Chapter 6

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6:1 Does anyone of you, having a matter against the other, dare go to law before the unjust wicked and not before the devoted ones? 2 Are you not aware that those devoted ones will judge the world-cosmos? And if the world-cosmos is to be judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest of cases? 3 Are you not aware that we will judge angels? How much more the things belonging to ordinary life? 4 If, then, you possess judgement towards the ordinary things of life, do you force to sit in [external] judgment those who are held in contempt inside the church? 5 I say this to shame you. Is there no one among you wise enough to be capable of judging between his brothers and sisters? 6 Instead, brother goes to the law court against brother before unbelievers!

7 Indeed, it is already a total failure and loss for you, that you engage in lawsuits against one another. Why not suffer wrong instead? Why not rather be defrauded instead? 8 But you do wrong and defraud and you do these things to brothers and sisters! 9 Are you not aware that those who are unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunks, nor abusers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 That is what some of you once were; • but you were washed, but you were made devoted, but you were justified inside of the name of our Lord and inside of the Spirit of our God.

12 All things are permitted to me, but not all things profit. All things are permitted to me, but I will not be under the control of anything. 13 Foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will render those inoperative. The body is not given to sexual immorality, but is given to the Lord and the Lord to the body. 14 And God raised up the Lord and will also raise us through His power.

• 15 Are you not aware that your bodies are members and part of Christ? Shall I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? It cannot happen! 16 Or are you not aware that one who is joined to a prostitute is as one body? For it says, “The two will become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). • 17 Yet one who is joined to the Lord is one Spirit with Him [h].

18 Flee sexual immorality. Whatever a person might do, every sin is outside of the body. But the one who sins sexually, sins against his own body. • 19 Or are you not aware that your body is a temple of the Devoted Spirit inside of you, whom you possess from God? And you are not your own, you do not belong to yourself, 20 for you were purchased as in the marketplace for a high price. Therefore, glorify God who is inside of your body and inside of your spirit, which are God’s [body and God’s Spirit].

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Gospel Word	Notes
• Ruling Verse 6: The moment we received Christ, God placed us into all perfection, that is, into Christ Jesus. These things are past tense, already all. We are clean in our humanity in this world. We are devoted to God, that we might reciprocate His Love. And we are justly innocent inside ourselves, that we might share life together with our Father. • Ruling Verse 5: We are joined to the Lord as a living and organic attachment. by receiving His Word into our hearts. We share the same Spirit with Jesus, the Spirit out from God. The Spirit of the Lord Jesus is now our spirit as well. Then, even the members of our physical body are part of Christ, for we share one flesh with Him (See Ephesians 5:30-31). This joining together with Jesus in Spirit and in flesh is complete (See Colossians 2:10). And as James said, we are free to remember what we are. • The Form for God through Jesus: Paul is building towards the ruling verse of 1 Corinthians, which is 12:12-14, that we together are the body of Christ and that we drink of the same Spirit. Yet being made the body of Christ together is for the larger purpose of being made the Form for God through Jesus. We KNOW that God dwells personally inside each one of us and that we are His temple; therefore we glorify Him by acknowledging that He always speaks the Truth.	h. The implications of Paul’s claims here are huge and must be received with sobriety and with direct engagement with God. Our physical body is part of Christ, with no sin in it. Our human spirit is, in fact, the Spirit of Christ Jesus.

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Notes

• Ruling Verse 6: The moment we received Christ, God placed us into all perfection, that is, into Christ Jesus. These things are past tense, already all. We are clean in our humanity in this world. We are devoted to God, that we might reciprocate His Love. And we are justly innocent inside ourselves, that we might share life together with our Father.

• Ruling Verse 5: We are joined to the Lord as a living and organic attachment. by receiving His Word into our hearts. We share the same Spirit with Jesus, the Spirit out from God. The Spirit of the Lord Jesus is now our spirit as well. Then, even the members of our physical body are part of Christ, for we share one flesh with Him (See Ephesians 5:30-31). This joining together with Jesus in Spirit and in flesh is complete (See Colossians 2:10). And as James said, we are free to remember what we are.

• The Form for God through Jesus: Paul is building towards the ruling verse of 1 Corinthians, which is 12:12-14, that we together are the body of Christ and that we drink of the same Spirit. Yet being made the body of Christ together is for the larger purpose of being made the Form for God through Jesus. We KNOW that God dwells personally inside each one of us and that we are His temple; therefore we glorify Him by acknowledging that He always speaks the Truth.

h. The implications of Paul’s claims here are huge and must be received with sobriety and with direct engagement with God. Our physical body is part of Christ, with no sin in it. Our human spirit is, in fact, the Spirit of Christ Jesus.