1 Corinthians

Do not sue the brethren; Glorify God in Body and Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:1-6

These brothers and sister in Christ at the church of Corinth had been filing lawsuits against each other.  That's what 'go to law' means.  This is another part of the Roman culture that made its way into church, everyone was bringing lawsuits against each other.  Here's how the scenario may have looked.  A couple of individuals, both believers and in the church, didn't agree on something.  There may have been talking, arguing, threatening, etc.  At some point one or both brought a lawsuit against the other.  Their case would be brought before the civil judge in the city.

The legal system was not represented by lady Justice blindfolded and holding scales in balance.  Justice wasn't blind, wasn't just and it rarely favored the poor or disenfranchised.  One never brought a lawsuit against someone of greater means, status or authority.  So, the system was rigged to create and protect an absolute power.  Judges were chosen from among the rich and powerful in the society.  Our two believers, in bringing a lawsuit to this court put this unbelieving, elitist in authority over their case.  He would decide what justice was with no moral or ethical principles given by God.

Our legal system has removed God from their courtrooms.  It is God who declares justice.  It is God who determined right and wrong; good and bad; righteous and unrighteous.  If God is removed, there are no boundaries.  Immorality can be legalized.  Ethics are a one-sided convenience; strictly a political tool, not principles of life. 

While America continues its decline, our legal system is hard at work to make sure they all stay in power.  While you pay more for nearly everything and inflation consumes your pay increase, the legal system never misses a raise.  One could write an entire dissertation on stupid laws written while serious things are going on in the world.

1. Abortion.  It's murder, killing another living human. 
2. Now, as if that wasn't enough, they are pressing to pass laws to allow you to murder a baby up to 3 months (some say up to a year).
3. Legalizing drugs.   What could go wrong?  In a drug bust in L.A. this last week there was enough fentanyl (821lbs) to kill 4.7 million people.
4. Gender laws.  They are legislating free access to children at school to train them in gender identity.  Then, if they can help a child decide they would rather be the opposite sex, they can begin the process without parental consent.   

These are godless, leaderless days in which we live.  Mankind has proven over and over that they are incapable of ruling themselves.  It brings to mind another time:

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.  (Judges 21:25)

In our days, our culture continues to remove King Jesus from every equation, speeding up moral decline that crushing the world. 

In this Greek culture the judge sat in what is called the bema seat to settle disputes.  Anyone could bring their case before him and he would hear their case and settle the dispute.  The Greeks loved a good argument and they loved the endless discussion of beliefs and philosophies.  A good lawsuit was entertainment to them.  Anyone could go and hear the cases presented to the judge.  It was like watching Judge Judy.

This was not the way things were supposed to work for Christians.  Paul said, "Dare any of you…."  This is strong wording from Paul.  He simply can't believe this is going on in this church.  He was shocked they would go sit before an unbelieving judge and be the entertainment for the day.  Why would they willingly stand before the unrighteous; someone still in their sins?  The judge would be among the immoral ones, the swindlers, idolaters, revilers, and drunkards that Paul talks about at the end of chapter 5.  This type of immorality was not supposed to be in the church and Paul told them they were to judge these things.  This is the picture of the believers holding court among believers to remove the immorality.  Why then would people in the church go to an unbelieving judge who was still in his sins?

Paul said they were going before the unrighteous.  That's not a commentary on the specific judge.  He's using the term 'unrighteous' strictly in spiritual terms saying these judges weren't justified, they weren't saved. 

Paul quickly moves away from the individual, or the many, who bring others to law.  He moves instead toward the bigger problem, the church and its worldview.

 

Do you not know?

The saints will judge the world.  Isn't it amazing that it's part of our destiny as the saints of God to one day rule with Jesus Christ? 

²¹ To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. (Revelation 3:21)

Paul didn't know this verse though, he may have had Daniel in mind:

The Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom. (Daniel 7:22)

How can the saints then be unworthy to judge small things that arise among the saints?  Relatively speaking, isn't it all small stuff?   In Roman courts they appointed the elite, finding the least unqualified.  Paul says the least is more qualified than the loftiest unbeliever.

