Sermon Sketch for Sunday, Feb. 10

Caring for My Body Romans 6:13
Being intentional about my place of personhood.

Readings:
OT – Prov. 3:3-8
NT – 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

1. Recognize God’s Rightful Claim to Your Body
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

A. Salvation is about our whole person (spiritual, mental, physical, social).
B. Salvation is incarnational – “Christ lives in me” (Gal. 2:20)
C. Our bodies should honor God and exalt Christ (Phil. 1:20-21).

2. Give Your Body to God for Righteousness
Romans 6:8-14
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

A. We need to be intentional about our bodies. We make choices.
B. By God’s grace, our bodies are no longer subject to sin’s dominance.

3. Understand the Sinful Patterns Rooted in Your Body
Romans 7:21-25
21 So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

A. Our bodies have patterns and habits that have been formed by sin.
B. Christ can save us from these patterns and help us to formed by his Spirit and his power.

4. Take Hold of Resurrection Power to Change
Romans 8:10-12
10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. 12 Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.

A. Christ makes us spiritually alive, and his Spirit will also bring life to our mortal bodies.
B. We have an obligation to Christ. The life we live in our bodies should be lived by faith in Christ. (Gal. 2:20)