"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." - John 2:19-21
While Jesus was born the temple of God, we must be born
again of water and of the Spirit in order to become the temple of God. (John
3:5).
We are born of water by water baptism in the name of Jesus
for the remission (forgiveness) of sins. We are born of the Spirit by being
baptized (filled) with the Holy Ghost, which is the Spirit of Jesus.
"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye
shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." - Acts 2:38
As the temple of God, we have the name of Jesus called upon
us, and the Spirit of Jesus in us.
"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? For
ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's." - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that
the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 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 3:16-17
"Now therefore
ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints,
and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all
the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In
whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the
Spirit." - Ephesians 2:19-22
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