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Daily Bible Thought: Faithful Over God's House

Heb.3:5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, 3:6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Moses was not God's temple upon earth, in fact, once the tabernacle was completed, and dedicated Moses could not enter into the holy of hollies, only the high priest could once a year. Christ is God's temple, one temple, one faith, one God, one Christ, and we through Christ as many members, but one in Christ belonging to God as his temple.

Heb.12:18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, 12:19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, 12:20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned{TR adds "or shot with an arrow" [see Exodus 19:12-13]};"{Exodus 19:12-13} 12:21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."{Deuteronomy 9:19} 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels.

1Cor.3:9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building. 3:10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
3:11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. 3:12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; 3:13 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is. 3:14 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. 3:15 If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. 3:16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you? 3:17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are. 3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

The problem facing the early congregation of God, that is, those anointed by God's Holy Spirit as body members in his temple was one of faithfulness? Not faithfulness to the physical temple, but to the Spirit temple of God. The natural ebb and flow for the flesh is to emphasis all things physical giving loyalty to flesh over the Spirit. Building as it were kingdoms upon earth physically then labeling them from God. In other words, making it man's work, using the the things revealed by the Spirit to God children as foundation stone for institutions of religion where leaders of men are honored.

2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

2 Corinthians 5:16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But let us note a serious warning Moses was faithful to God in the physical things he commanded him to build. However, Christ is God's temple, Christ is the house, he alone is charged with building God a Spirit temple not made with human hands, we are members of Christ Spirit work by faith. We are created as a new creation by Spirit, we are instructed by the head of the temple by Spirit, we must listen to the Spirit, and teach by the Spirit God's living waters. We are members not of flesh and blood, but Spirit, we are feed Spirit to keep us alive in the Spirit, we walk by Spirit, allowing us to live in the Word, Christ, the truth of God.

Luke 12:12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say."

John 1:33 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 4:23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.

John 7:39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

The world, that is, the flesh, the physical things of the flesh does not know, or can know the working of God. Subsequently, there are no institutions of God built by human hands as God's representatives on earth today even if they hold captive some of God's children. The glory was stripped by Christ death and resurrection into the Spirit from all physical things created by the flesh upon earth. All glory was given into one place, where God own glory resides in Christ the head of the congregation of God, God's temple.

Heb.1:1 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 1:2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. 1:3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 1:4 having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.

Habakkuk 2:20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"

Matthew 23:16 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'

1 Corinthians 6:19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own.

God is not building upon earth through the body of Christ things of this earth. The things of God is being built in heaven by Spirit hands of Christ for God's glory to bring all things on earth to nothing through his temple restoring God's name sanctified before all corrupted creation. Christ is doing a priestly work, not a reconstruction work through human efforts. Christ removed sin once for all times, he did not rebuild our mortal bodies into a temple of God, but instead killed our old flesh and its sin so we could enter into the Spirit making us part of God Spirit temple the Christ, as the new heavens where righteousness dwells.

John 2:19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 2:20 The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?" 2:21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Colossians 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. 2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

There is our question of faithfulness, it's not attending religious meeting, doing a work for a physical religion and/or government, nor business as weed Christ teach and practice in the ebb and flow of the spirit coming from their flesh (the world) which always pushes to glorify human efforts. Are we faithful to our head, his work unseen by this world, how are we known of God if its not by his Spirit, which is love? Can we stop the trampling of God's precious things by the power of our flesh, can we convert someone into a new creation? Can we take the weeds out of the field of wheat for God? If we use the flesh, what comes from planting flesh? Do we uses the power of this world, and then label it from God as does false religion, or do we wait upon our life, our strength, our power, our head? Who are we faithful to? Spirit or Flesh?

Isa.40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor?
40:14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? 40:15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

Revelation 3:6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

One is glory in the flesh, the other is an off scouring to this world, one is wisdom of this world, the other is foolishness to this world treated as dung under its foot. Yes, its true, few will find it, fewer less want it that bad, and even fewer still can endure it to the end.

Luke 6:38 "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you.{literally, into your bosom.} For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."

John 3:34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Ephesians 4:7 But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Ephesians 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

Ephesians 4:16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

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