God's Holy Temple [Part 2]

Allen Wright, pastor, Bible teacher and author of his latest book, the power to bless wherever they need to be corrected in your life if you want to know that God is speaking to you point out your sin, but as he does so to be drawn into him last running into your father's arms because he loves you so nonsense over your life to flourish.

See you being who you actually are Allen Wright to another message of good news that will help you see your life for no whole new light. I've been excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series belonging to God as presented at renewal the church in North Carolina. If you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now. It can be yours for your donation this month to Alan Wright histories as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today's special offer. Contact us at pastoralan.org or call 877-544-4860 877-544-4860. More on that later in the program but now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright during this time the very meeting place between God and humanity. The holiest place on our very longing of our lives was to have it rebuilt and wanted and then rebuilt and never see it torn down and you're gonna say destroy this temple you're going to rebuild it in three days. As long as it takes to rebuild the temple there furious and this saying of Jesus was used to mock him the rest of his life, even to the point that he was on the cross. The Texas people came and wagged her head at him and said, look at him. He said this is the one who said he destroy the temple and rebuild it. He can't even save his own life. Even the thieves next on the cross joined into the mockery destroy this temple. Jesus was not only speaking prophetically about the fact that in 70 A.D. indeed that temple would be destroyed, and has never been rebuilt, but he was speaking about something altogether glorious that day that he drove out the money changers and he said this whole system has to go. He was saying that this process by which people, desperately looking for an adequate sacrifice to make. This is coming to an end for a new covenant was being inaugurated the system of the law. The system of sacrifices system of ritual at the temple. All of it coming to an end for Jesus himself was the Lamb of God who came to take away the sin of the world. He is the one who Hebrews 1010 said has made us holy because he is entered once and for all figuratively into the holy of holies and sprinkled his own blog. There so that anyone who would accept Christ is no longer on us under a system of coming to an altar to offer a sacrifice whereby you can be accepted by God.

When you become a Christian, you are not accepted by God by any of your own sacrifices you are accepted by God solely by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ destroy this temple tear down the old to make way for the new for the old is gone and the new has come a new covenant of grace.

Jesus and the temple considered to be the holiest place. There is an interesting mid ration that Jewish rabbinical commentary that is been developed over the centuries regarding Psalm 79 that caught my fascination that Psalm has an introductory note that says it is a song of Asaph, and it is actually a song that is a great lament over the destruction of the temple Psalms as God the nations have invaded your inheritance. They've defiled your holy temple. They reduce Jerusalem to rebel and in the mid ration student had once asked a rabbi.

The question, why do Psalm 79 have as its introductory note that it is a Psalm or a song of Asaph. Shouldn't it be called a lament of Asaph. How can there be anything praiseworthy about the destruction of the temple. So the student asked the Rabbi answered with an interesting parable. He said suppose there was a king whose son was to be married and in the king's joy of the upcoming wedding. He built a magnificent nuptial home for his parents and his future daughter-in-law shortly before the wedding, the Prince went wayward and fell into sand and refused to be married the king and his anger went and destroy the beautiful home that he built for us on a minstrel who might've played at the wedding.

Seeing the destroyed house picks up his flute and begins to play. A passerby asked why does the minstrel play when the house has been destroyed and the minstrel answered putting down his flute. I play for joy that the king took out his wrath on stones and would rather than on his son and the Rabbi answered the student God vented his wrath upon wooden stone and did not vent his wrath upon Israel, so it is a song of Asaph. It is a extraordinary little piece of midrash because you see what God, in the end did in Jesus Christ. Was he did let his wrath, not upon wooden stone but upon his only begotten son. And therein and there and only through the destruction of the body of Jesus, where he became sin who knew no sin through that Jesus said I will then in a resurrection raise it up and anybody who is in Christ, therefore, has become in grafted into the new temple which is Jesus Christ. The implications of this are mindbending.

Please think about it all week long as I think about being the temple of the Holy Spirit. I just got to keep saying this must be one of the most mis-believed versus in all the Bible. If we really believe this.

Oh my, you Christians are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Can you imagine the implications of such a thought at Pentecost.

