THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, 1 Corinthians 6

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LAWSUITS AMONG BELIEVERS
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LORD, disputes among believers is a bad testimony before the world. Give Your people the spirit of wisdom in these and all matters. The Apostle Paul by inspiration of Your Spirit used the word “dare” to take these disputes before the ungodly for judgment, instead of before godly counsel.
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You’ve given Your people wisdom liberally to judge all things with the mind of Christ, and even “to judge the world.” and angels! Your church ought to be competent and wise to judge from the trivial cases and the things of this life.
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Disputes among believers is shameful to be ruled by those whose way of life is scorned in the church, brother taking lawsuits against another to court--and this in front of unbelievers. This is of itself a defeat. Your wisdom says it is preferable to be wronged and cheated. And this should not happen between the brethren because wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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DO NOT BE DECEIVED
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LORD, Your Word warns no one be deceived, for neither shall the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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THE SANCTIFIED
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Your redeemed were such as the above, but now are washed, sanctified, justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Your Spirit, our God.
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RIGHTS
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Your church has rights, but not everything is beneficial and it should not be mastered by anything. The things of this world will be destroyed.
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SEXUAL IMMORALITY
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Your body, the church, however, is not meant for sexual immorality, but for You, Lord, and You for the body. By Your power You raised the Lord Jesus from the dead, and He will raise us also. The bodies of Your church are members of Christ Himself and they should never be united to a prostitute, for the one that unites with a prostitute is one with their body. For it is written:
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“The two will become one flesh.”
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But whoever is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
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LORD, You want for Your people to flee sexual immorality. You said, all things a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. The bodies of Your people are temples of the Holy Spirit, Who lives within each believer, Whom Your church received from You. We do not belong to ourselves, we were bought with a price, therefore we will honor You LORD with our bodies.
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PRAYING FOR LOST LOVED ONES
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LORD, we do not want to confuse nor be a bad testimony before our lost loved ones that we want to see saved. We want to heed Your counsel not to display disputes among Your church before unbelievers, especially, not to be ruled by an ungodly judge, and these matters ought to be resolved within Your church.
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LORD, we also want them to see the difference Christ has made in our lives. We ought to live sanctified lives.
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LORD we want for our lost loved ones to be one with Christ too and for Your Spirit to live within them. As new creatures in Christ, Your Spirit will give them the power to be children of light and no longer to live a life mastered by sin, depriving them to inherit Your kingdom. Save them, LORD, we pray in Jesus name.
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(FROM 1 Corinthians 6)