Cell Group Sharing - 11 Oct 2007

Dear faithlove cell,

Decided to upload a short summary of what had been shared and discussed on our group meeting on Thurs 11 Oct 07 for the benefit of those unable to make it and oso for our global friends. =) Do hope these would help you guys in keeping up with the future bible studies.

Topic shared: Sexual Immorality
Bible reference: 1 Corinthians 6:11-20
Shared By: Bro Min Shiung

• Verse 9-12- There is no difference in the magnitude of sin, but the one and only judgement of sin is death. Being a liar makes you no difference from an adulterer or a murderer. We should know that sinners do NOT inherit the Kingdom of God.
• Jesus came not for His rights, but for His wrongs. He bore our sins, so that He became the wrong and the sinner, such that all of us could escape that eternal judgement of death in Hell.
• Everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial. We can always find excuses for sin, but that would only lead us further away from our source above.
• Food for the stomach, and stomach for food - We live to eat, eat to live.
• Extremeties in both ends are not good. Gluttony defiles the body, just as sexual immorality defiles the body.
• Food represents the things of the world, and stomach represents our physical body. We use food to satisfy our bodies. The methods that we use in achieving worldly desires often ends up in sin. God will one day come and admonish both the world and its desires including all our phyical body. (2nd coming)
• Verse 15-17 - Whoever unites himself with a prostitute defiles his body that is one in Christ Jesus. Having sexual relations with a partner not ordained by God as your spouse leads to sexual immorality and sin.
• We therefore cannot be in sin and together in the Lord as one. It is either sin and death or life and Jesus as a choice. Both are mutually exclusive.

Questions to ponder:

• What will your response be when sexual desires comes to you. God place sexual desires in men for the pleasure of procreation, however, we need to be IN control of it, rather than UNDER control by it.
• What is the line drawn against lust and sexual immorality? -When your thoughts translates into physical actions, that becomes sexual immorality.

We must repent when we sin, needless to say, and God will be faithful to us and forgive us of all unrighteousness. No man is perfect. Even a giant of faith like King David fall prey to sexual immoralities with Basheeba, thus we too have to be watchful over our life.

Scriptural memory verse:

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, and pleasing to God - this is true worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is- His good, pleasing and perfect will." - Romans 12: 1-2