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ETERNAL MANSIONS
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Carlos Padilla, November 2011
...In My Father’s
house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I
go to prepare a place for you. 3And
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to
Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. John 14:2.
...And I will
dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23.
One of the most
encouraging Bible stories that the Lord Jesus Christ uses to teach us about
eternal life is the famous text about what He calls "My Father's house", our
Father's, in Whom there are eternal mansions that He, Himself, is preparing for
us. We can read about these eternal mansions much more than we can see at first
sight, but one of the most relevant features is that those mansions that Christ
refers to is that - besides being eternal - they are there for us, we are the
eternal dwellers, even if we are living on earth now, provisionally, we must
understand that our souls, which are also eternal, are made to His image and
likeness and they are also God's eternal mansions down here on earth until we
are transformed in the glory of Jesus Christ. The Wedding of the Lamb is also
the union of God's dwelling on Heaven with God's dwelling on earth, us, the
Church and every child of God individually.
These
dwellings, rooms, mansions and other terms that have been used in the
translation into different versions and languages, are a magnificent work of
constructive spiritual craftsmanship, reflected in the Temple of
Jerusalem as well as in the human body and in the Trinity, but specifically in
the relationship between God and man, and between the man of God and his
neighbour. A construction of intertwined rooms that permeate every dimension we
perceive, and others that we find harder to
perceive - those that remain unnoticed to whoever does not have the Holy Spirit
inside, and who do not have access to such wonders because they have no faith or
love for God, the Heavenly Father.
Our longing and hope
to live with God, our Father, in His Kingdom, are shown in the fifth
chapter of the second letter of the apostle Paul to the Corinthians, in the
first verse, where he says: ...For we know that if our earthly house, this tent,
is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens... Unfortunately most of the people we find around us are not
dwellings of God's Spirit, for not all have faith, although many of them do, but
have not been preached to ... I say this to your (our) shame ...
1Corinthians 6:5, because we should conquer the world in Jesus Christ's name
announcing His Kingdom, which is also what we have been called to do in the
Great Commission in Matthew 28.
The Church, every
church and every Christian, we must all look up to the Cross and understand that
one of the fruits of the Passion of Christ is the unity of the children of God:
John 11:52. Bearing this in mind and in the heart in Spirit, we must go out
everyday with the purpose of showing everyone the special life we enjoy with Christ, Who
by the Spirit has brought to us an advance, a piece of those eternal
dwellings, the ones we already enjoy within us now, as well as those which the
Lord Jesus Christ is preparing for us in Heaven and where He will take us to in
His coming when ... every eye shall see Him ... Revelation 1.7, so that those
around us have the opportunity, through the Gospel and our witness,
of receiving faith in the Son of God. The faith that transformed us and turned
us into dwellings of the Spirit of Christ, and thus we are instructed to
announce it to those who do not know God yet, that they may also enjoy this
special Life which is a personal relationship with God every day, in addition to
the hope of resurrection and eternal life.
When I say that those
around us are not dwellings of the Spirit of God, we can remember the example of
the lives of certain characters in the Bible who were transformed, such as Mary
Magdalene, out of whom Jesus cast seven demons, the one of the demon-possessed
Gadarene man, and all those who are under bondage to any spiritual power that
controls them in life, against their will, being driven to evil, lust, fornication,
adultery or paedophilia, gender violence, kidnapping, cruelty, terrorism,
murder, theft, rebelling against their parents with violence, faint-hearted
fathers
who give up their authority and leadership in their families, corruption,
blasphemy or spread heresies and lies and a long list of things that we all
know about in this globalized society which has been built by men without God
hand in hand with our enemy, who is fighting to stop man from being in the
eternal mansions and from being God's tabernacle but of the enemy who wants to
destroy humankind.
If we,
as the Bible teaches us, are mansions made for God to dwell inside us, temples
of God...then why does man allow for the devil to dwell inside him? and why,
when man tries to amend himself, he tries to do so with his own strength,
failing, instead of coming to God? Repentance is change of mind, which also
includes accepting that we are slaves to the world and flesh, the message of
John the Baptist, which still applies today. Jesus Christ promises that if we believe in Him, if we love Him and
keep His Word and His commandments, not just Him but also the
Father would come and dwell inside us. Furthermore, Jesus Christ promises us
that the Holy Spirit will dwell inside us, and will do so from the moment we
invite Him to come into our heart, yes, with all our sins and devils.