 

Do you not know?

We will judge angels.  Some see this judgment including sitting with Jesus as the fallen angels are judged.

⁴ For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; (2 Peter 2:4)

Wow.  Others see this as judging as governing or ruling the good angels.  We really don't know exactly what is entailed in this idea.  What we do know is that it is big in comparison to any dispute there might be between believers.  If we are being prepared for that responsibility, then surely, we can judge the simple things that pertain to this life.

Doesn't it make more sense for Christians to judge among themselves than to leave the judging to one that is least esteemed by the church?  The 'least esteemed by the church' is the secular judge setting down the road at the courtyard in the Bema seat.  He is least esteemed because he was an unbeliever.  Why would two believers who will judge the world and govern angels go to a secular judge for his decision?  It makes no sense.  And that's what Paul said, I say this to your shame. 

It was shameful that they were taking disputes among Christians before a secular judge to be heard among the un-believers.  Was there not a wise man among them?  Among all this previous talk of them pursuing wisdom and their talk of philosophies and the mysteries of the world.  Was there not even one man who could judge between his brothers and sisters?  Could they not find someone who could resolve this and keep their problems among themselves?  What do you suppose the unbelievers think when they see a Christian suing another Christian?  I'm always amazed at how two folks can have the same Holy Spirit from the same God and be saved by the same Grace and be so hateful and disagreeable to one another.  Shouldn't we be more like minded?

We should note that Paul is not against using the legal system.  Paul worked within the legal system when he took advantage of being a Roman citizen and eventually, he used his right to appeal to be heard before the Caesar.

One estimate said there are almost 40 million civil lawsuits filed every year in the United States.  And we have over a million lawyers to take care of all these lawsuits.  The vast majority of the people who file these lawsuits claim to be Christians.  If professed Christians stopped suing professed Christians, then several hundred thousand law offices would close!

 

1 Corinthians 6:7-11

These saints of Corinth had already been dragging each other into civil court to put their disputes before a judge. 

1. They became an entertainment to society.
2. Poor testimony.
3. Shamed God.

It was their right to sue and they held tightly to that right.  By going to court against their Christian brother, Paul said that both parties ended up being losers.  In that way the people of this church had already become an utter failure.  We don't really know how many lawsuits had been taken to the courts.  They apparently had done this enough that it had become noteworthy.  And because of that, it had to be dealt with by Paul.

Paul asked them these two questions. 

1. Why do you not rather accept wrong?
2. Why do you not rather le yourselves be cheated? 

Paul establishes that it is better to accept wrong and to be cheated it and go on with life than to create another problem.  It is an utter failure. 

1. It says my faith is conditional. 
2. It shows a believe God won't care for me; I have to scratch and claw for what is mine.
3. It is centered on me and self, rather than God.
4. It says those who put their faith in Christ can't resolve their problems by themselves. 
5. The Godly wisdom they espouse isn't sufficient for their problems. 
6. For us today, it says we call ourselves Christians but don't live by the very Word we say saved us.

 

I had to sue, I was cheated and done wrong!

Paul wants them and us to know that it would be better to be cheated and wronged than to demand your rights at the expense of the greater good of the kingdom of God.  Paul wasn't saying the problem couldn't or shouldn't be resolved.  Only that it shouldn't be done before an unbelieving judge and a lost world.

Those who were bringing the lawsuits did so against someone who cheated or wronged them.  Paul reminded them they weren't any better than the ones they were suing. 

 

Do you not know?

The unrighteous won't inherit the kingdom of God.  Had they forgotten that?  Have we?  The righteous, acting without moral or ethical boundaries seem to have their way.  They seem to get away with so much.  They seem to have an advantage.  It rubs us wrong at times and we suddenly find ourself wanting to be like them. 

