Writing to Christians in Corinth, the Apostle Paul wrote these words:
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" (1st Corinthians 3: 16)
And again:
"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." (1st Corinthians 6: 19-20)
"Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?" (Acts 7: 48-49)
Human beings are a special creation of God.
We are God's masterpiece, the crowning jewel of His creation. By this, we should be able to know and to understand that, before we were no more than microscopic cells in our mothers wombs, we were on God's mind: that He was thinking about us before He created the earth.
And in our creation, God created in us a brain that is the most complex system in the universe.
Located within the human brain is a space allocated and designed by God to be the dwelling place for the Holy Spirit of God through Christ our Lord. Why else do we call a portion of our brain the temple and another portion the crown?
Whom, then, do we crown in the temple of our minds?
Whom, then, do we crown to be the lord and master of our lives?
Or, should the question be, what do we crown? Do we crown philosophies, or religions? Or do we crown certain men of a priestly order to be the god or gods in our minds to reign in our temples?
What about people as idols from movies, or idols from music?
Or could the god of my mind be me?
This world in which we live is in competition with God to control our minds, to occupy the seat that is designated for the Holy Spirit of God, and to be preeminent in our thinking, in our attention, and in our daily worship.
If Christ, however, is not preeminent in the mind of a believer, why not? To whom, then, do you submit your mind, and to whom do you also surrender your will?
If you submit your mind to others, or to institutions, they will control you and your life because they are now in control of your mind, which means that you are a slave, to be molded and shaped in the way they want you to be, and to believe in the way they want you to believe. By submitting your mind to them, they now own you, and you will live your life according to their laws, rules, and regulations instead of serving Almighty God, Creator of the universe.
By and through our acceptance of Jesus Christ for our salvation, we receive the Holy Spirit of God to dwell within us, in the temples of our minds, or in a house not made with hands. Jesus explains this process very clearly in the third chapter of the Gospel of John as He describes the born again experience of believers, or the new birth, at which time we receive the Holy Spirit of God, to dwell in our temples, which enables us to walk in newness of life as well as to see with new eyes. But without this great awakening, the Holy Spirit does not enter therein.
If, however, we reject Christ, we also reject the Holy Spirit.
If we reject the Holy Bible as the Word of the Lord, we will also reject Christ as well as reject the Holy Spirit.
But if people reject Christ, often enough and long enough, an unholy spirit will occupy the seat in their minds (or in their temples), and this evil spirit will become the chief influence of their thinking, their decisions, and also their worship, and they will become children of the devil.
Your mind is a precious creation of God. Guard your mind. Protect it from knowing evil. For the devil will get in and destroy us unless we bring our minds under the authority of God, by submitting ourselves to His leadership.
But also protect the minds of your children from knowing evil as much as possible. Lead them to understand God, to understand Christ, so that they will not become children of the devil.
In coming to know Christ, we can believe that we are children of the Most High God, and we are precious in His sight.
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:" (1 Peter 2: 9)
"Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children: and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savor." (Ephesians 5: 1)
Therefore, knowing that these things are true, we can believe that God created us as individuals, and not as a collective group, so that we have individual characteristics and individual personalities, and for us to live our lives as individuals and not as images of mass production at the end of assembly lines from the world's vast supply of systems and mind control.
We should know, above everything we see with our eyes and hear with our ears, that true worship of God through Christ begins in the temples of our minds, where we crown Him, in the temples of our minds, King of kings and Lord of lords!
It must be said, however, that Christ is the light of the world, and, therefore, a mind without Christ is a mind of darkness, and the mind will eventually become a habitation of devils, at which time people become seekers of evil instead of seekers of good. But because of our acceptance of Christ for salvation, our minds become a brighter place, for we have allowed the light of Christ to shine in and darkness will flee. For this reason, it is important that we continually pray as well as continually feed our minds the Word of the Lord, which is the Holy Bible.
