Summary: A SENSITIVE ISSUE LOOKED AT FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE. THE DEFILING OF THE TEMPLE IS AN AGE OLD PROBLEM SUPPRESSED BY MANY OF OUR CHURCHES,

THE TEMPLE VS. A.I.D.S.

INTRODUCTION

TODAYS MESSAGE IS A TWO FOLD BELIEVERS MESSAGE

COVERING THE SEXUAL SINS AND ONE OF THE UNSPOKEN

TABOOS - A.I.D.S. AND ITS CONSEQUENSES:

SEXUAL SINS ARE:

1) ADULTERY

2) FORNICATION

3) HOMOSEXUALITY

THESE TYPES OF BEHAVIORS HAVE BROUGHT ON AN ONSET OF A

DREADFUL AND THREATENING OUTBREAK OF THIS DISEASE AIDS

A.I.D.S. IS SHORT FOR AQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME

THIS IS A SERIOUS CONDITION IN WHICH THE BODY’S DEFENCES AGAINST VARIOUS ILLNESSES ARE BROKEN DOWN. THIS IS THE BODY WHICH IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO IS IN YOU.

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TODAY WE HAVE MANY BELIEVERS WHO ARE TRULY UNSURE OF

WHAT THE BODY REPRESENTS.

IN MY SHORT TIME AS A MINISTER I HAVE MADE SEVERAL

ENCOUNTERS WITH INDIVISUALS WHO HAVE BEEN SIMPLY

MISGUIDED, BELIEVING THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT THEY

ARE PARTAKERS OF IN THEIR BODIES NO MATTER WHAT THERE

IS NO DAMNATION.

THEY HOLD THAT: “IT’S NOT WHAT GOES IN BUT WHAT COMES

OUT. THIS IS NOT SO, THE SEXUAL SINS YOU COMMIT IN YOUR BODY DEFAME THE TEMPLE OF GOD BECAUSE THE BODY IS

WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT DWELLS.

WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE BODY IS NOT YOURS, YOUR

BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

SO, THAT IT IS THE TEMPLE OF GOD - WHAT RIGHT DO YOU HAVE TO DEFILE IT.

WHAT RIGHT DO YOU HAVE TO CLAIM THIS BODY AS YOUR OWN?

ROMANS 14: 7 - 8

FOR NONE OF US LIVES TO HIMSELF AND NO ONE DIES TO

HIMSELF.

FOR IF WE LIVE, WE LIVE TO THE LORD AND IF WE DIE,WE DIE TO THE LORD. THEREFORE, WHETHER WE LIVE OR DIE, WE ARE THE LORDS.

BECAUSE WE ARE THE LORDS, WE ARE THE STEWARDS OF THE

TEMPLE; THEREFORE, IT IS YOUR OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE

TEMPLE UP.

IF WE DECIDE TO DO OTHERWISE, WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND

THAT THERE CAN BE DESTRUCTION ALLOWED TO COME

AGAINST THE BODY, WHICH IS THE TEMPLE OF GOD.

SUCH DESTRUCTION AS THE DISEASE A.I.D.S..

UNDERSTAND ME: GOD DOES NOT AND WILL NOT CAUSE SUCH A

THING TO HAPPEN, AS THE MYTHS OF THE WORLD WOULD HAVE

IT.

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WITHOUT REPENANCE:

1) HOMOSEXUALITY GIVES OPPORTUNITY TO DESTRUCTION IN

YOUR BODY.

2) ADULTERY GIVES OPPORTUNITY TO DESTRUCTION IN YOUR

BODY.

3) FORNICATION GIVES OPPORTUNITY TO DESTRUCTION IN YOUR BODY.

TAKE HEED TO THID CHRISTIAN FRIENDS

I CORINTHIANS 6:9 AFFIRMS THAT:

THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD;

DO NOT BE DECEIVED. NEITHER FORNICATORS, NOR IDOLATERS

NOR ADULTERERS, NOR HOMOSEXUALS, NOR SODOMITES.

MANY OF US BY THE WAY WE LIVE, WE OURSELVES ARE

WALKING ON THE ROAD OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS BECAUSE OF OUR

LIBERAL BEHAVIOR TOWARD:

1) ADULTERY

2) FORNICATION

3) HOMOSEXUALITY

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE SEXUAL SINNER

1) YOU ADULTERER BE FAITHFUL

2) YOU FORNICATOR RISE AND BE HEALED

3) YOU HOMOSEXUAL CONQUER THIS STRONGHOLD

YOU ADULTERER BE FAITHFUL

PROVERB 5: 15 - 18

15) DRINK WATER FROM YOUR OWN CISTERN, AND RUNNING

WATER FROM YOUR OWN WELL.

