Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own
The Bible tells us that our God does not dwell in houses made by human hand, for heaven is His throne and the earth is His footstool, and yet the most wonderful news is that God makes His home in the heart of all who come to Christ for salvation: the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting. All who are saved by grace through faith in Christ have a holy and noble calling, and as members of His Body we are living stones that are being built up into a spiritual house. We are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, in order that we may offer up spiritual scarifies to the Lord, which are holy and acceptable unto Him. For years, individual believers have been added daily to this magnificent spiritual building that God Himself is constructing, for every believer in Christ is just one more living stone which is being fitted together, with perfect precision, and is growing into a holy temple in the Lord. Christians are collectively being built-up by God into a holy temple, for Christ said I will build my Church. But in this verse, we discover that each believer is also being reminded that our individual body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, for at the point of salvation, He took up permanent residence within our heart. We were bought at an enormous cost; the precious blood of Jesus Christ on Calvary’s Cross was the payment for our sins…and from that point onwards, our body became a temple for God. We were created spirit, soul, and body. It was the Father who created our body. It was the Son Who redeemed our body, and it is the Holy Spirit Who indwells our body. We should recognize the tremendous privilege we have…that we are a temple for the living God. Let us flee from all sorts of sins that desecrate our bodies and live our lives as unto the Lord for we are a chosen, royal, and holy people for God’s own possession, that we may proclaim the excellence of Him Who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Spiritual Steve 