"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (Ephesians 6: 10-12)
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" (1st Corinthians 3: 16)
And again:
"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." (1st Corinthians 6: 19-20)
"Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?" (Acts 7: 48-49)
Human beings are a special creation of God.
We are God's masterpiece, the crowning jewel of His creation. By this, we should be able to know and to understand that, before we were no more than microscopic cells in our mothers wombs, we were on God's mind: that He was thinking about us before He created the earth.
And in our creation, God created in us a brain that is the most complex system in the universe.
Located within the human brain is a space allocated and designed by God to be the dwelling place for the Holy Spirit of God through Christ our Lord. Why else do we call a portion of our brain the temple and another portion the crown?
Whom, then, do we crown in the temple of our minds?
Whom, then, do we crown to be the lord and master of our lives?
Or, should the question be, what do we crown? Do we crown philosophies, or religions? Or do we crown certain men of a priestly order to be the god or gods in our minds to reign in our temples?
What about people as idols from movies, or idols from music?
Or could the god of my mind be me?
This world in which we live is in competition with God to control our minds, to occupy the seat that is designated for the Holy Spirit of God, and to be preeminent in our thinking, in our attention, and in our daily worship.
If Christ, however, is not preeminent in the mind of a believer, why not? To whom, then, do you submit your mind, and to whom do you also surrender your will?
If you submit your mind to others, or to institutions, they will control you and your life because they are now in control of your mind, which means that you are a slave, to be molded and shaped in the way they want you to be, and to believe in the way they want you to believe. By submitting your mind to them, they now own you, and you will live your life according to their laws, rules, and regulations instead of serving Almighty God, Creator of the universe.
By and through our acceptance of Jesus Christ for our salvation, we receive the Holy Spirit of God to dwell within us, in the temples of our minds, or in a house not made with hands. Jesus explains this process very clearly in the third chapter of the Gospel of John as He describes the born again experience of believers, or the new birth, at which time we receive the Holy Spirit of God, to dwell in our temples, which enables us to walk in newness of life as well as to see with new eyes. But without this great awakening, the Holy Spirit does not enter therein.
If, however, we reject Christ, we also reject the Holy Spirit.
If we reject the Holy Bible as the Word of the Lord, we will also reject Christ as well as reject the Holy Spirit.
But if people reject Christ, often enough and long enough, an unholy spirit will occupy the seat in their minds (or in their temples), and this evil spirit will become the chief influence of their thinking, their decisions, and also their worship, and they will become children of the devil.
Your mind is a precious creation of God. Guard your mind. Protect it from knowing evil. For the devil will get in and destroy us unless we bring our minds under the authority of God, by submitting ourselves to His leadership.
But also protect the minds of your children from knowing evil as much as possible. Lead them to understand God, to understand Christ, so that they will not become children of the devil.
In coming to know Christ, we can believe that we are children of the Most High God, and we are precious in His sight.
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:" (1 Peter 2: 9)
"Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children: and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savor." (Ephesians 5: 1)
Therefore, knowing that these things are true, we can believe that God created us as individuals, and not as a collective group, so that we have individual characteristics and individual personalities, and for us to live our lives as individuals and not as images of mass production at the end of assembly lines from the world's vast supply of systems and mind control.
We should know, above everything we see with our eyes and hear with our ears, that true worship of God through Christ begins in the temples of our minds, where we crown Him, in the temples of our minds, King of kings and Lord of lords!
It must be said, however, that Christ is the light of the world, and, therefore, a mind without Christ is a mind of darkness, and the mind will eventually become a habitation of devils, at which time people become seekers of evil instead of seekers of good. But because of our acceptance of Christ for salvation, our minds become a brighter place, for we have allowed the light of Christ to shine in and darkness will flee. For this reason, it is important that we continually pray as well as continually feed our minds the Word of the Lord, which is the Holy Bible.
"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (Ephesians 6: 10-12)
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