Some day we will all stand before God and be judged. And what will we say as Christians when God asks us what we were thinking about when we did some of this stuff?  This isn't just about lawsuits; this is just one of the many things Paul's addressing with these people.  It's about a reliance on the things of the world.  When these people stand before God and give an accounting for suing each other, what possible excuse or reason could they give to the creator of the universe that wouldn't sound totally worthless and lame?

When we give an accounting to God on how we spent our lives, our time and resources in this life, how will it sound?  Will we have something serious and substantial to talk about?  Or will all our answers sound like excuses for why we didn't do more? 

• Does our whole existence revolve around our own happiness and our own rights to pursue anything we desire? 
• Will our life be a summary of all that we did that made us happy at nearly every moment in time? 
• Will part of our life story be how we brought another unbeliever down because they did us wrong?  Won't that be a missed opportunity of grace, mercy, faith that God can deal with them? 
• Will our life summary include seeking the world's favor over another believer by an unrighteous judge?

Maybe the question we should ask ourselves is, "What is your worldview?"  Is all that you see and do and think viewed through the lens or our faith?  Is Jesus Christ the center of our life?  If your answer is yes then do you not believe he can direct your life outside of the world system?  That probably sounds like an over simplification but that kind of thinking should be foundational to us.  It's kind of examining ourselves and asking why we do the things we do.  Is it for pleasure; for our glory?  Or is it for the glory of God?

Like us, the people in the church of Corinth probably never thought long enough about it to realize how serious these things were.  The stakes were high, because the unrighteous won't inherit the kingdom of God.  Paul wasn't saying that these people would lose their salvation.  He was saying that if you are relying on the world and you can swindle your brethren without conscience then it's fair to question whether you are even saved at all.  Don't be deceived!  

The unrighteous are characterized as fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals, sodomites, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers and extortionist.  None of these will inherit the kingdom of God.  Their very lives are characterized by their sin.  They live in it, they are defined by it, and feel no shame about it. In death those same sins will cost them eternally.

When a believer extorts, cheats, swindles and engages in sexual immorality then they are keeping company with the unrighteous.  Their defense might be, 'It was just a small sin' or 'I didn't cheat too much on my taxes' or 'It was just a one-night thing.'  We could list our excuses all day long trying to justify ourselves. 

Will one of these sins send them to hell to be eternally separated from God?  No, they were saved by grace, but these sins are no small thing either.  They are sins against an eternal God.  These folks will be forgiven if they trust in Christ, but to go on sinning in this way is dangerous because God will deal with sin.

To live in a habitual state of sin tempts God, tests your salvation and takes grace for granted.  You might argue once saved, always saved; I can't lose my salvation.  Once saved, always saved is not an argument to go on sinning.  If you live in that habitual state of sin, you might discover the end of God's patience.  Paul warns, do not be deceived.

 

It's our list too!

We all fit into the list of the unrighteous; Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners and many more.  If we were honest, when we read that list we could say, 'Yea, that was me.'  I did my fair share of things that put me on that list of the unrighteous.  I was not going the right direction, "but God." (Ephesians 2:4).  Something changed, the Lord had my attention.  I heard something that somehow penetrated through all the pride and unrighteousness.  Somehow that message of Grace penetrated my thick skin, hard head and hard heart.  Then, God saved me.  

If we were washed (Titus 3:5) we are cleansed from our sins because they were forgiven (1 John 1:9).  The penalty of death that we owed was paid by Christ on the cross.  Now we wear the righteousness of Jesus Christ like the borrowed robe of the king.  If we were sanctified (Hebrews 10:10) we were set apart, away from the world and unto God for His purpose and His use.  If we are justified (Romans 3:24) We weren't just declared 'not guilty' we were declared 'just' in the court of God of the universe.  God now sees us as if we had never sinned, that's justified.

We were washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God.  Amazingly enough, God can take the kind of people described in verses 9 and 10 (fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals, sodomites, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers and extortioners) and He can make them into the kind of people described in verse 11; those washed, sanctified and Justified in the name of Jesus Christ.  He can take people like us and make us like Jesus Christ.  How great is our God!

