.
There is no Friday youth event because of the May Long Weekend. I invite everyone to come to our Church services at 9:30 or 11:00 this Sunday at Hawkwood Baptist Church.
If you want to find out more about our youth group, you can find us online at hbcyouth.ca. We are also on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, just search for Hawkwood Youth.
https://www.facebook.com/HawkwoodYouthPYRO/
https://twitter.com/HawkwoodYouth
https://www.instagram.com/hawkwoodyouth/
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By Grant van BoeschotenGood Day Passionate Youth Reaching Out, today is Monday May 16, 2016. My name is Grant and this is Start Up, helping you start your day with an upward focus.
Today’s scripture is 1 Corinthians 6:12–17 (HCSB)
12 “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything. 13 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. 15 Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not! 16 Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh. 17 But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Our past two youth events have put a focus on purity, and that has lined up perfectly with Pastor Shafer’s message from 1 Corinthians 6 yesterday. 1 Corinthians 6:12 quotes a phrase that had become popular in the Corinthian Church, “Everything is permissible for me”. It seems that the members of the Church were saying that there was absolutely nothing that they were willing to abstain from. Paul adds his thought to there phrase, “Everything is permissible, but not everything is helpful.”
Sin wants to make you its slave. It wants to bring you under its control. Paul knows this, he knows that exercising freedom in certain areas of life is extremely dangerous and will likely cause great harm to many people. Somehow these Corinthian church members had talked themselves into justifying sexual immorality, and Paul is helping them to see that they are in danger.
Paul makes the point that sexual immorality is a big deal. He shows this by putting Jesus himself in our shoes, it would be incomprehensible for us to see Jesus practicing the morality that many of us try to justify, and so clearly it can’t be justified.
If you are justifying some sort of sexual immorality, imagine trying to justify Jesus doing that same thing. If you can’t see him doing it, or thinking it, then you shouldn’t be doing it or thinking it either.
The Challenge for this week is to Examine your heart. What are the things that your heart is drawn to? Would you say that your heart is pure? More importantly, would God say that your heart is pure. I challenge you to examine your heart, and to also pray and ask God to examine your heart. See if there are any sinful ways in you, and then in those areas repent and ask for forgiveness.
There is no Friday youth event because of the May Long Weekend. I invite everyone to come to our Church services at 9:30 or 11:00 this Sunday at Hawkwood Baptist Church.
If you want to find out more about our youth group, you can find us online at hbcyouth.ca. We are also on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, just search for Hawkwood Youth.
https://www.facebook.com/HawkwoodYouthPYRO/
https://twitter.com/HawkwoodYouth
https://www.instagram.com/hawkwoodyouth/