TEMPLE OF GOD

December 7, 2013

Friends, the word of God in 1 Cor 6:19-20 says, “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”

A temple is a place where God’s presence is. Your body is not yours, but God’s. As such, it means that on the inside of you should be all the attributes of the Holy Ghost. Gal 5:22-23 says, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

You are accountable to God for the way you control your thoughts and your body generally. Your body is not for you to do as you wish. Sir, I understand it is YOUR body, but please have it at the back of your mind from today, that it is God’s temple as well. How you take care of it determines what stays in it. A dirty house is prone to more infection than a clean one.

The most painful thing is that many people are busy defiling the temple of God by engaging in the works of the flesh; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revelling and all forgetting that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Brother Paul said, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Put your body under control. The moment the devil is aware you lack control over your body, that’s when you become his captive. Remember that the beauty of your life is a product of the fruits inside of you.

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