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Monday of the Third week in Lent
You are God’s Temple

1 Corinthians 3:10-23

¹⁰By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. ¹¹For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. ¹²If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, ¹³his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. ¹⁴If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. ¹⁵If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.

¹⁶Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? ¹⁷If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

¹⁸Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise. ¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness"; ²⁰and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile." ²¹So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, ²²whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, ²³and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.

The Lord Jesus has ascended into Heaven and dwells and reigns there in glory. If the Temple is where God dwells and reigns, then what about the earthly Temple? The temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD by the Romans, and there is no more temple there. Instead we have a new temple on earth – the church.

Paul wrote to the Corinthians describing the church in two key metaphors: “ You are God’s field, God’s building” (1 Cor 3:9). The passage that follows then develops the idea of a building. He enriches the metaphor further by declaring, “you are God’s temple” (v17). This can be more clearly translated from the original Greek as “you all, together, are God’s temple.” What Paul had in mind was that the church, as a community, was one temple. In 1 Corinthians 6:19, Paul refers to individual Christians when he wrote that each of our bodies is a temple of the Holy Spirit. But here in verse 17, the corporate church is the temple.

The implications are that as God’s temple, we are to be pure and holy, righteous and blameless. As we saw in yesterday’s meditation, God wants the temple to be cleared of all the worldly clutter and sinful rubbish. Both as individual Christians and as the corporate Body of Christ, we are to allow God’s presence to dwell in and among us, so that the world can see the glory of God in both our personal and communal lives.

There is no place for sin in and among us. If we tolerate it, we will become temples for idols, and not be the true temple of God. Are we, individually and corporately, the temple of the holy and living God? What would be the verdict – from heaven and on earth?

Commitment:
I surrender all the known sins within me that are incompatible with my identity as the temple of the Holy Spirit. I surrender my sins of commission and omission that prevent the church from being the temple of God.

Prayer:
Holy God, you have chosen my heart and your church to be your temple on earth. Help us to repent of our sins so that your splendour may be displayed in and among us. Amen.




All Lent Devotion materials are taken from 'Take Up Your Cross' - Daily Devotion for Lent 2009 by Bible Society of Singapore.

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