Bought And Paid For

1 Corinth 6:19b-20 "Ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your bodies and in your spirit which are God's".

When I was a child, I use to play store. I would sell candy, but try and keep the candy and the money. But we all know that if  you keep the money, the candy is no longer yours, and if you keep the candy you forfeit the money. You can't have both. The same is true with our salvation. You can have your life to live anyway you want to, but then you deny the redemption. If you accept the ransom paid, then the redeemed life is no longer yours, but now belongs to the redeemer. If you have been redeemed,you belong to Christ, but if you are determined to do your own thing, you have renounced your redeemer and choose to die in sin.

The body is not designed for desires and urges, but to be members of Christ, to be a temple of the Holy Ghost to glorify God.Through the blood of Christ we are free to live righteously and eternally in the presence of God. We have received the divine nature of God, we are one spirit ,united with God through Christ, and it is time to render unto God that which belongs to God. When we accepted Christ death, burial, and resurrection, we accepted the ransom paid to free us from the bondage of sin.Our life is no longer ours it belongs to Him who paid the ransom." This life we now live in the flesh, we now live by faith in the son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us". Our bodies are no longer ours, they are now members of Christ, so can we now take the temple of the Holy Ghost and make them members of a harlot. The Holy Spirit actually dwells in the heart of the true believer, and this temple has no other purpose but to house the presence of God. We have surrendered our will to him, we have been consecrated by him, we are possessed and occupied by His spirit and led to do His will. We are not our own, not our own provider as sheep are fed by the shepherd. We are not our own guide, for Jesus is the rudder which guides this ship.

We have been bought with a price; A price paid by the Father ,who gave His only begotten Son; " For God so loved the world....."A price paid by the Son, who gave himself, and his glory. His glory he had with the Father before the world was, that we too might share in that glory. The price was paid with His broken body and shed blood, price paid in full as He became a curse to free us from the curse. Oh so let us rejoice, for we have a beloved owner. let us  worship him with our life, a life of holy diligence to his word, in a humble obedience. Let us praise Him with our living, by living a life of cleanliness,love, and self control, giving of yourself cheerfully with all long suffering. Let the redeemed of the Lord now render unto God that which belongs to God!