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A Temple for the Spirit, February 3
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye
are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Corinthians 6:19, 20
.
A power above and outside of man is to work upon him, that solid timbers
may be brought into his character building. In the inner sanctuary of the soul
the presence of God is to abide. “And what agreement hath the temple of
God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I
will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall
be my people” (
2 Corinthians 6:16
). “Know ye not that ye are the temple of
God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple
of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple
ye are” (
1 Corinthians 3:16, 17
)....
“For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now
therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with
the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of
the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in
the Lord; ... in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God
through the Spirit” (
Ephesians 2:18-22
).
Man does not build himself into a habitation for the Spirit, but unless
there is a cooperation of man’s will with God’s will, the Lord can do nothing
for him. The Lord is the great Master Worker, and yet the human agent
must cooperate with the Divine Worker, or the heavenly building cannot be
completed. All the power is of God, and all the glory is to redound to God,
and yet all the responsibility rests with the human agent; for God can do
nothing without the cooperation of man.—
The Review and Herald, October
25, 1892
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