The Breath Of God Is Also His Spirit Deposited In Man.

INTROD: Whilst all sorts of things are being taught in many different types of churches. The truth of the matter beside what you are about to read is. To God counted as pride, self seeking, vainglorious and vanity.

All these things including wealth, fame seeking pastors, miracle sorting, and dubious prophetic pronouncements are vanity. It doesn't qualify one to be a great man of God. Maybe better put man of occults.

Sooth sayers ministries; and false personalised prophecies,magical ministrations (prompting people to kill other's, and sort all sorts or go after principalities to back their respective ministries) have been foretold. This is the order of many ministries today.

The membership of some of these so called great ones or churches are called audience or crowds. Or equivalent to merely money making or generation machines. It's members are tossed about by their smart founders ( many of them are cult followers or religious, group or institutions).

No one except the Lord Jesus Christ is the founder of Christianity. His name given to Him by the Father says it all. No, no ! for God's sake we are not flock of these persons; and so refuse to be for any one, except the Lord Jesus Christ.

Run away from such occultic and mob associations. Your spiritual growth which matters most is very uncertain there. Seek and go to where Christ is King. Have a personal relationship with Christ.

Such groups doesn't come from God or approved by Him. (Remember it also happened during the time of Jeremiah).

From the moment the Christian is spiritually born again. God revives the sleeping spirit in your corrupted body. It is only your spirit which the Spirit of God start working with from within you. The fuel or food for that is Christ; the word of God and (referred to as the bread and wine of His body).

However, for many of us it will take time to learn to depend on our spirit to surrounder totally to the Spirit of God. Hence the gentle or fruitful character James spoke about takes time to show any development.

The church in the world today has many who depends on their mental know how. The work of the church by such is by the efforts of their leaders and members. That is also wrong.

For some, the spiritual revival may not happen at all as they follow the kind of churches like the above and had earlier described. All their joy, benefits and enjoyments are selfish temporary and earthly beneficial. It also turn them into social,entertainment organisations.

BODY :The work of God's grace and His transformation works best with the saints who also know the word of God and Christ personally. It is their lives food and breath. Such saints bind well together as a church in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Spoon feeding these religious organisations are a waste of time. Remember your doctor heals you best when you take the physician's proscription correctly or in the approved manner.

So does a mechanics referring correctly to the maintenance booklets; of the make of car or equipment. Does an excellent job.

Our Work, Behaviour, and Person must Match the Church as the House of God. In the individuals who constitute the Church. Paul writing in 1 Tim. 3:15 : "But if I delay, I write that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth".

This week we shift our focus to the Church as the Temple of God – The Goal of God’s Eternal Economy, and more specifically we want to see our need to go on with the Lord from the “tabernacle church life” to the “temple church life”.

We need the Lord’s mercy that we be poor in spirit to see new lights and receive revelation from the Lord concerning how He wants us to go on with Him. He is working with and in the midst of His church.

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The goal of God’s eternal economy is the church as the temple of God, and we need to go on from the tabernacle church life to the temple church life. The tabernacle and the temple are the center of the Old Testament and the consummation of the New Testament.

In John 1:14 we see that the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us, and at the end of John 2 the Lord said, Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up (He spoke of the temple of His Body).

In His resurrection Christ’s Body has been enlarged to become the divine and mystical Body of Christ, which is actually the corporate temple of God. The true saints who foresake it all and follow Christ as obedient disciples do to the end of the New Testament. In Rev. 21:3 we see that the New Jerusalem is the tabernacle of God for God’s dwelling, and in v.22 the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are the temple for God’s people to dwell in. That is why you're born of the Spirit and baptized into the Trinity/Triune God.

In between these two book ends of the New Testament we see the temple church life, and when the New Testament mentions the church it is not in the aspect of the tabernacle but the temple.

The church is the house of the living God, the temple of God (1 Tim. 3:16). We as living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, the temple of God (1 Pet. 2:5). We are God’s fellow workers, and the saints are God’s cultivated land, God’s building (1 Cor. 3:9). Are you still with me?

We are the temple of God, if the Spirit of God dwells in us; the temple of God is holy, and so are we (1 Cor. 3:15-16). We are the temple of the living God (Eph. 6:16). God is making us pillars, and He is building us into the temple of God (Rev. 3:12), which is the Triune God Himself (Rev. 21:21).

We are being built into the Trinity/Triune God to be a corporate temple. This is what the Lord desires to gain in this age: the temple church life.

PRAYER:May the Lord put in us an aspiration to go in Him from the tabernacle church life to a temple church life!

Christ has Gained us that we might Gain Him to be Built up into Him to be a Corporate God-man

Phil. 3:12 "Not that I have already obtained or am already perfected, but I pursue, if even I may lay hold of that for which I also have been laid hold of by Christ Jesus".The meaning of the name “Habakkuk” is “embracing” or “clinging to”, revealing to us that in Christ God became a man to embrace us and gain us so that we might cling to Him and gain Him (Hab. 1:1).

Paul testified in Phil. 4:12-13 that he didn’t obtain or was he already perfected, but he pursued that he may lay hold of that for which he has been laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Christ laid hold of Paul and seized him, and now Paul wanted to lay hold, seize, grasp, and take possession of Christ so that he may gain Christ. Is that the aim of the church you go to?

