The one thing necessary to meet with God is consecration. When God consecrates, He sets people and things apart as belonging exclusively to Him, for only His use, His pleasure, and His honor. Before God will meet with you or with His people, the Church of Christ, He will consecrate the place of meeting and the ministers of the meeting.
GOD CONSECRATES THE PLACE OF MEETING
These are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ:
“Believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” John 4:21,23-24
The place of meeting God is no longer confined to a strictly physical temple in Jerusalem, or a mountain in Samaria, or a church building, or a synagogue or mosque. Those who believe in Jesus, wherever they are, individually or collectively, have become the temple of God, consecrated by the Spirit of God, by the presence of Jesus in the midst of two or three who gather in His name:
- Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst?If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for God's temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17
- Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
We who believe in Jesus, individually and collectively, are the temple of God's Spirit. Sacred. Consecrated. Holy. We are the meeting place of God on earth. Wherever we are, God is there with us. We dare not forget our consecration.
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