As with all the biblical holy days, there are spiritual lessons to be learned from Hanukkah—light, courage, and faith, to name a few. Perhaps the most vital one is seen in its name. This festival commemorates a time when the true worship of God was restored in Jerusalem. The Temple in Jerusalem no longer stands today. The heart of each true believer in Yeshua the Messiah and savior is the temple where the Spirit of God dwells. Too often believers endanger the cleanliness of this Temple by allowing idolatry into their lives. Hence the timeless exhortation from Scripture:

Run from sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the fornicator sins against his own body. Or don’t you know that your body is a Temple for the Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit) who lives inside you, whom you received from God? The fact is, you don’t belong to yourselves; for you were bought at a price. So use your bodies to glorify God (I Corinthians 6:18–20).