The Corinthain believers lived in a cultural context of extreme moral laxity and when this was combined with their false philosophy about the body, it left them extremely vulnerable to the sin of sexual immorality. They had nothing with which to resist the corruption that surrounded them. What Paul states in these verses is one of the deepest mysteries in Scripture. It is a stunning revelation about something that man would never have realized had God not revealed it to us. Paul makes a very clear distinction between all other sins and the sin of sexual immorality. This is because the special, intimate love that God designed to be shared between a man and a woman in the holy covenant of marriage, is a glorious picture of the relationship that exists between the Lord and His people. The world, being at war with God, seeks to pervert anything that testifies about God or man's relationship with God and thus their intense assault upon the sexual realm. Paul says that the consequences of touching that which is holy (or set apart unto the Lord) in an unholy way, is to sin against or into ones own body. That is, it is like pouring pollution into the very nerve center of one's being.
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Derek Carlsen is a native Zimbabwean and was a resident in that country until he was called to be the pastor of the Church of Christian Liberty from April 2003 to September 2005. Following this, he became founding pastor of Covenant Reformed Church of Elk Grove in Elk Grove...