Cleaning House

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 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.
- 1 Cornithians 6:18-20


|PIC1|God wants to clean your house. He wants to cleanse your temple.

We should be challenged by the words of Apostle Paul.

Under the old covenant, the temple had been either a tabernacle in the wilderness or a building in Jerusalem, but ever since the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, the temple moved to ourselves,

Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
- John 4:21

God does not live in a temple. John wrote in Revelation 21:3,

And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God."

Under the new covenant, God lives in our hearts.

What does it mean therefore to clean our temples? It means to clean the inside of our hearts.

We are so careful about cleaning the outside of our bodies. But what about the inside? Is there something that needs to be cleansed inside? The Bible tells us, yes.

When, we give our lives to Christ and put our trust in him, we were given clean robes, a new house. He came in, embraced us, and made us new again.

Let us not show disrespect to this love, by letting things become dirty again.

Let us prepare our hearts to be accepted by him once again.


Anon.