A Holy Life

1 Chronicles 25-27; 1 Thessalonians 4 

“For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.”

1 Thessalonians 4:7, 8

With our bodies now the temple of the Holy Spirit, we have been set apart for holiness and the worship of God. The blood of Christ, our sin sacrifice, cleanses us from sin as we repent and receive God’s gift of forgiveness and grace. However, to continue living with sinful habits grieves the Holy Spirit who indwells us. It’s not just that our sinful habits are wrong before a holy God; they defile our body and personally grieve the Holy Spirit. Repenting for the ways we grieve the Holy Spirit sensitizes us to the presence of the Spirit in our lives. The Roman cities in Paul’s day were full of temples to pagan deities, some of whom were worshiped through sexual acts with temple prostitutes. Paul was reminding a first-generation Church that God’s temple is holy and honored through life-long sanctification.

In our over-sexualized culture today, will we offer our bodies for holiness to the Lord?

“Lord Jesus, I offer my body to you, for your glory.”