This is a mutual seizing and grasping. Christ has laid hold of us; He has seized us, grasped us, and took possession of us, so that we may lay hold of Him, seize Him, grasp Him, gain Him, and take possession of Him, so that Christ may be built into us and we may be built into Him for the church life as the temple of God to come into being.

Therefore we today need to do one thing: we need to forget the things which are behind (both the good and the bad, both the success and the failure) and stretch forward to the things which are before, so that we may pursue Christ toward the goal – the fullest enjoyment of Christ, the fullest gaining of Christ!

We need to forget what’s behind us and stretch forward to the vast, unexplored territory of Christ in our spirit for the fullest enjoyment and gaining of Christ! Amen!

Christ has gained us that we may gain Him so that He can be built into us and we can be built into Him to be a corporate God-man, the new man, the church as the temple, the house, of the living God, the mutual abode of God and man (see Phil. 3:12-14 cf. Gen. 41:51-52).

THANKSGIVING :Lord Jesus, thank You for becoming a man to embrace us and gain us so that we may cling to You and gain You!

Thank You Lord for gaining us that we may gain You so that You can be built into us and we may be built into You to be the church as the temple of God!

Lord, we want to forget the things behind and stretch forward to the things which are before that we may gain the vast all-inclusive Christ and be gained by Him for the building up of the church as the temple of God!

Our Work, Behaviour, and Person must Match the Church as the House of God

WARNING : Ezek. 43:10 You, O son of man, describe the house to the house of Israel, that they may feel humiliated because of their iniquities, and let them measure the pattern.In Ezekiel 43:10-12 God tells Ezekiel to show the pattern of God’s house to His people so that they may be exposed, shamed, and convicted, and so that their person, work, and behaviour may be measured by God’s house.

If the world doesn't appreciate your church it means that the element of God in man bear witness to them. Hence the many gossip. This is made possible by God, and don't blame it on the accuser. It's funny how many hide behind the accuser.

As believers in Christ, all that we are and all that we do must match the church as the house of God, being according to God’s design and pattern. God’s intention is that His people’s work, behaviour, and person would match the temple of God according to its design, pattern, laws, and statuses.

What does it mean in our daily living? There at least three main aspects to this:

1. Since God’s building is the processed Triune God building Himself into us, we need to be perfected in the church life by the perfected saints, who cooperate with the transforming Spirit to perfect others with the attributes of the Triune God for their transformation (1 Cor. 3:9, 12, 16-17; S.S. 1:10-11; Eph. 4:11-12; John 14:23).

We need to be open to the Lord and to the saints who are perfecting us so that we may have the Triune God wrought into us in the church life.

As we see in Song of Songs 1:10-11, there are some saints in the church life who cooperate with the transforming Spirit to perfect us and make “plaits of gold” (signifying God’s divine nature) and “studs of silver” (signifying the redemption of Christ) and put them in our hair to fasten it (signifying our submission to God), and they put strings of jewels around our neck (signifying our submission to God by the transforming of the Spirit).

We need to be open to the Lord’s perfecting through the saints so that the Triune God would be wrought into us in our daily living.

The work, behaviour, and person of God’s people must match the church as the house of God, according to His design and pattern (Ezek. 43:10-12).

Since God’s house is spiritual, we must be people who are filled with the Spirit, live by the Spirit, walk by the Spirit, serve by the Spirit, walk according to the spirit, worship in our spirit, serve in our spirit, and overflow with the Spirit to minister the Spirit (1 Pet. 2:5; Eph. 5:18; Gal. 5:16, 25; Phil. 3:3; Rom. 8:4; John 4:24; Rom. 1:9; John 7:37-39; 2 Cor. 3:6; John 6:63; Isa. 66:1-2; 57:15).

God’s house is spiritual, so we need to ask the Lord to fill us with His Spirit moment by moment, and we need to learn to live by the Spirit in our spirit, walk by the Spirit, and serve by the Spirit.

In our daily life we need to worship God in Spirit, serve God in spirit in the gospel of His Son, live and walk by the Spirit, and minister not the letter but the Spirit to give life to others. The Bible has both the letter and the spirit. Which is the one mostly used in your church.

At the same time we need to be poor in spirit, having a contrite spirit and a humble heart, so that God would love to dwell with us and that He would revive our spirit and our heart for the building up of the church as the temple of God.

3. Since God’s house is His heart’s desire, we must be not only His friends but also His companions, who have the most personal and intimate contact with Him, to be used by Him to carry out His enterprise on earth (John 2:17-22; James 2:23; Exo. 33:11).

The church is God’s heart’s desire, and we need to aspire not only to be “friends of God” but companions of God, those who, like Moses, are very near to God’s heart, being according to His heart by living in God’s presence and having God’s presence to the fullest extent.

Only a person who is a companion of God can share a common interest with God and can be used by God to carry out His enterprise on earth.

Lord Jesus, we want to cooperate with Your perfecting through the saints in the church life so that the Triune God may be wrought into our being more and more!

Lord, fill us with the Spirit and keep us in the spirit so that we may walk by the Spirit, serve by the Spirit, walk according to the spirit, worship in our spirit, serve in our spirit, and overflow with the Spirit to minister the Spirit to others!

Lord, we want to be not only Your friends but also Your companions, those who have the most intimate and personal contact with You to be used by You to carry out Your enterprise .

Today when you hear His voice enter into His rest. God be with you the humble and poor in spirit. Eat more from the Lord Jesus Christ.