1 Timothy 315 you also as living stones are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ 1 Peter 25 ID: 558530
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“… I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
1 Timothy 3:15
“… you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 2:5Slide3
A sanctified house for spiritual worksSlide4
The Messianic house would be a house of prayer.
Exaltation of the mountain of the house of the L
ORD
(Isa. 2:2, 3)
Bringing in the joined-to-the-L
ORD to the LORD’S holy mountain and house (Isa. 56:1, 6-7)Through the gospel (Eph. 2:11-13, 19)Under the new covenant (Heb. 8:6-13)Slide5
Jesus cleansed the temple to teach: keep His house holy (Mark 11:15-17).Slide6
Jesus cleansed the temple to teach: keep His house holy (Mark 11:15-17).
The restored temple with surrounding courts:Slide7
Jesus cleansed the temple to teach: keep His house holy (Mark 11:15-17).
Jesus used the Messianic prophecy to emphasize the principle of the divine purpose of God’s house.
“House of prayer”
amplifies the proper reverence, attitude and approach before God to be upheld in His house.
The end does not justify the means!Slide8
The church is a sanctified house for God’s prescribed works.
God’s building upholds holiness by building properly on the foundation.
“For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. . . . Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.”
1 Corinthians 3:9, 16-17Slide9
The church is a sanctified house for God’s prescribed works.
His household is a pillar and support of truth.
“… I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
1 Timothy 3:15Slide10
The church is a sanctified house for God’s prescribed works.
Christ’s body of saints builds up one another in the unity of faith and knowledge.
“… for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,…”
Ephesians 4:12, 13Slide11
The church is a sanctified house for God’s prescribed works.
His spiritual house proclaims the excel-
lencies
of God.
“… you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ
. . . . You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light”
1 Peter
2:5, 9Slide12
The church is a sanctified house for God’s prescribed works.
This spiritual house removes the leaven of wickedness.
“Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are unleavened. . . . But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.”
1 Corinthians 5:7, 13Slide13
The church is a sanctified house for God’s prescribed works.
Men have added works and ministries which the Lord’s house of prayer was not built to do:
s
ocial events, recreational activities, entertaining performances, community charity programs, family services, man-made institutions, etc.Slide14