The Epistle to the Hebrews part CLXXXIV

I Corinthians 3:16
"Know you not that ye (now remember, Paul always writes to believers) are the temple (see, the dwelling place) of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you."

See that’s what makes us what we are. However and this may ruffle some feathers but here goes any way. To get to this position we have to have come into the first estate or into the area of God's training and teaching or under the influence of the Holy Spirit's administration as our tutor and not some false religious spirit that has counterfeited His, the Holy Spirits presence. And has hold the church captive for 2000, no make that 4000 years. As it had its hold in Judaism long before Christ came on the scene. Come over to chapter 6 in the same book, and it’s repeated in verse 19. But first lets look at something in 2 Corinthians 6:

2Corinthians 6:11-18
"O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

This is what was told to us, my wife and I back in 1985-6 and we did not understand it but like so many others continued in our sin of disobedience by staying within the church. We did this again after hearing this warning to "come out from among them" in 1987-8 but the last time God get our attention by allowing me to get sick unto death, not once but twice. Now this may upset your theology but back in 1971 the Lord told me that I would have to pass through somethings that many wouldn't understand or accept but that I'd pass through them, is my point. These things He has done and has proved faithful in them all. And so the last time in 2005-7 we came out from among them, the worlds church and have done our utmost to stay obedient to Him. For in so doing we've become the temple of His Spirit and not the false spirit that is in the churches that follow the prince of the power of the air or the spirit of the world. We know this because of Paul's revelation of Galatians 2:20; Colossians 1:27, 2:11-14 because the Lord gave me a graphic vision of this for my edification and learning in October 2007. And this only after He asked me this question in August, "will you take My yoke upon you and learn of Me?" to which I replied Yes! Lord. Now continuing now with the study and 1 Corinthians 6:19

I Corinthians 6:19-20
"What? (Paul writes) know ye not that your body (this physical body of flesh and bone) is the temple (or the dwelling place) of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own. (why?) For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s."
Not to honor God with our body, soul, strength, mind, will, emotions, opinions, thoughts, imaginations, intellect and spirit is to dishonor Him. Which means that if we practice any religious form other than what He has required is to refuse Him His rightful Authority or Power within us and this is the sin which Adam did. And this is what has happened through "Christendom" as we know it. Because religion has many branches which have become rotten because of error or misleading into other portions of God's Divine nature for true religion is first to allow God to do as He has promised. But when we establish and church based on a doctrine of a portion of His attributes and make it the theme of our religion we've made in effect ourselves gods and this we all know He does not nor can He tolerate in any fashion. Why? Because it was the same sin that got Satan and his counterpart into trouble when they wonted or lusted to place themselves above God's throne.

Well, I have never gotten on the soapbox and jumped at people for their bad habits. But, when a believer continues to practice a bad habit, what is going to be the end result physically? He’s going to lose his health. He’s going to lose his health probably faster than the unbeliever because we are defiling something that is no longer ours. It now belongs to God. So you believers out there that think you can practice unholy fellowship with demons and enjoy it, you go ahead. But see, this is exactly what we have to realize - that we are to treat this body special. We’re to take care of it, and nurture it. And Paul says in Ephesians, "we’re to love it because this is what God has given us. It’s His dwelling place." We're not to follow after the worlds religious practices and then say that God the Father will get the glory because we've practiced evil before Him. To do so means that we've taken His name in vain and mock the cross and the blood that was there shed for us. This also means that we loose our new identity and position.