Our bodies are now the temple of God (1Cor. 3:16,17). Is your temple in a ready state to be used? Is it being used for it's created purpose? Is your temple defiled? Since our bodies are now the temple of the Living God, these questions are monumentally important!

2. Haggai 1:2-10
2 “Thus speaks the LORD of hosts,
saying: ‘This people says, “The
time has not come, the time that
the LORD’s house should be
built.”’”

3. Haggai 1:2-10
3 Then the word of the LORD
came by Haggai the prophet,
saying, 4 “Is it time for you
yourselves to dwell in your
paneled houses, and this temple
to lie in ruins?”

4. Haggai 1:2-10
5 Now therefore, thus says the
LORD of hosts: “Consider your
ways!

5. Haggai 1:2-10
6 “You have sown much, and bring in
little; you eat, but do not have
enough; you drink, but you are not
filled with drink; you clothe
yourselves, but no one is warm; and
he who earns wages, earns wages to
put into a bag with holes.”

6. Haggai 1:2-10
7 Thus says the LORD of hosts:
“Consider your ways! 8 Go up to
the mountains and bring wood
and build the temple, that I may
take pleasure in it and be
glorified,” says the LORD.

7. Haggai 1:2-10
9 “You looked for much, but indeed
it came to little; and when you
brought it home, I blew it away.
Why?” says the LORD of hosts.
“Because of My house that is in
ruins, while every one of you runs to
his own house.

8. Haggai 1:2-10
10 Therefore the heavens above
you withhold the dew, and the
earth withholds its fruit

9. Haggai 1:4,5
4 “Is it time for you yourselves to
dwell in your paneled houses,
and this temple to lie in ruins?”
5 Now therefore, thus says the
LORD of hosts: “Consider your
ways!

10. 1Corinthians 3:16,17
16 Do you not know that you are
the temple of God and that the
Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If
anyone defiles the temple of
God, God will destroy him. For
the temple of God is holy, which
temple you are.

11. Is Your Temple a
?

12. Is Your Temple a Habitat for Divinity?
• Are you in a ready state to
be used? (Titus 3:1-2)

13. Titus 3:1,2
1 Remind them to be subject to
rulers and authorities, to obey,
to be ready for every good
work, 2 to speak evil of no one,
to be peaceable, gentle, showing
all humility to all men.

14. 1Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your
hearts, and always be ready to
give a defense to everyone who
asks you a reason for the hope
that is in you, with meekness
and fear;

15. Is Your Temple a Habitat for Divinity?
• Are you in a ready state to
be used? (Titus 3:1-2)
• Are you being used for the
purpose you were created?
(Eph. 2:10)

16. Ephesians 2:10
For we are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk
in them.

17. Ephesians 4:22-24
22 that you put off, concerning
your former conduct, the old
man which grows corrupt
according to the deceitful lusts,
23 and be renewed in the spirit of
your mind,

18. Ephesians 4:22-24
24 and that you put on the new
man which was created
according to God, in true
righteousness and holiness.

19. Is Your Temple a Habitat for Divinity?
• Are you in a ready state to
be used? (Titus 3:1-2)
• Are you being used for the
purpose you were created?
(Eph. 2:10)
• Is your temple defiled?
(Matthew 15:18,19)

20. Matthew 15:18,19
18 But those things which proceed
out of the mouth come from the
heart, and they defile a man.
19 For out of the heart proceed
evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false witness, blasphemies.

21. Titus 1:15,16
15 To the pure all things are pure,
but to those who are defiled
and unbelieving nothing is pure;
but even their mind and
conscience are defiled.

22. Titus 1:15,16
16 They profess to know God, but
in works they deny Him, being
abominable, disobedient, and
disqualified for every good work.

23. 1Corinthians 3:16,17
16 Do you not know that you are
the temple of God and that the
Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If
anyone defiles the temple of
God, God will destroy him. For
the temple of God is holy, which
temple you are.

24. Is Your Temple a Habitat for Divinity?
• Are you in a ready state to
be used? (Titus 3:1-2)
• Are you being used for the
purpose you were created?
(Eph. 2:10)
• Is your temple defiled?
(Matthew 15:18,19)