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哥林多前书：6:12-14: 12凡事我都可行，但不都有益处；凡事我都可行，但无论哪一件，我总不受他的辖制。13食物是为肚腹，肚腹是为食物；但神要叫这两样都废坏。身子不是为淫乱，乃是为主；主也是为身子。14并且神已经叫主复活，也要用自己的能力叫我们复活。
保罗在这里特别针对的是淫乱的罪，即婚姻之外的性关系。在婚姻之内，性是上帝赐给丈夫和妻子的礼物。在婚姻之外的性，是一种自私的追求，满足一个人的欲望，是一种被罪败坏的欲望。如同我们今天的文化一样，哥林多人认为“如果你觉得好，那就做吧。”在我们今天的文化里，人们觉得“两个成年人都同意的”性关系是没什么不对的。
但是保罗的话远远超越了第六条诫命。即使是好的事情，如果我们任凭它们辖制我们，也会成为罪。一个沉迷于节食减肥的人会伤害自己的身体。运动是好事情，但沉迷在其中就不好了。看电视节目本身没有错，但毫无节制的看就不好了，会浪费你的宝贵时间。玩游戏甚至可能毁掉你的婚姻和事业。“无论哪件事，我总不受它的辖制。”保罗如此说。
你的生活中有什么事情想辖制你吗？当然有。罪总想让你成为它的奴隶。如果你没有和生活中的罪进行过斗争，你要么已经死了在天堂里，要么你就是在欺骗你自己。
但是上帝已经叫耶稣从死里复活，他也要叫我们复活。今天一开始读这些话的时候，我立刻想到：“我迫不及待的等着耶稣再来的那天，到那时罪就消失了，我的挣扎结束了。”这句话里充满了令人安慰的信息。但我认为保罗也指的是我们此时此刻的生命。在我们的圣洗礼中，我们就和基督一同埋葬死去，这样我们就可以藉着父的荣耀从死里复活（罗马书：6:1-3）。每天早晨当你醒来，你都在经历复活的大能，你会得到更新和恢复，活出新的生命来归荣耀给神。“无论哪件事，我总不受它的辖制。” 在我每天复活的新生命里，我可以面对与罪的征战，而不被罪所辖制。
祷告：主耶稣，只要你在我里面与我同在，我就不会被有罪的欲望所辖制。请让我每一天都谦卑下来，为我每天挣扎的罪悔改。求你在你的赦免和末日的复活中给我盼望。我希望被你和你的恩典所掌管，而不是被自己的罪辖制！阿们。
1 Corinthians 6: 12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.”The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. (EHV)
Paul is dealing especially with the sin of sexual immorality, which is any sex outside of the bonds of marriage. Within marriage, sex is a gift from God to a husband and wife. Outside of marriage, it is always a selfish pursuit, a satisfying of a person’s desires, which have been corrupted by sin. The Corinthians, like our own culture, thought, “If it feels good, do it.” Almost no one today in our culture thinks there is anything wrong with sex “between two consenting adults.”
But Paul’s words lead us beyond just sixth commandment sins. Even good things, if we allow them to master us, can become sin. A person who becomes addicted to dieting can harm his or her body. Exercise is a good thing until it becomes an obsession. There is nothing wrong with watching a television show, unless you start “binge” watching and you waste your precious time. Gaming has ruined marriages and careers. “I will not be mastered by anything,” Paul says.
Is there anything in your life which wants to master you? Of course there is. Sin always wants to make you its slave. If you are not struggling with sin in your life, you are either dead and in heaven, or you are deceiving yourself.
But God raised Jesus from the dead, and he will raise us also. When I first read those words today, I immediately thought, “I can’t wait until Jesus comes, when sin will be no more, and my struggle will be over.” Certainly that comforting thought is in these words. But I think Paul was also referring to the here and now. In our baptism, we were buried with Christ into death so that we could be raised from death to life by the glory of the Father (Romans 6:1-3). You experience the power of the resurrection every day when you wake up renewed and restored to live a new life to the glory of God. “I will not be mastered by anything.” In my new self, which is resurrected in me every day, I can face my struggle with sin and not be mastered by it.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, as long as you are with me and in me, I will not be mastered by my sinful desires. Make me humble each day to repent of the sins I struggle with. Give me hope in your forgiveness and in the resurrection on the last day. I want to be mastered by your and your grace and not by my sin! Amen.