20160721 Thursday, July 21 2016
1 Corinthians 06: Why Should Perverted Rights Be Called Lefts?

by Wayne Blank
See also 1 Year Holy Bible Reading Plan

"All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any"

Humans, beginning at the time when people became rebellious sinners, have claimed many "rights" for and by themselves. Adam and Eve declared, from their act of doing so, that it was their "right" to rebel against that Law of the LORD and just take whatever they lusted for. But that didn't change the reality that nothing is "right" if the LORD declares that it is wrong. Their self-righteous defiance did not change the warning "thou shalt surely die." They learned, the hard way, that delusions have no real power. That's what makes them delusions.

All converted people live in a world that is yet wide-open to every imaginable anti-nature and anti-moral abomination. Christians are not in any way better than anyone else; they have simply begun their time of living by what is truly "right" (see The Harvests Of Salvation and Let Both Grow Together Until The Harvest). Note carefully the backgrounds of the "saints" of Paul's time: "Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

But note also that what made them "saints" is that they stopped wallowing in the carnal world's ideas of "right": "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."

"6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? 6:4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? 6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 6:8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." (1 Corinthians 6:1-11 KJV)

Even in that ancient time, Paul had the "right" to live an ungodly, perverted life, but he chose to live as a winner, not as a self-destructive fool: "All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any."

"6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 6:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." (1 Corinthians 6:12-20 KJV)

Fact Finder: What does "right" truly mean? Why should the world's perverted "rights" be called "lefts"?
See Which Way Is Right And Left?