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What the New
Testament Teaches About ‘The Temple’
1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:13-20; 2
Cor. 6:16-17 1 Cor. 3:5 – 20 “Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you all believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? [6] I have planted, Apollos watered: but God has given the increase. [7] So then, neither is he that plants any thing, neither he that waters: but God that gives the increase. [8] Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor. [9] For we are laborers together with God: you are God's husbandry, [you are] God's building. [10] According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon it. But let every man take heed how he builds upon it. [11] For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. [12] Now if any man builds upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; [13] Every man's work will be made manifest: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will try every man's work, of what sort it is. [14] If any man's work abides which he has built upon it, he shall receive a reward. [15] If any man's work shall be burned, he will suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. [16] Don’t you all know that you all are the [18] Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. [19] For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness. [20] And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.” ·
This is about the (Church) body of Christ ·
The result of the work of ministers (verses 5,
6) and God giving the increase (v. 7), and the foundation being Y’shua (Jesus
the Christ) (v. 11) ·
Let no Christian take up the cause of any person
who corrupts or divides the body of Christ (v.’s 18-20) o Those who
spread principles of this sort would provoke God to destroy them ·
This also may be a lesson
for all truly believing Christian individuals - who should heartily
despise fleshly lusts, all activities, and all doctrines that give them
expression (Gal. 5:17-21; 24-26). Such practices can and will defile (destroy
or corrupt) him or her - God’s sacred temple. ·
We know that this is
less related to food/drink (nutrition) because Jesus the Christ states, “You are not defiled
by what you eat or drink; you are defiled by what you say and do …because it does not enter your spirit but passes through
the stomach and then comes out again, thus every kind of food is
acceptable." And He said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles
a person. For from within, out of the heart of people, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness,
deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil
things come from within and defile a person." (Mark 7:18-23; Matthew 15:11).
1 Cor. 6:13-20 “Food is for the belly, and the belly is for food:
but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication,
but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up
us by His own power. Don’t you all know that your bodies
are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make
them the members of an harlot [prostitute]? God forbid. What? Don’t you all know that he who is joined to an harlot
[prostitute] is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh (Gen. 2:24). But s/he who is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. [18] Flee fornication. Every sin that a person does is not
within the body; but s/he who commits fornication sins against his or her own
body (All sins destroy, but one who commits fornication sins against one’s
entire constitution). What?
Don’t you all know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who
is in you, who is of God, and you all are not your own? For you all are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” ·
A solemn warning about sex sin ·
Verse 18: Every sin that a person does is
“not within” the body; but one who commits sexual sin sins against his or her
own body; All sins destroy, but one who commits sexual sin sins against his
or her entire constitution, even his/her body, soul and spirit. ·
We know that this is
less related to food/drink (nutrition) because Jesus the Christ states, “You are not
defiled by what you eat or drink; you are defiled by what you say and do …because it does not enter your spirit but passes through
the stomach and then comes out again, thus every kind of food is
acceptable." And He said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles
a person. For from within, out of the heart of people, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness,
deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil
things come from within and defile a person." (Mark 7:18-23; Matthew 15:11). ·
The primary activity of the human spirit
is union with God. It is the only part of a human that can be united directly
with God. (And what a privilege!)
2 Cor. 6:16-17 “...What agreement has the ·
The subject is God’s people separating from idolatry and
unbelievers
2 Cor. 4:16-18;
5:1 [16]
“...Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is
renewed day by day. [17] For our light affliction, which is but
for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; [18]
While we look not at the things which are seen, but
at the things which are not seen: for the
things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are
eternal. [1] For we know
that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved (is destroyed), we have a
building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” ·
Obviously, the “outward man” and the “earthly house of this
tabernacle” refer to our physical human body, and the “inward man” refers to
our personal spirit/soul, which are not seen. ·
We know that this is
less related to food/drink (nutrition) because Jesus the Christ states, “You are not
defiled by what you eat or drink; you are defiled by what you say and do …because it does not enter your spirit but passes through
the stomach and then comes out again, thus every kind of food is acceptable."
And He said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles a person. For
from within, out of the heart of people, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries,
fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit,
lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things
come from within and defile a person." (Mark
7:18-23; Matthew 15:11).
Pr. 18:14 “The spirit of a person will sustain his infirmity; but a
wounded spirit who can bear?” (Your physical
body may have affliction or pain, but your human
spirit is immune to it.)
James 2:26 “...The
(physical) body without the
spirit is dead...”
The Apostle of 1 Cor. 9:24 – 27 acted
to keep the physical body as a slave to the soul, not permitting the
soul to be the slave of the physical body.
If
something is not
definitely condemned by some specific passage(s) in Scripture, let each of us
answer to God and our conscience as to what we allow ( What Divine
Healing and Health is Not It is not healing and health by natural remedies, imagination, will power, personal magnetism, metaphysics, spiritualism, immunity from death, presumption, insubordination to God's will, mind over matter, denial of the plain facts of sin, health issues, and disease, or natural healing by inherent laws and creative powers in humankind's body (i.e. our God-given immune systems, endocrine systems, lymph systems, limbic systems, etc.) Links What
does the Bible say about herbal or nutritional remedies? What does the Bible say
about exercise? “He personally bore our sins
in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.” (1 Peter 2:24) See the source of sin, health issues and diseases
The plan of God
is to end evil and suffering forever (Exodus 34:6-7; Matthew 13:37-43;
I Corinthians 15:24-28; Galatians 6:7-8; 1 Timothy 1:5; Revelation 21-22).
The ultimate purpose of God in all His present dealings with man is to bring
him back to the place where he was before the fall and purge him of all
possibility of failing in the future. “The object and purpose of our
instruction and charge is that all believers would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, and a clear
conscience, and genuine faith.” —1
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