"If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your motal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you"(Rom.8:11)
In the book of Zechariah, when Zechariah asked the angel about the secret of the golden lampstand, the Lord said, "Not by strength, not by power, but by my Spirit", the angel answered (Zechariah 4:6).
He also describes the olive trees on either side as the two anointed ones (Zechariah 4:14). For a christian who becomes a body temple and enters the heavenly sanctuary, it is essential for the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, to dwell in him.
Therefore, if the law of the Spirit of life in Christ does not work, even if the body claims that it is a temple, the function of the temple does not appear. Similary, look at Jeremiah, who cries out not to believe the lies that claim to be God's temple while the temple functions are stopped because the glory of God does not remain.(Jeremiah 7:4)
The christian body is a temple containing the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ.(Romans 8:9) Not all human beings have the image of God, but only if we have Christ will have the image of God.(2 Cor.4:4)
Therefore, becoming one body with Christ (1Cor.12:13) through the baptism of the Holy Spirit is the foundation of the body temple. Our bodies go through all kinds of hardships and sufferings in the process of returning to the dust, but our spirits enjoy the blessing of being alive through righteousness.(Rom.8:10) It is very clear that it also gives you physical strength.
Therefore, we must keep the grace that made us become one with Christ through baptism as the basis of our faith by hearing the fact that we who were in Adam were transferred into Christ through the death and resurrection of Christ on the cross.
You must always be set as one who is dead to sin and alive to God in Christ. (Rom.6:11) Only then will the Holy Spirit work inwardly, shining like a golden lampstand and allowing us to eat the Lord as the bread of life. It is the inner work of the Spirit and life of the Lord.
Therefore, we must be sober and watchful so that we can exercise the functions of the temple by always meditating on the message of the cross of Christ so that the Holy Spirit can work in us.
It is the Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead. The Holy Spirit raised Christ back to life. If we have the Spirit of God who raised Christ from the dead, then through the Spirit God will also raise our mortal bodies. The Spirit of God who raised Jesus Christ from the grave is in us.
If Christ died under the curse of the law and rose again, the power of life can overcome death, the curse of the law. Because Christ who overcomes is in us, we also overcome. The life is supplied to our spirit and becomes life to our mortal body. It is the power of life through the Spirit of Christ. Because our body is the temple where the Holy Spirit dwells, like David, we can regard the power of life as our own.(Psalm 27:1)
Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit from birth and always has the Spirit of God. The body of Christ becomes a resurrected body when he rises from the grave. Jesus' existence is different from when he was in the flesh for 33 years and when he became a resurrected body.
In Luke 24, two disciples on their way to Emmaus walked with the resurrected Lord, but they did not recognize him. Even Mary, who went to the tomb, thought that Jesus was the keeper of the garden.
He has already become a resurrected body who can freely move in and out of time and space. Because He is in us, our bodies have become temple. The Spirit who raised Christ who died on the cross is always within us.
Through the Spirit, he is now life to our mortal bodies, and he will glorify our bodies in the future. So, always use the key of faith to keep your body temple functioning.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
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