The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even the highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him? (2 Chronicles 2:5-6) Solomon […]
Read More JJ25 #14 – House for the God who Cannot be ContainedNow when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.” (2 Samuel 7:1-2) The story of David up to this point is one of a man […]
Read More JJ25 #11 – Where Is He?The story of the temple for God’s people is a fascinating one. Solomon’s construct that took years to build was undoubtedly worthy of the physical and visual spectacle it was to be for God’s people. No wonder it’s destruction was the cause of so much despair by those people. To be about the business of […]
Read More MWTM: Haggai Part 2 – The Best Is Yet To ComeThere are plenty of warnings against presumption. There was a study I was doing with someone on the term ‘complacency’ and there’s a lot of presumption to be seen in what leads to that. People get so comfortable in what they believe they know and what position they think they’re in and before they know […]
Read More There’s A Call For YouThe 26 year old monarch had established himself as a refreshingly godly kind of King. For the majority of his conscious life he ruled the kingdom of Judah and endeavoured to do so in a way like David the standard of kings. So it was understandable that he would have a concern for the temple […]
Read More The Kings II 22 – Torn: Look What I FoundThey did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty. (2 Kings 12:15 NIV) The account of the reign of King Joash over the southern kingdom of Judah is dominated by the repair of the temple. The significance of this is […]
Read More The Kings II 12 – Fix ItLord , the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below—you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way. You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand […]
Read More The Kings 08 – A Magnificent PrayerKing Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram, whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all […]
Read More The Kings 07 – Just The Man For The JobThe foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv. In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it. (1 Kings 6:37-38 NIV) The […]
Read More The Kings 06 – Seven Years in the MakingAs 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[a] to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:4-5) Be it ever so humble there’s no place like […]
Read More Cephas Says: 2 – People Are God’s Temple
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