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This program is made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner
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Ministries.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and today I'm in the Resurrection of Christ Church in St.
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Petersburg, a church that
was officially opened
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and consecrated in 1907;
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but then the Communist regime came to power
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and the church was officially
closed in the 1930s.
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And after it was closed, it
was used for various things.
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For example: for a period
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of time this fabulous building
was used as a warehouse
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for potatoes.
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Then the communist regime
decided they would completely
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explode the building and demolish it.
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But that was stopped by the events of World War II,
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and during World War II, this was used
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as a morgue for the dead.
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Then after World War II, it
was turned into a warehouse.
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It was used as a place
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where they stored props from
a local theatrical company.
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This basically became a big warehouse and it fell into ruin.
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But finally, it was reopened in 1997
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as an official museum.
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And truly, it is unique
unlike any other church.
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The walls of this church are covered
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with more than 71,000 square feet
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of beautiful mosaics,
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which are created in a mosaic
workshop right here in St.
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Petersburg. And the mosaics tell the story
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of the life of Jesus.
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Jesus casting out a demon,
Jesus healing the woman
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with the is issue of blood.
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Jesus multiplying the loaves
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and the fishes: Jesus
walking on the water.
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There is even a depiction of Pentecost.
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It is simply remarkable
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and unthinkable that it
had been abandoned for
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so many years;
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but today, it has been splendidly restored.
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It is simply magnificent,
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and the walls are covered
with billions of pieces
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of glass fashioned into
these marvelous mosaics.
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And it today is a favorite site
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where tourists come when
they visit the city of St.
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Petersburg. But when I committed this place, it's a temple.
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It's really a temple.
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But hey, the Bible says in one Corinthians 3:
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16, that we as the church are the corporate temple
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of the Holy Spirit.
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1 Corinthians 6:19 says, we individually are the temples
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of the Holy Spirit, but as a body,
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1 Corinthians 3:16 says, corporately,
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together we make up the habitation of God in the earth.
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That's the church.
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The real church is not
a building like this.
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The real church are people: people
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who form a place where God dwells by his spirit.
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And corporately, we are the
temple of the Holy Spirit
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and God literally lives
in us and among us.
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That's why we need each
other as the church.
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And that is what I'm going
to talk to you about today.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind: where the word
is the anchor in uncertain
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times and doctrine
doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick
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Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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As I told you in the introduction today, I'm gonna talk
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to you about us being the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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Up until now in this brand new series,
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I've been talking about each one
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of us being a walking sanctuary.
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But today I'm gonna talk about the church
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because corporately we also are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit.
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And this teaching is profoundly important,
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and it's just one piece of a whole series,
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which is called - You are the Temple of the Holy Spirit.
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It's 10 parts and it
comes in multiple formats.
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You should order this series today.
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This is a series that will
really open your eyes to
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what you carry in you and
what you are a part of.
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My friend, God has created you.
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He's fashioned you to be the temple of
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the Holy Spirit.
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Only God could do something so magnificent
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and you need to understand it.
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That's why I want you to order
this series called, You are
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the Temple of the Holy Spirit.
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And it comes with a study guide.
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And the study guide is just marvelous.
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It's filled with all the
points, the principles,
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all the Greek words in this series.
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Everything in the programs
is in this study guide.
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And when you read it and hear it
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or see it together, it
really reinforces everything
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that you're learning.
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And you can order all
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of this at our website store renner.org.
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And when you go there,
please browse around
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because there are so many
resources which we provide
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for you there in our website store.
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And we're also offering
you right now my book,
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which is called, A Life Ablaze.
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You can keep your fire burning
your whole spiritual life.
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You do not have to lose
your fire along the way.
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You can start on fire, stay
on fire, and end up on fire.
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My friends, that's the will of God for your life, for you
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to be - A Life Ablaze.
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In this book I deal with the 10 essential fuels you have
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to be injecting into
your flame for your fire
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to keep burning.
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Don't lose your fire - stir it up,
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and this book will teach you how to do that.
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And I want to tell that if you need
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prayer, we're here for you.
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We really long to pray for you.
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We as a ministry are very committed to praying for people
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who contact us.
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And if you contact us with a
prayer need, you can be sure
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we will sincerely pray. Either
write us or give us a call.
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And as soon as we hear
from you, we will agree
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with Jeremiah 33:3 which says, Call unto me
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and I'll show you great and mighty things
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that thou knowest not. We will call out to God with you
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and believe for him to do
mighty things on your behalf.