 

1 Corinthians 6:12

In culture rooted in philosophy, tests were used to decide if you should take action. 

• Is it lawful?
• Is it permissible?
• Will it be profitable?
• Is it expedient? (Accomplish a purpose)

In the culture, disgusting and reprehensible behavior was displayed in public, simply because it passed the test.  No one was asking if it was 'right' in the eyes of God or if it was 'good' for the person, the culture and those exposed to it.  Pornography is legal, permitted and most people using it argue it is profitable.  Yet, we know that it warps the mind and damages a person's reality about the opposite sex.  It sets up unreasonable expectations.  It leads the user to operate in hidden and dark places; removing them from reality of relationship and family.  It destroys families, relationships and marriages.  It creates addiction that becomes a dark hole into which you can never be satisfied.  It leads you from the main street to the dark alleys and forbidden places in order to satisfy the addiction.  It is lawful, permissible and expedient?  Yes, but it's not good or right.

"All things are lawful for me" can be a statement of Christian liberty.  Paul used this idea several times in scripture; always in the context of what food to eat or days of worship.  False teachers were coming behind Paul and saying, to be a Christian you have to worship on Saturday or you have to keep the Jewish laws regarding diet or that you couldn't eat meat that was sacrificed to idols.  Paul would teach that all things are lawful, but all things are not helpful.  Just because something is permitted by the law does not make it useful or helpful or good for you.  And just because it is lawful doesn't mean you allow it to control you or be brought under its power.  The over-riding conclusion was that all things are lawful for me but I will be mastered by none of them. 

"All things are lawful" then is a statement to avoid the legalism that religion tends to impose on people.  Religion is man's way of dealing with God.  Paul opposed those legalisms by saying all things are lawful.  With no liberty we end up in bondage to the list of religious criteria that must be met to be a Christian.  You have to worship a particular way, on a particular day, dressed a specific way and so on.  Freedom from this is Christian liberty. 

Some Corinthians applied this Christian liberty to what was inherently sinful, their favorite sin, their blind spot.  One commentator called this use of liberty a 'cloak of viciousness'.  Now if my Christian liberty is carried to far the other way that liberty can create bondages of its own.  With liberty we don't have to do those things but to take that liberty and run amuck with it will have you doing things a Christian ought not to be doing.  Suddenly we find we have submitted willingly to something the Lord has given us liberty from.  There's a play on words might sound like this to us, "All things are in my power, but I will not be brought under the power of any."  The boundless freedom may become a tyranny of its own.  It's like the picture of being in a boat in a great ocean.  You are free in your boat amidst an ocean that can turn against you.  You have the freedom to leave your boat.  Is it wise?  Is it really free? 

Paul declared that he would be master over his liberty, by keeping it in check with law and grace.  Grace is the boat we set in, the boundaries of the boat keep us within grace and guard us from the danger of boundless freedom.

In this particular case, the Corinthian Christians were taking this liberty and applying it to prostitution.  Prostitution was common among the pagans but it was also a common practice among many religions.  The average Corinthian found this kind of stuff normal; everyone was doing it.  It was just considered normal and no one would think it strange if the Christians were doing it also.  But that didn't make it right, moral and pleasing to God.

All things are lawful.

• But are they helpful (advantageous)? 
• Do they advance the Kingdom of God?

In those days and ours, many would argue that there is excitement and enjoyment in sexual experience outside of marriage.  That may be there is no enrichment, no glory to God, nothing lasting is built. Warren Wiersbe put it this way:

Sex outside of marriage is like a man robbing a bank: he gets something, but it is not his and he will one day pay for it. Sex within marriage can be like a person putting money into a bank: there is safety, security, and he will collect dividends. Sex within marriage can build a relationship that brings joys in the future; but sex apart from marriage has a way of weakening future relationships, as every Christian marriage counselor will tell you. (Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 589). Victor Books.)

