PLANNING TO GROW                                                     EAST BAY FELLOWSHIP

(Series, #3)                                                                                              January 22, 2006

PLANNING FOR PHYSICAL HEALTH

TEXT: 1 Cor. 6:19-20

INTRODUCTION

· Smoking 47,000,000, Venereal Diseases 19,000,000, Drinking and drugs 20,000,000, Overeating 64% of adults/16% of children, and Stress numerous diseases.

1) OUR BODIES DO NOT BELONG TO US

· Treating my body right starts with that sense of sacredness that leads to a lifestyle that chooses not make decisions apart from God

2) OUR BODIES HAVE BEEN REDEEMED

· To redeem something means to purchase it back from slavery.

3) OUR BODIES SHOULD HONOR GOD

· For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor…   1Thes 4:3-4 (NKJ)

CONCLUSION

· I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.   Phil 1:20-21 (NIV)