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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Heavenly Jerusalem, #12
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe thou hast sent me. (John 17:21)
The habitation of God is set forth in the verse above.
The mystery of the Gospel of the Kingdom is that Christ, the Dwelling Place of the Father, is in us (Colossians 1:27).
Do the Scriptures teach that the saints are living stones in the eternal Temple of God? Do they actually state we are being made the habitation, the resting place, of the Lord God of Heaven?
In whom [Christ] 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)
Again:
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (I Corinthians 6:19)
Again:
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)
Do you agree that the "Father's house" is the Lord Jesus Christ, and that the Church, the Body of Christ, the Wife of the Lamb, is the enlargement of that house?
Christ went to prepare a place for us in the Father's house. He went to the cross so through the atoning authority of His blood we may be accepted of God. This was the beginning of our entrance into God as a living stone in His temple.
Then Christ ascended, giving gifts of ministry to His Church. Through means of these ministries we are brought to unity and maturity, maturity as measured by the stature of the fullness of Christ. Such unity and maturity are required of God's house.
Next, Christ shed forth on the Church the Holy Spirit. If it were not for the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit it would be impossible for us ever to come to the place of being a part of the Father's house.
Today Christ keeps on making intercession for each member of the Body of Christ, for God's elect, until we have been made perfect and complete in spirit, in soul, and in body.
If Christ had chosen to remain as the only "stone" of the Temple of God, the whole character of the Kingdom of God would be different from what it is. Christ alone would continue to be the House of the Father.
In that case, we would be exhorted continually to try to be like Christ, to strive to obey the laws of the Kingdom. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit would remain as the Divine Godhead and the saints, no matter how devout and obedient, would forever be separate from and different in kind from God. They could never truly be in the image of Christ or one in Christ in the Father as Christ and the Father are One.
Such is not the case however. God is making us part of Himself. Christ not only is with us He is in us. This is the central truth of the Kingdom of God. This single fact governs what the Kingdom is in essence. If such true union of God and man was not possible, was forbidden, Christ would have told us so plainly.
To be continued.