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12/29/2012 recording date. audio/video is 6 minutes takes a few minutes to load so be patient please. Or just read ahead. Also the following week it is air on utube on turtle30cshell channel. Just type in website name when you got to utube. Happy New Year I am your host Christina Farris coming from turtle30cshell. com. Have you made your New Year’s resolution yet? Are you starting a new diet, promising to exercise a little more, stop smoking this year, stop that habit that is getting on everyone nerve, or are you just hoping to get through the New Year with nothing bad happening? Whatever goal you do or do not set this year I hope you much success in achieving it. However as I was thinking about goals, I was trying to think of a Bible Character who set goals for himself. Solomon set a goaled of building the temple. 1 Kings 5:1-5 KJV (1) And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David. (2) And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, (3) Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet. (4) But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent. (5) And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name. Solomon had a purpose. A purpose to build the temple. The temple would begin being built in the forth year of his reign. And would be finished and dedicated the temple 7 ½ years later. A goaled that started long before he was born by his father David. Yet continue in his generation because war was over and the temple could be built. David would not be allowed to build the temple because he had blood on his hands. The temple was a holy place. A place where God would live and dwell among Israel. Yet this is only a representation of God desire to live and reign in our hearts as a child of God. He desires to put His Word in our hearts upon belief and use his word as we go about life’s way sharing the truth about Jesus. The temple just like the law was a shadow of things yet to come. A symbolic of God’s desire to be in the heart of every believer. The temple important to the believer because of his symbolic meaning, but not necessary for survival with God. For faith in God comes without a building, but with the hearing of the Spirit of God speaking to our hearts the things of God. In agreement with other believers. Today as we go forth headed for the New Year let us have a purpose to allow God build the temple in our heart. The temple that is everlasting. The temple that teaches us to follow the Word and Spirit of God. Let us allow God build the temple in our hearts by belief in Jesus, who is the chief cornerstone to build upon. A temple not measured by a tape measure and not by the weight of sin verse good works but the measurement forgiveness and grace, the rod of the shepherd that corrects and cuts the bad parts out and cleanses the believer. The reed that measures the church is the part that takes away anything not belonging in the temple of God. The temple being the believer. When we meet for fellowship or in quiet devotions or mediation on the word of God, the Holy Spirit comes and begins to cut away those things in our life that not pleasing to God. Not acceptable for a child of God. For God expects better things for us and to flee from things that separates us from Him. The minister preaches the word of God and it brings repentance of a believer either at the altar, the pew, or when one goes home and has time to think things over. Sometimes we hear and have to meditate and something a person is quick and easily brought to submission of God ‘s ways. The temple a place in the Old Testament for the Word of God to be heard in public, a place for sins to be forgiven. A place that had to be cleansed by the Holy Spirit. Today God still cleanses the believer. The first cleansing for purification and the cleansing to follow for continual work of grace or the sanctification process. Dear Heavenly Father build the temple not built with human hands in our heart today. Cleansing us from all unrighteousness, and forgiveness for sin. May the purpose of you building the temple in our heart is to mold our heart into habitation made for your dwelling. A place for us to dine on your word in quiet meditation. A place for you to bring the word back to us to correct us when we are out of your will, or to provide instruction for daily living. In Jesus precious name, Amen. God bless you and may you have a good New Year. |