We had the new Sinai there shaking and quaking and there is fire this time as tongues of fire that come upon every believer and the Holy Spirit is now poured out upon all flesh instead of being relegated to keep the distance from the holy presence of God.

Now to the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The believers encounter God directly.

It means that you're the temple of the Holy Spirit that God has wanted and chosen through Christ to make it possible for his desire to come true and that is to be with you at all times and all places God wants to be with you at all times and all places. He wants to be up close and personal with you. He wants to share his glory with you. He wants to share his inheritance with you it was to share his holiness with you. He wants to share his truth with you. He wants to share his joy with you everything that God has everything that God is he wants to make available in your life by making you his holy habitation wherever you are, therefore God is wherever you go God go.

This means that if God is in you that not only everywhere you go. God is with you and God goes, but it must necessarily also mean that whatever God can do, wherever he is, must be possible through you, no matter where you are and what time it is. It means that when you are against adversity and you do not know how it is that you would possibly face it, it means that God is there with you powerfully on your behalf talent right will have more teaching moment from today's important series and knocking for nine days in a row. Someone tells you, I love you my letter for site when you feel cherished.

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Today's teaching now continues here once again is Alan Wright now in Reno pastor this week who said his little girl wanted so bad to go out and play in the backyard soccer with her older siblings and neighborhood kids are older they like honey, but there's so much bigger than you and she does bag and bag to finally he let her go out there and sure enough within about five minutes she fell down got nearly trampled and was crying her eyes out. He went out there and he scooped her up and he said well you're all right you're alright and she said, but I still want to play and so that he did something very interesting. It is when out and held her in his arms and play the game for while she giggled and laughed the whole time were the one who was so little now. The biggest one on the field so you are so big on the inside because you have God inside of the every time that your against those it seemed faster, bigger, and threatening after member on the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Everywhere I go. Therefore, God goes everywhere. I am God is everything God can do can happen in and through me. It means that every part of your being, spirit, soul and body is impacted by a new identity that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

So the Bible doesn't teach that the body is bad in the spirit is good about the Bible teaches that the entire spirit, soul and body created by God in the image of God is good God made you in his own image is not that the body of badness.

Good God has redeemed all of you and one day you're going to get a whole new heavenly body but in the meantime you are spirit, soul and body, but your one person, and so the things are going. Your spirit are affecting the things that going her mind with things that are going on in your mind are affecting everything that goes on in your body that everything is going on in your body is linked also to your spirit. This is what Paul say that's why say a man can't go and just join himself to a prostitute and say well it's just a thing in all of the body says no you not understand your body is actually members of Christ. The understand your your body, your physical body. Your presence here on earth. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit. So you're the very hands and feet of Jesus. Jesus is not here in the flesh is hereby spirit. We are here are the ones that are in the flesh.

Now all over, all over this entire globe a great city of St. spread all over everywhere and everyplace meeting here today meeting over another campus. On the other side of town meeting underground and China everywhere. The body of Christ is there is a temple of the Holy Spirit and God is just saying it matters very much.

Therefore what you're doing with your temple and in the context of this you must understand that the way in which God and the way in which Paul is bringing us to the point of the conviction of the Holy Spirit is he never tried to correct our sin by telling us how wretched of a center we are, but the way in which are called out of lifestyles of sin and by and be reminded of who you actually are. This is a man who calls us saints, and now in correcting some of the gross sexual immorality that was taking place. Even amongst the Christians in the Corinthian church is calling them up and out of it by reminding them near the temple of the Holy Spirit. You always always always always always always going to go further and gain more victory by a proclamation of who you are, rather than a condemnation of who you are. Jesus came not to condemn but to say and so wherever they need to be corrected in your life if you want to know if it's God is speaking to you point out your sin, but as he does so to be drawn into him with vast whole running into your father's arms because he loves you so. And he wants us over your life to flourish and see you being who you actually are.

