If any man defile the temple.....
1Cor.3:17 if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy...'
For years I followed the conventional church teaching that this was speaking about the individual, who's body is the temple, and if you smoke, drink, or do drugs or tattoo and pierce yourself into a monster, you were defiling the temple.....and I still hold to this, but its much worse than that.
The Greek for defile is phtheiro. It means to lead astray, to corrupt the temple.
Now this speaks to the individual and to the corporate body of Christ. The word warns us that doctrines of men and of demons, traditions of men that cancel out His truth, hirelings, false teachers, false prophets, false apostles, and wolves would not be in short supply in the 'church' (ekklesia) twisting the scriptures for their own gain, making merchandise of the folks, stealing the wool, eating the fat, devouring widows houses which means making poor widows pay the ungodly tithe if they want to sit in the pew, in a word....phtheiro, defiling: leading astray with their deception and lies, corrupting the temple, the body of Christ.
One verse, where there are many, is 1Cor.3:3 'for you are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?'
Divisions is what the clerical/ laity system is. 2 groups. The upper special control freaks and the lower unwashed masses, the paying folks. This should not be. Jesus said that the world has its despots and controlling leaders but 'it shall NOT be so among you'. Well....its among us. This divides. A house divided cannot stand. The church is deader than dirt and its because of this division, men appointing themselves as a hierarchy,(think Rome], and then teaching from a fleshly effort and view point, for His Spirit has been quenched because of this worldly upmanship. Who's king of the mountain in your 'den'? This leads the folks astray and corrupts their relationship with the Father. Sleeping in the pew, dying on the vine.
Again, we are told not to defile, lead astray His temple, the people, and that's exactly what's going on when a self elevated, arrogant, greedy, man opens his mouth from behind the Grecian pulpit.
Interesting also is that the word destroy here is from the same greek word. So the pulpiteers that lead astray the folks will be led astray by God, thereby leading astray the folks even more.
Wake up ekklesia. Hear what the Spirit is saying unto the body of Christ. Some discernment here would be in order, not to mention some 'searching the scriptures as the Bereans to see if these things are so.'Time is running out.
1Cor.3:17 if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy...'
For years I followed the conventional church teaching that this was speaking about the individual, who's body is the temple, and if you smoke, drink, or do drugs or tattoo and pierce yourself into a monster, you were defiling the temple.....and I still hold to this, but its much worse than that.
The Greek for defile is phtheiro. It means to lead astray, to corrupt the temple.
Now this speaks to the individual and to the corporate body of Christ. The word warns us that doctrines of men and of demons, traditions of men that cancel out His truth, hirelings, false teachers, false prophets, false apostles, and wolves would not be in short supply in the 'church' (ekklesia) twisting the scriptures for their own gain, making merchandise of the folks, stealing the wool, eating the fat, devouring widows houses which means making poor widows pay the ungodly tithe if they want to sit in the pew, in a word....phtheiro, defiling: leading astray with their deception and lies, corrupting the temple, the body of Christ.
One verse, where there are many, is 1Cor.3:3 'for you are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?'
Divisions is what the clerical/ laity system is. 2 groups. The upper special control freaks and the lower unwashed masses, the paying folks. This should not be. Jesus said that the world has its despots and controlling leaders but 'it shall NOT be so among you'. Well....its among us. This divides. A house divided cannot stand. The church is deader than dirt and its because of this division, men appointing themselves as a hierarchy,(think Rome], and then teaching from a fleshly effort and view point, for His Spirit has been quenched because of this worldly upmanship. Who's king of the mountain in your 'den'? This leads the folks astray and corrupts their relationship with the Father. Sleeping in the pew, dying on the vine.
Again, we are told not to defile, lead astray His temple, the people, and that's exactly what's going on when a self elevated, arrogant, greedy, man opens his mouth from behind the Grecian pulpit.
Interesting also is that the word destroy here is from the same greek word. So the pulpiteers that lead astray the folks will be led astray by God, thereby leading astray the folks even more.
Wake up ekklesia. Hear what the Spirit is saying unto the body of Christ. Some discernment here would be in order, not to mention some 'searching the scriptures as the Bereans to see if these things are so.'Time is running out.