WE ARE THE FATHER'S HOUSE Dr. Josimar Salum

WE ARE THE FATHER'S HOUSE 

Dr. Josimar Salum

There is no text in the Bible that says that the heavens are the "House of God", there is no text simply because the House of the Father that Jesus could be referring to and that they knew, was the temple. He said, "My House will be called the House of Prayer" - the Father's House. However we read in the Bible that God does not dwell in temples made by human hands.

In the text of John 14 we find the answer when He says: "He who hears my words and obeys Me ... ”- I am putting together two verses -“ I and the Father will come and make our home in him." We are the Father's house ... You will find this in several texts in the Bible!

First, Jesus was going to the cross, He was not going to heaven.

The second revelation is that He was going to the Father. He said it clearly, "I am going to My Father." He says in chapter 14 that He would send another Comforter. The Greek word is "another one like Him." And if you keep reading these chapters, you will not find a reference to heaven even in chapters 15, 16, 17, 18, until the end of the Gospel, you will not find any reference to heaven.

So, when did Jesus come and go? “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again”… if I go to meet the Father. Where did Jesus meet the Father?

At the cross of Calvary.

Because God was in Christ on the cross reconciling the world to Himself. Jesus went to the cross and the tomb and came back! And then He said, "I will take you to myself so that wherever I am, you too may be."

Finally Jesus spoke when he says goodbye to them on Earth: "And I will be with you until the end of the age." Jesus is with the disciples until the end of the age. He was with John, with Peter, but He was, I will use this term, in the person of the Holy Spirit...

Now, He and the Holy Spirit are One; the Father and He are One ... This has nothing to do with heaven. It is absurd for you to think that Jesus is still in heaven today with a broom in his hand preparing a "little mansion" for you to live in. We live in a simple house here on Earth and we keep dreaming that we are going to live in a mansion in heaven! This is pure capitalism, this is pure materialism, this is very ugly. This has no value in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We are the Father's House, we are the habitation of God… He already lives in us, not in eternity, but now, at this moment. We are the Dwelling of God, we are the Temple of God. This is what the Bible teaches. We are not saved to go to heaven, we are saved to enter in His Kingdom.

Jesus spoke in John 3, "It is necessary for you to be born again, if you are not born again you cannot see the Kingdom."

People, believers see the Devil in everything. The pandemic, it's the Devil; the problems of Burundi, the Devil; the UN is the Devil! (Well, in that case, it really is the Devil. With the UN meetings you’re probably right!)

Now, everything is the Devil, every little thing is the Devil's doing ... What devil, brothers abs sisters?

I know that the Devil works, I know that the Devil exists, but I don't see the Devil at all. I see God, I see the Lord! The Bible says that "blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." 

You see a good part of the preachers saying that the Devil does this, that the Devil does that, that the Devil will attempt, the antichrist, that the Devil is taking over the Earth... what Devil brothers! and sisters ? The person who speaks like this does not understand the Kingdom of God.

"I saw the Lord sitting on a high and sublime throne."

Look at the apostles Paul, Peter. I don't see in the Scriptures them attributing anything to the Devil. It is very rare a text in which they talk about the Devil, that the Devil did this, that the Devil did that. If you have been persecuted, it is the Devil; if you had a fight, it was the Devil; if we lose goods, it is the Devil; the car accident was the Devil… What Devil?

It is God who rules, He is the One who reigns!

Even if the Devil comes to attack me, (and indeed, he has attacked me) to kill all my children. He has destroyed all of my property. He has destroyed everything I have and now I have a deadly wound, I am full of disease.

Do you know who I'm going to say did this? I will say it was God. That's what Job did! Today's theologians say that Job did not yet understand things well, he did not understand. Yes, the friend of God "did not understand" God! He who knew God from hearing about Him, until his eyes saw Him; he "did not understand" anything! It must be! You gotta be kidding!

God governs. Even unfortunately with Joe Biden, that president of US whom God may have mercy on his life, it was God who put him there... and God has a purpose! 

God has a purpose for everything, even for the most terrible things that happen to us … 

Can you see the Kingdom of God advancing in everything around your? The bottom line is that If you are not born again, you cannot either see or enter the Kingdom of God!

And are born again not to inherit heaven, but to enter the Kingdom. It is not to be blessed, it is to enter the Kingdom and one only enters the Kingdom if he is the image and likeness of Jesus.

This is God's eternal purpose; let us be made in His image and likeness!

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