1 Corinthians 6:19-20

What? Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which are God’s.

Introduction: This morning, we will focus exclusively on our Lord Jesus Christ and consider the price he paid for our redemption and what our response should be as a result.

According to our departure this morning, there are three things I want to consider:

1^c. The fact that they were “bought with a price.”

2^ND. That we should praise God in our body and our spirit “

3^RD. That, by virtue of having been bought with a price so high, that belong to God,

                The value to men instead of things is determined solely on what they believe is of value. What, for the sake of discussion, is the inherent value of something deposited in the soil? What is the inherent value of something that happens in the bowels of a mollusk that lives in the deep sea? Certainly, the value is in direct correlation with the rarity of the thing. Courage, then, is a perceived value.

                Let us together this morning at the happy memory of what Christ has assured to reflect on the sacrifices made on our behalf.

I. have been bought with a price

Redeemed, how I like to announce it! Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb;

Redeemed through His infinite mercy, his son and I always am.

1. The price was the death of Christ requires the shedding of blood of the innocent from the guilty.
   • It was a common death. Much blood has been shed over centuries for the sake of Christ. Consider the blood of the 12 apostles. It is said that all but one were killed by crucifixion, the stone ax - a legend of being boiled in oil beloved apostle John, consider the blood of the early believers for pure enjoyment of the Caesars and, considering the blood shed by the martyrs of the Reformation - brave men and women who chose death rather than deny Christ. Consider the missionaries, whose blood was spilled in a sandy river bank in the heart of the Bolivia and even today men and women are giving their lives as their Savior gave his, for the cruel death. However, neither a drop of his blood, while his death is precious in the eyes of God, is sufficient to atone for our sins - only the precious blood of Jesus Christ could have accomplished that.
   • Our redemption is not accomplished by the prayers of a priest.
   • Our redemption is not accomplished through the waters of baptism.
   • Anyone tell you that our redemption is carried out through any sacrament, known as the Lord’s Supper.

“These things have to resolve in our minds because there is no sacrifice for sin, but the one sacrifice of Christ on the cross. Do not listen for a moment that will make anyone believe that there is no sacrifice in the Lord’s Supper, and repetition of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, or any other offering (an act of sacrifice) of his body and blood, as in the form of bread and wine consecrated. The sacrifice was a perfect and complete sacrifice, and is nothing less than blasphemy to try to repeat ” “For by one offering He has perfected forever them that are sanctified.” “Hebrews 10:14. J. C. Ryle

All that Christ did and now does everything that came here to do, all he suffered as the mediator for us, he did it for our good. Had it not worth our lives after so have not been chosen to withstand even the separation from her father for a second. He had us in such high regard and believes that had it not been willing to take upon himself to become sin, who knew no sin, and stand between us and the wrath of his Father, surely would not have suffered such things otherwise.

1. He was “made flesh for our sake. Hebrews 2:14; “Because the children have flesh and blood, he too shared the same”. Here is God, the Great Jehovah, manifested in the likeness of sinful flesh to become the man of God. Never give up His deity, however, willing to put everything aside for awhile, so he could be in our place and as a man, living as we live, tempted as we are tempted, suffer as we suffer and die and die. All so that in the end, that he was going to live as He lives.
2. He emptied the glory for our good. 2 Corinthians 8:9, “You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though he was rich, became poor for us.” He was rich in eternal glory and light adored by the angels who loved, united as one with the Father and the Holy Spirit, however, became poor for us. Philippians 2:6-7 Who is in the form of God, that the theft was not equal to God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant and being made in the manner of a man, and how a man , humbled himself and became obedient unto death, death of the cross. ” Eclipsing his own glory for a while stayed the same God but in the eyes of sinful man held in contempt, called a blasphemer and crucified like a common criminal — everything for us. He left aside for a moment in the history of the world - a world he created - the worship of angels is the apple of the eyes of his Father, to be less than a king, even less than a prince, unless State average man, all to stoop to serfdom! This, for our sake.
3. He became obedient unto death. He offered his life for our cause. To the world you died like a common criminal guilty of the vilest of sins, and deserves the most cruel death known to man - the cross. It’s for our sake that he offered himself — “John 17:19

        And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. This is why he came to earth - to die, and do it with worms like us. In  his obedience he suffered at least three things: 1. He had to take over their own holy, blameless the curse of its own law. 2. Jeopardized and directly in the path of his own righteous anger. 3. He suffered most of all losses - the separation from his loving father. It is said that “It was a cup of fear that he liked, and drank it, I could never taste a drop of the cup.” Raised that the cup to his mouth and swallowed the contents of his terrible last bitter drop. He did it knowing that our well all the time we were still sinners, even died for us … for our sake. (Romans 5:8).

        5. He did all this for her was all he could do - he sold everything he had to  purchase of our redemption.  It’s for our sake, all for our good. Why not some other way? Why not someone else? Why all sinners like us? It was because “Greater love has no man to give his life for his friends [John 15:13]. 

        What more can be said of him that we value so highly as to suffer, endure and die for us? It was love at all saints who brought him down from glory, where he was always dressed in royal attire fitted only to the King of kings to change that by a blanket of flesh. It is the sacrifice of death, even death on the cross satisfied God’s justice. We know that grace is a mixture of love and mercy. Jesus did not receive any mercy, but was put in danger so that we might receive the fullness of grace - so much love and mercy. He now sits at the right hand of His beloved Father restored to its former glory and will soon return to establish his kingdom on earth where nations to bend the knee before Him and every tongue should call him Lord, to the glory of the Father [Philippians 2:10 -11].

 

II. WE glorify God in our body — Because He poured out his innocent blood for us, we glorify in our body in the manifestation of our love for him through a life dedicated to proclaim the Gospel, love for his church as he has made love with us and enjoy fellowship each other.

1. We must be willing to honor above all things and people - As it did with Moses, who estimated the reproach of Christ greater wealth of Egypt, this is considered the reproach of Christ greater and foremost.
2. We must be willing to give our lives for the cause of Christ - Paul wrote and that will echo his words, “My life is very dear, so you can improve my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus Christ” Acts20: 24.  The men “Holy of old,” “prophets,” the martyred and have not yet been martyred and continue to praise him as a cruel death, and how we live our lives we are happy to be among them and our generation, make their jewelry his crown. Undoubtedly, as we leave our places of this morning must be said of us that we “were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. ”  Acts 5:41
3. We must endure hardship as good soldiers that endured the suffering for us.

May God’s grace help us overcome sin in our lives. May His grace will apply for us to bear the sufferings of this earth, ready to die and be with him which is better than life itself.  2 Timothy 2:1-3 And you, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things you have heard of me among many witnesses entrust to faithful men who shall be able to teach others. Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

 

4. We must learn to be conformed to the fashion of this world but be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

 

III. WE SON It is not ours because we have been purchased And Paid.

                Christ proved his love for us and we in turn should love and live our lives accordingly because: “He said goodbye to the greater glory, underwent the greatest misery, which makes the great works that never were, because he loves his spouse,” - because the values of all who believe in and on it.

                He values very own and loves us so dearly that read, “And I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you gave me, to be one, like us.” John 17:11

                 For our sake, clearly states: “And I give them eternal life and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father who gave them to me, is greater than all and no one can snatch from the hand of my Father. John 10:28-29

                Christian, Christ, by the establishment of his own life, saved us from the wrath of God that is soon to come over all the earth and put a high value on our soul. He has valued over her own life. He gave himself for us.

Colossians 2:8-10

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead. And ye are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power …