Title: The Sanctified Life
2009.1.10 Sunday Morning Worship Sermon
Bible: 1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Title: Sanctified Life
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ‘16. Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17. If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, and so are you.” Amen.
To go to a nightclub, you have to dance well and sing well, right? Can't we talk in the reading room? To change your attitude in each place like this is to be polite to the atmosphere. Then, in the temple, we want to know how to behave properly, so we would like to share the grace under the title of <The Sanctified Life>.
1. 3 types of temples
1) Visible temple
The temple was built three times in Jerusalem as a building to worship God.
(1) Solomon's Temple (The First Temple)
Solomon completed it after 7 years on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem in 959 BC (1 Kings 6:37,38). It was completely destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in 587 BC (2 Kings 25:13-17).
(2) Zerubbabel Temple (2nd Temple)
When Cyrus king of Persia conquered Babylon in 538 B.C.E., he gave the Jews permission to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, and Zerubbabel completed it in 515 B.C.E. It was sacked by Antiochus Epiphanes IV of Syria in 169 BC, but was also revived by Judas Macabaius (I Maca. 4:36ff.). It was then trampled down by the Roman general Pompey (Pompeius Magnus, 106-48 BC).
(3) Herod's Temple (3rd Temple)
Construction began in 28 BC by Herod the Great and was completed around 68 AD after his death. John 2:20 '...it took forty-six years to build this temple..' This temple was also burned down by the Roman general Titus around 70 C.E. according to the prophecy of the Lord (Titus, Roman Emperor, 79-81) reign).
(4) The ideal temple that Ezekiel saw did not come true (Ezekiel 40-48)
There was a visible temple in the Old Testament era, and in the New Testament era...
2) They called the saints the temple.
In the Old Testament times, the temple was visible, but after the Lord Jesus came, the saints are called the church or the temple. A chapel is not a church or a temple.
Text, 1 Corinthians 3:16 ‘You are the temple of God…’
2 Corinthians 6:16 ‘…we are the temple of the living God…’
Ephesians 2:21 “… becoming a temple in the Lord”
3) The Father and the Son become the temple
When you go to the kingdom of God, the Father and the Son become the temple, not the visible temple. Revelation 21:22 “In the city I did not see a temple, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.”
Then, today, let's live like the temple,
2. How do sanctified saints live?
Through a life of repentance, we can lead the life of an upright saint.
1) Even saints who have been regenerated must admit that they are sinners.
The new self is regenerated by the Holy Spirit (John 3:3-8), but since our personality is not yet perfect, we cannot deny that we are human beings who are prone to mistakes and sins that we always have to repent, but he is deceiving.
1 John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
John 13:8-10 ‘8. Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet." Jesus answered, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with me." 9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, wash my hands and head as well as my feet." He who has already bathed needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. You are clean, but not all.”
2) You need to reflect, regret, hurt, and tell the Lord
What is a sin? Do you need to know that sin is a sin so that you can reflect on it or feel pain? Biblically, sin is all about breaking God's law or lacking in God's law. For those who believe, the Word of God becomes law and separates sins. Romans 3:20 “...by the law is the knowledge of sin”
For those who do not have God, Romans 2:5 says that their conscience is the evidence. Whether you believe in Jesus or not, you have a conscience, so you can usually know the sinful things of unhuman things. As they suffer from this and have no desire to reflect, their consciences become clouded, and according to the Bible, 1 Timothy 4:2 says that those who have become hypocrites because of their conscience scorched with fire go to destruction like irrational beasts (2 Peter 2:12 (Jude 1:10)). is speaking to
Judas, too, was heartbroken and regretted after selling the Lord, and he committed suicide because he could not overcome the pain (Matthew 27:4-5). The problem is that he regretted knowing his sin and was in pain, but he probably did not believe that he would receive forgiveness if he went to the Lord and repented.
Peter also committed a sin no less than that of Judas, but he was different from Judas in that he remembered the Lord's words, repented and wept (Matthew 26:75).
3) There must be fruit in words and deeds for complete repentance and blessing.
If you say you have repented and immediately stand up and your sinful thoughts and plans are evil, you have not repented. The Bible says in Luke 3:8, “Therefore, bring forth fruit worthy of repentance, and do not say within yourself that Abraham is our father...”
If you have truly repented and your sins have been forgiven, you now curse and forsake that sin and face it with your eyes wide open, being careful about even speaking the sinful words, and resolutely opposing them so as not to imitate them.
Although Zacchaeus was not contrite with tears, he was proclaimed salvation. Because he remembered all the sins he had committed while living as a customs officer, he confessed to the Lord that he would repay him fourfold and give half of his possessions to the poor. It wasn't forced.
Genuine repentance does not mean only with words or with tears. There must be only the fruit. It's not like the mystics who get caught up in simple emotions and fall into ecstasy. It is to confess to the Lord in a very personal way and to receive change and have a new life.
What we need to remember in these last days
In today's text, 1 Corinthians 3:17 says, "If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him."
God also destroys Israel and its holy temple, and the Christian believers who have been saved as Gentiles know that they do not have the wrath of God no matter what vested interests they have committed, but this is not the case.
Romans 11:21 “If God did not spare the original branches, neither will He spare you.”
2 Corinthians 7:1 “Therefore, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God”
Jesus was angry when he drove the merchants out of the temple with rods. Matthew 21:12,13 "When Jesus entered the temple, he drove out all who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who sold doves, and said to them, It is written, My house is a place of prayer. It shall be called a house, but you make it a den of robbers.”
After the Japanese colonial rule and liberation, when politics were very chaotic in the past, numerous divine factions and religious leaders were formed. But recently, mystics have emerged again. This is because the church society is disorderly and the members are lost. I can't tell what God's will is. This is the extent to which believers usually perceive material blessings or large chapels as being blessed.
In times like these, we must properly have the consciousness of being God's temple and, above all, be faithful to our repentance life, fill the Holy Spirit with the Holy Spirit, and show the image of the holy temple by repenting every time we repent so that all our actions in our lives appear in the image of God. Congratulations to you and me