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Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living from The Global Church of the Nazarene of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Sunday, 24 May 2015 - "We Are His Temple" Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:9 Don’t you know that unrighteous people will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don’t delude yourselves — people who engage in sex before marriage, who worship idols, who engage in sex after marriage with someone other than their spouse, who engage in active or passive homosexuality, 10 who steal, who are greedy, who get drunk, who assail people with contemptuous language, who rob — none of them will share in the Kingdom of God. 11 Some of you used to do these things. But you have cleansed yourselves, you have been set apart for God, you have come to be counted righteous through the power of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah and the Spirit of our God.
12 You say, “For me, everything is permitted”? Maybe, but not everything is helpful. “For me, everything is permitted”? Maybe, but as far as I am concerned, I am not going to let anything gain control over me. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”? Maybe, but God will put an end to both of them. Anyhow, the body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. 14 God raised up the Lord, and he will raise us up too by his power.
15 Don’t you know that your bodies are parts of the Messiah? So, am I to take parts of the Messiah and make them parts of a prostitute? Heaven forbid! 16 Don’t you know that a man who joins himself to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? For the Tanakh says, “The two will become one flesh”;[a] 17 but the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18 Run from sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the fornicator sins against his own body. 19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple for the Ruach HaKodesh who lives inside you, whom you received from God? The fact is, you don’t belong to yourselves; 20 for you were bought at a price. So use your bodies to glorify God.[Footnotes:
1 Corinthians 6:16 Genesis 2:24]
"We Are His Temple" by Author: Juanita Weir Nobles
I first learned 1 Corinthians 6:19 when I was a young teen-ager. My dad had been saved a few years earlier and had surrendered his life to God to be a preacher. Our family life had been completely changed because church had become important to all of us. I was in our back yard on a summer day, resting under a peach tree, thinking about God and about my life. I wanted to serve God, so I made a decision that day to keep my body pure–to never smoke or drink.
I kept that commitment about things outside my body that would defile it, but my body has sometimes been defiled with impure thoughts or attitudes. I think everybody, no matter how hard they try to live for God, can identify with that fact. 1 Corinthians 6:20 speaks even more strongly to the Christian: “You were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”
Those of us who are Christians have God’s Spirit living in us. Wherever we go, whatever we do, we take God’s Spirit with us. Let’s glorify God with our bodies. Let’s live so others see Jesus in us.
Hymn for Today: "We are His People" by Philip Percival
1. We, we are God’s people
Once, dead in our sin and
Now, raised up with Christ in heaven
God, rich in his mercy
Made us all alive in Christ
Seated with him forever
Chorus:
By grace we are saved through
Faith, not from us but
God – not our works or boasting
By grace we are saved through
Faith, not from us but
God – not our works or boasting – by grace.
2. We, we are God’s people
Once, once who were far away
Saved by the blood of Jesus
Now, we are his temple
Filled, filled with his Spirit
Made – for doing good in Jesus.
Chorus:
By grace we are saved through
Faith, not from us but
God – not our works or boasting
By grace we are saved through
Faith, not from us but
God – not our works or boasting – by grace.____________________________
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