There
is no other possible way of restoring ourselves as God's dwelling, which is
what our Father has designed us for. Jesus Christ, when He comes inside us,
fills us with His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit casts away everything that
is not of God, cleansing us and turning us into God's eternal dwelling, in
temple of the Holy Spirit. The so-called regeneration through the Word of God. The
Gospel brings the Kingdom of God inside us today, and guards us so that we dwell
inside Him throughout eternity. Let us see the eternal mansions in their
different expressions and dimensions:
GOD'S ETERNAL
DWELLING
God's eternal
dwelling is what Jesus calls "my Father's House", where there are many mansions.
This House of God includes His own dwelling and ours, it is God's heart
where Jesus Christ entered once the veil was torn after His death on the
Cross. Jesus is the One who has authority to prepare the rooms inside the
Father's House, as the Text in John 14 says: ...I go and prepare a place for
you..., the place which Jesus is going to prepare for us He has conquered it
first on the Cross so that we have the right to receive it, by His Grace.
The Temple of God in
Heaven, in the New Jerusalem, is also a reference to the House of the Father,
God's eternal dwelling. According to Revelation, Jesus Christ's Revelation,
there is no Temple in the New Jerusalem because the Lord in the Temple and the
Lamb. This is the wonder of God's Revelation in Revelation 21:22 for us,
because we will get to see the literal fulfillment of the Bible prophecy and,
once again, we will also see the spiritual and symbolic prophecy fulfilled in
our real life today, in Christ, since we have Him inside us, He is the Temple of
God.
A CHRISTIAN'S ETERNAL
DWELLING
The Church, and every
individual Christian, are the eternal dwellings where God dwells with His Holy
Spirit in Jesus Christ. Where a Christian goes, there goes the Temple of the
Holy Spirit, the House of the Father, a part of the Christian's eternal mansion;
the other one is in Heaven, in the heart of the Father. Wherever Christians are,
they are the stones that make up the Temple that is the Body of Christ.
Those stones are chiselled at the quarry beforehand, and taken to the temple
once they are finished, like the ones
used to build the Temple of Solomon: 1Kings 6: "And the temple, when it was
being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or
chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built". We,
just like spiritual stones, have been chiselled outside, in the quarry of life by
God's hand, before we came to be part - each one of us in our place - in the
spiritual building of the Church as members of the Body of Christ, joined
together for a brotherly life to fulfill the Great Commission
and do good deeds for the glory of the Lord and for love of our neighbour.
Therefore, no hammer or chisel will be heard in any church - by any pastors,
elders, deacons or brethren who use them emotionally or show partiality for
certain people - because that is God's work, exclusively.
When
we are instilled by the Holy Spirit, we immediately become part of God's eternal
tabernacle in every aspect if
our lives, therefore everything we do in our daily life is in the presence of
God. Again, we are God's dwelling, Temple of God. Our light is the Light of
Christ, the Light of the Spirit that the Father placed in us by means of the
Word, through His mind, by means of the living Logos within us, so
that we give light to our neighbour with the Gospel. Let that light shine from
us, as eternal mansions, to others who live inside the walls
of the symbolic Jericho, of the symbolic Babylon, of the symbolic Egypt, so that
they come out to the freedom of the Spirit in the true City of God, the new
Jerusalem in our souls today and in eternity.
Every
Christian, as part of the Body of Christ, is an eternal mansion and not only
because we are members but also because we have an essential task for the
human being who, in this case, is also a Christian - I am referring to the
friendship with a friend in Christ, not only brotherly love but love of God, true friendship in Christ, a real privilege and a treasure to keep when
we find it. The Church is eternal dwelling because it is the family of the faith, our family, not just here and now but for eternity.
