Jesus Christ did not come to start a religion. Jesus Christ came to establish a Kingdom. This Kingdom is not one of outward appearances, but a kingdom of internal realities. As Jesus said, his body was the temple, and it would be destroyed, and on the third day it would be raised up. On the cross the veil of his temple was torn, his heart was pierced, and out of that temple of his body flowed blood and water. That water, was the Holy Spirit. To be a Christian is to be a little Christ, a temple of the Holy Spirit as Paul tells us. And this calling to be a temple is both inward and outward. Christ is in you. This is the mystery of our faith. And so we present our bodies as living sacrifices, and as we do this, we become living places for the fire of the Holy Spirit to consume us. We present a sacrifice and we become the place of communion. This is the mystery and the reality of the faith. John, in the book of Revelation is giving us a glimpse into heaven. We are getting heaven's perspective and in Christ we are in this place. There can be here in our hearts. This week I want to look at this passage from the Book of Revelation, chapter 5. And look at the Resurrection from Heaven's perspective. Many people miss what's going on in Revelation because they go straight to interpretation before they observe what the text says. So this vision of heaven in Revelation 5 is part of a larger series of visions that John says he had while on Patmos on the Lord's Day. Patmos is a small island off the coast of modern Turkey.
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Jesus Christ did not come to start a religion. Jesus Christ came to establish a Kingdom. This Kingdom is not one of outward appearances, but a kingdom of internal realities. As Jesus said, his body was the temple, and it would be destroyed, and on the third day it would be raised up. On the cross the veil of his temple was torn, his heart was pierced, and out of that temple of his body flowed blood and water. That water, was the Holy Spirit. To be a Christian is to be a little Christ, a temple of the Holy Spirit as Paul tells us. And this calling to be a temple is both inward and outward. Christ is in you. This is the mystery of our faith. And so we present our bodies as living sacrifices, and as we do this, we become living places for the fire of the Holy Spirit to consume us. We present a sacrifice and we become the place of communion. This is the mystery and the reality of the faith. John, in the book of Revelation is giving us a glimpse into heaven. We are getting heaven's perspective and in Christ we are in this place. There can be here in our hearts. This week I want to look at this passage from the Book of Revelation, chapter 5. And look at the Resurrection from Heaven's perspective. Many people miss what's going on in Revelation because they go straight to interpretation before they observe what the text says. So this vision of heaven in Revelation 5 is part of a larger series of visions that John says he had while on Patmos on the Lord's Day. Patmos is a small island off the coast of modern Turkey.