"Worship is Sanctified // ""Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be deceived: those who sin sexually, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, thieves, greedy people, drunkards, revilers, or thieves will not inherit God's kingdom. Some of you were like this; but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit."" - 1 Corinthians 6:9-12 Paul puts a very hard line down for what sins were most prevalent in culture, both then and now. The man who wrote three-quarters of the New Testament is telling us that if you screw around sexually (meaning pre-marital or homosexual indulgence), if you love the excess of drugs and booze, if you covet or worship things that aren't God like money or your car; you will be barred from heaven. God won't let you in. You can't go about and only apply the parts of the Bible that are convenient to you. It's all or nothing, either you believe it's all true or none of it is. It sounds hard because it is. But there is yet hope for us. God offers us each complete and total restoration, forgiveness, and grace. All we have to do is accept Him; to confess with our lives and believe in our hearts that Jesus came to earth to ransom us from Satan's grasp. That He died to pay for our sins and that He rose again to overthrow death forever. But when you receive this grace something else has to change. Saying you're sorry doesn't cut it; God wants to see repentance, a complete 180 from where you were. It doesn't matter how many steps away from God you take, He's only one step back.  ""But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. (1 Cor 6:17, 19-20)"" After you choose to follow Christ you become sanctified. Sanctification means to be ""set apart for a specific purpose."" When you take the Spirit into your heart you are housing God Himself, not just the ""essence of God"". The Holy Spirit is just as much a feeling, living person as Jesus and God. One of my friends likes to say that many Christians view the Trinity as, ""Two and a Half Men."" The Holy Spirit is just as much God as Jesus is. That is a talk for another time, but we must walk our lives accordingly. Live a life worthy of their sacrifice because you were bought twiceover. First God made you and then He died again to save you. You have been set apart for God. It's time to live like it."
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