Christ the house of God
1.Read John 14:2; Ephesians 2:22.
2.Where is the only place in which God the Father finds His rest?
Christ.
3.Has any human being ever seen God the Father?
No.
4.Whom do we see when we behold Christ?
The Father.
5.What does God require in order to appease His sense of violated justice?
The shedding of innocent blood.
6.What is God's desire?
That the Incarnation, the Expression of Himself, be magnified and multiplied so that every person on the earth may have access to Himself.
7.How is God magnifying and multiplying Christ?
By creating the Body of Christ.
8.What takes place as Christ is being formed in the members of His Body?
Christ is being magnified and multiplied, and God in Him.
9.What is the Kingdom of God that John the Baptist announced?
God in Christ in the members of the Body of Christ.
10.Why was it necessary that Christ return to the Father?
So we may become places of abode in God's house.
11.Read John 14:2.
12.What is the "Father's House"?
The Father's House is Christ and the Body of Christ.
13.What is the goal of the Christian pilgrimage?
The Father Himself is our Goal.
14.Read John 13:1; John 14:6, John 14:28; John 16:28; Psalms 90:1.
15.Under the new covenant, where does God find His resting place?
Only in people.
16.What is the principal difference between the old covenant and the new covenant?
God did not abide in any believer under the old covenant.God abides in every member of the Body of Christ.
17.Read Isaiah 66:1; Acts 7:47-49.
18.Read John 14:10; 17:21.
19.What is the relationship between John 14:23 and Leviticus 23:33-43?
John 14:23 describes the spiritual fulfilment of the Levitical feast of Tabernacles, which is described in Leviticus 23:33-43.
20.Read John 17:23; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:21-22; Rev 3:12.
21.What is the purpose of the gifts of ministry given to the saints?
That we all may be brought to the "measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ".(Ephesians 4:13)
22.Read Psalms 68:18.
23.Why are the dealings of God with the believer as intense and thorough as they are?
Because we are being made rooms in the Father's eternal Temple.
24.What will take place when the Body of Christ has been built into the standard of perfection, unity, and completeness that God requires for His dwelling place?
The Head will return and raise His Body from the dead.
25.What is the Divine standard?
"The measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."
26.Where did the Lord Jesus go in order to prepare a place for us in the Father?
Before that, He went to Gethsemane and Calvary. The Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross in order to prepare a place for us in the Father. Then He rose from the dead and sprinkled His blood upon and before the Mercy Seat in Heaven. After that He poured out the Holy Spirit of God and gave gifts of ministry to the members of His Body. All of this was done in order to prepare a place for us in the eternal dwelling place of God.
27.From what is the Temple of God being constructed?
The body and blood of Christ.
28.Read Rev 21:3, Rev 21:22.