Later in this letter, Paul will write:

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. ³² Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God. (1 Cor 10:31)

 

1 Corinthians 6:13-14

'Foods for the stomach and stomach for the foods' would be the typical Greek argument.  The idea is:

• As food is for the stomach and stomach for food…
• The body is for sex and sex for the body.

It basically meant, 'When I'm hungry I eat because my appetite tells me to.'  The Greeks were particularly fond of not depriving themselves of anything to satisfy their appetites.  The Corinthian's were using this argument to pursue their sexual immorality.  They were trying to apply this saying to their sexual lusts saying, 'If I have the appetite, it must be okay to fulfill it.'

The Greeks taught and believed a person was done with their body at death.  They believed what was done with the body had no bearing on the spirit.  However, Paul offered the Jewish perspective that the body was God's and He would resurrect it someday.  As such, Paul wrote that the body is not for sexual immorality.  Paul gave them a saying of his own, using their logic: 

The body is for the Lord and the Lord for the body.  

God will destroy the stomach and the craving for food when the body is destroyed.  However, our moral character will not be destroyed when our body is destroyed.  When we are resurrected someday our moral character, our spiritual bodies will be for the Lord.  The food we eat won't matter on that day.  The moral decisions we've made, specifically regarding sex, will make a difference to the spiritual body that was redeemed by the Lord.

 

1 Corinthians 6:15-17
 

Do you not know?

As a church we are the body of Christ.  Our bodies are members of Christ.  We are all linked to Him as a believer.  When these believers of Corinth were joined with a harlot, they were disgracing the body of Christ. 

In Ephesians 5 Paul instructed husbands to love their wives just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself.  He pictures Christ love, care, purity, sanctity and preparation for a coming day.  

For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. (Ephesians 5:30)

 

Do you not know?

Joining with the body of the harlot was becoming one with her.  Paul goes back to Genesis to solidify his point; the two shall become as one flesh. 

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.  (Gen 2:24)

He made the same case in Ephesians 5:31 quoting this passage that followed God's creation of woman.  The Corinthian promiscuity was more than just servicing the lust of the body, it was becoming joined with that other person.  This is taking something very special, a 'joining' or creating a bond and making something frivolous of it.  Sex was for the context of marriage, as ordained by God.  In that context it is far more than a physical act to bring satisfaction.  The saint joined to the Lord is not to be joined to a harlot.

 

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Augustine was a Christian who had a lot of trouble with keeping sexually pure. For a long time, it kept him from being committed and devout in his walk with God.  He used to pray: "God, make me pure - but not just yet."  There came a point where he really turned everything over to God. He stopped hanging around with his companions in sexual immorality, and stopped going to the neighborhood where he used to meet them.  Once, he had to return there on business, and on the street he met an old flame.  She was glad to see him, and started running to him with arms outstretched, saying "Augustine! Where have you been for so long? We have missed you so!" Augustine did the only thing he could do: he started running the other way.  She called out to him: "Augustine, why are you running? Its only me!"  He looked back, while still running, said "I'm running because I'm not me!"  Augustine was a different man because of Jesus, He was living a different way.  The new man flees from sexual immorality.  If your life has been changed by Jesus, it will show in the desire to flee sexual immorality.

This 'sexual immorality' that Paul is referring to is the word porneia.  It is any sexual relationship outside of the covenant of marriage.  We are to flee from the porneia. 

• We can't flirt with it.
• We can't test our resolve in it.
• We can't try real hard to avoid it while in the midst of it.
• We aren't to stand up to it.

We are commanded to flee from it.  This brings to mind Joseph fleeing from Potiphar's wife.  He didn't mess around; he just got out of there.  All other sin is outside the body and against the Lord.  But this sin of 'porneia' is against your own body and against the Lord.  What does this mean, sinning against your own body?

An unclean priest could not function as a priest.  Being set ritually clean and set apart for God's service precluded any true service.  This service was doing that for which they were called.  It was a joy and contentment and fellowship with the Lord.  It is similar for those in the church, we are one body, serving the Lord.  We are a kingdom of priests.  To sin against our own body is to defile it and remove it from service of Him who redeemed it.  There is the sense of staining and the flesh with sin, poison the innermost parts.  Can you see that this is both true on a personal level but also a corporate level?