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So give us a call or send us an email.
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And if you're not a partner,
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please pray about becoming
a partner with our ministry.
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A partner is someone
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who regularly financially
supports the ministry joining
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hands with us so we can take
this teaching of the Bible
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to people all over the earth.
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But today I want you to
reach for your Bible.
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We're going to return to our anchor verse.
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I have my Bible, I hope that you have yours.
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And our anchor verse
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for this series is 1 Corinthians 6:19,
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where Paul is writing to the Corinthians
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and he says, What? Know you not that your body is the temple
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of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have of God
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and you're not your own.
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The reason Paul wrote
this to the Corinthians is
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because they were doing
things they shouldn't
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have been doing.
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They were going to see
prostitutes, they were going
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to places of sin.
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And Paul said, what?
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In fact, when you read this in the Greek,
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it is an exclamation.
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What? What is this? How
is this humanly possible?
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What? know you not
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that your body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
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In Greek, the word know is the word, oida.
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It carries the idea of a comprehension.
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The word not is the emphatic
version of the word know.
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Paul is literally saying,
do you not know have,
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have you not gotten it yet?
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That your body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit?
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The word body in Greek is the word soma,
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and it refers to the physical human body.
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My body has become the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
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That means I need to treat
it like it is the temple
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of the Holy Spirit.
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Your body is the temple
of the Holy Spirit.
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And the word temple is
the Greek word naos.
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The word naos describes a
highly decorated shrine.
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Just imagine vaulted ceilings,
marbles, stones, gold,
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silver, rich, embellishments.
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All of that would be in this word naos,
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here translated as the word temple.
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And as I've told you,
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it is the same word used in the
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Old Testament Greek Septuagint
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to describe the innermost parts of the temple in Jerusalem
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or the Holy of Holies.
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And here Paul is saying - do you not understand who you are?
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How can you do the things you're doing
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if you really know who you are? You're the temple of God.
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The temple of God can't do the things
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that you're doing with your bodies.
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You shouldn't be going where you're going
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and doing what you're doing.
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Don't you understand who you are?
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You have become the naos, the
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You are the walking sanctuary of God.
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The holy of Holies is right here.
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God does not dwell in physical buildings.
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He lives inside us.
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And if our eyes were open to
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oh, we would be dumbfounded
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to see the lavish ornamentation of God
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inside us.
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In fact, what God has constructed in us is so magnificent
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that God said, that's my new holy of Holies.
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I'm going to live right there.
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And God moved in us by his spirit.
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And that's why Paul goes on
in verse 19 and says, What?
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Know you not that your body is
the temple of the Holy Ghost,
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which is in you.
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That word in, in Greek is the word en. It
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means literally in you.
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This is where this treasure
is located, which you have
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of God. Ye have - in Greek is a form of the word echo,
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which means to have to hold or to possess.
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We have within us, almost as if we are containers,
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this temple of the Holy Ghost.
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But Paul says, which you have of God. The word
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of is the Greek word apo, coming directly from God,
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which means what we have in us is not
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because of our personal rehabilitation: not
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because we've tried to reform ourself:
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what we have in us is a gift from God.
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Salvation comes from God.
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The temple of the Holy Ghost
being in us is something
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that's brought into us by God.
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All of this is of God.
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And Paul goes on to say -
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And you are not your own,
which means we have to live
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with a sense of responsibility.
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And this leads us to verse 20:
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For you're bought with a price
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therefore glorify God in your body
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and in your spirit, which are God's.
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But notice he says, you
are bought with a price.
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The word bought is a Greek word, agoradzo.
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This is very, very important.
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This is really where we get
the concept of redemption.
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The word agoradzo is also where we get the Greek word agora.
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The word agora, described the marketplace.
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But when you use the word agora, in context of redemption,
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it has to do with the slave market.
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Well, the slave market in the 1st century was a
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disgusting, deplorable place
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where human beings were put on the auction
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block and they were sold.
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Slaves were abused, they were traded back
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and forth between their masters
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and they were sold into slavery for the rest of their lives.
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This word agora and word agoradzo, here translated,
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bought, are really connected.
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And the Bible's teaching us
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that when Jesus came into the
world, he came into the world
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and entered into Satan's
slave market where all
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of the human race was
bound and sold in sin.
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That's precisely what
the Bible tells us in
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Romans 6.
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We were all the servants of
sin. We were sold into sin.
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Sin was our master.
