The Church which is His Body III

The Church Which is His Body III

God has a building program.  Now, we get really excited when we begin to build a new building for the Church.  Many of us call the building’s we build the church.  However, as great of a building we may build it lacks expression of the Lord Jesus.  Now, it may be built to express those who congregate in the building, but the building can never express the Lord.  In fact, you can take that same building that is built for a congregation of believers, then sell it and use it for auto repair.  The building is simply a building, and not the church of the Lord Jesus.  God doesn’t dwell in buildings made with hands.  We need to hear this folks. 

With that said, GOD HAS a building program.  In Exodus when Moses ascended into the Mount and received the pattern.  Moses was told to build the Tabernacle according to the pattern shown in the Mount.  The Tabernacle was not just thrown together by Moses and Aaron, and a bunch of Israelites.  God revealed the pattern in explicit detail.  Everything was in detail, and everything had to be according to what GOD SHOWED OR REVEALED to Moses.  There could be no deviation, or it would be corrupted.    

Peter declared of Jesus, as recorded in Matthew 16, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”  Jesus said The Father in Heaven revealed or showed this to Peter.  Flesh and blood did not reveal it.  Peter’s own intellect did not come to it.  Even Jesus standing there in the flesh did not reveal it to Peter, but The Father revealed it unto Him.  Jesus said, “Upon this rock (He is the Rock) I will build my Church.”  Here is God’s BUILDING PROGRAM. Christ Jesus revealed in you and me.  This is how we are the Church and as the Church how we express Him, Whose body we are.  “When the Holy Spirit shall come, He will take of mine and shew it to You.  The Holy Spirit takes Jesus Christ and reveals Him in our hearts in His death, burial, and resurrection.  Glory to God.