1 Corinthians 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? 1 Corinthians 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. What is a temple? A temple is a place of holiness, a place of peace, a place for worship, a place for sacrifice. Since our bodies are a "temple" do we emulate the definition for a temple above? One purpose Our one goal should be to glorify God with our lives, period, end of story. 1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. If we are to glorify God in menial things like eating and drinking I think its safe to say glorify in in all things. 1 Peter 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. Lets remember that it is a good thing to suffer a s Christian, it identifies us with Christ! Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation... One service. You can really only serve one master! Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. "He who walks with two crowds can only choose one destination." 1 Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. It is important to serve "Jesus Only" but many things can get in the way, our selfish desires, others selfish desires, or even just apathy. If a priest in a temple forgot why he was there, his service would be rather empty dont you think. Remembering who we are serving and why we we are serving is something we should do daily. 1 Corinthians 7:23 Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men. One Savior We were bound by sin but God paid the ransom for us. 1 Corinthians 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Christ tremendous love is so motivating that we should live always for Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Psalms 105:3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. So again I ask the question is your temple a place of holiness, a place of peace, a place for worship, a place for sacrifice. ~It can be~
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