Sunday Evening, 28 October 2018 with Pastor Jeff Jimenez at INCOMMON Mission Valley Church of the Nazarene in San Diego, California, United States.
The living Temple. We followers of Jesus are the Temple of God.
A picture of the Temple in First Century Jerusalem.
The Holy of holies showed how Holy and Great God is.
The original Temple showed how unholy we are compared to The Holy God.
Story of whipping the money changers and throw over the tables.
The Temple will be destroyed.
Jesus said tear down this Temple and I will rebuild it in three days referring to His own Body.
We are both the priest and temple of God.
1 Corinthians 6
The Body is the Church which is the gathering of the people of God.
Scriptures says that no follower of Jesus is able to be a follower of Jesus alone because we need each other.
When we are not interconnected with other followers of Jesus we loose something.
Scriptures call us to be together with each other. This is Interdependence.
Verse 11- abstain from simple desires to be United together.
The early church was known to be:
1. They did not participate in violent behaviors. We love and believed in people.
2. Early Christians did not participate in the military.
3. Early Christians did not believe in abortion and infanticide.
4. Early church did not participate in sex outside of marriage.
5. Early Christians care for and took care of the poor.
6. Early Christians believed Jesus was the only way.
7. They crosses cultural and economic barriers.
8. Early Christians loved and cared for the strangers.
The truth is that both political persuasions would have problems with the early Christians.
We are to live in Jesus Kingdom the way we care and love all people no matter who they are.
Peter says if we truly follow Jesus we will suffer for our faith.
How can anybody live in Jesus' way?
We do so by Jesus and His power as He lived His life in showing how to live.
To know and follow Jesus is to know that He is the Cornerstone.
The Cornerstone of Jesus is greater than anything.
What am I building my life on? Jesus is the only one for us to build our lives on.
The receiving more of God's power as we take part in the Eucharist.
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