The Christian is no more a common man than was the altar [in the temple] a common place. It is as great a sacrilege for the believer to live unto himself, or to live unto the world, as you and I could have profaned the most holy place [the temple], used the holy fire for our own kitchen, or the censer for common perfume, or the candlestick for our own chamber. These things were God’s; none might venture to appropriate them. And we are God’s and must be used only for him. Oh, Christians, would that you could know this! You are Christ’s, God’s; servants of God through Jesus Christ!1
Charles H. Spurgeon
2 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: