1 Corinthians 6:15-17
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Since we have become united with Christ in the spirit, we are each part of His body as the church. This is why we cannot go to a prostitute to pay for the passing pleasures of sin while submitting Christ and other believers as His body to such unholy unions. When God created sex, it is for joining together for life to one other, not to many. Therefore, we are to be joined to one Lord as well, and that is what it means to be holy - set aside for that one only. Since we are one with Christ and our bodies are the temple we worship Him in, where His glory comes to permanently rest and reside as was temporary with Moses, so must we worship in the beauty of “Holiness to the Lord” written inside on our minds and hearts as the Levitical priests used to wear outwardly on their heads to make us acceptable to the Lord.
Exodus 28:36-38 36 “You shall also make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet:HOLINESS TO THE LORD. 37 And you shall put it on a blue cord, that it may be on the turban; it shall be on the front of the turban. 38 So it shall be on Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things which the children of Israel hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall always be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.
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