Ephesians 2:19-22
19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Being brought together from all nations in Christ, we who are called as His are members of the family of God who live in His house, the church that is His body. The church’s foundation has a cornerstone which holds up the entire structure (who is Christ), the prophets and apostles who were used to bring us the knowledge of God and the grace of His salvation, and on top of this grows His temple of worship of which every brick is each believer. This is a holy temple where God no longer comes and goes as in the old temple between the angels on the mercy seat, but now He comes to permanently dwell in each of us and as a whole. We are the temple, individually and as a whole. This mystery of the gospel is the reality of who we are as a reconciled and regenerated people, a spiritual new nation of sorts and its temple.
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