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Our Theme is “Rebuilding the House of God”
Is your spirit stirred?
Is your foundation strong?
Are you just one stick holding up the roof or are there many?
Are you ready to rebuild the house of God?
Today we are building the walls
Walls are important to a house.
Something has to hold up the roof.
This afternoon we talked about healthy boundaries.
We want our walls to be healthy and strong!
Each of us has a part in this building.
When it comes to building metaphors, the Bible does not speak of becoming walls in the house of God, but it does speak of becoming a pillar.
A pillar is where the load is concentrated on to certain places that are strong and can bear the weight of the roof.
Pillars are often decorated, in roman architecture they were made of carved stone with capitals and bases.
The leaders of the church were also described as pillars, because they are the ones who are carrying the greatest weight of responsibility.
When I was an Associate Pastor, second in charge of the church.
Our senior pastor would leave me in charge when he needed to go somewhere.
Every time he travelled away I would feel a weight come over me when he left and I would feel it lift again when he returned.
Over the years I became accustomed to this weight and after some time it was no longer difficult to bear.
That is how I knew that I was ready to be a senior pastor.
I had learned to bear the weight of responsibility while under the care of another pastor.
Are you ready to bear the weight of responsibility?
Have you learned to come under authority?
Then I will tell you the functions of a pillar and you will learn to do them.
A pillar remembers, a pillar upholds the truth, and a pillar is an overcomer.
A pillar remembers.
A pillar is a memorial.
When Jacob was fleeing from his brother Esau after having deceived him, he had an encounter with God.
He saw the heaven opened and angels ascending and descending.
And God reaffirmed the covenant that He had made with Abraham and with Isaac.
So Jacob took the rock that he was sleeping on and set it upright as a pillar to be a reminder of what he had experienced.
Rocks to not stand upright unless someone has made it to stand.
If you are wandering through the wilderness and you see a rock standing upright you will think, what does this mean?
Who has made this rock to stand?
It is a memorial to remind you and as a testimony to what God has done.
So Jacob has faith that God will bring him back to his homeland because of the covenant.
When he comes back the way that he went, he will see the rock and remember the encounter with God and the experience will be confirmed because it has come true.
So a pillar is set up to remind us of what God has said and what God has done.
When Solomon built the temple, he erected two pillars.
It is unclear whether these two pillars were part of the structure or if they were just for decoration.
They were at the entrance of the temple and they each had a name.
Jahcin - God has established.
Boaz - In him is strength.
So if you are going to the temple, like the people were to do three times a year, and you see these two pillars and you remember their names, what will you remember?
You will remember.
like Jacob did, that this is the house of God.
God has established this house.
God has established his covenant with me.
God has established me, he has called me to be on of His people.
Whatever I am or whatever I become, it is God who establishes me.
You will look at the other pillar and you will remember where your strength comes from.
In Him is strength.
If it is God who establishes me, then He will also give me the strength.
Now as I looked for the meaning of this name, some books have different meanings, because the Hebrew root word is not clear.
One possible meaning is “flexible”
But strong is also flexible.
Like the palm tree, it will bend but it will not break.
Always remember that it is God who has established you.
Your ministry is His ministry.
He has made His covenant with you.
Always remember your encounter with God, come back to that place often and refresh your memory.
There is where your strength comes from.
You minister out of your relationship with God.
For those of you who are elders in the church, you are also pillars which are set as a memorial to what God has done.
Our job as leaders is to bear witness to the truth.
The apostles that were appointed by Jesus, their first job was to bear witness to His resurrection.
There are things that God has done in your midst,
prophetic words that were spoken
miracles that have occurred.
people’s lives have been transformed.
It is your job to remember and to bear witness.
Tells the stories of what God has spoken and what God has done.
Tell them to future generations.
When your children’s children come to the house of God they will see two pillars - Jachin and Boaz - and they will know:
God has established this place.
God has established his covenant with us.
God has established me and my strength is in him.
A pillar upholds the truth.
So a pillar is there to bear witness by remembering, and in bearing witness to uphold the truth.
Our society is always changing.
There are always new ideas; some of them are good and some not so good.
If you have lived as long as I have you have seen some ideas which were thought to be great at the time, turn out to be not so great after a while.
When I was in high school we would put gel in our hair to make it stand up.
People would go around with spiked hair.
One girl had hair so high that if I sit behind her in class I cant see the teacher.
Why did we do that?
Because new products were being invented and we could do things that could not be done before.
Was it a good thing?
Apparently not, because we don’t do it anymore.
It was a fad.
In the church we also have fads.
There are ideas and practices which will come and some will also go away.
But a pillar in the church remembers what is true in the midst of changing times.
When Paul was taking the gospel to the Roman provinces and the Gentiles were coming to faith in Christ it was a profound change to the mostly Jewish church.
So Paul and Barnabas went to the church in Jerusalem to talk to the pillars of the church.
They has already confirmed that Paul, who used to be Saul, the persecutor of the church, had a genuine conversion.
But now, even though they went to the Jews first, so many Gentiles are coming to Christ.
This is causing a stir because the Jews were allowed to practice their religion under Rome, but will so many Gentiles attract too much attention?
And what about the law?
Paul is teaching that the Gentiles do not need to keep all of the Jewish laws because they are saved by faith in Christ.
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