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April 18 – Ephesians 2:19-22
Ephesians 2:19-22
Anybody can go through life tearing things down. Christians are here in this world to help build things up. Why? Because God is a builder. Jesus said, “I will build My church.” And Paul talks about this building program in Ephesians 2:19-22. He speaks to the saved Gentiles and says, “Now, therefore, you are no more strangers and sojourners but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing unto a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.”
Have you ever thought about the habitations of God in the Bible? God walked with man in the garden, and then man sinned and man was cast out of the garden. And then the only way man could come to God was through the blood sacrifice on the altar. God had Moses build a tabernacle and God dwelt in the tabernacle. Then they built a temple and God dwelt in the temple. Alas they sinned and God left his temple. And then God came down to earth in the person of His Son, the Lord Jesus. “And He tabernacle among us and we beheld His glory” (John 1:14). And then they crucified Him.
Where is God dwelling today? In His Church, all the building is growing together. What a picture we have of Christians. We are citizens of God’s country, we are saints, we are children in God’s family. We belong to the household of God. We are living stones in the temple and this temple is growing day by day as people are being saved. What a privilege it is to be the habitation of God through the Spirit.
Are we living like that? Is our body as the temple of the Holy Spirit and His Church as the habitation of the Holy Spirit all that it really ought to be? Can people look at us and glorify God and say, “They are the habitation of God!”? What a privilege we have to be God’s citizens, God’s saints, God’s children; God’s temple all to the glory of God.
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Anybody can go through life tearing things down. Christians are here in this world to help build things up. Why? Because God is a builder. Jesus said, “I will build My church.” And Paul talks about this building program in Ephesians 2:19-22. He speaks to the saved Gentiles and says, “Now, therefore, you are no more strangers and sojourners but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing unto a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.”
Have you ever thought about the habitations of God in the Bible? God walked with man in the garden, and then man sinned and man was cast out of the garden. And then the only way man could come to God was through the blood sacrifice on the altar. God had Moses build a tabernacle and God dwelt in the tabernacle. Then they built a temple and God dwelt in the temple. Alas they sinned and God left his temple. And then God came down to earth in the person of His Son, the Lord Jesus. “And He tabernacle among us and we beheld His glory” (John 1:14). And then they crucified Him.
Where is God dwelling today? In His Church, all the building is growing together. What a picture we have of Christians. We are citizens of God’s country, we are saints, we are children in God’s family. We belong to the household of God. We are living stones in the temple and this temple is growing day by day as people are being saved. What a privilege it is to be the habitation of God through the Spirit.
Are we living like that? Is our body as the temple of the Holy Spirit and His Church as the habitation of the Holy Spirit all that it really ought to be? Can people look at us and glorify God and say, “They are the habitation of God!”? What a privilege we have to be God’s citizens, God’s saints, God’s children; God’s temple all to the glory of God.