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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Fullness of God, #6
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. (Revelation 3:2)
Christ does not praise the churches for their profession of faith in Himself. He rebukes them sternly. He comes to the churches to judge the house of God. Christ appears to the churches to "purify the sons of Levi" (Malachi 3:3). His fan is in His hand as He purges His threshing floor (Matthew 3:12). He has come to reconcile the saints to God.
Christ, the High Priest of God, brings the Day of Atonement to the elect in individual fulfillment prior to His rule during the thousand-year period. The revealing of our worldliness, lusts, and self-seeking makes it necessary for us to pray continually for strength to walk in victory with the Lord. This season of repentance and humiliation can prove to be the greatest crisis of our discipleship.
If we emerge victorious from the rigors of the Day of Atonement we will be brought into the marvelous inheritance that accompanies the spiritual fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles. We will enter the rest of God. The rewards to the overcomer are given to the faithful individual, never to the churches as a whole. The promises are to "him" who overcomes.
In Matthew 21:4-14 we see the pattern of the culminating works of redemption:
The Blowing of Trumpets—the coming of the King.
The Day of Atonement—the cleansing of God's house.
First, we have the coming of the King:
Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. (Matthew 21:5)
Then, the cleansing of God's house:
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Matthew 21:12,13)
There is only one eternal house of God, and that is Christ—Head and Body. Christ is standing today at the door of each Christian heart. If we hear His voice and open the door He will come in to us and will dine with us.
When Christ comes into our personality He discovers that "moneychangers" are operating in our heart. He drives them out. No man can serve God and money. It is time for judgment to begin in the house of God.
Each Christian saint is to be a house of prayer. Our whole life is to be one of holy worship and supplication to the Father. How blessed it will be to be filled with the fullness of the Father and the fullness of the Son through the fullness of the Holy Spirit!
How much better to dwell in green pastures beside the quiet waters, with the Lord Jesus, than to have a heart full of covetousness, strife, confusion, and all the other wretched elements present when we are concerned with the things of the world.
O to be a house of prayer, to be filled with all the fullness of God!
To be continued.