WHO OWNS YOUR BODY?

"Behold, all souls are mine; (Ezekiel 18:4)

​God lays claim to the title rights of every human body. No person, neither one who has trusted Jesus Christ as personal Savior, nor one who has rejected Him, can lay claim to his or her own body. God is the owner of every human being as demonstrated in Genesis 2:7; “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life: and man became a living soul.” God further claims ownership of every person when He states in Isaiah 57:16, “and the souls which I have made.” Additionally, God declares in Ezekiel 18:4 that, “Behold, all souls are mine.”
    To trespass against, violate, or usurp God’s right to our bodies brings the just condemnation of God. Romans 1:18 says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.” In Hebrews 2:2, God says that those who disobeyed His Word, “received a just recompence of reward.” The height of human foolishness and arrogance is to say, it’s my body; I can live in it, and do with it as I please. As stewards of the bodies which Almighty God has given us, He holds us accountable to bear His image and glorify Him in all matters of human sexuality. Fraudulent use of the bodies which He has given us is warned against in Galatians 6:7-8, “Be not deceived’ God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth of the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”
    Therefore, the high court of our land, the liberal media, infidel politicians, and the apostate church have all trespassed against God’s right to ownership of the human body when espousing the sexual perversion and individual licentiousness sweeping our land. It has been said, that what one generation will tolerate, the next one will embrace. In America, it appears that we have crossed that threshold. No true believer should compromise on God’s ownership of the human body and the honorable deportment of such. We, of all people know we are not our own. Having been bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ, we are to glorify God in body and spirit, which are God’s. Our biblical mandate from God is found in Ephesians 5:11-13, “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.”
    May both preachers ordained of God and saints of the Lord Jesus Christ resist the social pressure to tolerate the evil of self-ownership in these last days. We preachers, must live above reproach in our moral conduct, and all saints must zealously surrender to the admonition found in Ephesians 5:3 “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you.” The god of compromise and apostasy lies hidden in self and our own rights. Let us stand for the truth with our testimony being “We are not our own” for the honor and glory of God!