Q2. Living Holy Lives

[linda bass]

We should live holy lives because as believers we are united with Christ. Plus we have the Holy Spirit to help guide us.

The temptations the Corinthians faced in the city were worship of false gods and sexual immorality.

[Commissioned]

Q2. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18) What are the reasons Paul gives us – both in his letter and by quoting Old Testament scriptures – that we should live holy lives?

Paul's reasons for quoting from the Old Testament to the Corinthians because the Christians in Corinth had similar temptations – and similar

promises from God as did the Israelites before them.

What kinds of temptations did the Corinthians face in their notorious city.

The Corinthians faced temptations of sexual immorality.

[wifee]

2a)We are made holy,when we believe in Christ &should live holy,pure lives in thought &action because we are temples of God’s Spirit,shold live,in obedience to God &his calling,¬ give satan or unbelievers a reason to accuse us of hyprocicy.

B)Corthinthians had reputation of high degree of immoral life style, flirting with idol Baal worship associated with sexual temptations faced constantly,Ashteroth poles prompted worship of goddesses.Exposed to satan in many forms drunkenness, pride, adultery, fornication.We offend God physically &spiritually by following physical desires rather leading of holy spirit.

[Craig]

Q2. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18) What are the reasons Paul gives us – both in his letter and by quoting Old Testament scriptures – that we should live holy lives? What kinds of temptations did the Corinthians face in their notorious city.

 

Paul reasons in the following way with the Corinthians to live holy lives and to walk in a single fellowship with God:

 

What relationship does light have darkness?  There is none.

 

What relationship does righteousness with wickedness?  There is none.

 

What relationship does Christ have with Satan?  There is none.

 

What relationship does a believer have with an unbeliever?  There is none.

 

As the Temple of God, the Holy Spirit resides in each born again Christian, what business do we have with idols?  None.

 

Throughout time God has called his people, those who believe in and acknowledge Him and seek to honor Him, from out of the world.  The satanic world order corrupts and turns human beings from God.  You cannot be submerged in the world and walk as a follower of Christ.  You cannot have two masters.  You cannot have two fellowships and be true to either.

 

The temptations the Corinthians faced were idol worship and sexual immorality.   We face the same today in various forms.

 

[royk]

Q2. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18) What are the reasons Paul gives us – both in his letter and by quoting Old Testament scriptures – that we should live holy lives? What kinds of temptations did the Corinthians face in their notorious city. 

 

 

God lives in us. So as we focus on this holiness, we must not let anything near us that is unclean, or it will diminish what God intends us to do today, at a given moment. We will blessings, and we will miss service that is intended for us and our growth in the kingdom. So any such activity is dangerous for our spiritual condition.

 

We face the same temptations, watching TV, seeing women dress to make themselves sexually attractive. This is a fallen world. Let us cry out in desperation for all of us collectively. Let us pray for God to come and heal our land!

[WinstonY]

1. We do not have much in common with non_ believers.

2. We are the temple of God.

3. God walks among believe rs.

4. Believers are holy, set apart for God.

5.believers are God's special people.

Sex was preoccupied the people.

[lighthouse2014]

Q2. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18) What are the reasons Paul gives us – both in his letter and by quoting Old Testament scriptures – that we should live holy lives? What kinds of temptations did the Corinthians face in their notorious city.

Paul gives reasons from scripture why we should live holy lives. These reasons from scripture are to encourage us to live holy lives to God, believing in Christ we are no longer pagans, but heirs with Christ in the Kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit has come to dwell with us in our hearts and now we are the temple of God, for now he dwells within us.

Corinthians were noted for their sexual immorality because of the religion they had followed, that of Baal and Ashtoreth. These were a habitual immorality for they were brought up in these institutions and practices.Paul now encourages them now that they have come to Christ and are filled with the Holy Spirit. They should now live a life worthy of the true and living God, for it is He who dwells within them now.           

[Krissi]

Living a holy or Christian life is much easier if we're deeply involved with other Christians, and ideally, involved to such an extent that our outside-of-church lives have become insignificant. The problem is that many of us have lives and families that are not Christian. Some of us are married to backslidden or never-saved spouses or have families that do not respect or honour Christian morality. Unless Christians in these circumstances abandon their families -- an option to some -- their lives will be torn between spiritual and earthly morality.

Paul gives good reasons for living holy or separated lives when he says, in essence, that Christians are a different sort of people than non-Christians because they are set-apart as temples and God-indwellers. 

I'm thinking of the Amish who struggle to be in but not of the world. They have created a Christian legalism to retain that separation. WIthin their legalistic and actual "walls" are their families, other families and their church. Though I'm certain that among the Amish are non-believers, they are few. Are all Christians called to be like this? Increasingly, I think so. We need to separate ourselves not only from non-Christians, but from the government that coerces us to behave in ways we know is against God's will. 

The "yoked" passage comes directly after the discussion of sexual immorality, something I never noticed before. Obviously, these two ideas are connected logically. Yoked, then, may have more of a sexual meaning. I interpreted it, in the past, as a warning for those considering marriage to a non-believer. In other biblical passages, we are told that if we are already married to a non-believer, we should not divorce. So the idea is to stay separate, if possible.

But what do we do with our families, our children and parents who are not believers and continually try to pull us away from our faith? Does the unequally yoked command apply to them as well? Jesus said in a rather notorious passage that we're to "hate our father and mother, brother and sister, spouse and children ..."  Most people interpret this in the softest way possible, that we're to prioritize our faith over our families. 

But is this what Jesus really meant???