The task of the eternal dweller, whether Christ or ourselves,
is called priesthood. Jesus Christ is Priest according to the order of
Melchizedec, not
Aaron's order. That priesthood which the Master shares with the Church is to
love God, love for those who are lost - bringing the Gospel to them, while
we carry our cross, because God's love is inside us and bringing the Gospel to
our neighbour is our
spiritual target, because when we used to walk in the world
we tried, as the Lord says in Luke 16:9 ... And I say to you, make
friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may
receive you into an everlasting home... so that just like
the unjust steward was tested in worldly things, we must fight for the
spiritual ones, being tested in our faithfulness in what is least, to
receive a lot, since with the Gospel we work so that others can reach the
presence of God, whom they long for. Christ took the Cross of salvation, we take
ours: cross in the intercession of our own Gethsemane, where our souls distill
oil from the olives of the soul, through prayer and the good Samaritan behaviour
of a Christian towards his neighbour showing the life that he lives in his
eternal dwelling in the yoke of Jesus Christ, the eternal priest Who intercedes
for us with with groanings which cannot be uttered by means of His Spirit within us; the Lord loves us so
much daily, every brethren in the faith knows it and can bear witness - we must
all witness to everybody around us!
LET THE WORD OF GOD DWELL IN US
The
Verb of God, the Logos of God was God, John 1:1 says. When Paul said ...
let the word of Christ dwell in you richly ... Colossians 3:16, he is
saying that Christ should dwell within us, that the mind of Christ dwells within
us. If the living Word of God dwells inside us and is the one that transforms
our mind, our heart and our spirit, a life similar to Christ's flows from within
us. We must obviously refer to what Jesus Christ says to Nicodemus
- a famous Pharisee, a scholar of the Law, member of the Sanhedrin and who
defended Jesus Christ before the, and who - together with Joseph of Arimathea would
bury the Lord - in John 3:2, when He taught him that one must be born again from
the Spirit to see the Kingdom of God, if we have really believed that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God and that He has given up His life to cleanse if from
our sins so that we have eternal life. We are spiritual dwelling of the living
Word of God, which flows from our mouth, from our heart, it is in our mind and
is reflected in our way of life, that comes from the eternal tabernacle that is
now within us. This is a truthful statement and hard to understand, but
that is the way it is, we are dwellings of of the Word of God, dwelling of God
and of the Son of God. Therefore we must do as James exhorts us to do: ...But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves...
James 1:22.
LET THE SPIRIT OF THE
LORD DWELL IN US
What we have read so
far touches our heart and demands that we are holy, but the Bible teaches us further
about the Word dwelling in us, stating - as we know - that our bodies are
Temples of the Holy Spirit, and therefore God's eternal dwelling, because
wherever the Lord is there is eternity. "Let the word of Christ dwell in you
richly in all wisdom" 1Corinthians 3:16, this should be our main wish, our
earnest desire, because it means living full of the Life of the Lord by means of
His Spirit, the excellence of the essence of God within us. Our Spirit in
person, our "paraklitos" helper, comforter, counsellor, is who looks after us
living within us, making us eternal dwelling by living inside us and the
starting point for all this is faith in Jesus Christ.
When the Holy Spirit
dwells inside us and we are conscious of it, our mind, our heart and our spirit
have the experience, through our conscience, of living daily and continuously
in the presence of the Lord, listening to His voice, feeling in
our heat they way He feels, and thinking as He thinks. The person of the Holy
Spirit is our comforter, carer, guide; if we don't have him we lose our sense of
direction, like a boat adrift. Again, the Bible teaches us that we should not
grieve the Holy Spirit of God, because He will be scared away like a dove, just as
he descended on Jesus Christ when He was baptized by John the Baptist, he comes
to us like a gentle wind and if we scare Him because of our behaviour in the
flesh, He flies
away. The truth is that He still remains with and inside us, if we are the
Lord's, but he hides so that we seek Him in prayer, or fasting, or crying out to
Him like Jacob fought with the Angel. Pentecost is the peak
historical moment for Christianity, for the Church of Jesus Christ, earned by
means of His blood; but individually for every Christian it is something that
happens to every single one of us and it is a key of the new stage, the New
Covenant or Testament made one with and within us.
