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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Three Works of Grace, #18
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (John 14:2)
John, Chapter Fourteen Describes the Third Work
The fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of John is one of the clearest of the New Testament passages that speak of the third work of grace, the goal of our redemption.
The Father's House is the Lord Jesus Christ. The many rooms in the Father's house are the members of the Body of Christ, the living stones of the temple of which Christ is the chief Cornerstone.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:3)
The Lord Jesus abides eternally in the Bosom of God. He wants each of the members of His Body to be with Him where He is, that is, in the very Center of the Being of the holy Fire of Israel.
In order to prepare a place for us in the eternal House of God, that is, in Himself, which is to bring us into the devouring Fire, the Lord Jesus first had to go to the cross to give us the right to enter God in this manner. Then the Lord Jesus had to go to Heaven and shed forth on each saint the Holy Spirit in order to make it possible for him or her to enter the rest, the House of God.
Christ is the eternal House of God. If we would be a part of that House we must work with the Holy Spirit of God, for it is not possible for man in his own wisdom and strength to become part of the House of God.
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. (Hebrews 3:6)
The Lord Jesus is coming to His people today to help us become a room in the House of God.
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. (John 14:18)
The Lord is standing at the door of each heart. He is knocking. If we will permit Him to do so He will enter our personality and dine with us on His own body and blood. In this manner we become the Wife of the Lamb and the throne of God and the Lamb.
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. (John 14:19)
This is not describing the Lord's second coming in which every eye shall see Him. Rather, this is a coming in the Spirit to His saints so we may begin to live by Him as He lives by the Father. If we would be a participant in the first resurrection from the dead we must be living by the body and blood of the Lord Jesus as He lives by the Father.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. (John 6:57)
To be continued.