STAND FIRM AND YOU WILL WIN LIFE

TEMPLE DESTRUCTION

‘WHATEVER WAS NOT OVERLAID WITH GOLD WAS PUREST WHITE’

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HUMANS ARE TEMPLE BUILDERS

THE OZYMANDIAS PROBLEM

THE TEMPLE IS NOT THE SOURCE OF LIFE

BUILDING TEMPLES IS LIFE DEPRIVING

BUILDING ON SAND

TRUST NOT IN PRINCES

THE ORIGINAL DESIGN

CHRIST’S NEW DESIGN

SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD

CHRIST AND THE EARLY CHURCH

• Luke 9:58 - ‘the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.’
• Matthew 18:20 - ‘Where two or three are gathered’
• 1 Corinthians 6:19 - ‘your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you...’
• Acts 1:12 - The upper room

STAND FIRM ON THE ROCK

HOW TO STAND

• v8: Don’t be deceived
• v9: Trust; do not be frightened
• v14: Do not worry how you will face difficulty
• v18: See life with an eternal perspective
• v28: Lift up your heads; have hope

I DID NOT SEE A TEMPLE

APPLICATION

• What ’temples’ do we build in our lives?
• Is our faith rooted in what we have built, or in what God has built?
• In the face of ‘anguish and perplexity’, how can we help one another ‘stand firm and win life’?