<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="eph+2:14-22">Ephesians 2:14-22</span></span></p><p>There can be little doubt that meeting together with other members of God's family is a powerful way of bringing about a changed perspective. Another thing that happens when we go to church or meet together in Christian fellowship is that we are reminded that the very existence of the Church in today's world is proof positive that God is on the throne. Voltaire, the French infidel, said: "It required eleven men to build the Church; I will prove that it needs only one man to knock it down." He was wrong on two counts: first, it was not eleven men who built the Church, it was one man, the Man, Christ Jesus, and second, no one can ever knock it down, for its omnipotent Founder declared: "I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it"  (<span class="scriptRef" ref="mt+16:18">Matthew 16:18</span>). The mere existence of the Church is, I submit, decisive proof that the living Christ is in the midst of it. Voltaire is dust; Christ lives on. Think of the tempests the Church has weathered through the centuries. Think also of the persecutions through which it has victoriously come, and try, if you can, to account for this extraordinary phenomenon apart from the fact that its Founder and Protector is Jesus Christ. The next time you meet together with your fellow Christians, reflect on the fact that, although every generation has produced people who have predicted the downfall of the Christian Church - it is still here. The realisation of this is yet another thing, I suggest, that helps to put our doubts into the right perspective. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">O Father, how can I thank You enough for the times my own perspective has been changed after meeting together with Your people. I have greater insight now why You commanded us not to neglect assembling together. And I am grateful. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="1co+3:9-17">1 Corinthians 3:9-17</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="eph+1:22">Ephesians 1:22</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="eph+4:15">Ephesians 4:15</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="eph+5:23">Ephesians 5:23</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What do we know about the foundation of the Church?</li><li>What does Paul declare to the Ephesians?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord." (v. 21) 

<p>You … as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house. § Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. § Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own. For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. § What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” § [You] having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.</p>

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Morning Daily Light

 The house to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly magnificent. 

<p><span class="bible-text "> <sup class="verse-num ">16 </sup>Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple   and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?   </span></p>

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple<cr>1</cr>  and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?<cr>2</cr> 

1 Corinthians 3:16

 16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple   and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?  

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 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?

<p><span class="bible-text ">Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple   and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?   </span></p>

 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple   and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?  

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July 21, 2020

1 Corinthians 3:16 NIV

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