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Speaker 1: You're listening to daily devotions with Pastor John. I'm John Stangey,

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Speaker 1: and today's devotion is inspired by First Corinthians, Chapter six,

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Speaker 1: verses nineteen and twenty, which says, or do you not

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Speaker 1: know that your body is a temple of the Holy

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Speaker 1: Spirit within you, whom you have from God. You are

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Speaker 1: not your own, for you were bought with a price.

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Speaker 1: So glorify God in your body of the blessings the

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Speaker 1: Lord has granted us. Our bodies are one of the

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Speaker 1: most obvious and visible. We are advised in scripture to

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Speaker 1: treat our bodies well and to use our bodies to

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Speaker 1: bring glory to Jesus Christ. The scripture reminds us that

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Speaker 1: we are stewards of our bodies, not owners. In which

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Speaker 1: we use or abuse our bodies reflects the nature of

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Speaker 1: our trust in Jesus Christ. Do we believe Jesus paid

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Speaker 1: the ultimate price for us? Do we believe that we

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Speaker 1: ultimately belong to him? The moment we came to faith

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Speaker 1: in Jesus, the Holy Spirit indwelled us. He lives within us.

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Speaker 1: He counsels us, empowers us, and directs us. His presence

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Speaker 1: within us produces the fruit of righteousness. Through him, our

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Speaker 1: bodies become instruments of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

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Speaker 1: and self control. It's God's intention that our bodies be

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Speaker 1: used for these purposes. This world encourages and promotes a

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Speaker 1: mindset that fosters careless mistreatment and bodily harm. Christ, on

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Speaker 1: the other hand, challenges us to care for our body

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Speaker 1: and bring him glory with how our bodies are being used.

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Speaker 1: Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word, and

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Speaker 1: we thank you for the privilege that it is to

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Speaker 1: be able to look at this portion of scripture from

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Speaker 1: First Corinthians, chapter six. And Lord, we're thankful for the

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Speaker 1: fact that you have blessed us with our bodies. Lord,

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Speaker 1: there's probably a whole variety of things about our bodies

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Speaker 1: that if we were the designer, we would change. But

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Speaker 1: yet you tell us that our bodies are a gift,

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Speaker 1: and you have designed us intentionally, and we're to use

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Speaker 1: our bodies to glorify you. And Lord, we know that

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Speaker 1: in this world, the things that are modeled for us

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Speaker 1: often fall into the category of bodily mistreatment. We see

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Speaker 1: people harming their bodies in all kinds of ways, and

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Speaker 1: some people brag about it, and some people treat it

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Speaker 1: as if it's some sort of virtue. But because we've

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Speaker 1: been created in your image, and because our body are

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Speaker 1: a gift from you, and because we as believers have

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Speaker 1: been bought with a price, the price of your son's blood, Lord,

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Speaker 1: we know that you want us to treat our bodies

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Speaker 1: in such a way that you receive glory. We are

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Speaker 1: not our own. We were bought with a price, and

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Speaker 1: we are in dwelled by your Holy Spirit. So Lord,

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Speaker 1: we pray that we would see ourselves and that we

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Speaker 1: would see others with this kind of perspective, a perspective

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Speaker 1: that reflects your heart and honors the teaching of this

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Speaker 1: portion of your word. And Lord, we pray that if

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Speaker 1: we're ever tempted to be careless or harmful toward our body,

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Speaker 1: that this would be a portion of scripture that you

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Speaker 1: would bring quickly to our minds, and that our lives

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Speaker 1: and our actions and our attitudes would come right into

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Speaker 1: a chord with what this portion of scripture says. So

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Speaker 1: we're grateful, Lord, that you've communicated this to us, and

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Speaker 1: we pray that, by your grace, we would live it out.

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Speaker 1: We thank you Lord for our bodies, We thank you

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Speaker 1: for living within us, and we thank you for every

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Speaker 1: gift you choose to bless us with. And we pray

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Speaker 1: this all in Jesus' name, Amen,