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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Judgment and Rewards, #38
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)
God the Father is building a house, a temple, for Himself. The Lord Jesus Christ is the chief Cornerstone and also the Capstone of the eternal House of God.
God is a Spirit. Now He desires to reveal Himself throughout His universe in a visible, tangible form. Christ is the beginning of the manifestation of Almighty God.
We who are members of the Body of Christ are being created as the fullness of the manifestation of God. God dwells eternally in Christ. Christ is being formed in us and is abiding in us to an increasingly greater extent as we press forward into resurrection life.
In the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the Temple of Solomon, which were former houses of God, the pillars were of the greatest significance. They upheld the structure. Their placement, appearance, and number were an integral part of the whole.
So it is in the eternal Temple of God. The pillars are very important. Once they are built into place they cannot be changed in any manner whatever without destroying the entire temple.
To be created a pillar in the House of God is to be placed forever as an integral part of the manifestation of the God of Heaven. When this happens to any saint, his destiny has been established for eternity. The saint's faithfulness in pressing through to victory has created him an eternal part of God.
The non-overcomer is not created a pillar in the Temple of God. He is not suitable as a part of the manifestation of Almighty God because he is sinful and self-willed.
How could a self-centered person be a pillar in the eternal Temple of God? Would the Glory of the Lord abide in the Tabernacle of the Congregation if it were filled with self-seeking Israelites who had not bothered to wash their hands and feet in the bronze Laver? Is this the way of God?
There are vast rewards for the individual who will press forward in Christ. There are eternal losses incurred by the believer who neglects his great salvation in Christ.
To be created a pillar in the Temple of God is to be identified with God throughout the universe forever.
To have inscribed on one's self the name of God; the name of the city of God; and the new name of Christ (3:12).
The Lord Jesus Christ wrote the Ten Commandments on tablets of stone.
Christ wrote to the King of Babylon that he was weighed in the balances and found wanting, and that his kingdom was finished.
Christ wrote on the ground when a woman taken in adultery was brought before Him. Twice He wrote on the ground, no doubt showing us that He who wrote on the tables of stone will write again, but this time on tables of the human heart.
To be continued.