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The Daily Word of Righteousness
I Will Come to You, #6
In my Father's house are many mansions: . . . . (John 14:2)
But in the House of God there are many places of abode, many rooms.
The saints are being constructed an eternal dwelling place for God. It is the Holy Spirit who is accomplishing this. The construction of the eternal dwelling place of God is the spiritual fulfillment of the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:24).
From the Book of Acts forward, no physical structure ever is referred to as the house of God. Also, the Scriptures do not refer to Heaven as the house of God.
But the New Testament writings in several instances do inform us that God and Christ will make their eternal abode in the saints. Christ and the members of His Body are the many-roomed house of the Father.
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. (John 14:23)
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:23)
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. (I Corinthians 3:16,17)
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (II Corinthians 6:16)
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. (Ephesians 2:21,22)
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Ephesians 3:19)
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. (Revelation 3:12)
The new Jerusalem, the Christian Church, the Wife of the Lamb, is the House of God, the Tabernacle of God, the eternal dwelling place of God.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. (Revelation 21:3)
The new Jerusalem, the Christian Church, is the house of God of which Jesus was speaking in John 14:2. In the fourth chapter of Ephesians, Paul speaks of the gifts of ministry given to the saints by the ascended Christ. Paul declares that the purpose of the gifts of ministry is that the Body of Christ may be brought to the "measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."
To be continued.