Am I free to see any movie that I want?  Yes.  Should I?  No.  Am I free to see any woman I want?  Yes.  Should I?  No.  Am I free to eat whatever I choose?  Yes.  Should I?  No.  All things are lawful for me, but not everything is beneficial.  All things are permissable for me, but it doesn’t mean that they will do any good.  Some people excuse bad behaviour by just saying that it is natural.  Others excuse it by saying that they couldn’t help themselves.  For a Christian we do not lose our relationship with God because of an innocent mistake.  Our salvation isn’t lost because of a moral decision.  Truly I can do anything.  However, choices still have repercussions.  With God’s wisdom I need to understand where each choice takes me.  It is permissible, but is it beneficial?

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

 ¹²“Everything is permissible for me”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”—but I will not be mastered by anything. ¹³“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food”—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. ¹⁵Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”^{[b] 17}But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

 ¹⁸Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. ¹⁹Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; ²⁰you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

Questions

1. What is the body of the Christian to be used for?
2. What are the repercussions of sleeping with a prostitute?
3. What compels you to glorify God with your body?
4. What are the negative effects of sex outside marriage?
5. How do people excuse porn or ‘window shopping’?  What are the effects?