Christ's Life And His Death Had A Purpose

 For thousands of years and by the mouth of many prophets.. the coming of the Messiah had been foretold and yet this generation of short-sighted, hypocritical extortioners blocked their ears to the truth, and mocked their own Savior by saying sarcastically; It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?'
 What foolish people were these religious leaders, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets had spoken. The Lord Jesus was not talking about the temple that had been made with man's hands - for heaven is God's throne, and the earth is His footstool, and God is not confined by man's limited imagination.
 The Lord was speaking of the Temple of His own body. Jesus was the eternal Son of God, Who had come to earth as a man - the perfect, sinless Son of Man - and He was clothed in a body of human flesh.
 Christ's Life And His Death Had A Purpose.. to redeem the human race from sin, death and eternal separation from our heavenly Father. But in three days I will rise from the dead.. Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again He announced. 
 May we take our eyes off the things of this world and set our minds on things above and not on things below - for we have died together with Him and our life is hid with Christ in God - our eternal Creator and glorious Savior.
But the temple he had spoken of was his body.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You for sending Your eternal Son to become a Man so that His human body could die for the sins of the whole world and His life become our life - through time and into eternity - Praise His holy name, AMEN.