Will the Holy Spirit dwell in an unclean temple?

In the context of personal holiness just one sin makes a person an "unclean vessel." There is no evidence that an already Spirit-filled person "loses" the Holy Ghost every time they sin. As Paul said, "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" (2 Corinthians 13:5). The Holy Ghost is literally Christ within us. "But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His" (Romans 8:9; see also John 14:16-18).

Consider Romans 10:1-4:

1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. 2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and SEEKING TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 4 FOR CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW OF RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES.

and Romans 3:10-26:

10 As it is written:

“ There is none righteous, no, not one;

11 There is none who understands;

There is none who seeks after God.

12 They have all turned aside;

They have together become unprofitable;

There is none who does good, no, not one.”

13 “ Their throat is an open tomb;

With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;

“ The poison of asps is under their lips”;

14 “ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

15 “ Their feet are swift to shed blood;

16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;

17 And the way of peace they have not known.”

18 “ There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW NO FLESH WILL BE JUSTIFIED IN HIS SIGHT, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD, 24 being JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

(Note that verse 23 is in the present tense: not only HAVE all sinned, but all CONTINUE to fall short of the glory of God)

**** Please heed the words of Paul in Galatians 3:2: "This only I want to learn from you: DID YOU RECEIVE THE SPIRIT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, OR BY THE HEARING OF FAITH? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?" Personal holiness will never enable you to receive the Holy Ghost, because we receive the Holy Ghost by "the hearing of faith." As Paul said, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). Without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6).

Saving faith must come first, prior to holiness. And even people who have the Holy Ghost are not perfect. As Romans 3:23 says, all have sinned and continue to fall short of the glory of God. The context of 1 Corinthians 3 deals with the Church as a whole, who is the temple of God, made up of "living stones" (1 Peter 2:5), with Jesus Christ being the Chief Cornerstone (Ephesians 2:19-20). How were the Corinthians defiling the temple of God? By attempting to divide it up into factions! (1 Corinthians 13:1-4)

1 Corinthians 6:19, on the other hand, deals with our individual BODIES, which are the temple of the Holy Ghost. "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?" How does one defile their body? I'll let Paul explain: "Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body" (1 Corinthians 6:18). According to Paul, sexual immorality defiles the body.

2 Corinthians 6:15-18 shows that idolatry also defiles the temple of God:

15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“ I will dwell in them

And walk among them.

I will be their God,

And they shall be My people.”

17 Therefore

“ Come out from among them

And be separate, says the Lord.

Do not touch what is unclean,

And I will receive you.”

18 “ I will be a Father to you,

And you shall be My sons and daughters,

Says the LORD Almighty.”

**** The body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, but one cannot truly say that their body is the temple of the Holy Ghost until they have RECEIVED the Holy Ghost. At that point, the Holy Ghost takes up residence within you, and your body literally becomes His temple. At that point, we have the promise that, if we will "come out from among them and be separate," and "not touch what is unclean," God will receive us, and we will be His children - not before. Trying to "clean up" BEFORE receiving the Holy Ghost is like washing the outside of a cup and dish without cleaning the inside (Luke 11:39).

You must repent to receive the Holy Ghost, but that does not entail cleaning up your works so much as acknowledging that you have sinned and turning to God. In short, any time the Holy Ghost comes to dwell in any of us, He is coming to dwell in an unclean temple. Without the Holy Ghost, we have no hope of being able to live holy.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, receive ye the Holy Ghost!

God bless!

Apostolic Believer in One God, JESUS

The Holy Spirit will cleanse His temple.

guy grow to be created holy and as a vessel to homestead the spirit of god, yet whilst Adam sinned god separated himself from guy. why do you think of he did that? have you ever seen darkness the place there is mild? comparable with god and sin. for this very reason Christ Jesus had to return into the international, to break the chains of sin that held guy sure and maximum heavily to repair guy to his unique place as 'provider of god's presence'. the blood of Jesus Christ has the ability to bathe each temple sparkling. the temple does no longer talk of the particular being however the spirit. as quickly as you supply your self to obey somebody you grow to be that guy or woman's slave, so by using giving your self to Christ you will grow to be a slave to righteous living and much less to sin. so in final god does no longer and can't stay in an unclean temple.

Thank you for the question:

Each year at our Baptist church; like many churches, we have mid-night mass and share in the bread and wine as it is passed around.

I had been out with friends drinking, not too much, I then went to mid-night mass and as the bread and wine was passed around I refused it. I did so;- much too the surprise of my Christians friends after-wards, - because of the very chapter and verse you cite.

I had no desire to profane the Holy Spirit, who indwells in my body.

As I do not believe the Holy Spirit will dwell in an unclean temple, and as I had been drinking it went against by beliefs of partaking in the Holy Communion of bread and wine.

Peace.

No never,

But so many our friends believe that they are the temple of Holy Spirit,

We should remember the Baptism of Jesus and the coming of Holy Spirit,

Now I think, they believe it is so simple to have Holy Spirit as getting a pencil;

Jesus died to pay for our sins. His blood cleanses us from the unrighteousness that made us unclean. If you have faith in Him, the Spirit dwells in you. We don't clean ourselves, God cleans us and then dwells in us.

1 Corinthians 1:30-31

It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God--that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."

No. That is why confessing our sins to Jesus is so important and as soon as possible. I am the Lord's temple.

Tell that janitor to get busy!

That's what religious crazies believe!