Building God’s Temple

Would you be in remorse or be content while on your deathbed? Life is not a joke. Many people depart from the Earth leaving many things unfinished. But we need to prepare ourselves for a good finish and let Christ be the foundation of your life. He was chosen before ages as the tested cornerstone (1 Peter 2.6).

1 Corinthians 3:10-15
By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.

The very first temple in human history was a mobile temple and so is the present era temple which is expressed in two ways - a believer (individual expression) and a group of believers (corporate/ congregational expression) 

Jesus is the first cornerstone that is laid in the building of the temple. Who are the other stones that are laid as the foundation along with Jesus ?

Ephesians 2:19-22
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

Ephesians 4:11-13
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Christ is the chief cornerstone with apostles and prophets as the other foundation stones. Every church on earth must be founded on such a foundation. There will be only one cornerstone and a few foundation stones, but to complete the building we need many living stones.

1 Peter 2:4-7 speaks about these living stones:
“As you come to him, the living Stone--rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him– you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame." Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,"

The living Stone (capital S) is Christ Jesus, He was rejected by humans. Stones do not have life. But God’s children are living stones filled with the breath of the Holy Spirit. We are living stones and each one should build with care and the wisdom in unity that the Holy Spirit gives. God the Holy Spirit dwells in this temple and destroyers of this temple shall be destroyed. 

Many ask where in the Bible it is written that one shouldn’t smoke or drink. Here’s the answer! The brand or substance used in today’s times may not be mentioned in the Bible but the following verse covers it all. 

1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

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