When God Says …
“And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” (Luke 19:45-46 KJV).
With these passages, we are given the analogy of the temple representing our body as a believer and follower of our Lord Jesus Christ. This shows to us that the Person of Grace, who is our Lord Jesus in us, empowers us to cast out the "thieves" of anxiety, sickness, and other agents of defilements intruding our body - the temple of God.
As revealed in the New Covenant of the gospel of the grace of God (Acts 20:24), your physical body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19). God desires this temple to be complete, healthy and whole. The “merchants” who turned the temple into a marketplace represent the "thieves" of sickness, anxiety, and stolen joy. These spiritual forces of darkness are constantly trying to rob you with your life. We must prevent our temple from becoming a den of thieves. Rather we must maintain it as a "house of prayer" and make it a House of Power, by totally yielding our life through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Let Him come in our temple and cleanse us. We see that after the Lord cleansed the temple, the blind and the lame came to Him and were healed.
The temple merchants further represent the law in a system of "doing good to get good”. It contrasts head on with grace, where we come to God’s house not to trade, but to freely receive His heavenly blessings, healing, and unmerited favors through the finished work of Christ Jesus our Savior. Scriptures affirm, as it is written: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.” (Ephesians 1:3-6 ESV).
And I say, AMEN!
Daily reflections by:
F. A. Frias
PFC Ministries
When God says... I say, AMEN! is a provocative reflection of the Lord's holy Word. It intends to challenge every seeker of truth to dig deep into the core of the Word of Life to point every being to Christ Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith, and to draw revelations for change, for nourishment and for strength of every soul.
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