WE ARE THE TEMPLE(4 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: I Corinthians 3:16-17
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We Are The Temple(4 of 4)
Series: What Is The Church?
Jeff Strite
I Corinthians 3:16-17
OPEN: In the heart of Kentucky is a facility dedicated to housing hundreds of bars of pure gold --- weighing more than 4,600 tons. Does anybody know what that facility is called? (Fort Knox) When we think of Fort Knox we often visualize it as being nothing more than the vault that holds that gold, and yet the place where the gold is held is only a small part of a military base covering 109,000 acres spread across 3 counties which houses 23,000 soldiers (you need lots of guns to guard that much gold).
The vault itself is built to be impenetrable - its constructed of granite, steel, and concrete. The vault door alone weighs more than 20 tons. In fact, there might be more steel than gold at Ft. Knox. The vault is made of steel plates, steel beams, and steel cylinders. To open the door, several staffers at the depository must individually dial in separate combinations known only to them. And EVEN the president of the United States doesn't have the combination to the vault.
Over the years - in addition to gold - the Vault at Ft. Knox has also protected the gold reserves of several other countries; the English crown jewels; the Magna Carta; the Gutenberg Bible. And back in the early 1940's it also held the original U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence (Uncle John Salutes the Armed Forces, pp 363-366)
APPLY: Ft. Knox captures our imagination because just hearing the name ''Ft. Knox'' brings to our mind images of huge stacks of gold. We know of Ft. Knox as a place that holds items of great value. And that's the kind of imagery that God uses to describe YOU - ''you are God's temple and... God's Spirit dwells in you'' I Corinthians 3:16
You have become a place that holds an item of great value.
You hold the Spirit of God inside of you.
YOU ARE GOD'S TEMPLE!
Now why would God use the imagery of the ''Temple'' to describe us? We ...
Series: What Is The Church?
Jeff Strite
I Corinthians 3:16-17
OPEN: In the heart of Kentucky is a facility dedicated to housing hundreds of bars of pure gold --- weighing more than 4,600 tons. Does anybody know what that facility is called? (Fort Knox) When we think of Fort Knox we often visualize it as being nothing more than the vault that holds that gold, and yet the place where the gold is held is only a small part of a military base covering 109,000 acres spread across 3 counties which houses 23,000 soldiers (you need lots of guns to guard that much gold).
The vault itself is built to be impenetrable - its constructed of granite, steel, and concrete. The vault door alone weighs more than 20 tons. In fact, there might be more steel than gold at Ft. Knox. The vault is made of steel plates, steel beams, and steel cylinders. To open the door, several staffers at the depository must individually dial in separate combinations known only to them. And EVEN the president of the United States doesn't have the combination to the vault.
Over the years - in addition to gold - the Vault at Ft. Knox has also protected the gold reserves of several other countries; the English crown jewels; the Magna Carta; the Gutenberg Bible. And back in the early 1940's it also held the original U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence (Uncle John Salutes the Armed Forces, pp 363-366)
APPLY: Ft. Knox captures our imagination because just hearing the name ''Ft. Knox'' brings to our mind images of huge stacks of gold. We know of Ft. Knox as a place that holds items of great value. And that's the kind of imagery that God uses to describe YOU - ''you are God's temple and... God's Spirit dwells in you'' I Corinthians 3:16
You have become a place that holds an item of great value.
You hold the Spirit of God inside of you.
YOU ARE GOD'S TEMPLE!
Now why would God use the imagery of the ''Temple'' to describe us? We ...
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