I read this week about father who had to discipline his son Andy and told him that the sun continued in this behavior he was going on is that it was frightening so the board did any to be discreet and a lot of people around the father took him into the into the bathroom and the crazy spankings bottom not abuse well-adjusted is the gentle but in the form of discipline and an ascendancy admitted his discipline. The little boy just threw himself into his father's arms just threw himself and his father's and just wept and said that am so sorry. I'm so sorry I'm so sorry and so sorry love you daddy, I love you I love you a lot and the father said will sign them. I love you to all of you so so much and he said I'm I'm almost surprised that your response to know and the boy said that he said that I looked to blog while I was while you were quite used by me. I could see in the mirror and I could see your face and I freelance for the first time how much it hurt you have to discipline me to understand the discipline alone which understand the love of the Lord because his love is.

This is profound in its infinite and tell you how God will change your life and take you from this level to this level. As you recognize yourself as a temple of the Holy Spirit and you know what Jesus called the Holy Spirit and the helper, the advocate the power of Plato's the one who comes alongside. He is perhaps the best time for the Holy Spirit. The encourager is the best teacher in the world's greatest encourager in the world around this week of a state educational initiative in a particular state when they saw to help some students who were lagging far behind their peers with a remedial program and they funded it and they brought in some new materials and the had a select group of students that they were studying to see if it would work and in its remedial program. What they found was that almost none of the students made any real progress, and despite all the funding all their initiative wasn't working and they finally concluded that the students for the problem was they they knew they were in this remedial program and that somehow they didn't have any initiative because they just felt stuck with the stigma of being students or behind others. All except one student whose name was Edie and she progressed wonderfully and faction Kim Berg and came all the way up to the same level as she should be added, her age and so the researchers decided will recertify when I went Edie and I came to Edie's teacher and they they knew only know about Edie was that she was a track star for the team. The car sweetie, Edie, and that's all that I knew but they did know what is became the teacher they said what have you done differently when Edie is in it into anything different. Is it what did you think hard to use any other books. She said no.

I use exactly books prefer to use all the other students said did you bring any additional curriculum to bear.

And this she said no and I didn't do the simplest thing that they must be something that is happened with either different other students because she's the only one that has grown and excelled through this and finally is almost an afterthought.

The teacher said well did you know that Edie runs track this at all. Yet we for a speedy and she said well I started going to attract mates and charm for that's only thing I know is changed sometimes it is one person begins to cheer for you and encourage you. Every other dimension of your life will come up. Wonder if the spirit of the living God when they're encouraging you at every moment we do not bring up every facet of your life.

The temple was the holiest place to the Jews, of all the earth, they believed, by tradition, that it was the very spot that holy of holies the God first form and amount of the death. They believe that it was at that spot where God would meet humanity and his glory would be manifest in Jesus and destroy that by the Holy Spirit was to come. When you except Jesus Christ bends your mind. The Scripture clearly teaches you now are that temple you have become the holiest spot on earth which means not only of God with you, but all things are possible in the NSA gospel: right. There's good news here today in the teaching God's holy temple from the series belonging to God.

Alan is with us here in the studio and were back in a moment with additional insight on this for your life in our final word today and for 99 days in a row. Someone tells you, I love you I'll never forsake when you feel cherished. The what would happen if I'm hundred same person inside that sugar get enough.

Any measure abound. The Colletti anymore. When that one day contaminate the meaning of the other 99 days when 1% unconditional love poison. The other 99% will just 1% of lies enough to spoil grace instead of locking introducing unlimited capacity for fear if I don't measure up. When my having rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church. They pass Apollo is outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Alan Wright's 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free, and empower you with pure grace.

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Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor and dialect you said earlier in our teaching a few days ago. Even maybe even practicing some of this out loud today claimant and believe that in see yourself as God's holy temple you would get further in your ongoing spiritual growth and sanctification. If instead of getting up in the morning and say well I want to try to be holy today and I'll try to be worthy of of God in some way you be much you get much further. I believe by stating your real identity to coin the word of God going to Hebrews chapter 10 is I have been made holy and then if you want to even go deeper about the reality that you say I'm God's holy temple where I go therefore God's going test, which is an incredible thought that it is just extraordinary to think that from the earliest times in Israel.

The temple was known to be the holiest place on earth is the meeting place of God and man.

And then when Jesus came he was that temple, and in him God in an humanity met but now we the church.

We are his temp.

We are the very habitation of God, and it proves we must be the God, the holiest place on earth extraordinary. Today's good news message listener supported production Alan White ministries