What has permission to reign?

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Title: What has permission to reign?--------------------------- Date: 11/07/1999
Keywords:
"freedom" "master" "permissible"


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Passage: 1 Corinthians 6:12*

12. "Everything is permissible for me"-- but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"-- but I will not be mastered by anything.

Question

If everything is permissible (verse 12b) then why worry about being 'mastered'?

 

Practical help

Yesterday's study mentioned an incomprehensible freedom you attain through Jesus Christ. (click here to see it)

In the second part of verse 12, Paul again testifies to his freedom but claims it with a cautious surveillance of his liberty. Paraphrasing; Paul might be saying -- I'm only living freely if I'm not enslaved to anything in this world.

What's a test for being 'mastered' by something like pornography?

  1. Do you frequently regret having viewed it?
  2. Are you ashamed of the activity, but do it anyway?
  3. Does it detour you from doing things that genuinely benefit yourself or others?

Has this test shown you that you're not as free as you thought? Have you permitted pornography to reign in you life?

If true liberty seems attractive to you, then take that bondage to the foot of the cross. Jesus is waiting there to show what real freedom is all about.


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