The Holy Nation
Today’s Focus: The End of the Matter
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:23-28; 1 Peter 2:5
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
I will start with this scripture and I may be able to end this message it on this scripture:
1 Corinthians 15:23-28: “But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming. THEN COMETH THE END, when He (Jesus Christ) shall have delivered up the Kingdom of God, even the Father; when he (created beings, man and angels) shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He (Jesus) must reign, till He (Jesus) has put all enemies under His (Jesus) feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For He (Jesus) hath put all things under His (Jesus) feet. But when He saith all things are put under Him, it is manifest (understood) that He (Father) is excepted, which did put all things under Him (Jesus). And when all things shall be subdued unto Him (Jesus), then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him (Father) that put all things under Him (Jesus) that GOD MAY BE ALL IN ALL.
The end of the matter is God being all in all. In other words, God was making a house for Himself in the Earth. What is the house God is building in the earth?
1 Peter 2:5: Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
It is His children. He wants to be all of Him in all of them, His children. This is why Peter said that we are living stones built up into a spiritual house. A house for who? God! See this is where religion and the Kingdom clash. Religion makes the house of God a building and the Kingdom of God makes the House of God a family. Now let’s return to salvation.
Now if God being all in all is the end of the matter then was it worth God to save mankind? From this perspective, absolutely! Now what that revelation should do is shift the mentality from Heaven to functioning in the Earth because God will not abide where sin is ruling. Hence this is why death, satan and all of evil was thrown in the lake of fire because now all of sin is gone and now God can be all in all in the children of God. Salvation through Jesus Christ prepares us for this powerful end situation. God knew that mankind would sin and prepared a process to redeem man. What was the process? God would come in the form of a man whom He had made to be His housing in the Earth. Who wouldn’t want to save their family or their place of habitation? Now remember the Garden of Eden was what God always intended. We deviated from the norm and now through Christ Jesus we are restored by the indwelling and empowerment through Holy Spirit to be the Holy Nation and the habitation for God in the Earth. But why do this? Why create a dwelling place for yourself through another?
We will answer this question in the next message!
At Our Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
