1. 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

2. 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

3. Purity Blessed are the pure in heart Mt. 5:8 refrain his tongue from evil 1 Pet. 3:10 perfecting holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor.7:1 Think Talk Action

4. Purity..may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 2 Cor.11:2 Clean, pure Job 23:10...much more precious than of gold that perisheth... 1 Peter 1:7

5. Purity Thinking of hope of heaven 1Jn.3:3 Admonition - Heb. 10:24 Discipline - 1 Cor. 5:5

6. Ownership 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.

7. Ownership you are not your own Ransomed by sacred blood Devote our body to the glory of his name

8. 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

9. 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

10. Price 1 Peter 1:18-19 Precious blood 1 Peter 2:24 - bore our sins in his own body

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.

12. 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.

14. Sermon by Arthur Pigman Evans Church of Christ 515 Gibbs Road Evans, Ga. 30809 706-855-1249evanscoc@bellsouth.netwww.evansgachurchofchrist.org Sunday Morning June 27, 2010