Ruling Verse 12: The Form for God

Ephesians 2:19-22
  So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow-citizens with the devoted ones and of the household, the family, the domestic intimacy of God, having been constructed together [as a House] upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, the joining and completion, inside of Whom the whole building, being fitted together, is increasing into a temple, devoted inside the Lord. Inside of Jesus, you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God inside the sphere of Spirit.  
  • Expanded: Brethren from all ethnic families are welcomed without distinction, all are fellow citizens with the devoted ones and are of the household, the family, the domestic intimacy of God. All believers into Jesus have been constructed together as a House upon the foundation of the apostolic and prophetic ministries, Word and Spirit together, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, the joining together and the completion of everything. Inside of Jesus the whole building, being fitted together, is increasing into a temple, the place of God’s worship, devoted inside the Lord. Inside of Jesus, you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God inside the sphere of Spirit, that God might be known by all through your shared lives.  
 
Gospel Comments Notes
• Christ Made Personal: I am part of God’s House. Inside of Jesus, I am built together with my brethren as God’s dwelling place. Our Love for one another is God made known.

• Defining the Rule: The purpose of everything is a House for God, that He might have a dwelling place inside of creation. God cannot be perceived by any created ability. In order for God to be known, He must have a created Form that fits Him in all ways. That Form is the Church, and God is known by the interaction of believers in Jesus loving one another in daily life together. People from all ethnic families are invited to be part of this Household. The Temple itself is found inside of Christ Jesus. The key action is that we are being fitted together as God-made-visible, that is, Love, inside Spirit worship.

• Life: Life is knowing the Father. Nothing can live except God be made known. God made known changes everything for everyone. The Church as the dwelling place of God, right here inside this heaven-earth, is Salvation.

• Covenant: The Covenant that is our hearts, Christ Jesus joining everything together, making us just like Himself, is for one purpose, that God might come Home, that God might be known inside of creation inside His Temple. This is where we stand; this purpose consumes the entirety of our lives.

• Speak Christ: We speak Christ that we might know Jesus Sent into us. Jesus inside of us causes us to know that we are already the Household of God, that our shared life together is already God-among-us. Thus we together call our every interaction as the Love of God flowing between, regardless.

• Ruling Verse 1: God’s purpose is to be made known inside of creation, the meaning of “the image of His Son.” This knowledge of God is found inside the gathering together of many brethren, just like the Lord Jesus. The gathering together is already glorified, God already revealed. And through our gathering together inside of Jesus, we synergeo with God and one another, making all things good.

• Ruling Verse 2: It is the Temple of God, many gathered together and built together as the dwelling place of God, which God FILLS with all of His fullness. Christ Jesus in the heart of each member is the Heart of this Temple. More than that, every part of its gathering and construction is rooted and grounded inside of Love. We KNOW God together. Together, we are filled with all the fulness of God revealed.

• Ruling Verse 3: God made known is Rivers flowing out. The River of Life originates out from the Sanctuary, out from the Devoted and Most Devoted of the Temple, our very hearts.

• Ruling Verse 4: God made known is Victory in every place. “Let God arise and His enemies be scattered.” Ignorance of God, self-exaltation and contempt for others, manipulation and control, all flee from before a God who fills His Church with His Glory. 

• Ruling Verse 5: “Receive one another as Jesus receives us” takes the union of our Savior with each one of us, in His giving of Himself to us, right into the Most Devoted Place, the Ark of the Covenant with the Mercy Seat upon it. Jesus making us to be just like Himself then becomes the going forth of God, causing all to know the intimacy of His Love.

• Ruling Verse 6: Hebrews 10 does not teach us how we are to enter into God. It teaches us that Jesus has already carried us here inside Himself inside the Father. It means that we are very bold as we apprehend all that is God together.

• Ruling Verse 7: The task of Jesus is to build a House for God. We are part of that House – IF – we hold firmly to completion our bold speaking of confidence in Christ our only life, and the exultant boasting of our hope that Jesus makes us to be just like Himself. We walk together as filled with God from the start.

• Ruling Verse 8: Being just like Jesus is loving one another. Our love for one another is God-made-visible to all creation. When creation sees a people who give all that they are for one another’s sake, they will know that God indeed sent Jesus into the world. In coming to such Communities of Love, they are coming to the worship of God.

• Ruling Verse 9: Creation set free happens only out from the Completion of this Temple filled with God. Our refuge is the Most Devoted Place, seized into God and into His throne, built upon the Rock. Our going forth together is the knowledge of God in every place, the cause of all Life and Liberty.

• Ruling Verse 10: The dwelling place of God is built only inside of Jesus, and it is built by Jesus inside of each one of us personally, and inside our gathering together. The knowledge of God comes only out from many together as One, for God is Love, and Love is all our interactions together. Thus this devoted Temple alone is the presence of age-unfolding LIFE inside of creation, the Heart and Worship of God inside the Spirit. This is why we put the Lord Jesus Christ upon ourselves, upon each other, and upon our gathering together, a woman clothed with the sun, for our God is a Consuming Fire.

• Kingdom: Although the full Temple of God is the Church universal, the Love of God needs each local gathering together to be fully visible. Thus it is Communities of Christ, the arising New Jerusalem, all across the earth, that are the pattern of all that is Kingdom, the Father just being Himself inside every interaction of creation.

• The Form for God through Jesus: Ruling Verse 12 is the Form for God through and inside of Jesus. It is the Completion of God’s Purpose, the whole meaning of everything. God has one Form only, believers in Jesus loving one another with pure hearts fervently inside of a life shared together. We are speaking of Christian Community, brethren dwelling together in unity, Life forevermore. Inside of Community, we belong; inside of Community, Father and we are at Home.