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<p>&quot;<strong>Don't you realize</strong> that you are God's temple and<br />
          that God's Spirit lives in you?&quot; 1 Cor. 3:16<br />
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          Alas! how little is this truth contemplated and acted upon!<br />
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          Were we more deeply and powerfully impressed with the <br />
          solemn truth that <strong>God Himself dwells in us</strong> through the <br />
          Spirit, how much more careful we would be to maintain . . .<br />
          truth and reality,<br />
          life and power in experience, <br />
          godliness and holiness in life! <br />
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          What a reverential fear would possess our minds, that <br />
          we might not defile the Lord's temple, or sin against <br />
          and before, <strong>so holy and all-seeing a Guest! </strong><br />
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          If we realized this, and lived under its solemn weight and <br />
          influence, how careful we would be not to defile that <strong>body</strong> <br />
          which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. How desirous and <br />
          anxious we would be not to pollute . . .<br />
          our <strong>eyes </strong>by wandering lusts;<br />
          our <strong>ears </strong>by listening to worldly and carnal conversation; <br />
          our <strong>lips </strong>by speaking deceit, or light and frothy talk;<br />
          our <strong>hands </strong>by putting them to anything that is evil; <br />
          our <strong>feet </strong>by running on errands of vanity and folly. <br />
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          We are to view our body as God's temple, and therefore <br />
          sanctified to His service and to His glory!<br />
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          &quot;God bought you with a high price! So you must honour <br />
          God with your body.&quot; 1 Corinthians 6:20
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