As Christians we do not have temples to worship in,why?,because we are a temple in which the Holy Spirit dwells,yes these bodies of ours,are temples.The apostle wrote 'Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives among you.' (1Corinthians3 v16 ) In 1Corinthians 12 v13 we read,'For we were all bapised by one Spirit so as to form one body whether Jews or Gentiles,slave or free and we were all given one Spirit to drink'. This has nothing to do with water baptism ,rather it is that spiritual experience that occurs whan a person accepts Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. Consider the all incllusiveness what Paul writes there is no hint of an elitist group.The Pentecostal or the Charismatic movement,make Christians feel inferior they say they don't have the Holy Spirit.You cannot be a Christian without the Holy Spirit,it is the Spirit himself who bears witness with our spirit that we are God's children,the fact is ,'if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ' (Romans 8 v 9)So the Holy Spirit dwells in all God's children.Just a footnote the Holy Spirit is not just an influence, I read the following,'He is fully God,and described in scripture as possessing personal attributes like intellect, will, emotions,enabling Him to teach,comfort,guide,empowering followers with spiritual gifts for preaching Christ,and convicting the world of sin'.
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