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Under New Ownership
Outside a hotel that had been closed for weeks this notice hung:
This establishment will shortly be opening
under new ownership.
The hotel had a new proprietor, but it was the same building and outside it looked no different than it ever had. The changes were inside. It is just the same with a Christian who has been converted to God. He remains the same person with the same natural characteristics, the same schooling and profession, and he has the same family relationships. But he has become the personal possession of someone else. He now belongs to the Lord Jesus and is therefore “under new ownership.” The Holy Spirit dwells in a Christian’s body and is there to direct him according to the divine principles of the Word of God. We are now to live in a way that pleases the one who bought us. “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
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