The Temple Experience.

We need a TEMPLE EXPERIENCE.

What is a temple experience? Glad you asked. The temple of old, before our Savior came to earth and gave us His unique message of salvation, was used to point towards the ultimate sacrifice that would be made by our Savior. When our Savior died upon the cross of cavalry inside that temple the extremely large curtain that separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place inside that temple was torn in two starting at the top. Nothing in the temple was out of place, there wasn't anybody who climbed way up to the ceiling and took a knife to slice the curtain from the top to the bottom. No human being tore that curtain, no freak of nature, no animal, nothing but the supernatural force of God being used to signify the way into the Most Holy Place was now open to all. No longer would man stand in doing the work of God as His priests. No longer would man go to that building before those men and make sacrifices for their sins. There was now only ONE man who fulfilled the High Priest office in the heavenly temple. There was now only ONE man who could give to all the sacrifice He made for them, the perfect sacrifice.

We who are in need of a temple experience are in need of God's work in us. We need the CROSS working in us so that our spirit and our soul-self are completely divided just as that temple curtain . That temple curtain could not have been torn without Jesus' death on the cross. That cross experience of our Savior made the temple experience possible. We need anything that would stand between us and our Savior- gone from us!

We need to LIVE for Jesus but you know what? We are too busy living for ourselves! We are! We are so busy living just for ourselves that to truly live for Jesus is something we can't quite fathom as a reality. Is it a reality to you? Do you UNGRUDINGLY obey the Holy Spirit? Seriously, do you?! Does the Holy Spirit even speak to you? Do you even comprehend the Holy Spirit's leading? If we DO NOT we have to get down on our knees and pray that our God help our UNBELIEF!

You say you believe, that believing isn't your particular spiritual problem? I say you're wrong. It is TRULY believing that allows us to have the Holy Spirit's leading in our lives. It is by FAITH.

More on this tomorrow by the GRACE, by the WILL, by the LOVE of our Savior. We need the temple experience, we need the Holy Spirit leading us. Please, Lord, get us out of our own way!
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1Co_3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co_3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

'God today would have His own enjoy such a temple experience in their spirit and soul: if only the cross is allowed to perfect its work in them. As they ungrudgingly obey the Holy Spirit the communion between the Holy and the Holiest grows deeper day by day until they experience a great change. It is the cross which effects the rending of the curtain; that is, the cross so functions in the life of the believer that he has a rent-curtain experience between his spirit and soul. His natural life renounces its independence and waits upon the spirit life for direction and supply. The curtain was torn in two, “from top to bottom” (Mark 15.38). This has to be God’s doing, not man’s. ' --The Spiritual Man- Watchman Nee