God Does Not Dwell in a Temple Made With Hands In the Old Testament, when God commanded the Tabernacle to be built, it was a place for God to dwell with the people. The people did not meet inside the Tabernacle. Only the priests entered the Tabernacle. The people met together and worshiped God outside under the open sky. They never entered the Tabernacle or later the Temple. Today, God does not dwell in a building, He dwells in our hearts. We do not have to meet at a special building or enter a special building to worship God. A church building is not needed for us to meet or worship God, nor is it needed for the center of the life of the church. Acts 17:24-25 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelled not in temples made with hands; 25 Neither is worshiped with mens hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things; God does not dwell in a temple made with hands 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelled in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 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? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods. 2 Corinthians 6:16-17 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:32:49 +0000
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