You’re the Temple
Author: Pat AH Aman
Updated with more scriptures 2/2/2022.
When I first did this devotion back in 2001, God said to me, do my people really understand that their bodies are the temple of God.
I grabbed my Bible and re-read the scriptures that I had read many times before. I have even preached several messages on this subject. But do we really understand its meaning.
Exodus 29:43-46 says, ” And there I will meet with the children of Israel and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar. I will sanctify also both Aaron and his son to minister to me in the priest’s office. And I shall dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them, I am the Lord their God.”
What is God talking about?
He is talking about the Ark of the Covenant, The Holy of Holies, the Tabernacle. The place He shall live with His people.
When the children of Israel committed sins, they went to the priest for atonement. The priest would make sacrifices to God for them, for their sins to be forgiven. The Holy of Holies was the very place that God’s presence lived. The Glory of God. The only persons who could go into the presence of God, were the priest. The priest wore a robe with pomegranates and bells around the hem of the garment. When the priest went into the Holy of Holies the presence of God, they would tie a rope around his waist. If the priest had no sin in his heart, and he was pure the people would hear the bells ring as he walk around talking in the Ark of the Covenant talking with God. But if the priest was not pure and holy and had sin, when he walk into the presence of God, he would fall dead. When the people would not hear the bells, they knew he was dead, and would use the rope to pull him out.
As the scriptures tell us the people were not allow in the presence of God, only the priest.
But, Oh yes, Praise God!!
When Jesus died the curtain around the Tabernacle was torn into by God, which now means that we can personally talk to God, without going through a Priest are anyone else.
Think about this, please. What would be taking place if Jesus had not come to earth for the atonement for our sins?
Answer – there would be a lot of us laying dead on the floor, plain and simple.
Why?
1 John 1: 5,7 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Darkness cannot exist in the presence of light, and sin cannot exist in the presence of God. If we want to have a relationship with God, we must put aside our sinful ways of living. If we claim to walk with Jesus, but then set out on our own paths, we are hypocrites. Christ will expose and judge such deceit.
When Jesus shed His blood for you and me, for the remissions of our sins, He gave us the ability to talk to God, in the Name of Jesus. And He also left the Holy Spirit to live within us, to direct us and help us.
Now that I have said that. Do you now realized that if you know Jesus as your personal savior, that God now lives in you.
Stop and think, now God only let the priest go before him, because his presence was pure and holy. But now through Jesus, God can live in you. You can go directly into His presence.
Are you holy enough for God to live in you?
Yes we are through Jesus.
When you walk around your home, work, city, county are where ever you are, do people see Jesus in you?
Do they hear the bells of praise from you, or are you dead to sin?
Maybe you need to grab that rope to Jesus and say pull me out.
Maybe you need to say, I know that I am not living as I should.
Maybe I am not giving God all of me.
Maybe you need to lift your hands to God and say forgive me of my sins and make me a vessel for you. Make me where others will see You in me.
Remember Jesus already lifted His hands for us on Calvary.
Is Your Light Shining and Your Bells ringing loud today?
“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,”
II Timothy 2:15, 19, 23-25
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.”
Romans 1:16
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