Building up the temple of the Holy Spirit begins with reconciling to God through Jesus Christ

Haggai 1:12-15

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 “Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the Lord.” Haggai 1:12

Obedience to God is to live in the will of God, which is to believe in His Son Jesus Christ who gives us eternal life, as quoted, “And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” John 6:40

The Holy Spirit in us is the guarantee of our inheritance of eternal life, as quoted, “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance…” Ephesians 1:13-14 The Holy Spirit is also the one who makes our body His house.

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever.” Psalms 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of dedicating our body as the home of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ who remits our sin.

“Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you, says the Lord.” Haggai 1:13 The Lord Jesus Christ will be with us always through the Holy Spirit who resides within our spirit and soul, “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:25-26-27 “…and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:20

“So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.” Haggai 1:14-15

The spirit of Zerubbabel, Joshua, and all the people was stirred up to work on the house of the Lord God. Today, that would be like the spirit of church leaders and all the people being stirred up to make their body the house of the Holy spirit. From the time the Lord Jesus Christ walked on this earth, up to the 1940’s, the Gospel of Jesus Christ was spread around the world. That was a time of the global outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In the USA, it is said that there is a church on every street corner, and I can attest that is practically true. For anyone who argues about whether America is founded on the Holy Bible, there is only one question to ask them, “If not, then where did all of the churches come from?”

Today, the Gospel of Christ has been tossed from the churches and there has been a great falling away from God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Click here for a post on the “man of sin” and the great falling away. That great falling away happened after WW2 when the United Nations was established which brought the thing which forms what people think, feel, do, and say. That is described in Daniel 8. Today, the image of the beast lives and speaks through people in every city around the world by the thing giving them what to think and feel. They are conformed to the anti-Christian global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

We can assess that obedience to the word of God will bring us to His Son Jesus Christ in preparation to be built up as the house of the Holy Spirit. The diagnosis is that rebellion against God will not allow our body to be built up by the Holy Spirit because of rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ. We plan to work on our body as the house of God by living for Jesus Christ who sanctifies our spirit. We implement that plan by believing in our heart that Jesus Christ lives and confessing with our mouth that He is Lord. We know the success of that plan by the fruits of Holiness blossoming from our spirit as the corrupt and carnal spirit is pruned.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11