Preparing To Build Your Temple

But I’m here to tell you today that it’s time for us to shed our attitude of our selfishness and focus on doing the will and the work of God while we still can. Just like David we must make preparations to build the temple of God. Am I right about it?

For the Bible tells us in this passage of 2nd Chronicles that David got all of the masons together to get the stones prepared for the building of the temple. He prepared a whole lot of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and the joinings. He set aside so much brass and cedar trees that the bible says that it was beyond calculation. He knew what it took to get prepared for the building of the temple.

And on this afternoon Greater Thankful, I want you to know that it’s all right to get prepared for the building of your new church. It’s alright to raise money and to get all of the plans in order. It’s alright to work together to reach your common goals.

But I wouldn’t be doing you justice this evening, if I didn’t stop by and let you know that even while you’re preparing to building your temple to the Lord, you need to also be working on the building of that building not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Have I got a witness?

It’s nothing wrong with having a beautiful sanctuary where you can go to lift up and praise the name of the Most High God. But in your preparation, you ought to make sure that you’re still working on building that spiritual temple that will get you into the kingdom of heaven. Am I right about it?

You need to start today by loving everybody. Have I got a witness?

There are too many people today that call themselves Christians, but don’t love their brothers and sisters in Christ. Oh Lord.

There are too many folk today, claiming that they love the Lord, but they don’t even love the members in their own family. Am I right about it?

But I’m here to let you know today, that if you don’t have Love in your heart, you might as well know this evening that you’re knocking on the gates of hell. For the Bible tells me that the He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Have I got a witness?

The next thing that you need to do make sure that your spiritual temple is in order is to study the word of God. Ain’t the Lord alright?

For the Bible tells me that if you want to be approved unto God, if you want to be recognized as a workman in God’s vineyard, if you want to know the difference between good doctrine and false doctrine, then you need to study the word of God. Ain’t the Lord alright?

The next thing that you need to do, is make sure that you maintain some fellowship with the Lord. Have I got a witness?

Paul tells us that we need to pray without ceasing. In other words, You need to pray in the morning. Pray in the midday hour. Pray when the sun is going down. Pray at the hour called midnight. And if you keep in fellowship with the Lord, he’ll walk with you, he’ll talk with you, he’ll tell you that you’re his own. Oh Lord.

And I can hear right now, somebody asking, well brother preacher, why are you telling us all of this.