“For ye are bought
with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God's.” 1 Corinthians 6:20
It really sickens me to hear Christians speak about their
own bodies. Folk’s hear this loud and clear, if you are saved then you are not
your own, you belong to God. God the Father paid a price for you, He paid the
life and blood of His Son Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ received you as a gift,
but you cost the Father His own dear Son’s life. “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a
greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not
of this building…Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for
us.” Hebrews 9:11 – 12 Let us not forget that God the Father sent
Jesus to purchase you with His own blood. “For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16
You were not purchased to be your own but to be God’s servant and child. You
belong to God, He bought you and He owns you. Your body, soul, and spirit are
not yours and you cannot do with it as you please. Therefore, Paul reminds us
to dedicate ourselves to God, Jesus, and holiness. “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your
fathers…But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and
without spot…Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you,” 1 Peter 1:18 – 20 If you are saved then act like it, stop
acting as though you are still lost, God’s property do not act like the corruptible
world. Peter went on to write this truth, “Who
by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory;
that your faith and hope might be in God…Seeing ye have purified your souls in
obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see
that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently…Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and
abideth for ever.” 1 Peter 1:21 – 23 Your body ought to be a temple of
God, is God happy with your temple? Your spirit is your inner-person and that
is where God communicates with you, it is also known as you heart. Keep your inner
thinking pure and pureness will come from you both in words and actions. Jesus
said, “Let your light so shine before
men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in
heaven.” Matthew 5:16 How can the world see that you are God’s if you
are not living inside and outside of your body for the Lord? The Lord said, “Even so every good tree bringeth forth good
fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.” Matthew 7:17 What
does your fruit in life tell people, do they see a Christian or the world in
your works? People do notice if you are
a Christian, what are you showing them, what is your fruit, holy or
defiance? “Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the
courts of our God…They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be
fat and flourishing…To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there
is no unrighteousness in him.” Psalms 92:13 - 15
