Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. In the Old Testament, whenever the Temple of God was

mentioned, reverence, fear, and honor quickly followed, there was a great understanding that

in the Temple, in the Holy of Holies, dwelt the very real presence of God. Now, imagine

how you would respond if you were there. In this week's episode, Francis Chan not only

reminds us of this truth, but points us to first Corinthians chapter 3 to reveal a truth

about us, the body of Christ, that's often overlooked. We hope that this episode will

be especially encouraging to you and give you a fresh revelation of the worth of Jesus.

Well, if you remember a few weeks ago, we studied Ecclesiastes chapter 5. Remember that? We talked

about how Ecclesiastes 5 tells us to guard our steps as we draw nearer to the house of God.

And it was a great reminder today when Jim kind of stopped us in the beginning of worship and

said, okay, let's make sure our hearts really mean these words. Because we don't want to just

rush into the presence of God and say a bunch of words. In fact, the passage tells us that we

should not be hasty in our hearts to utter anything before God. And it's this whole idea of the temple

and coming before the temple of God. I mean, if you want to read about the temple and the

dedication in 1 Kings 8, you can read that at some point. But the whole idea was when Solomon

finished the temple with all the people and they built this temple, they put the ark of the

covenant into the holy of holies. And it talks about how the glory of God filled that place to where

everyone just kind of had to back away from the temple. Because the presence of God now dwelt

there. And it was just an awesome, awesome, amazing time. Now imagine if you yourself right now

were approaching that temple. Imagine how you would feel as you approached that temple of God,

knowing that in some way God truly dwelt there. Somehow he dwelt there in that holy of holies,

you know, behind that curtain. We don't understand it all. And obviously he wasn't limited to this

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