Solomon may has well have been warning about the temple prostitutes of Corinth when he warns about allowing this immoral women into your life.

 

⁸           Remove your way far from her,

And do not go near the door of her house,

⁹           Lest you give your honor to others,

And your years to the cruel one;

¹⁰          Lest aliens be filled with your wealth,

And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;

¹¹          And you mourn at last,

When your flesh and your body are consumed,

(Proverbs 5:8-11)

 

³²          Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding;

He who does so destroys his own soul.  (Proverbs 6:24)

 

²⁴          Now therefore, listen to me, my children;

Pay attention to the words of my mouth:

²⁵          Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,

Do not stray into her paths;

²⁶          For she has cast down many wounded,

And all who were slain by her were strong men.

²⁷          Her house is the way to hell,

Descending to the chambers of death.  (Proverbs 7:24-27)

Do you not know

Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you.  Open your bible to Exodus and Leviticus and the tabernacle was built.  It was so meticulous, specific and symbolic in its construction.  Similarly, it was operated very meticulously and specifically.  It was clean, pure and sacred, set apart for God's purpose with man.  Everything had a place; all was in order.  It was where man could approach his God, his maker, redeemer, provider, protector and more.  But you could not just run into the tabernacle and encounter God.  That wouldn't go well at all.  You needed a priest to intercede.  You came humbly and with sacrifice.  You presented yourself, your sin was dealt with by sacrifice.  Then you could worship and have fellowship. 

Jesus is our High Priest who interceded on our behalf.  He was also our sacrifice.  There must be a day where we first met with Jesus and received our forgiveness.  When that happens, it is as though His blood was shed, sprinkled in the Holy place for the atonement of our sin.  However, instead of leaving the temple and having to come to this same place again and again as they did in the Old Testament, our sins are forgiven once and for all.  It would be like living in the tabernacle in the Old Testament.  Instead, we become that tabernacle and God lives in us by His Holy Spirit.  Our temple then is to be clean, pure and sacred for God's purpose.  There is to be order and everything kept in place.

If you are in Christ today, your redemption was His purchase of you from the bondage of sin and death.  You were already condemned and dead, you just didn't know it.  Having been delivered, born again, you become a new person in Christ.  As such, you are not your own.  You have died to yourself; the old man is gone.  You were bought with a price, the precious blood of Christ.

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. (Acts 20:28)

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.  (Hebrews 9:12)

Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.  (1 Peter 1:18-19)

In Revelation, a new song is sung around the throne by the four living creatures and the 24 elders who fell down before the Lamb:

⁹ And they sang a new song, saying:

"You are worthy to take the scroll,

And to open its seals;

For You were slain,

And have redeemed us to God by Your blood

Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

¹⁰          And have made us kings and priests to our God;

And we shall reign on the earth." (Revelation 5:9-10)

With the good news, come the warning:

2 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. (2 Peter 2:1)

 

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????Our culture is driven by the same things that drove the culture of Corinth.  Sexual immorality is nothing more than feeding the appetites of the flesh.  It's alive and doing well.  It's taking care of me and reflects a worldview that is of the world.  The Christians causing and allowing divisions, allowing an incestuous relationship, suing other Christians was part of the same thing.  It was taking care of 'me' at all cost.  It's the inward focus and priority of self rather than the outward focus of God and neighbor.  These things are the little leaven Paul spoke about in the last chapter.  The little leaven works its way through the entire lump and that's a picture of a little sin or corruption working its way through a believer and the church.  The leaven affects every aspect of your life and the church.  The leaven defiles the whole temple.  And we have no business defiling the temple with the pagan practices of the culture.  Paul said you are a Christian, you were bought with the precious blood of Christ, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which belong to God.  This sounds a lot like Paul saying, "You are a Christian it's time to act like it.

 

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