The Lord’s Table

Isaiah 1-3; Titus 3 

“In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as chief among mountains; it will be raised above the hills and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths…Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord.’”

Isaiah 2:2, 3, 5

Jesus called out the moneychangers for desecrating the temple because it was to be a house of prayer for all nations. At Pentecost, many nations were present and received the gift of the Holy Spirit, the living presence of God. Paul described the body of each disciple as a temple of the Holy Spirit. Collectively, we, the Church, are a temple that God indwells by his Spirit (Ephesians 2:21).

Are we living in the ways of God so that the nations are drawn to the light of the Lord and his ways of peace?

When the Church quarrels and fights we lose our prophetic witness as a kingdom-community representing the ways of God.

“Lord Jesus, I offer you my body as a temple of your Spirit, for your glory.”