Ch.3 The Church as Gods Temple.

Please answer these questions before reading the blog.

1. What Old Testament imagery is used in these verses which relates to the N.T. church. 1 Cor 3:117; 2 Cor :1; 16; Eph 2:22...…………………………………………………………..

2. God has renewed His Desire to be with His People by the coming of who?...……………………

3. In this age the community of believers is being built together to become something special. What is it in Ephesians 2:21-22...…………………………………………………………………….

4. This building was to be in contrast to what was found in Corinth, ………………………..

Chapter 3 The church as God's Temple continued. 

God dwells in the midst of His People today as he did in the OT by means of the Tabernacle and the Temple of Solomon.

2 Cor 6 :16 We are the temple of the Living God. As God has said, "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people." Cp. Lev 26:12; Jerm 32:3; Ezekiel 37:27

1Co 6:19  Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?
1Co 6:20  And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.

NB. a) Paul ties the Holy Spirit in the church to the "temple Imagery" in the context of the Spirits presence in the midst of the People of God. The Living God is present among us.

Cp. Eph 2:21  in whom every building having been fitly framed together, grows into a holy sanctuary in the Lord;
Eph 2:22  in whom you also are built together for a dwelling place of God through the Spirit.

b) You the church in Corinth are Gods Building. Do you not know what kind of building you are?