Turn with me, please, in the scriptures to Romans, the 12th chapter.

Then I think we'll look at 2nd Corinthians, the 6th chapter.

Romans 12, 2nd Corinthians 6.

In Romans 12 and 1, Romans 12 and 1, Romans 12 says,

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,

that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,

wholly acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

It matters to God what we do with our body.

You believe it? Some folks will try to imply, oh, God only cares about spiritual things.

No, that's not true. He does care about spiritual things, obviously. But he also cares about your body and my body.

What we do with this body right now is very important to him.

Did you know that this body, put your hand on it somewhere, this body,

has been bought and paid for by the Lord Jesus Christ himself with his own blood.

And it is, he has made, now I hope you are you awake?

He has made this body a permanent eternal part of the body of Christ.

You might say, oh, I don't know about that, Brother Keith.

I'll be glad when I get rid of this one and I get my new body.

No, it's going to be this body glorified.

Yes, yes.

Even if this body is buried and decomposes, that is not the end of this body.

The Lord has bought and paid for every molecule of it.

And even if some believer died out in the Sahara Desert a thousand years ago,

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