Ecclesia - Part Six: What Jesus Is Building Will Last Forever

But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

Ecclesia: the Church universal and through all time composed of those called out by the Lord. Jesus said in Matthew 16:18, "'I will build my 'Ekklesia'.

Empty, you come to the Lord's Table. You eat the bread, His body broken for you - His flesh and then you feed on His presence. You drink from the cup of the new and everlasting covenant. It is like wine, His blood, that has full remitted all your sins - freeing you from all sin, consequences of sin, guilt, shame and condemnation. 

Then you hear His reassuring whisper, You hear His voice. He shares a phrase with you. you drink it in and it quenches your thirst all day. It intoxicates you to think on those things that are above. You think about Jesus and how much He loves you. 

"Death of the Sanctuary" means that it is no longer you that lives but Christ who lives in you. You are His sanctuary. When you lived for yourself you depended on others for having any kind of faith or dismissing faith altogether. Now you are dead. Your life is hidden with Christ in God. The life that you now live you live by the faith of the Son of God who died and gave Himself for you. 

Temples, churches, sanctuaries of brick and mortar are not where God takes residence. The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink. Our meat and drink is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Communion shows the results of Jesus' death until He returns. He gained heaven's throne through death and to have all authority over all principalities and powers so that through Him we might become the righteousness of God in Christ. We are seated together with  Him in heavenly places above all principalities and powers. 

The Kingdom of Heaven is within and among you. Where two or three are gathered the King is there. "You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." He said, "My Kingdom is not of this world. It is eternal and will last forever." At His table, we taste and see that the Lord is good!  Luke 17:21, Matthew 18:21, 1 Peter 2:5, John 18:36, 2 Peter 1:11, Daniel 4:3, Matthew 9:10, Mark 14:3, Luke 22:14, Psalm 23:5, Psalm 34:8