The Most Famous Illegal Goose Creek Parade by Virginia Smith

Author:Virginia Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736944939
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc.

Unpacking the Verse—What Does It Mean?

As you read through these verses, realize they are a call to holy living. The Christians in Corinth were living in a truly awful place. The city and its worship centered around the Temple of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. This temple had more than 1000 priestesses who were in actuality “religious” prostitutes. It’s no wonder this city was so morally corrupt that its very name became synonymous with debauchery and moral depravity.

But there’s good news! Paul wrote this letter to the Corinthians to convince Christians of their need to assume a different mind-set and the reasons they should live a different lifestyle than those around them. What Paul wrote to these believers translates into principles you can pray for your husband—and, of course, for yourself!

The function of your husband’s body—“Your body is the temple.” In the Old Testament, the presence of God first dwelled in the tabernacle and later in Solomon’s temple. Jews came from all over the known world to worship God at the temple. Just as Old Testament worshipers were to approach the temple with honor and respect, Paul wrote his readers to inform them that as believers, they were to honor and respect their body, in which Christ’s Spirit resided. He began by asking, “Do you not know your body is the temple…?”

As a believer in Christ, your husband’s body is the special dwelling place of God. Therefore, you should be praying that your husband will desire to do whatever is necessary to take care of his body—which is God’s temple.

The occupant of your husband’s body—“Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God.” Here, Paul’s emphasis is on the indwelling Holy Spirit: He is in you and is a gift from God. Like salvation, the power of the Holy Spirit is needed for living the Christian life and is a gift of God.

And so you pray, certainly for yourself, but also for your dearly beloved. As you pray, ask God to cause your husband to realize and understand that his body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, that the Holy Spirit resides in him, and that he must yield himself to the Spirit so the Spirit can work in him.

And here’s something to note: The context of 1 Corinthians 6:15-18 is in reference to sexual sin. When you pray about your husband’s body as being the temple of the Holy Spirit, you are praying that he will resist sexual temptation as well as the temptation to abuse his body with overeating, chemical abuse, and even excessive stressing over his job.

The owner of your husband’s body—“… you are not your own? For you were bought at a price.” Here Paul painted a word picture that came from the practice of buying and selling people in a slave market. Paul referred to Christ Himself purchasing us out of the slave market of sin with His death on the cross!

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