The Body of Jesus - the Temple of God (Part One)

"Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

“Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

“But he spake of the temple of his body.

“When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said." - John 2:19-22 KJV

Jesus’ body is the temple of God’s Spirit. All the fullness of God is in His body.

"For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." - Colossians 2:9 KJV

When we worship Jesus, we are not worshipping a man – flesh – but rather the Spirit of God that dwells within the man.

In other words, we are not worshiping the temple, but rather the Spirit of God that dwells within the temple.

Jesus said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” “This temple” which Jesus spoke of is His body.

Jesus’ body was “destroyed” when He suffered the half-way death of the Roman flogging, followed by suffering final death by the excruciating Roman crucifixion.

His body was placed in a tomb, and on the third day the Spirit of God raised His body from the dead.

Over the next forty days Jesus showed Himself alive to many witnesses, then ascended up to heaven.

On the Day of Pentecost, ten days after Jesus’ ascension, His Spirit returned as promised to fill the hundred and twenty disciples praying in the upper room in Jerusalem.

On that day, the disciples of Jesus became the temple of God.

(To be continued)