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The devil traded us from one
form of bondage to another,
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to another, to another,
slapping us around, trading us
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around until Jesus came.
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And Jesus paid the ultimate
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to buy us out of
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that disgusting slavery to sin.
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The word price is the Greek word time'
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which describes something that is costly
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and extremely valuable,
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and the Greek would be better translated -
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you were bought at a great price.
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The price paid for you
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is the highest price
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Jesus gave his life, he gave his own blood
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to purchase you and to purchase me.
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So Paul says, therefore - in Greek it says -
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consequently, as a result, in
response to what he has done
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for you, therefore glorify God in your body
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and in your spirit, which are God's.
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The word glorify, the Greek word dokadzo,
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from the Greek word dokao,
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which really is the word, which means
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to think - which means - we need to really put our mind to
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how we're going to
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The word glorify really is from the word dokeo.
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to give real weight and consideration to.
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determine how you're going
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to glorify God.
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You've gotta put your mind into it.
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That's so very important.
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It's says therefore,
glorify God in your body
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and in your spirit, which are God's.
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Well, most people would say, well,
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I already glorify God in my spirit
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because that's where God lives.
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And that's true, he does.
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You are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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But this verse also says, you're
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to glorify God in your
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because it's no longer yours.
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It now belongs to Jesus.
Jesus purchased you.
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He purchased your spirit,
he purchased your body,
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he purchased your mind, he purchased you,
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and you are no longer your own.
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Say Amen. So this verse commands you as a result of all
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of this to really put your mind to it
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and determine how you're going
to glorify God in your body
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and in your spirit because they are God's.
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But hold on. When you jump back over
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to 1 Corinthians 3:16,
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Paul talks about the
corporate party of Christ.
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Listen to what he says; Know
ye not that ye are the temple
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of God and that the spirit
of God dwelleth in you.
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But in this case, he's no longer speaking to the individual,
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but he's speaking to the church at large.
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Just like each of us are a walking sanctuary,
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we corporately as the church make a magnificent sanctuary
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for the spirit of God.
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And that's what Paul now says in 1 Corinthians
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3:16, Know ye not.
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And guess what? In Greek
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it is the same identical phrase which
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we find in 1 Corinthians 6:19.
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It is the word oida.
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The word oida, carries the idea of a comprehension.
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It is the emphatic form of the word know.
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When you put it all
together, don't you get it?
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Have you not yet comprehended?
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Do you not understand that you corporately
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as a church are the temple of God?
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And the word temple, again is the Greek word
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naos. Just like you individually are a walking sanctuary,
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we as a body form a huge,
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magnificent dwelling place for God.
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That is precisely what this verse teaches.
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of God dwelleth in you.
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Wow, that word dwelleth, the Greek word oikeo,
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describes one that dwells in a house, one
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that has taken up residency, one
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that has settled into a home, one
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that actually feels at
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It depicts one that is
a permanent end dweller.
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God has permanently moved into the church
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and we as the church corporately, we form a magnificent,
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massive dwelling place for God himself.
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God has moved in, he
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he has settled into the church.
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He is at home in the church.
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God is a permanent resident in the church.
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And in response to this, Paul says in verse 17;
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If any man defile the temple of God,
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him shall God destroy for
the temple of God is holy,
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which temple you are.
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This is quite a warning.
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First of all, he says,
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if any man in Greek, it is the word, tis.
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It throws open the door: anyone at all, male or female.
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It is gender neutral.
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If anyone defiles the temple
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of God - is talking about the corporate church.
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What does the word, defile, mean?
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Well, the word defile means
to corrupt, to deteriorate:
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figuratively - to cause
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a moral deterioration: is a decomposition
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or a breakdown causing something to move from a higher level
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to a lower level.
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So in this verse, if any man,
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if anyone at all is a contributor to defiling the church,
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deteriorating the church,
wasting the church,
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causing the church to break down,
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to move from a higher
level to a lower level,
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if any man does this to the temple of God -
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it's talking about the church corporately - him shall
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God destroy.
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And guess what - the word destroy,
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and the word defile, in Greek are identically the
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same Greek word.
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So when the Bible says - him
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shall God destroy - it literally means him will God corrupt.
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God will deteriorate him.
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God will cause him to
decompose, to break down.
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God will do to him what
he has done to the church,
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which means emphatically the
way we touch the church will
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determine how we are going to be touched.
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Now, there's a great
example of this in scripture
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and it is in 1 Samuel and
I wanna share it with you.
