Show OUR BODIES AE GODS TEMPLES be 0 ye filled with the spirit the unregenerate their privileges privilege if the spirit of god dwell in you greater privileges legee greater cespon abilities ties greater honors and glories saved to human perfection saved to spirit perfection earthly glory heavenly glory providence it I 1 jan U russell pren ebed here today ill ills text wa ans li if ui man dech 1 li temple ft him i i stroy fur for 1 j L pie of toil hinl i 1 1 11 i which I 1 r are r e 1 I 1 ans VASTO bell the pastor de lc dared ti scripture could not be applied indiscriminately criminate ly zi nil all men only tin the church aro are the temple of god in fix the sense the apostle here mentions for only such as have been regenerated or begotten of the noly spirit are sons of god these have received a new life and are described as new creatures in christ these have entered into a covenant with god through the merit of jesus who imputes ills his righteousness to them ju justifying them freely from their un intentional imperfections and weaknesses then the pastor pointed out the distinction between these spirit begotten new creatures and the remainder of mankind however just and wellin well in tensioned ed he showed that ordinarily we do not speak of humanity apart from their bodies tor for cut off from the body they would be dead we speak of such separation as dissolution As the union of life vitality with or body forms the soul or sentient being so their separation causes the soul to cease death would be the end of humanity had not god in provided ovid for the redemption of the race afia its restitution by resurrection restitution will be merely a bringing back bach of that which death Is now destroying human or earthly being next the speaker showed that any thing done either deliberately or car care lessly to injure gods workmanship would be sin there Is a divine law to the effect that whoever sins shall suffer whoever defiles his body c cither by impure thoughts angry thoughts malic malicious tous thoughts or by misusing it contrary to divine arrangement or by drinking or by gluttony is defiling the temple of his own soul the work of god every vile thought or act every pandering to appetite Is sure to bring depravity of body or mind or both and depravity he claimed Is dea death th at work unless such depravity bo be overcome through chrt the end will be everlasting death as Is written the soul that sin sl aneth neth it shall die the same principle said the pastor applies to all who do evil to others either by poisoning their minds or their morals or by injuring their physical systems such do violence to gods work and degrade their own manhood the operation of divine law will surely bring punishments which unheeded will ultimately bring death ever last ing destruction we may warn every man along the broad biblical line Mat whatsoever a man howeth that shall he also reap continued the speaker alcer whoever to the flesh to sin selfishness meanness to the fallen propensities anger malice envy hatred haired strife evil speaking im 9 etc will be sure to reap corre spon bitter experiences thin way persisted in will finally brink bring him to the second death gods temple the church the pastor then briefly reviewed israels wilderness experiences when god entered into covenant relationship with the israelites he manifested himself by the glory which shone out from between the cherubim covering the mercy seat scat in the taber naele the israelites drew ijnar to god goa through his appointed servants aaron and his sons who had bad access to gods presence the tabernacle was therefore the temple of god but it was merely a tent after the dedication of solomons temple god appeared there in bead and manifested nia ills presence in the same manner then tho the pastor explained fully that the church l 1 li i gods god antitypical antl typical temple but that as st peter points out it Is not yet constructed as a temple each consecrated child of god begotten of the noly spirit Is a stone in preparation tor for a place in that glori ous temple soon to be constructed these living stones are gods work mans manship bip lie he works in them by the spirit of truth and by his provi dences he shapes them polishes them develops their characters mid and makes them ready for the coming building the pastor believes st pauls thought in the text to be that wherever god may dwell Is necessarily holy ills his temple or ills his tabernacle and that any wilful or intentional sin depraving that temple or tabernacle would be afta an offense against god if christiana who have received the begetting of the holy spirit could but comprehend tills this lesson jt would have a powerful LIE fluence upon their lives |