If we build on it wood, stubble, and hay of the things that defile the temple of God, God will destroy the flesh ( physical death ) ( verses 16-17 ) so that the spirit may be saved in the day of Jesus Christ ( see verse 15 of 1 Corinthians 3:10-17 ).
This is not what the verse means and if I'm understanding you then your saying a Christian that defiled the commandments of God will be destroyed by the flesh so that they may have a eternal life with God?
This is not what the verse means and if I'm understanding you then your saying a Christian that defiled the commandments of God will be destroyed by the flesh so that they may have a eternal life with God?
1 Corinthians 3:[SUP]10 [/SUP]According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.[SUP]11 [/SUP]For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.[SUP]12 [/SUP]Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;[SUP]13 [/SUP]Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.[SUP]14 [/SUP]If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.[SUP]15 [/SUP]If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.[SUP]16 [/SUP]Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?[SUP]17 [/SUP]If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit...
1 Corinthians 6:[SUP]19 [/SUP]What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?[SUP]20 [/SUP]For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
What the church fail to correct & thus excommunicate an unrepentant believer, God will do at the pre tribulational rapture event, and that is why God will judge His House first, because of the falling away from the faith in mass droves.
1 Peter 4:[SUP]17 [/SUP]For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?[SUP]18 [/SUP]And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?[SUP]19 [/SUP]Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
We can trust the Lord for He is faithful in the keeping of the souls of those saints left behind to suffer the fire coming on the earth and the subsequent coming of the great tribulation.
1 Corinthians 5:[SUP]4 [/SUP]In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,[SUP]5 [/SUP]To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
An example of this prophetic judgment can be seen here when a church was warned to repent or else;
Revelation 2:[SUP]18 [/SUP]And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;[SUP]19 [/SUP]I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.[SUP]20 [/SUP]Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.[SUP]21 [/SUP]And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.[SUP]22 [/SUP]Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.[SUP]23[/SUP]And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.[SUP]24 [/SUP]But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.[SUP]25 [/SUP]But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
That is why God was addressing the churches in Revelation to prepare & to be ready by faith in Him.......... or else.
This is where the vessels unto dishonor comes from as they are the castaways for failing to run that race by faith in Jesus Christ as their Good Shepherd to lay aside every weight & sin as our confidence is in Him to finish the race for us.