March 23, 2026

Not Your Own: Who Really Owns Your Life? - 1 Corinthians 6

Anchor Truth

  • 1 Corinthians 6:20
  • "You were bought at a price... honor God with your body"
  • Core theme: Ownership, not just behavior

Section 1: Lawsuits Among Believers (6:1-8)

  • Problem: Believers taking disputes to worldly courts
  • Key phrase: "Do you dare..." (v.1)
  • Identity gap: destined to judge the world, yet cannot handle small matters
  • Kingdom vs. culture approach to conflict
  • Losing witness even when winning the case
  • Verse focus:
    • v.2-3: judging the world and angels
    • v.7: already defeated, why not be wronged?

Application Steps:

  • Evaluate how you handle conflict
  • Choose righteousness over being right
  • Prioritize witness over personal victory
  • Seek reconciliation over retaliation

Section 2: Identity and Inheritance (6:9-11)

  • Warning: "Do not be deceived"
  • Lifestyle vs. struggle distinction
  • List of unrighteous behaviors (v.9-10)
  • Transformation truth:
    • "Such WERE some of you" (v.11)
    • Washed, sanctified, justified

Application Steps:

  • Identify areas of normalized sin
  • Reject false identity rooted in past behavior
  • Stop defending what God calls sin
  • Stop carrying shame for what God has cleansed
  • Live from new identity, not old patterns

Section 3: Freedom vs. Mastery (6:12)

  • Cultural slogan: "I have the right to do anything"
  • Two filters:
    • Is it beneficial?
    • Does it master you?
  • Freedom redefined: not autonomy, but alignment
  • Warning: permissible does not equal profitable

Application Steps:

  • Stop asking "Can I?" start asking "Should I?"
  • Identify what is shaping and discipling you
  • Break agreement with anything controlling you
  • Remove what is not spiritually beneficial
  • Refuse to be mastered by anything but Christ

Section 4: The Body and Sexual Integrity (6:13-18)

  • Cultural lie: "It is just physical"
  • Truth: the body is for the Lord
  • Resurrection affirms the value of the body (v.14)
  • Union language:
    • Members of Christ (v.15)
    • One flesh (v.16)
    • One with the Lord (v.17)
  • Command: "Flee" sexual immorality (v.18)

Application Steps:

  • Reject the "just physical" mindset
  • Recognize the spiritual weight of physical actions
  • Evaluate what you are joining yourself to
  • Run, do not manage, sexual temptation
  • Address past attachments and patterns
  • Pursue wholeness, not just restraint

Section 5: The Temple and the Price (6:19-20)

  • Identity: your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit
  • God dwells within, not visits occasionally
  • Statement: "You are not your own"
  • Redemption language: "bought at a price"
  • Response: honor God with your body

Application Steps:

  • See yourself as God’s dwelling place
  • Surrender personal ownership
  • Align daily habits with God’s presence
  • Treat your body as sacred, not common
  • Live as a steward, not an owner

Closing Challenge

  • Review the progression:
    • Conflict -> Identity -> Freedom -> Body -> Ownership
  • Central question: Who owns your life?

Final Application Steps:

  • Identify areas still under personal control
  • Stop negotiating with sin
  • Shift from independence to surrender
  • Move from "what can I do?" to "what honors God?"
  • Live fully aligned with being bought by Christ

Final Statement

  • You are not your own
  • You were bought at a price
  • Live like it
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