TEMPLE VANTAGE POINT – I Corinthians 3:16-23 – 6-2-24

Writing to a church in peril, Paul expounds the implications of the indwelling Spirit for believers. If you are God's temple, what does that mean with reference to your relationship with the Lord? Furthermore, as the temple of God, how is your relationship to the fellowship and forces of this world affected? The tangled web of sinful motivations that are uniformly aligned in rebellion against a Holy God appear to us as a formidable monster from a merely human point of view. From the temple vantage point, however, we are afforded a different worldview entirely. Paul writes to supply this perspective correction for the Corinthian church. Their survival and ours depends on it.