“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.
1 Corinthians 5:12
The deception of sin many of the time is often perceived as a “right” to do something. A right to do what I please, and a right to do what feels good in that moment. But we all know that not everything we have the right to do is not necessarily beneficial to our health. Just because we have the right to eat fast food does not mean we should eat hamburgers and fries for every meal. There are consequences and implications to our actions, and can have a natural toll on our mental, physical and spiritual health. In this instance, Paul is specifically writing about sexual immorality.
The right and freedom to consume pornography has infringed on the rights of many women and men around the globe who are enslaved by sex trafficking. It has also degraded and objectified women in ways that have destroyed our purity and sense of sacredness in the act of sex as something that ought to have been celebrated in commitment, devotion, and unconditional love of a married couple. Instead of sex being portrayed in today’s media as pure, holy, and loving, it has become described as dirty, raunchy, and naughty.
The issue of sin being deceptively served to us as a “right” is that it masters us and consumes us. It takes us far away from what the blessings in our lives ought to have been in the first place. Today, there are compromises that we may have made. We may have mistaken our “sin” as a “right”, and in many ways have been incurring a debt of sin in our lives.
It is when we come back to our Lord Jesus Christ and begin to lay your sins and even your rights down at his feet. Flee from sin today, and live no longer in compromise. Although this may seem like harsh or radical words, how radical was Christ’s love for you and I that we too, ought to live more radically in the holiness of Christ, and radically flee from sin.
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