Bible Question: Preachers like to say "God does not dwell in an unclean temple" It sounds good but where is this found in the Bible? |
Bible Answer: Hi ALLYSON, I have heard this myself many times and it has usually been in evangelistic in nature. The one proclaiming it always wanted those hearing his message to clean up their act as a form of repentance before believing on Christ or to show that they had. They seem to assert that in order to believe in Christ, you shouldn't be doing the big ten, don't smoke, don't go to movies, don't dance etc. By not doing these things it meant that you were a new creature in Christ. A lot of people have been turned off because of the do's and don'ts. I always found that when a person came to true saving faith in Christ, and dug into God's Word, that the Holy Spirit changed their life style around. The Holy Spirit cleans up the temple as He wants and sets it aside by His word, for His use. John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. The people that tried to clean up their own lives usually end up worse then they were before, and they still aren't saved! 2 Peter 2:20-22 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. If they don't have a new nature all they are doing is cleaning up their own act and sooner or later, if they are not a new creation in Jesus, they will return to their old self. As I see it, God does the cleaning of the temple and it is usually a process that comes about with the intake of God's word. CDBJ |
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