From crosstheology towards obedience motivation

1
From cross-theology towards obedience motivation

• D. Park and M. Nagasawa
• MITACF LG wrap up
• Mar 14, 2003

2
1 Corinthians 612-20

• 12"Everything is permissible for me"--but not
  everything is beneficial. "Everything is
  permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered
  by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the
  stomach for food"--but God will destroy them
  both. The body is not meant for sexual
  immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for
  the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from
  the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not
  know that your bodies are members of Christ
  himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ
  and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you
  not know that he who unites himself with a
  prostitute is one with her in body? For it is
  said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he
  who unites himself with the Lord is one with him
  in spirit. 18Flee from sexual immorality. All
  other sins a man commits are outside his body,
  but he who sins sexually sins against his own
  body. 19Do you not know that your body is a
  temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom
  you have received from God? You are not your own
  20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God
  with your body.

3
Picture of the Cross Debt Payment
God the Father
Anger Wrath
Jesus
Forgiveness
Believers
Non-believers
Non-believers
4
Picture of the Cross Identity Transformation
The Old Age
The Old Age will end
God
Believers - New Creations - Forgiven -
Empowered - In Jesus by Spirit - God is a
Father ONLY to those in Jesus
Non-believers - Old Creations,- Objects of
Wrath, - Disempowered - Separated from God
Jesus
Death Resurrection
The New Age begins
New Heavens Earth
5
Motivations for obedience

• Debt-obligation
• Grace denial try to pay back the debt
• Grace abuse debt will just get cancelled again
• Identity-obligation
• Cross participation we die and rise again w/X
• Self worth you are worth more than ___
• Sin incompatible with new identity

6
1 Corinthians 612-20

• 12"Everything is permissible for me"--but not
  everything is beneficial. "Everything is
  permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered
  by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the
  stomach for food"--but God will destroy them
  both. The body is not meant for sexual
  immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for
  the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from
  the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not
  know that your bodies are members of Christ
  himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ
  and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you
  not know that he who unites himself with a
  prostitute is one with her in body? For it is
  said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he
  who unites himself with the Lord is one with him
  in spirit. 18Flee from sexual immorality. All
  other sins a man commits are outside his body,
  but he who sins sexually sins against his own
  body. 19Do you not know that your body is a
  temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom
  you have received from God? You are not your own
  20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God
  with your body.

7
References

• Largely stolen from Nagasawa, M. (2001) Asian
  American Spirituality in the Context of American
  Fundamentalism, http//regions.ivcf.org/multieth/2
  873
• Rom 61-11 Gal 220 Php 37-12 Col 212-13
• John 148-21, 151-9 Eph 11-14, 211-22
• Rom 89-11 2 Cor 4-5 Eph 314-19