PENTECOST, THE FEAST
OF THE BEGINNING OF ETERNAL DWELLING IN US
Pentecost is the
Lord's promise to the apostles, and to the spiritual descendants of
the Gospel, that His Spirit would dwell in them and they would be living and
holy temples, as we born again Christians are, almost two thousand years from
them. Therefore, Pentecost is a spiritual advance of the eternal mansions
within us.
Sometime in June,
depending on Israel's Spiritual Feasts calendar, 50 days after Passover on the
14th of Nisan, we remember the celebration of that famous Pentecost almost
2000 years ago where Jesus Christ's promise to the 12 apostles was fulfilled, amongst
a gathering of 120 Christians, together at such a significant time for the
Church. With this
multiplying effect, where each apostle seemed to bring 10 Christians, the Holy
Spirit manifested Himself and took those holy men as eternal dwellings, anointing them
and pouring the fire of the Spirit over them, transforming them forever. Acts 2.
Those
men, the first ever born again Christians, would never be the same, now they
were walking dwellings of the Spirit of the Living God, living Temples, letters
written in the heart, ambassadors of for the glory of the Lord. Today, the
same Spirit, the same Jesus Christ alive, the same and only God the Father continues to transform,
enable, anoint and bless the same way as then
those who understand that they are made for eternity, for happiness with God in
Christ through the Spirit, and through faith they believe in the hope of the
coming of His Kingdom, which we are already enjoying, even if for the time being
we are in these chains of flesh and worldliness, awaiting the redemption of our
bodies to be transformed in glorious ones the day of resurrection and thus
complete God's work in us, in the Church, in every Christian individually, so
that the whole of our being: spirit, soul and body
is preserved blameless
... 1Thessalonians 5:23 and as eternal dwellings of the Spirit to live in the
rooms which Jesus has gone to prepare in the Father's bosom, where He lives and
where He is sitting on the Throne, at the right of God the Father.
The eternal mansions are God's and our own rest. God created the world in six days and He
rested on the seventh day. A Christian does not complete his journey in the
world - a symbol of his six days - until he gets to know Christ entering in his
own rest, in the spiritual Sabbath, in the Lord's rest. We know that Israel's
feasts are celebrated on special days also called Sabbaths, as the
seventh day of the week. Because of this we live as eternal dwellings in the
mental and spiritual state of the Sabbath and we celebrate the feasts of the
Lord in our heart understanding their spiritual state as Sabbaths, celebrations
in the rest of the Lord, in the eternal dwellings of our being and our
Lord.
Pentecost is the feast of the harvest, spiritual harvest of the fruit of the
Cross of Christ, and the 12 and the 120 were the firstfruits offered to the
Lord by the Son. We also are, and those who receive Jesus Christ through our
preaching, the fruit of the Cross of Calvary where Christ, the eternal Seed,
died so that the Tree of Life would grow and give fruits of eternal life, the
True and Biblical Church; that Church which, far from the model of those
created by men with their own ideas, traditions and heresies, the true Church
that Christ won with His life, is made up of people who have been transformed
into eternal dwellings, "... you will know them by their fruits..."
that are full of the behaviour, the doctrine and the love of God, not pursuing
their own interests but God's, the Church's and their neighbour's. showing themselves as living
temples of the Holy Spirit, taking the Gospel wherever they go, the Good News
that transforms a lost soul and without any direction, in an eternal dwelling
and tabernacle where God
lives through His Spirit in Christ, for our blessing and for the glory
of God the Father.
BIBLE
TEXTS
‘For I will look on you
favorably and make you fruitful,
multiply you and confirm My
covenant with you.
10 You shall eat the old
harvest, and clear out the old
because of the new.
11
I will set My tabernacle
among you, and My
soul shall not abhor you.
12 I will walk among you
and be your God, and you shall
be My people. Leviticus 26:9.
Yea, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil; For
You are with me; Your rod and
Your staff, they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table
before me in the presence of my
enemies; You anoint my head with
oil; my cup runs over.
6 Surely goodness and
mercy shall follow me all the
days of my life; and
I will
dwell in the house of
the LORD forever.
Psalm 23:4.
Oh, send out Your light
and Your truth! Let them lead
me; let
them bring me to Your holy hill
and to Your tabernacle.
