Built
Up A Spiritual House 1Pet 2:5
Understand a matter before we speak it out Prov 3:5. Once it's spoken out of the
mouth then the seeds are sown into the heart and the process is put in motion Matthew
We have to see ourselves as a spiritual building with a
foundation 1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones,
are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. As in a natural building, this
spiritual building consists of firstly a foundation, four corners; bricks
and a roof. Jesus as the foundation 1Co 3:11-12: For other foundation can no man lay
than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this
foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work
shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed
by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any
man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he
shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer
loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet
so as by fire. We know that Gold Silver and precious stones are birthed
out of the fire/magma from the core of the earth. The foundation of this
spiritual house is of pure gold which is Christ and is unshakable. The four
corners/pillars the pastor the prophet the evangelist and the teacher and the
apostle who holds all four ministries and is able to build up/form the
four pillars and lower them into the foundation/Christ Jesus are made up of
silver. The stones/bricks are the people that God will add to us as He sees
fit and Jesus is the very word of God as the corner/centre stone Acts 4:11
but the spirit the word and the Father holde the
whole building together 1Jon 5:5-8 and Colossians 1:17: And he is
before all things, and by him all things consist/hold together.. Our
Father will not add one stone/brick to the walls until the foundation in our
heart is firmly secured as we must be one as a body with the foundation in
order to support the roof. Wood hay and stubble are from the dust of
the earth and are easily burned up but because they are still on the
rock/foundation they shall be saved through the fire by going through the time
of Jacobs’s trouble the
final seven of Daniel.
The aim/focus of the prophet evangelist teacher and pastor Eph
4:11-12 are designed from our Father in
heaven with three objectives: 1.For the
perfecting of the saints, 2. for the work of the ministry, 3.for
the edifying of the body of Christ: To accomplish three goals 1. Till
we all come in the unity of the faith, 2.and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man 3. unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ Eph
Without the unity of the faith we will not see Acts
chapter 2:1 being one accord as a personal reality in our own lives.
It's the Holy Spirit that baptizes
us/immerses us in the word of God who is Christ: John 1:1. The measure
of the fullness is the understanding of Him in us and us in Him and that we may
be one with the Father through Christ and walking in that reality not as
individuals but as a body: Joh 17:22 And
the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;
that they may be one, even as we are one. Then and only then will we see the
Holy Spirit come in power.
If we are led by the Spirit then we are
Sons of God: For as many as
are led by the Spirit of God, they
are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again
to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs;
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him,
that we may be also glorified together Rom 8:14-17.
If we are led by the flesh then our father is the devil
and we follow the lusts of the flesh:
Joh
The fruit of the spirit is easily
distinguished and the works of the flesh are easily distinguished in Galatians
chapter 5. Mat
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