My Body is a Temple: Part IX

1st Corinthians 3:16-17
Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

Ah... Sunday evening. I've had my class on parenting. I had the privledge to sing up on stage today at church. That was a first for me. I will be partaking in that more and more, Lord willing, as the year moves on. It's very cool.

Luke 19:45-48

Then he entered the temple area and began driving out those who were selling. "It is written," he said to them, "'My house will be a house of prayer'; but you have made it 'a den of robbers.'"

Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him. Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.

Whose words am I hanging upon? Do I hang on the words of God... or someone else's words? Jesus had a zeale for God and doing the things God commanded of him. He went in there and was angry about what people had done to the temple. When someone does ill of God, do I get angry? Do I stand up when God gets put down?

1st Corinthians 6:19-20

Do 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; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

Am I honoring God with my body? Am I standing up for the temple, which Jesus had become so irate for what people were doing to it, would Jesus be angry of what I have done to God's temple? That's a tough question.

1st John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Confession brings forgiveness and purification from unrighteousness. And confessing is probably the most humble thing a person can do. I used to deliver newspapers for a local newspaper in the area. And one thing I know is that you can get used to things in the dark. The neighborhood's I used to deliver to, I only knew them without sunlight. And then, one day, things were very late, and I had to deliver most of my route with some light coming from above and not from my car. And I should have to say, things look completely different with sunshine, when all you are used to is darkness. The places I delivered looked unlike anything I thought they would, and they looked better than I thought they would. There is a vast difference between lightness and darkness.

James 5:16

Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

The command is to confess sins and pray, which provides healing. If you do not confess sins, there will not be any healing. If you do not pray for each other, there will not be any healing.

James 4:6

But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."

This is something I have learned. A humble man will confess his sins and that is how the humble receive grace. A proud man doesn't receive grace. A proud man, more than likely, doesn't confess sins either.

It's great to be back posting again. I think today will be the last on the temple and body, at least for a little while. I always reserve the right to go back to a topic. Hey, these are my quiet times, right? Johnny Out.

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