We pass through waters to the ankles, then to the knees, then to the hips, and finally find ourselves in waters deep enough to swim in. Now we are brought back to the bank of the river where we are planted as a tree of life.

We then are held in readiness with the other trees of life so at the appearing of the Lord, the living water can flow from all of us into the dead sea of mankind.

In Pentecost we are blessed with the rain from Heaven. In the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles, the Throne of almighty God is established forever in us so we may with incomprehensible joy bring forth the waters of eternal life for other people to drink and thus to live in God's Life.

Today the Lord Jesus is standing before the door of our heart. He wants to enter our personality and dine with us. He dines on our obedience and worship. We dine on His body and blood.

Who is this who has entered us? It is the King of Glory, the Lord, strong and mighty in battle.

What shall He do? He shall put all the enemies of God under His feet.

Now is the hour. The Pentecostal experience has brought us to this point. The summit, the fullness of God, is in sight. Let each one of us make the effort to move past Pentecost and embrace all that God has for us in the present hour.

"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. (I Corinthians 6:13—NIV)

As I said previously, our present body belongs to the Lord God of Heaven. It is His eternal house. This is true now. This shall be true in the Day of the Lord.

The question is, will we be found worthy of receiving eternal life in our body when it is raised from the dead in the Day of Christ? Have we been a good custodian of God's House? Have we pressed forward into the Life of the Spirit, who already is dwelling in us, putting to death by the wisdom and power of the Spirit the deeds of our sinful nature?

If we have been a good "apartment manager," our reward will be to be clothed with a glorious body of eternal life from Heaven. Now we will not have to fight against the desires of our body, for our new glorified house will hate wickedness and love righteousness.

We now have been set free from the body of sin and death, which was the prison in which the Apostle Paul lived and in which we live.

Now we are free forever to live in the very center of the Consuming Fire of Israel. Now we shall inherit multitudes of saved people who will have fellowship with God and Christ who are dwelling with us in our body.

This is the new Jerusalem. This is why we shall have the name of the new Jerusalem inscribed on us for eternity.

We now are a member of the royal priesthood, having attained through Christ the first resurrection from the dead.

Seeing what stupendous marvels are ahead of us, let us take care at every moment to dwell in our body as good stewards of the Lord's house. Then, when He comes, He shall raise us from the dead and clothe our resurrected flesh and bones with the body of eternal life from Heaven. He and the Father will settle down to rest in us.

We now are alive in God's Life for eternity and are ready to restore Paradise to those whom God has given us for our inheritance.

Amen. (from The Temple of the Holy Spirit)