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Every child of God understands that his or her body is the temple of God. We must therefore focus on pleasing and glorifying God in our bodies.
Glorify God in your body, flee fornication:
One of the effective ways to glorify God in your body is to flee fornication (adultery, exchanging sex for favours – both cash and kind, uncleanness, promiscuity, bestiality, gayism, lesbianism, transgender, bisexuality, gang sex, incest, voyerism, slutism etc).
[1 Corinthians 6:15-20 KJV] “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 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”.
Definition of a harlot – A female capable of frequently having casual sexual relations with different partners and is completely non discriminative in the choice of sexual partners, hence being appreciated by everyone she knows.
Definition of slut – a woman who has many casual sexual partners., a woman with low standards of cleanliness.
Let not sin reign in your body:
When you allow sin to reign in your body, you begin to obey it in the lust. Many of us though very anointed are walking in the lust of the flesh. We literally obey the lust thereof; hmm, mercy Lord!
[Romans 6:11-14 KJV]“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace”.
Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice unto God – Holy and acceptable:
You can do this if you do not conform to the patterns of this world.
[Romans 12:1-2 KJV] “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God”.
Possess your vessel in sanctification and honour:
Flee fornication. Anybody who engages in fornication dishonours his or her body.
[1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 KJV] “Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit”.
Your body is not a sex tool or toy; sex is not for fun but a spiritual tool:
You must tell yourself that “my body is not a sex tool; sex is not for fun, its spiritual.”
[1 Corinthians 6:9-13 KJV] “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body”.
My body is the vessel or tabernacle that permits me to continue on Earth:
We must take very good care of this body since we would need it to continue in this space. When the body falls sick, our stay on Earth would greatly be affected.
Stay blessed; I love you!
Noah Simpe Bediako
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