Extra Maritals - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Then and Now:
Paul's no Victorian. Neither is he an Elizabethan. These verses attack the attitudes and behaviors which gave Corinth its everlasting reputation. At the same time they show his passion to extinguish the church's hidden and open sexual problems. His words were meant to stoke the fires of each member's internal controversies, smoke out the tinders of unrighteousness, and incinerate all extra marital impurities. However, he didn't want the end product to be a charred Christian. He wanted the Corinthians to use their private introspective flames and engage in the process themselves (Wright, p. 73). Being told isn't good enough. It requires intuitive knowledge that freedom in Christ equals a lifelong alignment of honoring the Lord. That honor cries out for service with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul. When succesful, they and all who conquer will enter heaven's gates with blazes of glory.