“Are You the One…?”
“Are You the One…?”
Blessings folk!
David had it upon his mind to build a house for the Lord…for the Ark of the Covenant.
He checked with Nathan.
Nathan said “go, do all that is on your mind…”
Now, the rest of the story.
The account is long… so, let’s take a couple of days reading it…
2Sa 7:1-7
Now it came about when the king lived in his house,
and the LORD had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,
that the king said to Nathan the prophet,
“See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tent curtains.”
Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your mind, for the LORD is with you.”
But in the same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,
“Go and say to My servant David,
‘Thus says the LORD, “Are you the one who should build Me a house to dwell in?
“For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt,
even to this day; but I have been moving about in a tent, even in a tabernacle.
“Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel,
did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel,
which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying,
‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’
Uhoh.
That same night…of the day when Nathan said “go ahead…”…the word of the Lord came to Nathan.
Later we will see Nathan had a vision…a night vision.
The Lord told Nathan to go and tell David some things.
The Lord describes David as His servant.
The Lord then asks questions.
It is rarely good when the Lord is questioning you… 
The Lord was asking David…
- ”are you the one to build a house for me?”
- “have I ever asked why you have not build a house for me?”
The Lord reminded David that He had never dwelt in house.
He had dwelt in a tent…even a tabernacle.
Hummm….
There is much more to come…
Remember, Nathan had yet to speak theses words to David…
For us today, the Lord does not dwell in buildings built by man.
We need to drop the “go to church”, “my/our church” vernacular.
The building is not the church.
We, true Believers, are the Body/building of Christ.
The Lord dwells in a tent..in the tabernacle that is the flesh of men who call upon the Lord, who repent, who believe, who are born again.
The Lord dwells in us!
How dare we give greater attention, love, compassion, time, resources, etc. to a building rather than to OneAnother…
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