Temple Of God? Or Whitewashed Tomb?

 

1st Corinthians 3:16-17

"Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are."

The scriptures that I am going to contrast here are similar to the wheat and tares parable. The word is telling us that we can be a temple of God by the indwelling of His Holy Spirit, or we can be a white washed tomb, like the Pharisees of Jesus' day, and false prophets and pastors of today!

You can look good on the outside, dress nice, smell good, skin beautiful and fresh, but inside your heart you can be full of every unclean thing! Evil spirits, strongholds in the mind, have a lying tongue and be a tool used by the devil!

Or you can have God's Spirit indwelling your heart and be full of light, love, peace, joy, all the fruits of the Spirit, and shining and glowing from the inside out! You can be a tool used by God for His kingdom and His purposes, to do good works for His glory!

1st Corinthians 6:18-20

"Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s."

The time is coming when people will finally learn that the church building is NOT the church, and realize that your body IS the temple of God, IF so be that His Spirit dwells within you!

We must also realize and understand that everytime you lay with a man or woman outside of marriage you are joining yourself to that person! It's a spiritual and physical act of intimacy, and this how soul ties are made and you become more oppressed by evil, everytime you sin in this way!

Jesus told the Pharisees multiple times, that you can look good on the outside with your religious robes and clothing, but inwardly, in the heart and mind, you are full of dead men's bones! Totally Unclean!

Matthew 23:25-28

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."

The same thing is happening today! Instead of Pharisees, insert the title of Pastors, False Apostles, and Prophets, who say they have been sent by God to lead, feed and shepherd the sheep of the Lord, but many have not! These are the wolves in sheep's clothing!

Which one are you? A temple or a tomb?

Examine yourself and ask the Lord Jesus to reveal exactly which one you are!

In Christ Jesus,

Tyrone