When the unchangeable Scripture states that the Father will love the individual who guards and obeys the words of Jesus, and that the Father and the Son will come to him and make their eternal abode with him, then this is precisely what shall take place.

Here is the omega of redemption, the goal of salvation, the third work of grace.

The holy blood of the cross gives us the right to enter the program of building the House of God.

The Holy Spirit gives us the wisdom and power to accomplish the program of building the House of God.

Now it is time for the seventh angel to sound. Now it is time to build the House of God. The mystery is finished. The mystery of the Gospel is Christ in us—the hope of the Divine Glory that will come into the Church and then flow out to the saved nations of the earth.

And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time [delay] no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. (Revelation 10:5-7)

The finishing of the House of God will not be accomplished by any ability of mankind but by the Spirit of God.

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. (Zechariah 4:6)

Ephesians, Chapters Two and Three Describe the Third Work

The stage is set by the declaration concerning the "one new man."

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; (Ephesians 2:15)

The one new Man consists of the Jews and Gentiles who are part of Christ. All Christian teaching that would separate the Jews and Gentiles who are part of Christ, such as the doctrine of the catching up of a Gentile Church to Heaven while a Jewish kingdom is on the earth, the two brides of the Lamb, and so forth, are error. It utterly is impossible to understand the Scriptures when one holds to the two-kingdom concept or in any manner divides the one Body of Christ.

Next we notice God's intention in the third work of grace:

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 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 2:20-22)

To be continued.