Live As You Were Called

All Christians are called out of the world from various places of life. As believers we are in the world, but not of the world. Because of Jesus, our citizenship is in heaven, not of the earth. Paul takes a brief pause in his teaching in Biblical principles of marriage to stress this truth: Whatever socio-geo-economic status that a Christian finds themselves, we are called to live honorably according to Christ character before God in that very place.
 
 This insert within Paul’s discourse on marriage is not random nor out of place. It will begin to lay foundation for more in-depth instructions for single, widowed, and Christians married to unbelievers found in the final passages (v25-39) of this chapter.
 
 Paul uses the illustrations of circumcision & uncircumcision; and slave & freedman to help us understand the importance of living a life for God where he assigned us to his Glory.

Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 7:17-24

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