Gospel of Wealth – Chapter Seven

The New Temple

When Jesus gave up the ghost on the cross of his crucifixion, the thick curtain that separated the Holy of Holies was torn from the top to the bottom and the Name and Presence of the Lord would never again live in temples made by human hands.

The former temple was made out of gold, stone, and wood, but He will come and live in you. You will become a temple in the flesh, built by the supernatural forces of heaven. You will be greater than Solomon’s was. The latter temple shall be greater than the former.

God wants to make his home in you. He desires to live and display his wealth through you in the earth. His wealth, not yours, not the work of your hands, but the work of His.

If the Spirit of God lives in you, you are the temple of the living God. Your job becomes the same as Solomon’s was. Worship the Spirit of Wisdom and let Him build in you a dwelling place.

You pray – like Solomon – and prudence will be given to you; you call for help and there will come to you a Spirit of Wisdom. All good things together will come to you with her, and in her hands will be wealth past counting; and all will be yours to enjoy, for all follows where wisdom leads.

God is no respecter of persons. The same Lord is rich unto all that call upon Him.
He comes in you to live, really live. He will build every blessing that Heaven contains into you like His own private estate. You are His property. You are His garden.

The work in you is great because the house is not for man but for the Most High.
He isn’t going to change his lifestyle to inhabit your body. You are going to change so He can live freely through you. People build homes as a form of self-expression, so it is with the person of the Holy Ghost. If He is to live in you as a house you must change your desires and dreams into His – renewing your spirit, mind, and body.

He will clean His house up. We live in relative squalor compared to what He’s used to and there is a lot of remodeling and repair that will be done. Change is inevitable.

This is a process. God is not going to take over without your consent. Your will has a lot to do with it. He won’t do anything until you want it done. This is what takes the most time, cultivating desire, getting you to see the needed improvements and agree to have them installed. There has to be agreement because you live there too.

You might ask, why all the effort?

Wealth glorifies God when it is gotten God’s way. Why, because God is wealth. He created it. He designed man to live in it. His Holy Spirit of Wisdom lives in it and always produces it when left to His own devises. If He lives in you, you are going to live in wealth too.

The Holy Ghost glorifies Jesus because he takes what is his and transmits it unto you. All the wealth that is Jesus’ is the Holy Spirits job to transmit to you.

We are the body of Christ, possessed by the Almighty. His desires, his goals, His way, all become our ways and this glorifies God. Fear not, it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. This is true worship.

The Holy Ghost is pure wealth. Never forget that. Worship Him. If you do, your results will be the same as Solomon’s with the only difference being you won’t be living next to God, you’ll be living with Him.

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