God's Sanctified Temple (1 Corinthians 3:16–17)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on 1 Corinthians 3:16–17, David Platt explains the awe-inspiring reality of how God sees the community of believers.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:05.6	1 Corinthians chapter 3 verses 16 and 17. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that
0:12.1	God's spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him.
0:18.2	For God's temple is holy and you are that temple. Now what's interesting when you hear that,
0:24.4	your mind might go to like 1 Corinthians chapter 6 where we will see that our bodies are the
0:31.3	temple of the Holy Spirit. So every one of us as followers of Jesus has the Holy Spirit dwelling
0:37.2	in us. But that's not actually what 1 Corinthians 3 verses 16 and 17 is talking about. These
0:43.9	verses are talking about the church. The you here is plural. Do you not know that you as the church,
0:51.1	he's talking to the church in Corinth, our God's temple and God's spirit dwells in you
0:56.6	together. If anyone destroys God's temple like the church, God will destroy him.
1:02.2	For God's temple, his church is holy and you are that temple. Not the building but the people.
1:09.2	So picture the church that you are a part of. And if you're not a part of a local church,
1:16.0	then we don't have a ton of time to dive into the nuance here but just go straight to it.
1:22.1	You are not living out what we see as Christianity according to the Bible because all throughout
1:28.5	the Bible, specifically the New Testament when the church is born, followers of Jesus are connected
1:35.0	to their parts, their members of a local church to the church of God that's in Corinth or
1:42.1	deslanica or Ephesus. These are letters written to churches and Christians were a part of churches
1:48.8	they were committed to being the church to each other in a particular place. And so Paul says to
1:56.0	the church at Corinth, you together as a people, you are God's temple and God's spirit dwells in you.
2:03.6	So if you're not a part of a church, you're not committed as a member of a church somewhere,
2:09.6	then do that and when you do and for all who are, just picture that gathering of God's people
2:16.2	that you're a part of and realize this is the temple of God. This is the place where the spirit of
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