About This Video
In this teaching, Shawn explores the biblical concept of where God dwells, highlighting three significant "homes": God's initial presence with Adam and Eve, the temple built with specified parts pointing to Jesus Christ, and finally, the embodiment of God in Jesus Christ Himself, as the Word made flesh. The teaching emphasizes the transition from a physical temple, defiled and abandoned, to God's residence in Jesus, reinforcing themes of spiritual embodiment and scriptural truths about God's omnipresence and holiness.
Jesus represents the embodiment of God on earth, showcasing His nature, and through His death, the temple veil was torn, signifying the fulfillment of the law and the reconciliation of humanity with God. Believers, by being born again through faith, become the new temple where God's Spirit dwells, symbolizing a spiritual renewal and forming a collective holy habitation as members of the body of Christ.
Introduction to God's Dwelling Places
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Church Recommendations
Our CHURCH SCOUTS were out and about last week and visited a few wonderful Churches we’d like to recommend with the others.
GRACE COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH 11600 South 1300 East Sandy Utah Pastor Daniel Hornoc Learn the Bible Worship Great children’s programs 20 years in the area Wonderful facility
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor Chuck Bickle Also seen here on TV20 Sunday’s at 9:30 a.m.
Our Church Scouts will be out and about this week as well so Utah Christian Pastors look-out!
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The Concept of God’s Homes
Begin with a casual talk tonight about a biblical truth – where God dwells.
I believe God can be everywhere and anywhere.
Psalms 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
But God has made some very specific places His home.
- FIRST HOME: ADAM AND EVE
God made Mankind in His image. Some think this means physically, but this goes against all the verses that say God is a spirit. Instead, like God, we are composed of three parts – Body, Soul, and Spirit.
(Genesis 1:27 And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female.)
(1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.)
Man is the only creation made in God’s image. Man is therefore, the only creation with a body, a soul, and a spirit. God walked with Adam and Eve in their spirit before they sinned. SinMissing the mark of faith and love—no punishment, just lost growth or peace. – filth, defilement, – separated God from Adam and Eve – and Man. Man is left to operate by our SOUL. Psuche: Will, heart, emotions, ideas, creativity
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- SECOND HOME: THE TEMPLE
First it was a tabernacle, then Solomon made it a temple. This word TEMPLE is generally used in the OT Scripture and Gospels as the sacred house erected on the summit of Mount Moriah for the worship of God.
"the temple" (1Ki 6:17); "the temple [R.V., 'house'] of the Lord" (2Ki 11:10); "thy holy temple" (Ps 79:1); "the house of the Lord" (2Ch 23:5,12); "the house of the God of Jacob" (Isa 2:3); "the house of my glory" (Isa 60:7); "house of prayer" (Isa 56:7; Mt 21:13); "an house of sacrifice" (2Ch 7:12); "the house of their sanctuary" (2Ch 36:17); "the mountain of the Lord's house" (Isa 2:2); "our holy and our beautiful house" (Isa 64:11); "the holy mount" (Isa 27:13); "the palace for the Lord God" (1Ch 29:1); "the tabernacle of witness" (2Ch 24:6); "Zion" (Ps 74:2; 84:7). Christ calls it "my Father's house" (John 2:16).
There is only ONE TEMPLE geographically in the Bible and it was constructed with exact specifications from God. Why? Because it all pointed to Jesus Christ. All of it. (Too much time maybe another time)
The summit of Mount Moriah, on which the temple stood, is now occupied by the Haram esh-Sherif, i.e., "the sacred enclosure" on which presently stands the Mohammedan mosque called Kubbet es-Sahkra i.e., the "Dome of the Rock," or the Mosque of Omar. This mosque covers the site of Solomon's temple. This is the only temple site ever recognized by the Jews.
Like God, like Adam and Eve, the temple was constructed of three parts – an outer court, an inner court, and a Holy of Holies. It was in the Holy of Holies that God made His home on earth. A sanctified high priest would go once a year and offer sacrifice therein.
- rope around waist
- veil two teams of oxen (McGee)
About the time Jesus started His ministry, this temple was defiled. In John 2:16 Jesus said “make not MY FATHER’S house an house of merchandise.” Later, because it had been defiled, God abandoned this house AND ITS PURPOSES. Jesus then referred to it to the Jews as “your house.” (Matthew 23:38).
- THIRD HOUSE: JESUS CHRIST
Without a temple, God’s edifice, where did God go? To His third house. Even JESUS CHRIST
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
The Home of God
Full of grace and truth. Jesus was the home of God, a perfect Home, a sinless home. Jesus was God in the flesh. He revealed to us the nature of God.
John 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body.
Was this God’s final home? Did God move into Jesus and never move out? No. Like Adam, a tripartite being, like the temple, a tripartite building, Jesus, a tripartite God, too was defiled by sin – our sin. And God, like he did in Adam, like He did with the physical temple, moved out. Causing even Jesus Christ – sinless, perfect, and glorious God to cry: “My God, My God! Why has thou forsaken me?”
When Jesus died, the thick, carpet-like temple veil was rent from the top to the bottom: meaning, God tore it in half, not man. Why did God tear it in half? Because it was finished.
God's Final Home: Regenerated Believers
It symbolized the fulfillment of the Law in Jesus, the gulf being transfixed, for as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Jesus said you must be born-again. This means you will be given a new, cleansed spirit in which God can dwell. Jesus sanctifies this spirit in us as our great High Priest. Our faith in Him justifies us. God will not abandon those in whom He’s moved in because it is the work of Jesus that maintains the holiness of the temple in which God resides!
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
2 Corinthians 6:16 for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Greek Words for Temple
TWO INTERESTING GREEK WORDS FOR TEMPLE
See Greek 2413 (hieros) neuter of 2413; a sacred place, i.e. the entire precincts (whereas 3485 denotes the central sanctuary itself) of the Temple (at Jerusalem or elsewhere):–temple. Hee-er-on is the Greek word used in the Gospels for temple. IT means the actual building.
See Greek 3485 (naos) from a primary naio (to dwell); a fane, shrine, temple :–shrine, temple. Compare 2411. SEE THE GOSPEL OF JOHN’S VERSION OF THIS BECAUSE IT IS TEMPLE(heiros), TEMPLE (heiros) TEMPLE (naos).
Have temple edifices gone away? Not in two distinct ways. First, the Bible says that the temple will be rebuilt. This is a biblical reality. Second, the Bible also states that believers now make the physical temple spiritually:
Ephesians 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Before we go to the phones, viewers must know that you become a temple for the spirit of God via spiritual rebirth by faith. As a member of the body of Christ, you then become neatly “fit together” with other believers to make up for a corporate holy habitation for the Lord. LDS temples have no relation to Ancient Israel’s singular edifice – either in what they were for, or what they are used for. The Veil was rent in two.
More next week on what the LDS temples actually replicate.
Now let’s go to the phones.
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