October 4, 1900

God's Temple

EGW

Young men and women, heed the charge that is given to you through the Apostle Paul. He says: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”PrT October 4, 1900, par. 1

Again Paul says, “Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” We are to do everything under a sense of our personal accountability and responsibility before God. The whole treatment of the physical organism has an effect upon the life of the soul. The condition of the body has a close relation to the life of Christ in the heart.PrT October 4, 1900, par. 2

One asks, “May I not do as I choose with myself? Is not my body my own?”—No; for the Lord has bought us. Our bodies are the members of Christ. “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.” “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.” God condemns every sinful, defiling practice.PrT October 4, 1900, par. 3

Mrs. E. G. White.