YOU
ARE GOD’S SANCTUARY
Memorise:
What? 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? 1st Corinthians
6:19
Read
1st Corinthians 6:15-20, Bible in One year: 2nd Samuel 16:17, Mark
14:10-31
The most pleasurable sin to the flesh is
sexual immorality. Incidentally, this particular type of sin is the most deadly
because its consequences are not only spiritually unpleasant but also
physically humiliating. In our Bible reading, Apostle Paul warned the Church at
Corinth against
sexual immorality. He explained that we the temple of God .
The implication of this is that your body does not belong to you, but rather,
it belongs to God. He further revealed to us the judgement that would follow if
we defile the temple
of God – our body. In 1st
Corinthians 3:17 he wrote:
“If
any man defile the temple of God , him shall God destroy; for the temple of God
is holy, which temple ye are.”
Are you currently involved or planning
to go into any form of sexual immorality? God is warning you today. You better
desist before it is too late. If sickness has turned your body into permanent
place of abode, and you have claimed all the promises of God concerning healing
to no avail, it would be wise to you to examine yourself. Is there any sexual
sin you have committed and you have not confesses? I am afraid to tell you that
you may be under God’s judgement, and there is nothing any anointed man of God
can do about it unless you repent. You have defiled God’s temple; you therefore
need to make amends through genuine repentance that involves confessing and
forsaking this sin entirely. I know of a man of God who appeared fervent, but
suddenly he was stricken with a strange sickness. This sickness persisted for
so long a time that I began to wonder what was actually responsible for his
affliction. One day, the Lord decided to satisfy my curiosity. Someone came to
tell me some secret things about this man of God without knowing how close I
was to him. He was flirting around with women, including widows! The Bible in
Proverbs 9:17 says a whore sits at the door of his or her house calling
customers who lack understanding to come and patronise him or her, saying:
“Stolen
waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
This is the deceit of the devil. There
is nothing in that strange woman or man you are going out with that is not
present in you spouse. The same scripture in Proverbs 9:18 says:
“But
he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths
of hell.”
I pray that you will not go to Hell as a
result of either pre-marital or extra-marital sexual adventures.
Prayer
Point
Dear
Holy Spirit, please prepare me as a pure and holy dwelling place for You in
Jesus’ Name.
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