There is no longer a stone, brick, man made temple that hosts the presence
of God. The dwelling place of God is within every believer.
You can look back into the Old Covenant and read through the woven strands
where God visited and dwelt with his people in tabernacles and stone built
temples. God’s presence and glory was confined to spaces and walls built by
man. It was during the dedication of Solomon’s temple that God’s glory like a
cloud came and filled time and space.
In the New Covenant God has come to dwell inside his people. At the cross
Christ’s death ended the separation between God and man. Christ’s death on the
cross destroyed the veil in the temple and fulfilled the law and in the same way
that there is no more temple there is no more law. The law has been made
obsolete, now it is the very fullness of Christ that dwells inside of us.
Under the New Covenant we are completely released from the system of Old
Covenant law and empowered through grace by the Spirit of God in our re-born
spirit.
When we walk in the spirit and discover all that is available to us because
of our identity in Christ we start to live with God’s power permeating and
infiltrating filling our minds and flowing through our veins.
- Alan Paul Stevens
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