16) SHOULD YOUR FOUNTAINS BE DISPERSED ABROAD, STREAMS

OF WATER IN THE STREETS?

17) LET THEM BE ONLY YOUR OWN, AND NOT FOR STRANGERS

WITH YOU.

18) LET YOUR FOUNTAINS BE BLESSED AND REJOICE WITH THE

WIFE OF YOUR YOUTH.

YOU FORNICATOR RISE AND BE HEALED

1) CONFESS YOUR SINS THAT YOU MAY ALLOW GOD’S LIGHT TO

SHINE.

2) REPENT - DO AN ABOUT FACE CHANGE - CHANGE DIRECTION

AND COME TO JESUS.

JAMES 5:16 SAYS:

CONFESS YOUR FAULTS ONE TO ANOTHER AND PRAY ONE FOR

ANOTHER, THAT YE MAYBE HEALED, THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT

PRAYER AVAILETH MUCH.

YOU HOMOSEXUAL CONQUER THIS SRONG HOLD

1) CONQUER TEMPTATION

2) CONQUER THE MYTH THAT YOUR BEHAVIOR IS HEREDITARY

JAMES 1: 13 - 15 SAYS

13) LET NO MAN SAY WHEN HE IS TEMPTED, I AM TEMPTED BY

GOD; FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED BY EVIL, NOR DOES HE

HIMSELF TEMPT ANYONE.

14) BUT EACH ONE IS TEMPTED WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY BY HIS

OWN DESIRES AND ENTICED.

15) THEN, WHEN DESIRES HAS CONCIEVED, IT GIVES BIRTH TO

SIN, AND SIN; WHEN IT IS FULL GROWN, BRINGS FORTH DEATH.

1) ADULTERERS

2) FORNICATORS

3) HOMOSEXUALS

YOU ARE ALL SUSCEPTIBLE TO DISEASE BECAUSE YOU HAVE

WILLINGLY EXPOSED THE BODY TO YOUR OWN SELF -

FULFILLING PLEASURES AND HAVE DEPLEATED THE SPIRIT

WHICH IS IN YOU.

UNDERSTAND AIDS IS A DISEASE THAT CAN DIPLETE THE BODY

UNTIL DEATH, SEEING THAT THIS IS A DEADLY DISEASE.

I WAS WATCHING THE NBA PLAY-OFFS AND THERE WAS A MILLER LIGHT COMMERCIAL TO AIR. THE STORY LINE DEPICTED: THESE TWO YOUNG LADIES IN A BAR, THEY SEE WHAT THEY CALL A HANDSOME HONK ALONE, SO TO MAKE A PASS, THEY HAVE THE BARTENDER GIVE HIM A MILLER LIGHT COURTOUSEY OF THEM, AS THEY CONTINUED LOOKING THEY SEE ANOTHER GENTLEMEN WHO APPEARS TO BE BY HIMSELF AND A LOT BETTER LOOKING SO THEY COMMISSIONED THE BARTENDER TO TAKE THE BEER FROM THE FIRST GUY AND GIVE IT TO THE OTHER GENTLEMEN, AFTER THEY MADE THEIR PASS, HIS PARTNER CAME OUT AND OPENLY EXPRESSED THAT THEY WERE GAY. THIS COMMERCIAL HAS NON - BIBLICAL CONNOTATIONS. ONE STRAIGHT GUY, TWO GAYS AND TWO WOMEN PROPOSITIONING THEM ALL. IT’S NOT CLEAR IF THEY WERE PROPOSITIONING FOR FRIENDSHIP OR COMPANIONSHIP. THIS WORLD SELLS SEX, GO FIGURE.

I CORINTHIANS 6: 18 - 19

18) FLEE SEXUAL IMMORALITY. EVERY SIN THAT A MAN DOES IS OUTSIDE THE BODY, BUT HE WHO COMMITS SEXUAL

IMMORALITY SINS AGAINST HIS OWN BODY.

19) OR DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOU BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF

THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO IS IN YOU, WHOM YOU HAVE FROM GOD,

AND YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN?

I CORINTHIANS 3: 16 - 17 SAYS:

16) DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND

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.

