God’s New Testament Building (3)

Multiple New Testament verses describe God’s New Testament building. New Jerusalem, the consummation of this building, shares these attributes.

God’s Building is the Mutual Abiding of God in His People and they  in God

John 14:20, “In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.”

John 15:4-5, “Abide in Me and I in you….I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him…”

God’s Building is Built by the Growth of His Life in all the Believers

1 Corinthians 3:9, “For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s cultivated land [life, growth, v. 3:6-8], God’s building [v. 3:10-15].”

Ephesians. 2:21, “In whom all the building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord.”

Ephesians 3:17, “That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted [growth] and grounded [building] in love.”

Ephesians 4:15-16, “Holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ, out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.”

Colossians 2:7, “Having been rooted [growth] and being built up [building] in Him, and being established in the faith even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.”

Colossians 2:19, “…the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God.”

1 Peter 2:2, 4-5, “As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow…. Coming to Him, a living stone, rejected by men but with God chosen and precious, you yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house…”