THE CHURCH AS THE TEMPLE OF GOD —THE GOAL OF GOD’S
ETERNAL ECONOMY
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The Lord within us is aspiring to go on from the
tabernacle church life in the wilderness of the soul to the temple church life
with Christ as the reality of the good land in our spirit.
Our experience of Christ being renewed, deepened, stabilized, strengthened, intensified, and enlarged in order for us to enter into the reality of the Body of Christ as the temple church life is a gradual “day by day,” “little by little,” and “brighter and brighter” experience in the Body until the day dawns and the morning star rises in our hearts.
The economy of God to have the church as the temple
of God filled with the glory of God is related to the high peak of the divine
revelation—God becoming man so that man may become God in life, in nature, and
in expression.
Christ builds the church as the temple of God by
building Himself into us, by the mingling of divinity with humanity, and
through our growth in life and our being joined together in the divine life.
