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1 Corinthians chapter 3, verses 16 and 17.

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in you?

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him, for God's temple is holy, and you are that

temple. Now, what's interesting about these two verses is that the Bible is saying that you,

we are God's temple. Now, we'll see a few chapters from now in 1 Corinthians chapter 6 that our

body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. We actually prayed that yesterday based on 1st Corinthians

chapter 2. But the picture here in 1 Corinthians 3 is not Paul writing to individuals about how

their bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Instead, he's talking to the church.

And he says, do you not know that you, and you is not singular there, it's plural. He's talking to

the body of believers there at Corinth. And he says, you, together, you are God's temple. And God's

spirit dwells in you, plural. So get the picture here of the church.

Think about your church that you are a part of. And I encourage you, if you are not committed

to a body of Christ, a local body of believers, to commit yourself in that way.

Like, don't live the Christian life in isolation or with indifference to the church,

kind of hopping from this one to the next.

No, commit yourself to a local body of believers, a local church. So Paul's writing to a

specific group of people called the Church at Corinth. So they knew who they were, this body of

believers. And he says, do you not know that you are God's temple? God's spirit dwells in you.

So when you picture your church, realize, like just picture the gathering of your church

on a Sunday, like you are the dwelling place of God.

God houses himself among you.

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