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“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” I Corinthians 3:16-17 NKJV The saying that ‘ignorance is not a tenable excuse in a court of law’ is always true, especially as the abuse of intellectual property attracts grave consequences. Unfortunately, life readily goes on probably well with several abuses until someone is caught to serve as scapegoat. Now, beyond the ownership rights by creativity, believers are often ignorant of the fact that they are God’s special patent by redemption. When the world imposes its styles, opportunities, ambition, and purposes on us, do we often respond to self with “ Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you” ? For the church at Corinth, they struggled with their rights to self-associate or self-segregate, engage or disengage, and probabl...