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defiled His house? We just read in the Bible concerning anyone who defiles the temple of God,
that God will destroy them. That’s strong, isn’t it? Well, you know this story, but I want you to
see, like Mr. Harvey always said, “…the rest of the story.”
Matthew 21:12 says, “And Jesus went into the temple of God…” Today, God does not dwell in
temples made with men’s hands. I don’t care how big and fine the building is, God doesn’t just
live in buildings. He lives in us. We are the temple. We are the temple of the most High God.
“And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple,
and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves.” They
literally did. They had livestock and birds, with their smell and their filth, and not only that, they
had greedy people in there. They had swindlers, liars, and deceivers in the house of the Lord.
Well, it ought to aggravate and upset you, too. He did not just sit there idly by. He got up. He
threw the tables over. He drove them out. He had a whip. “And He said unto them, It is written,
My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind
and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.” This is prophetic showing that the
house, the building, is not going to be the temple of God; it’s going to be people’s bodies.
Do you suppose Jesus still believes in getting the temple cleansed? Are our bodies part of this
temple? Contrary to popular opinion, they are, and He demonstrated it by healing people’s
bodies in connection with the cleansing of temples.
We are convinced it is God’s will for all of our bodies to be healed because our bodies are the
temple of the Holy Spirit. Does God want sickness in His house? Why would He? He doesn’t.