Bought with a Price $ “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” 1 Corinthians 6:20 Purity Ownership Price

Why are we to be Pure ? Purity Corinth was infamous for immorality Christians are joined with the Lord “Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.” 2 Tim. 2:19

How Can we Preserve Purity ? Heart “Blessed are the pure in heart” Mt. 5:8 Think Speech Talk “refrain his tongue from evil” 1 Pet. 3:10 Works “perfecting holiness in the fear of God” 2 Cor.7:1 Action

Figures to Illustrate Purity Chaste Bride “..may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” 2 Cor.11:2 Clean, pure Refined Gold Job 23:10 “I shall come forth as gold” “...much more precious than of gold that perisheth...” 1 Peter 1:7

Purity is maintained by: Heaven is a pure place for pure people Thinking of hope of heaven - 1 John 3:3 Admonition - Heb. 10:24 Discipline - 1 Cor. 5:5 Heaven is a pure place for pure people

We Belong To God Ownership 1 Cor. 6:19-20 Our body ~ Temple of Holy Spirit Temple ~ Dwelling place of deity Our body is a suitable dwelling place for the Spirit when we obey the gospel.

Ransomed by sacred blood Ownership We Belong To God 1 Cor. 6:19-20 “you are not your own” Ransomed by sacred blood Devote our body to the glory of his name

7. For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8. For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. Rom. 14:7-8

The Price that Was Paid Price “For you are bought with a price” Blood of Christ Acts 20:28 - purchased with his own blood Rev. 5:9 - redeemed by blood

God Devil The Price that Was Paid Price 1 Peter 1:18-19 - Precious blood 1 Peter 2:24 - bore our sins in his own body God Devil

Romans 6:7-11 7. For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9. knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Bought with a Price “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” 1 Corinthians 6:20

Nelson Chapel Church of Christ 5039 Six Mile Road Maryville, Tn. 37803 www.nelsonchapelchurchofchrist.org May 13, 2018 Sermon by Arthur Pigman 2705 Druid Hill Dr. Maryville, Tn. 37804 art65ann@gmail.com CCL11325562