New Life, Dress - Part Two

The body that the Lord has given us should serve to give glory to God and not to be a vessel of dishonor. Our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and as such should be filled with God and not with other things. Let us now see what aspects of our own body we are to clothe.  

Of the most common contaminations is fornication. We understand fornication to mean sexual immorality through a relationship between people not united by conjugal ties. All filth must disappear from our lives, for we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 6:15 "Know ye not that your bodies are a member of Christ? shall I therefore take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is a body with her? For he saith, The two shall be one flesh: but he that is one with the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee from fornication, every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but he that fornicateth against his own body sins.     

Our mouth is another part of the body that we must cover. In this passage from Ephesians we are told of the following things:  

a) Lie: If you know that a lie is unpleasant to God, because it comes from hell itself. Before God there are no colors to differentiate them, and they are all unpleasant. Jesus said to the Pharisees: "You are of your father the devil, and your father's desires you want to do. He has been a murderer from the beginning and has not remained in truth, for there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh his own: for he is a liar, and the father of lies." John 8:44.   

b) Corrupted Words: These are what we commonly know as bad words, offensive words and discourteous words.    

c) Dishonest words: These are words that are not honest, such as gossip, slander, etc.   

d) Truhanerías: These are those produced by leisure. They are "nonsense that comes out of the mouth when one has no office. Meaningless phrases that do not edify.   We must build our mouth with the formula of Ephesians 5:19 "Speaking among you in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and praising the Lord in your hearts; giving thanks always for all things to God and Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  

The word commands us: "Let him who stole steal no more, but let him work, doing with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to share with him who is in need." There are people used to borrow money and not pay it, that is theft, we must be honest and owe nothing to anyone. Moreover, we must seek God's blessing by offering Him. New life includes tithing the Lord. In Malachi 3:10 it says, "Bring the tithe storehouse, and let there be food in my house, and prove me in this, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, until there be plenty. Try it and see God's blessing.