1 Corinthians 6
The city of Corinth was the ancient world's "Las Vegas." Those who came out of this culture into a relationship with Jesus had to make a choice in their sexual thinking. The Corinthian culture said that everything was permissible, that there were no boundaries, and so do whatever you please. The Corinthian culture was driven by self-worship. It is the exact same goal our culture champions today. This world view detaches sex from God and says our pleasure is the ultimate goal. Notice how Paul ends this passage, "Therefore honor God with your body." In the end, sex is an act of worship.
In sexuality, we are either worshipping ourselves or worshipping God. If we worship ourselves, we will make our goals supreme. We will then use the body of another person to get our pleasure. But sexuality is an empty god. It promises much but delivers very little. G.K. Chesterton nailed it spot on when he said, "Every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God." Sex can never deliver. It can't make us content. Sex can never give us lasting happiness or meaning and purpose in life. Sex just can't give life.
The other choice is to worship God in our sexuality. We allow God to give us guidance and direction and then make every sexual decision to honor him. So, we need to ask this question: Are we engaging in sex to please ourselves or to please God? If we are living for ourselves, we become dangerous because we will use people for our own pleasure and we won't have proper boundaries since our own goals are supreme.
We need to ask, "What pleases the God who designed us? Are we living for an audience of one in our sexuality?" The choice to honor God and live for His pleasure, not our own, is a radical choice that will absolutely transform our lives and our sexuality.
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