Relationship Status // week 1

This week we started a relationship series. I'm sure all the giddy boys and girls were excited about that ;) Haha! Here's what you missed if you missed it!

• We all have something that costs a lot and that doesn't belong to us -- our bodies. When we understand how much our bodies cost, we will take care of them. Our bodies weren't cheap so we shouldn't treat them like they are. 
• Your body has been given to you for one purpose: to be an instrument to glorify God with.

"How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word."Psalm 119:9 <--THIS is how we can live pure lives!

"Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 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; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies." 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

• You realize the dignity of the body and the responsibility attached to when God lives in you.
• Whenever you sin sexually, you pollute God's temple. (e.g. You wouldn't dare think of doing something sexually in the church, so why would you do something sexual with someone, if Christ resides in you. Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit!)
• Your body's a temple not a hotel. The Holy Spirit doesn't check in and check out whenever you want it to. 
• The most important thing you can do as a single person is WAIT!
• Jesus came to live in you not so that you would work for Him but so that you would be full of Him.  -John Piper
• God is the owner of your body!
• You may be doing things in private but God is always present! 
• Don't sell your body -- sell your heart!

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Proverbs 31:30

• God could have easily bought you with money. He could have paid $1M for you and $5M for him, but instead He bought you with His life. We all are on equal playing ground.
• Don't take something impure into something pure. 
• We won't mind the cost of following Jesus when we compare it to the price He paid for us.