"This is what the LORD says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?"
God is looking for his house, His resting place?
This house is not a building but His people called by His name.
How we build His house?
Good Building Materials
the building materials in God's house must be of the best quality, this does not mean every person is perfect.
it does mean that every person wants love and obey Jesus.
Loves the Light ( a true Christian)
1 John 1:7
"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin."
1 Peter 2:5
"you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."
Loves the Light material were never be destroyed moments of adversity.
Built With Wisdom
We need wise builder
a way of Jesus wants to build using His living stones(we, His people)
It must be built a certain way together in order, to be good house for Him to live in.
We will talk Jesus' house looks like because if we will not build His way, the house will fall when the storms come.
Psalm 27:1
" Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain."
Unless He builds the house our labor in vain.
The house will fall when the storms come.
The Design of the House
Jesus'house is built by His design, NOT ours.
God's people lay down their lives to love and serve each other every single day, as Family.
His Design;
1. Hundreds fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters.
2. Confess our sins one another.
3. Bear one another's burdens
4. One together, as He and Father are one. United.
God's desire is not separate stones just to "attend" but He desire is a family that built together, joined and knit together daily.
This is the house of God. Having a good building materials, built with wisdom and He is the designer.
The storms will come and this house will stand.
We are His house! the one that God looking for.
We are His resting place.
Great article!!
ReplyDelete[Mt.Zion] This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.(Psalms 132:14)
Matthew Henry's commentary of the verse:
"..Zion must be here looked upon as a type of the gospel-church, which is called Mount Zion (Heb. 12:22), and in it what is here said of Zion has its full accomplishment. Zion was long since ploughed as a field, but the church of Christ is the house of the living God (1 Tim. 3:15), and it is his rest for ever, and shall be blessed with his presence always, even to the end of the world. The delight God takes in his church, and the continuance of his presence with his church, are the comfort and joy of all its members."