1 Corinthians 6:18-19, Your Body Is the Temple of the Holy Ghost

1 Corinthians 6:18-19 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?

The Holy Spirit indwells the believer. When the believer indulge in sexual sins, he defiles his body. It grieves the Spirit of God. For the body is the temple, the abode of the Holy Spirit.

The late Adrian Rogers made this insightful observation, “Do you know what a carnal person is? A carnal person is a selfish person. He is living as though he belonged to himself; and so, what he wants to do, what he wants to think, what he wants to feel, what he wants to say, what he wants to buy, where he wants to go, how he wants to act — he does. He acts as though he owns himself, when he does not. The cure for carnality is to be aware of the Savior’s purchase of you, to see the price that was paid for you.”

May God be gracious to help His people to possess their bodies in holiness. Amen.