A Spiritual House!
1 Peter 2:1-5: "Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! And Hallelujah! A spiritual house to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ! What a revelation! We as living stones are being built up into a spiritual house-The Church. Hear again! Spiritual House, Not a Physical house, What a Word! And In This Spiritual House -The Body of Christ: We are the holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ! Remember, God never intend for you to focus on your physical building-
John 4: 21 to 24: "Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will do homage to the Father neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem. You do homage to what you do not know; we do homage to what we know, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will do homage to the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father seeks such to do homage to Him. God is Spirit, and those who do homage to Him must do homage in spirit and truth."
Matthew 18:18 to 20: "Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be, having been bound in Heaven; and whatever you loose on earth will be, having been loosed in Heaven. Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will come to pass for them from My Father in Heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! For where two or three are gathered together in My name! a truth Church is functioning! a spiritual house is form! What a power!
2 Samuel 7:1-13: "Now it came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house, and Jehovah had given him rest from all his enemies all around, that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am dwelling in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is dwelling inside tent curtains. And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart, for Jehovah is with you. And it happened that night that the Word of Jehovah came to Nathan, saying, Go and say to My servant David, Thus says Jehovah: Would you build a house for Me to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but have moved about in a tent and in a tabernacle. Wherever I have moved about with all the children of Israel, have I spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, Why have you not built Me a house of cedar? Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: I have taken you from the pastures, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel. And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, without being disturbed; nor shall the sons of unrighteousness afflict them anymore, as before, since the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. And Jehovah has declared to you that He will make you a house. When your days are fulfilled and you have rested with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for My name…