…惟独在宝座上我比你大。《创世纪41:40》
在神权柄之下，我要向神负责交账我如何管控我的身体。保罗说他没有「废掉神的恩」，使它无效（加拉太书 2:21）。神的恩典是绝对的、无限的，借着耶稣的工作，救恩是完全并永远成了。我不是正在被拯救，我是已经得救的。救恩和神的宝座一样永恒，但我必须把神放在我里面的救恩努力作在外面。「作成 [我自己]得救的工夫」（腓立比书 2:12）意味着我有责任使用祂赐予我的东西；这也意味着我必须在自己的身体上展现主耶稣的生命，不是神秘或隐密地，而是公开而大胆地作出来。「我是攻克己身叫身服我…」（哥林多前书 9:27）。每个基督徒都可以为神绝对管控自己的身体，神已赋予我们责任治理「圣灵的殿」，包括我们的思想和欲望（哥林多前书 6:19）。我们要为此负责，绝不可放任不正当的思想和欲望。但我们大多数人是评判别人比评判自己要严厉得多；我们为自己的事情找借口，却谴责别人生活中的事情，仅仅是因为我们天生并不倾向于做那些事情。
保罗说：「…劝你们…将身体献上当作活祭…」（罗马书 12:1）。我必须决定的，乃我是否同意我的主宰和主人的观点，即我的身体确实是祂的殿。一旦我同意，律法关于身体的所有规则、条例和要求都总结在这个启示的真理里面：我的身体是「圣灵的殿」。
来自章伯斯的智慧
当一个人的心与神是正确的时候，圣经中神秘的言语对他来说就是灵和生命。属灵的真理对纯净的心灵是可辨识的，而非对敏锐的智力。这不是智力深度的问题，而是心灵的纯洁。《引领儿子进入荣耀》
1205 “The Temple of the Holy Spirit”
…only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you. —Genesis 41:40
I am accountable to God for the way I control my body under His authority. Paul said he did not “set aside the grace of God”— make it ineffective (Galatians 2:21). The grace of God is absolute and limitless, and the work of salvation through Jesus is complete and finished forever. I am not being saved— I am saved. Salvation is as eternal as God’s throne, but I must put to work or use what God has placed within me. To “work out [my] own salvation” (Philippians 2:12) means that I am responsible for using what He has given me. It also means that I must exhibit in my own body the life of the Lord Jesus, not mysteriously or secretly, but openly and boldly. “I discipline my body and bring it into subjection . . .” (1 Corinthians 9:27). Every Christian can have his body under absolute control for God. God has given us the responsibility to rule over all “the temple of the Holy Spirit,” including our thoughts and desires (1 Corinthians 6:19). We are responsible for these, and we must never give way to improper ones. But most of us are much more severe in our judgment of others than we are in judging ourselves. We make excuses for things in ourselves, while we condemn things in the lives of others simply because we are not naturally inclined to do them.
Paul said, “I beseech you…that you present your bodies a living sacrifice…” (Romans 12:1). What I must decide is whether or not I will agree with my Lord and Master that my body will indeed be His temple. Once I agree, all the rules, regulations, and requirements of the law concerning the body are summed up for me in this revealed truth-my body is “the temple of the Holy Spirit.”
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart. —Bringing Sons Unto Glory, 231 L