THE TEMPLE OF GOD

"Do you not know that you are the temple of
God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?"
1 Corinthians 3:16

In the Old Testament, temple of God was a
physical building in Jerusalem, but in the New
Testament, the physical body of every child
of God is the temple of God. When you
surrender your life to Jesus Christ, your body
becomes the temple of God, and your heart
serves the throne of God.

DEFILING THE TEMPLE OF GOD

Many Christians and preachers claim that God
is only interested in their hearts and nothing
with their body, and so they can do anything
with their bodies. Such teaching and notion
is from the pit of hell, very deceptive and
destructive; the same Christians ask God to
heal their bodies when they are sick and also
ask God to protect their bodies, so if God is
not interested in their bodies, why will God
heal their bodies from sickness? If they think
their faith in God has nothing to do with God,
why will they ask God to heal or protect the
their body from attacks?

Jesus Christ died for our soul, spirit and body,
to give freedom, not only for our soul but
also our body. When you become a child of
God, your body is no longer your body but
God's temple, whatever you do with it is
very important to God. Involving in any act
that defiles God's temple attracts serious
judgment of God. "If anyone defiles the
temple of God, God will destroy him. For the
temple of God is holy, which temple you are."
1 Corinthians 3:17.

ACTS OF DEFILING GOD'S TEMPLE

Here are some acts that defile God's temple,
which every child of God should flee from:

(1) SMOKING: Smoking is not just a wrong
against one's health, but also it is a sin of
defiling God's temple after salvation. After
you are genuinely saved, going back to
smoke is destructive to your spirit, soul and
body, it defiles God's temple - your body, and
it attracts God's judgment.

[b](2) DRINKING ALCOHOL: [/b]Drinking alcohol was
not allowed in the temple of God in the Old
Testament, “Do not drink wine or
intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with
you, when you go into the tabernacle of
meeting, lest you die." Leviticus 10:9; and
how much more do you expect with the
temple redeemed by the Blood of Jesus? The
reason why drinking alcohol is a forbidden
thing to a genuine child of God is because his
body is the temple of God, and alcohol is not
allowed in the temple of God.

(3) TATTOO: [/b]Painting tattoo to the body is
only meant for the gentiles, the unbelievers
who owe their own bodies for their
destruction, but when your body becomes
the temple of God, redeemed by the precious
Blood of Jesus, it becomes sinful and evil to
paint tattoo on your body. "You shall not
make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead,
nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord."
Leviticus 19:28 "I AM THE LORD OF YOUR
BODY AFTER YOU SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO
ME, NOT YOUR OWN ANYMORE" - JESUS CHRIST.

[b](4) BLEACHING: Toning skin, lightening skin or
bleaching skin is an act of defiling the temple
of God. When you become a child of God
through repentance, your body belongs to
Jesus, and you dare not do anything to your
body that will not glorify God or that will
alter God's given colour or complexion.
Bleaching, lightening skin or toning skin is
evil and destructive.

(5) MASTURBATION: Masturbation is an act of
manipulating one's body for sexual pleasure,
it is forbidden for every genuine child of
God, because our body is the temple of God
and we cannot manipulate it. Masturbation
actually mean having sex with demon; since
it is for sexual pleasure and it usually
involves two people; in masturbation, the
other person is invisible and that is demon.
When you surrender your life to Jesus
completely, you must resist and reject the
demon of masturbation when he comes back
to play with you.

(6) MouthAction: Either in marriage or outside
marriage, MouthAction is an immoral act of
working against the normal cause of nature,
it is turning the cause of nature upside down
by using what is meant for oral for sex and
what is meant for sex for oral; but since your
body is the temple of God, you will not want
to turn the temple of God upside down, you
know God will not take that for granted?

(7) FORNICATION & ADULTERY: These are the
worst of all sins, because sexual immorality is
the only sin that cuts across spirit, soul and
body at the same time. it's a serious sin that
poisons the whole system. Sexual immorality
is a sacrifice that empowers the kingdom of
darkness, what it means is that whenever
sexual immorality is being committed,
demons are readily present to empower
themselves. Bodies or places where sexual
immorality is being committed are filled with
demons. Since your body becomes the
temple of God, it is a must to keep yourself
and flee from every form of sexual
immorality. If you have involved in such
before, you repent, ask Jesus to cleanse you
and do not go back into it.

DESTRUCTION FOR DEFILING GOD'S TEMPLE

"If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will
destroy him. For the temple of God is holy,
which temple you are." 1 Corinthians 3:17.
There is grave judgment of God for anyone
who defiles temple of God by any act. If you
have been involving in any of these acts,
you have to repent and ask God to forgive
you and turn to Him in a new life completely.
Romans 12:1-2, "I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God, that you
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable to God, which is your reasonable
service. 2 And do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind, that you may prove what is
that good and acceptable and perfect will of
God."