Prayer: Lord ah! I loved your temple, pray thee, let me build the temple who have participated in the project!
Chronicles 8:11-18
Solomon not only for the State of Israel to bring stability and prosperity in life, but also called on people to serve in the temple dedication.
1. Are holy (11): Since the adoption of the political marriage of Solomon's strategy (ie, with other ethnic groups or countries through the princess married to the expression of friendly relations with each other), so many of his wives are Gentiles. While this is the potential risk of life of Solomon (as strange wives would induce him to worship other gods, the Senate Kings 11:1-8), but the passages in the Solomon quite know how to keep the boundaries of St. vulgar, where respect for the Ark of the Covenant, the wife moved out of the city of David among the nations. Today, we have to keep the boundaries of St. vulgar, do not let the lure of the secular sacred chastity into our lives.
2. Qin burnt offering (12): burnt offering is to sacrifice all that all offered on the altar, is the commitment of the offering. Today, we have to offer completely their own, as living sacrifices, because it is only natural that serve (cf. Rom 12:1).
3. Hang a feast of (13): Season of life has ended, people released from work time, enjoy the fellowship with the main intersection, as well as relatives and friends copolymerization friendship. Today, we also ought to regular participation in church worship and the various sections of the party (such as Easter, Christmas) to enjoy a close relationship between God and man.
4. Match service (14-15): Solomon, David, commanded by his father, the chief priests and the Levites, organized into the due diligence, loyalty to serve the team. Today, our churches need to follow the will of God, the establishment of a mutual match and join the group to serve (see I Corinthians Chapter 12).
At first glance, as if section 16 is a sudden insertion of Scripture, but this is actually Chronicles chapter 2-8 Lower Dir important summary. In fact, the temple appears to be a construction project, but its presence is affecting people's lives, because the country's spiritual, cultural, political, livelihood, and international trade (17-18), will be because of the people in St worship life of the house and become prosperous.
Temple of the project is a life project. The apostle Paul pointed out: "Do you not know your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is from God, living in you, whom you." (I Corinthians 6:19) In today's adulterous generation full of believers to be good conservative his own body, so filled with the Spirit, the Holy Spirit to make the body follow the guidelines, the establishment of a temple of the Holy Spirit, the gift of God containing all sorts of good fortune. In addition, the Peter 2:5 also pointed out: "You came to the Lord, also, like living stones, are built into a spiritual house." Today, the church is the temple of the Holy Spirit living in them, which every believer is a temple constructed through the match to serve. How you can participate in this temple of the works?
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