You Are God's Temple

Leviticus can be a difficult book to read. It is often difficult to see how these laws may be important or how they apply to our lives today. After all, what do moldy walls have to do with our personal relationship with God?

First, it shows us very practically that God really does desire a personal relationship with us. He is invested in every aspect of our lives, even to the level of how we clean our houses. God instructs us because He is good and because He cares.

Second, we can view this in conjunction with 1 Corinthians 6:19, which states that our bodies are temples because Holy Spirit dwells in us, and understand that God desires us to keep our bodies clean and free from things that defile us. Thomas Watson writes, "You who are the temples of God, let me beseech you to take heed of defiling God's temple... Do not defile the temple of God by error. Errors and heresies are as the leprosy which defiles the house (Lev. 14:39)."

Church is still considered by many to be a sacred space. But the Church is not a building-it is the body of Christ, the people. Just as mold can seep into buildings, so can misrepresentations of Christ and false teaching seep into the Church. Therefore, keep your body, God's temple, clean and in order by leaning on the Word of God.

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