4 Then I will go to the
altar of God, to God my
exceeding joy; and on the harp I
will praise You, O God, my God.
Psalm 43:3.
“Let not your heart be
troubled; you believe in God,
believe also in Me.
2
In My Father’s house are many
mansions;
if it were not so, I would have
told you.
I go to prepare a place for
you.
3
And if I
go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again and receive
you to Myself; that where I am,
there you may be also.
4 And where I go you know,
and the way you know.”
5 Thomas said to Him,
“Lord, we do not know where You
are going, and how can we know
the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I
am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father
except through Me.
John 14:1.
Jesus answered and said to
him, “If anyone loves Me, he
will keep My word;
and My
Father will love him, and We
will come to him and make Our
home with him. John
14:23.
But you are not in the
flesh but in the Spirit, if
indeed the Spirit of God dwells
in you. Now if anyone does not
have the Spirit of Christ, he is
not His.
10 And if Christ is in
you, the body is dead because of
sin, but the Spirit is life
because of righteousness.
11
But if the
Spirit of Him who raised Jesus
from the dead dwells in you, He
who raised Christ from the dead
will also give life to your
mortal bodies through His Spirit
who dwells in you.
Romans 8:9.
Do you not know that you are the
temple of God and that the
Spirit of God dwells in you?17
If anyone defiles the temple of
God, God will destroy him.
For
the temple of God is holy, which
temple you are.
1Corinthians 3:16.
For we know that
if our
earthly house, this tent, is
destroyed, we have a building
from God, a house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan,
earnestly desiring to be clothed
with our habitation which is
from heaven,
3 if indeed, having been
clothed, we shall not be found
naked.
4 For we who are in this
tent groan, being burdened, not
because we want to be unclothed,
but further clothed, that
mortality may be swallowed up by
life.
5 Now He who has prepared
us for this very thing is God,
who also has given us the Spirit
as a guarantee. 2Corinthians
5:1.
Let the word of Christ dwell in
you richly in all
wisdom, teaching and admonishing
one another in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing
with grace in your hearts to the
Lord.
17 And whatever you do in
word or deed, do all in the name
of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
to God the Father through Him.
Colossians 3:16.
By this we know love,
because He laid down His life
for us. And we also ought to lay
down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoever has this
world’s goods, and sees his
brother in need, and shuts up
his heart from him,
how
does the love of God abide in
him?
18 My little children, let
us not love in word or in
tongue,
but in
deed and in truth.
1John 3:16.
But I want to remind you,
though you once knew this, that
the Lord, having saved the
people out of the land of Egypt,
afterward destroyed those who
did not believe.
6 And
the angels
who did not keep their proper
domain, but left their own
abode, He has reserved in
everlasting chains under
darkness for the
judgment of the great day. Jude
5.
Now I saw a new heaven and
a new earth, for the first
heaven and the first earth had
passed away. Also there was no
more sea.
2 Then I, John,
saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven from God, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice
from heaven saying, “Behold,
the tabernacle of God is with
men, and He will dwell with
them, and they shall be His
people. God Himself will be with
them and be their God.
4 And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes;
there shall be no more death,
nor sorrow, nor crying. There
shall be no more pain, for the
former things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:1.
CONCLUSION
The eternal Dweller is God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit who
comes to live in our dwelling, our soul, make to the image and likeness of God
and spiritual tabernacle for holiness. The dwelling is the room of the dweller,
the spiritual dweller in our case, the Lord, as the Word says, where it is
revealed that Christ dwells within us through faith, because He who lives in the
light is unaccesible, the same light that is brought to us by the Spirit, the
same that flows from us to witness Him through the Spirit, which the Bible calls
... sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to
His name... Hebrews 13:15. Christ, eternal dwelling of the Spirit, also tells us
that the Father rejoiced that in Him dwells all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily, Colossians 2:9, the same Who dwells inside us; as He also said
when He walked on earth with the apostles regarding the Church, stating that He
would be among us, where two or three are gathered in His name. Jesus became
flesh and dwelt among us. And finally Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her
own place - Jerusalem, and His people will dwell in a peaceful habitation.
