Fast 2026 - Day 19

Do You Not Know?

1 Corinthians 6:19-20    Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who lives within you, whom you have received as a gift from God?  You are not your own.  You were bought with a price. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17    Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?  If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.

Paul was addressing the young Corinthian believers and twice he asked them, “do you not know that your bodies are temples?”  This was a congregation of carnal Christians who listened more to their flesh than to the Holy Spirit. In his letter, he addressed several issues but the one we want to look at today concerns our bodies.  Are we honoring God with our bodies?  Does everything we do with our bodies bring Him glory and honor?    

There are many ways we can harm our bodies—drugs and alcohol abuse; cigarettes and vaping; gluttony and ingesting things that are bad for our health; lack of exercise; lack of rest; fear, anxiety, worry—the list goes on!  The one we are going to look at today—the one Paul specifically mentions is sexual immorality.  Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6:18, Shun immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed].  Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. When we commit sexual sin, we defile our bodies causing sickness, disease and even death.  Our body is God’s temple and is to be a holy place.  Has He not commanded us to be holy for He is holy?  Sexual sin defiles the temple.  When sin comes into the Presence of God, it is judged!  Jesus takes it even deeper and said that if one even looks lustfully at another, he commits adultery in his heart!      

Today, let’s allow the Spirit of the Lord to examine us.  Have we rightly cared for our bodies and been thankful for the gift He has given us?  Is there any area of sexual sin that we are committing—in either our thoughts or actions?
 
Father, your Word says that Your Spirit dwells within us and our bodies belong to You.  You live inside of us and it is there in the secret place that we minister to You—that’s holy.  Forgive us for not taking better care of our bodies.  Forgive us for all sexual sins—for this harms us inside and out.  Forgive, cleanse and heal us, Lord.  Let there be a fresh infilling of Your Spirit—fill Your temple with Your glory!  In Jesus Name, Amen!