Yet the spiritual temple, reared by the hand of an Infinite Spirit, is nevertheless no shadowy edifice. It is in a high sense real, being composed of human beings. Angels may contemplate the work and aid in it, but they form no part of it. You, says our apostle to Christians, as lively , (that is, lively, animated), stones, are built up a spiritual house. Such Is the value and dignity of a human soul, made in the image of God, redeemed by the Son, and indwelt by the Spirit that there is a consummate Glory in a structure of which every component part is such a soul. In other places the individual believer is represented as a temple of God; but here, by change of figure, which beautifully and expressly brings forward the fellowship, multitude, and Union of believers, the whole is set before us as compacted into one perfect structure. The stones are no longer masses of granite or marble, but men and women, redeemed and sanctified, and hereafter to be perfected and glorified. Every saint has his appointed place. The temple comprises all the righteous, whoever have been, are, and shall be to the end of time. We think often of believers as separate existences, and sometimes of the church on Earth at a particular time, but we must also consider the complete body, in which not one true servant of God is missing, from righteous Abel to the last to shall be summoned to Glory by the final trumpet.
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