David's psalm was the question: Who may abide in Your tabernacle?; today we have
the answer, it is within us through the Spirit, and in the fellowship of the saints, for eternity, because we
are part of the New Jerusalem that will come down from Heaven. See Psalm 15:1,
Isaiah 32:18, Zechariah 12:6, John 1:14, 2Corinthians 5:2, 1Timothy 6:16 and
Revelation 21:9.
The
spiritual dwelling starts on the Cross. A Christian's life follows the shape of
the Cross of Christ, because His feet on the Cross are a symbol of the
foundation of the Gospel of Christ; the legs, bent, are our strength
in prayer; as we go up we reach His core which felt all the
humiliation, and take us to the centre of the Cross, His heart. But before we
go on to His head, we must run accross His two arms. The right arm is a symbol of
the power of the Lod, our faith in salvation and in Him, and the deeds of
the Lord; and the left arm is our mistakes, but also where we learn the mercy of
God's forgiveness, to learn to forgive those who fail, inside and outside the
Church ...do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing
... Matthew 6:3. Going back to the heart, our power is tested through fire of the
Spirit, like gold, so that we can love with God's love.
From here we can go up to the head. If a Christian is not mature, he will be
swallowed by Christ's throat, and back to the starting point. If we go up
through the arteries, inside His Blood, as one single being together with
Christ, in His brain we find His precious mind that reveals to us
His thoughts, ideas, projects, His work today, the Gospel and the Great
Commission. His ears are our ears to hear His Word and His guide. His mouth,
ours, to declare His Word. His nose, our nose, where God blows the breath of
life, Spiritual Life, the Holy Spirit, which He Himself gave up to the Father: ...
into Your hands I commit My spirit ... Luke 23:46. And His eyes to be able to
see through our eyes the way He sees things, and to look at our neighbour with
God's love. This is our experience of the soul, Jesus Christ's soul. That body
should have been ours, but He loved us before the foundation of the world.
The Wedding of the
Lamb is the union of the dwelling of the Lord in Heaven with the dwelling of God
on earth - us, the Church and every child of God individually. Wherever a
Christian goes, there goes the Temple of God, the House of the Father, a part of
the Christian's eternal mansion, the other one is in Heaven, in the heart of the
Father. Therefore, we are spiritual dwelling of the living Word of God, that
flows from our mouth, from our heart, it is in our mind and is reflected in our
way of life, which comes from the eternal mansion? dwelling?, that is now within
us. We are dwelling of the Word of God, therefore be doers of the word, and not
hearers only, deceiving yourselves. When the Holy Spirit dwells within us and we
are conscious of it, our mind, our heart and our spirit have the experience,
through our conscience, of living daily and continuously in the presence of the
Lord, listening to His voice, feeling in our heart the way He feels. Pentecost
is the feast of the spiritual harvest of the fruit of the Cross of Christ, the
true Church that Christ won with His life, is made up of individuals who have
been transformed into eternal tabernacles, "... you will know them by
their fruits ..." who are full of the
behaviour, the doctrine and the love of God, not pursuing their own interests
but God's, the Church's and their neighbour's, like living
temples of the Holy Spirit, taking the Gospel wherever they go, the Good News
that transform lost souls without any direction, into eternal tabernacles where
God
lives through His Spirit in Christ, for our blessing and for the glory
of God the Father.
There are two
conclusions from this Bible Study about Eternal Mansions. The first one is
that, even if we find it overwhelming, we are eternal dwellings because Christ has bought
us with price of blood, His own, and therefore our effort in His grace and
through prayer must be to remain as such, because our beloved God has given His
Son for us. The second one is that through evangelization
and caring for those who receive the Lord for salvation, Jesus Christ
has turned us into carpenters who turn souls into arks of the Covenant through the Spirit, He has turned us into builders of Temples through the Spirit, and he has turned us into
goldsmiths of hearts that are
jewels with precious stones of the love of God through the
Spirit, and therefore in partakers together with Him and under His yoke in
builders of eternal tabernacles through the Holy Spirit, to present Him a holy
and flawless bride, a glorious Church to His
image and likeness because ... But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from
the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give
life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:1. Amen.
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