1 Corinthians 5-6

== 1 Corinthians 5 ==
Paul takes up a new concept in this chapter, dealing with a practical event.  It's a great chapter, but there is nothing of real note in regard to our purposes here. 
== 1 Corinthians 6 ==
I will likely come back to some of this in more detail should I ever decide to do full commentaries on all the books of the Bible.  However, as the last portion relates directly, I thought I'd give some passing comment on the rest. 
=== 1 Cor. 6:1-8 ===
1 'Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? '2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? '3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? '4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. '5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? '6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. '7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? '8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
 To every person out there who says "don't judge me", "its wrong to judge", etcetera, this is one of my go to verses to show that they are wrong.  Christians are saints (purified ones).  Christians judge the kosmos (world).  It is not really a right, but a duty.  Christ sent us out to seek and save the lost by preaching the gospel.  We have to judge who is lost to do this. This whole section, though, focuses on Christians judging one another, that it is necessary to do so, and how to do so properly.  Seriously.  Read it again. There is also some stuff in here about Christians taking Christians to earthly court, but that's for another post. 
=== 1 Cor. 6:9-10 ===
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor homosexuals, '10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.  
Yes.  Homosexuality is in the Bible.  Yes it is a sin.  No you cannot be added to the church (the kingdom) if you do this.   It must be repented of first, just like any other sin. 
=== 1 Cor. 6:11-20 ===
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. '12 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. '13 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. '14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. '15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. '16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. '17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. '18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. '19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? '20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 
Paul transitions from the sins of the unrighteous who will not become part of the church into talking about those who once were unrighteous because of these things who have been:
* washed (immersion), 
* sanctified (cleansed), 
* justified (made righteous before the law) 
- all of which are the same event. He then gives a basis for a metaphor, the physical body.  The metaphor is then used to explain the spiritual body that is the church, which is the temple.  I've already gone into detail on this here.  
The point to iterate now is that there is only one NT temple, just as there was only ever one (at any given time).    Remember what was covered in 1 Cor. 3.  We need to establish this in the way that the temple relates to apocalyptic language in passages such as Revelation, especially chapter 21.
In Truth and Love.
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