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In 1 Samuel, we find that Eli was the judge of Israel
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and he had two sons named Hophni
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and Phinehas. Hophni and Phinehas
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really did not know the Lord,
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but they were in ministry
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and they were doing wrong to the people of God.
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They were taking more money than they were supposed to earn,
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and they were having sex with women at the altar,
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at the house of God.
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And the Bible tells us people were so hurt by
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what was taking place at church or at this place of worship.
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Listen to what it says in 1 Samuel 2:17.
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Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great
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before the Lord for men abhor the offering of the Lord.
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Or if people stopped coming to church
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because they were tired of being abused.
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These young men were
wasting the house of God.
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They were corrupting the house of God.
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They were negatively
affecting the people of God.
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And guess what? When you really read the story of Hophni
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and Phinehas, God tolerated them for a long time.
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Even though they were in sin
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and they were doing wrong,
judgment did not quickly come.
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God is never in a rush to judge.
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But when their behavior became so fouled
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that people stopped coming to
church, that's when God said,
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all right, they've crossed
the line, no further
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and judgment came.
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The way they touched God's
house is the way they
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ultimately were touched.
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This is such a strong warning
that we understand the temple
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of God is holy.
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And that's what now Paul says
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in 1 Corinthians 3:17,
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If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God -
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the Greek says, defile,
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it is identically the same Greek word.
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If you do wrong to the house
of God, it will be done
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to you exactly in the same way - for the temple
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of God is holy.
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The word holy, here is the Greek word, hagios.
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It describes something that is holy, something
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that is consecrated, something that is different, something
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that is separate, something that is special.
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The house of God is so special, it must be treated
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as something that is holy, consecrated, separate, special -
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that is who the house of God is: for
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the House of God is holy.
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And then he adds - which temple you are.
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He's no longer speaking to them individually
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he's speaking to them corporately.
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You as the church form the house
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of God in your city.
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Treat it right because God is there
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and my friend, we need
to really understand
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who we are. Individually,
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we are the temple of the Holy Spirit,
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we are walking sanctuaries. Corporately,
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we form a habitation for God in our city:
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our church is a place that God has settled into,
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he's taken up residency,
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and we need to treat the church holy
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because that's what it is.
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And just remember: how you touch the church will determine
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how you'll be touched.
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So make sure you touch
the church correctly.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
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Do you really know
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what the Bible means when
it says - You are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit? My friend,
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you really are the dwelling
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and today I'm seated in the
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And this is the room where
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to discuss various
aspects of the ministry.
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And every week I join
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as we discuss the word
of God, pray for you.
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We hear testimonies from viewers that have written into us,
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And that's our job to feed many people the
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wonderful word of God.
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And if you're not a part yet
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of the Ministry Expansion Project Giving Team,
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I'm asking you to please join us.
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We wanna knock out this remaining 30% so
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that we can redirect all those
funds to take the teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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Thank you for joining
me for today's program.
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We've been looking at what it means
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to be the corporate church.
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We as the church are the temple of God
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and the apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians
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3:16, that God has settled into the church
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and made himself at home in the church.
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God lives in the church
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and we need to know how
to respect the church
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because God is here.
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We are literally the temple of God.
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And this is just one little
piece of a big series
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that I'm teaching, which is called, You Are the
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Temple of the Holy Spirit.
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Do you really understand that the Spirit
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of God dwells in you? My friend,
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You are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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You need to understand this.
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You need to have a revelation of it,
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and you need to hear this teaching again
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and again and again.
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So please order this 10 part series today.
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It comes in multiple formats
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and it comes with us study guide.
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The study guide is filled
with all the points,
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the principles, everything
in these programs is also
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in the study guide.
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And we're offering you my book,
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which is called, A Life Ablaze:
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10 Simple keys to Living on Fire for God,
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not starting on fire, living
on fire for God. My friend,
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you can live on fire for
God and be A Life Ablaze,
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and this book will help
you know how to do that.
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But let me pray for you.
Father, I thank you so much
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that we individually are the
temple of the Holy Spirit
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and corporately we form the habitation of God in the church.
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Help us to respect the
church, to love the church,
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and to touch it with loving care.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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It's been so good to be with you today.
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Tomorrow we're gonna be coming back.
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I'm gonna talk to you
more about what it means
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to be the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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But until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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"Where the word of a king is there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now: Lord, I repent
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of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ
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through every available media avenue
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Discover the many ways you can
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We invite you to partner with
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Together we can make a difference
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