Bought With a Price

1Co 6:19 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?
1Co 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.


The temple of the Holy Ghost.


People have spent millions of dollars over the years, maybe more, to discover hidden temples. Temples are places that are revered and held to be holy places. People have built all sorts of temples to worship false gods. Today there are temples dedicated to God, churches, meeting halls, houses people make special to honor God but what does God want from us now? What temple does God truly honor now? Where is God's Spirit? Has He sent the Holy Spirit to dwell inside stone, wooden, plastic walls? No. The temple where God's Holy Spirit dwells is us. God gives us His grace, His love, the Comforter which is the Holy Spirit who will dwell with us when we give our lives to God. We aren't our own. We aren't. So many people tell others to take charge of their lives, self-empowerment is the word of the day. Self it glorified. We believe we are our own, we are told we are our own, that we control our own lives fully and this is true right up to the point we decide whether or not we want God in our lives. If we choose God then our lives are His and no longer our own. Satan likes to use this aspect as something to deter people from accepting Christ, as if giving up self is the worst thing that could happen. Self cannot save self. Self cannot promise self eternal life. Self has so little control over so much in life and yet people revere self as it's own god, making themselves as god to be in control of so much yet the control is an illusion.


Our body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, we are NOT the Holy Ghost, we have no power of our own. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Ghost which God has given to us, we are NOT our own. We are bought with a price and that price was the life of Jesus Christ God's Son. We have to glorify GOD in our body, and in our SPIRIT-- both of which are God's not our own.


May God bless and keep us in HIM, our spirit with the Holy Spirit given to us by God, paid for by Christ's sacrifice.


In Christ's Love now and forever.


Amen.