When the gospel hits our lives and is received it radically changes us. It changes the way that we look at others and how it is that we treat them. The Bible is not a book slated to advance immediate social revolutions. As such the Bible doesn't seek to address every social evil. The Bible doesn't have a direct word on slavery, for example; it doesn't address fully the evils of alcohol; it doesn't speak to directly advance republics or democracies either. It certainly doesn't tell us what kind of car Jesus would drive or whether he would recycle or not. The reason the Bible doesn't address directly these social issues and many others is because it was not written to change the faces of nations but the hearts of people. And yet when a certain tipping point is reached…that is to say, when enough hearts have been radically changed in any given society… the impact of that change and the implications of the Bible's teachings begin to flow into society itself. And over time these teachings and their implications have a bearing on that society. And so Paul will write to the Corinthian church, which, because of the vast abuse of sex found in their society, was massively confused as to its place in marriage or in their lives at all. And Paul will address the topic of marriage with some practical words and in the address will crack open principles that reflect the radical change of the gospel on all our lives and should tip into the societies in which we live.
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