RUN, BROTHER RUN:

1 Cor 6:18 “Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body”.

        

The believer's body is a member of Christ (see 1 Cor 12:12ff). How can we be joined to Christ and joined to sin at the same time? Such a thought astounds us. Yet some of the Corinthians saw no harm in visiting the temple prostitutes (there were 1,000 of them at the temple of Aphrodite) and committing fornication.

Jesus Christ bought us with a price (1 Cor 6:20), and therefore our bodies belong to Him. We are one spirit with the Lord and we must yield our bodies to Him as living sacrifices (Rom 12:1-2). If you begin each day by surrendering your body to Christ, it will make a great deal of difference in what you do with your body during the day.    

To flee means, to run away, escape, fly, take flight, take off, run off, abscond, make off. There are some sins which a man can RESIST; some about which he can reason without danger of pollution. But this is a sin where a man is SAFE only when he FLIES; free from pollution only when he refuses to entertain a thought of it; secure when he seeks a victory by flight, and a conquest by retreat. Let a man turn away from it without reflection on it and he is safe. Let him think, and reason, and he may be ruined.

Paul referred to the Creation account (Gen 2:24) to explain the seriousness of sexual sin. When a man and woman join their bodies, the entire Personality is involved. There is a much deeper experience, a "oneness" that brings with it deep and lasting consequences. Paul warned that sexual sin is the most serious sin a person can commit against his body, for it involves the whole person (1 Cor 6:18). Sex is not just a part of the body. Being "male" and "female" involves the total person. Therefore, sexual experience affects the total personality. It takes away from Christ that which belongs to him. The Christian's body is the Lord's.