"All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power."
Today's quote, like so many others from the New Testament, contains a very important and often overlooked lesson.
Paul said, in essence, that within the bounds of the new law of faith by which God rules the saved after the coming of Jesus Christ, neither he, nor we, the children of God, are any longer bound to the restrictions of the fulfilled Law of Moses and its meaningless rituals. The actions of the saved, no matter what they might be, have been "justified" by the grace of God through our rebirth in Christ. "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." (1 John 3:9)
We, the saved, are bound ONLY to the two "great" commandments and to do those things that cast the most perfect light on our Lord Jesus Christ, whatever that might.
As was said in an earlier lesson, our bodies are the "temples" of God. We should ALWAYS conduct ourselves in a manner befitting our status as the mercifully redeemed children of a loving God whose Holy Spirit is the keeper of our eternal souls.~
The definition the word "fornication" as it is applied in this lesson will be further discussed in tomorrows lesson.
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