WE SHOULD EXAMINE THE FRUIT OF OUR FLESH, BECAUSE OF

THE DEEDS WE’VE DONE IN OUR OWN BODIES. SEE MANY OF US

HAVE BEEN PLAGUED WITH AN ABOMINABLE AND DREADFUL

DISEASE CALLED AIDS. SIMPLY BECAUSE WE CHOOSE TO

ENTERTAIN DEATH WITH OUR BEHAVIOR TOWARD:

1) ADULTERY

2) FORNICATION

3) HOMOSEXUALITY

ALL WHICH ARE MAKING THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE A.I.D.S. CASES IN AMERICA.

GOD HAS DECLARED TO US IN HIS WORD THIS DAY THAT:

NO ADULTERER

NO FORNICATOR

NO HOMOSEXUAL

SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

PROVERBS 1: 29 - 31 DECLARES:

29) BECAUSE THEY HATED KNOWLEDGE AND DID NOT CHOOSE

THE FEAR OF THE LORD.

30) THEY WOULD HAVE NONE OF MY COUNSEL AND DESPISED

ALL MY REPROOF.

31) THEREFORE, THEY SHALL EAT THE FRUIT OF THEIR OWN

WAY.

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BECAUSE THE TEMPLE IS DEFILED BY YOUR SELFISHNESS YOU

SHALL EAT OF YOUR OWN FRUIT.

DO YOU CARE - DO YOU CARE ABOUT AIDS?

YOU SHOULD CARE BECAUSE:

1) ADULTERY EXISTS

2) FORNICATION EXISTS

3) HOMOSEXUALITY EXISTS

YOU SHOULD CARE BECAUSE:

THESE TYPES OF BEHAVIORS ARE BEING DISPLAYED:

1) ON THE TELEVISION

2) IN OUR HOUSEHOLDS

3) ARE IN OUR CHURCHES

MANY OF OUR SO CALLED BELIEVERS ARE:

PRACTICING ADULTERERS

PRACTICING FORNICATORS

PRACTICING HOMOSEXUAL

BUT GOD HAS DECLARED THAT NONE NOT ONE SHALL INHERIT

THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

I LOOKED INTO SOME DATA PROVIDED BY THE U.S. DEPT. OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.

THEY HOLD THAT:

THE TOP TEN STATES OF INFECTION; AS OF DEC 1999 ARE:

ADULTS CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER

1)NEW YORK

133,843 2,219

2)CALIFORNIA 114,780 586

3)FLORDIA 74,163 1,376

4)TEXAS 51,079 370

5)NEW JERSEY

39,841

6)ILLINOIS 22,962 258

7)PENNSYLVANIA 22,678 310

8)GEORGIA 21,429 199

9)MAYRLAND 19,934 297

10)MASSACHUSETTS

15,012 206

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CLOSING

THERE HAS BEEN A MYTH THAT THE INTIMACY BETWEEN THE

MARRIED HAS BEEN BROKEN DOWN, BECAUSE OF THE AIDS

EPIDEMIC, THIS IS A LIE FROM THE PITS OF HELL!!!

GOD HAS PROCLAIMED IN HIS WORD THAT THIS IS NOT SO.

IN HIS WORD IT HAS BEEN SAID:

27) GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE CREATED HIM; MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM.

28) THEN GOD BLESSED IT AND SAID TO THEM BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY ( YOU KNOW THE REST).

WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT IF WE CHOOSE TO LIVE THE

WAY WE WANT TO DEATH AND DESTRUCTION WILL BE OUR

FINAL REALITY AND HEAVEN WILL BE FAR AWAY FROM US AND

HELL WILL BE AT HAND.

LIVING A LIFE FULL OF ADULTERY

LIVING A LIFE FULL OF FORNICATION

LIVING A LIFE FULL OF HOMOSEXUALITY DISCONNECTED FROM

GOD SHOULD DRAW YOU NIGH TO HIM.

THE SEEKERS EQUASION IS THIS:

YOU AS YOU ARE + CHRIST AS HE IS = MAKES YOU WHAT YOU

WANT TO BE.

COME TO JESUS

ADULTERER - FORNICATOR - HOMOSEXUAL - BROKE DOWN-TOW

DOWN-LONELY-ANGRY-HUMILIATED AND POOR.

COME TO JESUS AND LET HIM REVEAL HIMSELF UNTO YOU; LET

HIM EMBODY YOU WITH HIS PRECIOUS SPIRIT.

COME TO JESUS AND SEE THAT HE IS THE SUM AND THE

SUBSTANCE. THE ONE WHO GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE WOULD

HAVE ACCESS TO THE FREE GIFT OF SALVATION.

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