“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience” (Col 3:5 6).
We are to mortify our bodies in this life. Mortify means to discipline one’s body and appetites by self control or self denial. It can also mean the death of a part of a living body.
In our mortification process every member of our bodies is to “die” to the sinful desires of the flesh. Each part of us is to be disciplined to say no to sin. We have become the temple of God, and as keepers of the temple, we are to maintain it in a pure and clean condition. “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.” (Rom 6:13).
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” (1 Cor 3:16 17).
