{"id":1099,"date":"2016-06-13T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2016-06-13T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:23:16","slug":"a-sanctuary-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/a-sanctuary-for-god\/","title":{"rendered":"A SANCTUARY FOR GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1099-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/110815ASanctuaryForGod.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/110815ASanctuaryForGod.mp3\">https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/110815ASanctuaryForGod.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">ARE YOU A SANCTUARY FOR GOD ?<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>John 20:22\u00a0 <\/b><i>And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost<\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<b>Exodus 25:8 <\/b><i>And let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Exodus 29:43 <\/b><i>And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by My glory<\/i>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">IT IS GOD&#8217;S PREFERENCE TO DWELL IN A TEMPLE NOT BUILT WITH HANDS, BUT A TEMPLE HE HIMSELF BUILT.\u00a0\u00a0 OUR BODIES.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Acts 7:48 <\/b><i>Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,\u00a0 <\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">SANCTUARIES ARE ALL DIFFERENT.\u00a0 ONE IS MORE APPEALING AND INVITING THAN ANOTHER.\u00a0\u00a0 HOW APPEALING ARE YOU TO THE HOLY SPIRIT, GOD&#8217;S PRESENCE ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">1. YOU DON&#8217;T AS AS MUCH AUTHORITY OVER YOUR BODY AS YOU MAY THINK.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">GOD PURCHASED YOU WHEN HE DIED FOR YOU ON THE CROSS.<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> A. YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>1 Corinthians 6:20<\/strong> <em>For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God\u2019s.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> B. YOUR FLESH IS A TEMPLE OF GOD.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> &#8211;NOT A TEMPLE OF PHYSICAL FITNESS, NOT A PAWN IN THE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>1 Corinthians 3:16<\/strong> <em>Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> &#8211;IT IS A TEMPLE. THIS IS A MUCH HIGHER CLASS OF DWELLING THAN A TENT. [STRONGS # 3485 \u03bd\u03b1\u03cc\u03c2 naos nah-os\u2019 = used of the Temple in Jerusalem]. SCRIPTURE SOMETIMES CALLS OUR BODIES AS BEING TABERNACLES&#8211;TENTS&#8211; FOR OUR SOUL AND SPIRIT. BUT, TO GOD, YOUR BODY IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT. IT HOUSES HIS HOLY SPIRIT. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>1 Corinthians 6:19<\/strong> <em>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?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">2. THE ENVIRONMENT WHERE HE DWELLED WAS IMPORTANT FOR THE LORD.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> A. WHETHER WE WANT TO AGREE, OR NOT.THE TABERNACLE, WHERE HE DWELLED TEMPORARILY HAD SPECIFIC RULES. GOD WANTED HIS ENVIRONMENT TO BE TO HIS LIKING. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Exodus 30:35-38<\/strong> <em>And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy: And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy. And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD. \u00a0Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">3. THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS A PLACE FOR COMMUNICATION. BOTH WAYS.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> A. IT IS A PLACE FOR FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">TRUE FELLOWSHIP IS DETERMINED BY OUR WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT GOD&#8217;S CONDITIONS. WE CANNOT MAKE UP OUR OWN TIMES AND PLACES. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Matthew 12:47<\/strong> <em>Then one said unto Him, Behold, Thy mother and Thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with Thee.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">B. IT IS A PLACE WHERE FELLOWSHIP CAN BE BEGUN. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">FELLOWSHIP REQUIRED DEALING WITH SIN FIRST. THE COME IN PURITY. THEN COME AT THE TIME OF GOD&#8217;S CHOOSING. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Leviticus 16:2<\/strong> <em>And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">C. GOD&#8217;S SANCTUARY SHOULD BE PURE. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">MUST DEAL WITH SPIRITUAL BLEMISHES (SINS).***The same is true before we partake in the Lord&#8217;s Supper. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Leviticus 21:17<\/strong> <em>Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong> Leviticus 22:2<\/strong> <em>Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not My holy name in those things which they hallow unto Me: I am the LORD.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">4. GOD&#8217;S SANCTUARY SHOULD BE PLEASING TO HIM.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> A. MAKE YOUR BODY A PLACE WHERE GOD IS HAPPY AND PLEASED TO LIVE THERE. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">***When buying or renting a house, we don&#8217;t look at places, and say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like this place, I don&#8217;t like the nieghbors, I don&#8217;t like the parking situation, I don&#8217;t like the crime, it stinks, it is dirty, and I feel uncomfortable in it. But, I want to stay there.&#8221; People don&#8217;t do that, why would God ?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> B. WOULD YOU FORCE SOMEONE TO LIVE IN A PLACE WHERE THEY FELT IGNORED, WAS DIRTY, OR IT WAS COMPLETELY UNCOMFORTABLE ? THE HOLY SPIRIT IS BOUND BY GOD&#8217;S PROMISE TO STAY WITH YOU. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Hebrews 13:5<\/strong> <em>Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">5. YOU CAN BECOME A SANCTUARY FOR GOD.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5; font-family: helvetica;\">NEED WISDOM ? NEED GUIDANCE ? NEED STRENGTH ? NEED FORGIVENESS ? ALL THIS CAN DWELL WITHIN YOU. WHY NOT GET STARTED TODAY ? <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5; font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>John 14:17<\/strong> <em>Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. <\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5; font-family: helvetica;\">REPENT AND PUT YOUR FAITH IN THE ONLY SAVIOR, THE LORD JESUS.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> THE HOUSE IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS THE PEOPLE THAT DWELL IN IT.<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong> 2 Corinthians 6:16<\/strong> <em>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.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>1 Corinthians 3:17<\/strong> <em>If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u201dA Sanctuary For God\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">A Bible Study with Dr. Ed J. MacWilliams<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">110815<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARE YOU A SANCTUARY FOR GOD ? John 20:22\u00a0 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: \u00a0Exodus 25:8 And let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. 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