Your Body is Your Temple – A Christian Gift From God

Date: 12 Jul 2009 Comments: 0

You always know that when you break God’s spiritual law, there are going to be consequences; but what about breaking God’s physical laws? When you don’t take proper care of your body, God is not glorified, and you can expect things to be more challenging in the mental and physical world than you’d like. God has set laws and rules for our own good, because He wants you to be healthy and strong in every part of your life.Corinthians 6:19-20 (NCV) tells us, “You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit who is in you. You have received the Holy Spirit from God. So you do not belong to yourselves, because you were bought by God for… Continue reading

The Body – Temple of God

Date: 3 Jul 2009 Comments: 0

St. Paul asked in 1 Corinthians: “Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” and “Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God?” In 2 Corinthians he comes right out and says it plainly: “We are a temple of the living God; even as God said, ‘I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.’”The disciple John hints at this when he recounts in his gospel an event when Jesus was in the great temple in Jerusalem and was asked to show the people a… Continue reading

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