<TITLE>08. Par -</TITLE>L-11-3 Now, these people are--are... Peter is saying here how that we must be partakers of His Divine nature. Now, each one of us are trying to grow into the stature of God.
Now, after we get through with the Seven Seals, then at that time of the sounding of the Seven Seals, or the loosening... 'Course, we know what a Seal is; it's to loose a ministry, to loose Seven Seals. And we'll see that right on the chart. It's loosening a message, something that's sealed up.

L-11-5 Last Sunday night I preached on, "The Key." And the key is faith. The faith holds the key, and the key is the Scripture, and Christ is the Door. See? So faith takes the little hinges of the Scripture and unlocks the glories and good of God out to His people. See? So if faith holds the key that unlocks Christ to the people, unlocks it, reveals it.
So today we're going to try to take that same key to unlock the way to become a virtuous Christian in the stature of God, that--and be a living Tabernacle of--for the living God to dwell in.
Remember, God reveals Himself in three ways. First time He revealed Himself in a Pillar of Fire. That was called the Fatherhood. Then that same God made manifested in Jesus Christ, which He built a body, made this body. Thirdly, through the death of that body He sanctified a church that He can dwell in. It was God above us, God with us, God in us: the same God.
That's the reason it was called Father, Son, Holy Spirit: not three gods, three offices of one God. If they'd only thought of that at the Nicene Council, we wouldn't have been all messed up, would we? That's right. Not three gods...

L-12-3 The people couldn't understand how Jesus talked to the Father, and He and the Father are One. Well, that's where the whole thing is. Sure, it just unfolds it, certainly. See, it's not three gods: three offices. Three mani... What is it? God condescending to His creation. God wants to be worshipped. The word "God" means "object of worship." And it's God trying to condition His people so He can get from them what He created them for.
He never made you to be something else besides a son and daughter of God. If you have missed that, of being son and daughter of God, you've missed the mark. And miss... The word "s-i-n" means "to miss the mark, miss the mark." Then, if I'm shooting at a target, driving a tack at fifty yards, and I shoot, take my gun down and shoot, and I miss it four or five inches, what's happened? My gun needs tuning up. There's something wrong. And if I miss faith in God, if I miss being a Christian... God put you here to be a Christian, and if you run off to one side, come back and get tuned up. And there's only one thing can tune you up, that's the Scripture: the Holy Spirit in the Scripture tune you, bring you directly on to the target again. That's right.

L-12-5 Now, we are going to study His Word. Stephen said in Acts 7 and also in... Let's just read that. Talking about... Now, we're talking about a Tabernacle of God. Now, Stephen said, being it's going to be a Living Tabernacle of the Living God, Stephen said in Acts the 7th chapter, and I believe we--in Acts 7, beginning about the 44th verse.
Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he has appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
Which also our fathers had--our fathers that come in after brought in Jesus unto the possession of the Gentiles, who God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the day of David;
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
But Solomon built him an house.
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
... heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?


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