A Built-Up Corporate New Man: God’s Plan From Genesis to Revelation

Did you know that there is one other temple where the measurements are given in the Old Testament? Are you aware? Now let me say this. We’ll come to it later. Every time it gets bigger and bigger. Each time the new work is larger. Satan destroys, and God says, “Okay, I’ll build a bigger one, and each time the temple is enlarged. And when Jesus Christ said, “I am the temple. In three days, you put it in the grave, and it’s going to come up bigger than it has ever been.” The Lord is in one business only. He is in the business of building and enlarging that building. When God made Adam, He put him to sleep, and then He just enlarged him. He took a bone out of here, and he built of the same life. Now, Adam was twice as big.

God took Jesus Christ and opened His side, but broke no bone because what God builds of Christ could not be of the flesh or of his soul. But He took the water out of his side. He took the blood, and He took the water, and He enlarged it. And He built for Him a building. He enlarged Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters, you are the enlargement of Christ. Do you realize there are only two men in all the universe? There are only two. There are only two: the old and the new. God made one man. He called him, “Them.” Adam was not a “him.” He was a “them.” He looked at the man, and He referred to him as “them.” The old man failed the test. God made a new man. God is concerned about a man on this earth, and that man having this earth and building something on it.

Now, how is it possible? How is it possible that this can be both a man and God’s purpose, and at the same time, how can it be related to a building? This is a mystery, and it’s going to take all weekend, maybe, to begin to understand some of it. But let me say to you: somewhere in 1 Corinthians 11, it says… it speaks of there being one loaf. One loaf. Now, what is the one loaf? Do you know what the one loaf is? No, sister, not Christ. You’re getting close, though. There is one new man. Sir? You’re getting closer. Jesus Christ fell into the earth as a seed, and He came up as many grains. Would you show me the grains, please? Where are the grains? Just show them to me. There are many grains in this room, but then, did God take the grain and leave it grain?

No, brothers and sisters, He did two things with it. He took the very life of His own, and he took His own life, and He let it die. Then out of it came His life multiplied, and then once again, He takes his own life, many seeds, and He crushes them, and then He mingles them, and then He cooks them, and then He has one loaf. One loaf. How is it that we can be part of the building of God, though there are so many of us? Because God’s plan is for man to be built up into…one new man. That’s not all. We are to be built up as stones into a tabernacle and a temple together.

Let me make this very clear. Here is Genesis 1 and 2 over here. That is the blueprint. And over here is Revelation 21 and 22. Over here, there is no sin. And over here, there’s no sin. In here, there’s Satan, but don’t get too distracted by that. Over here (Genesis 1 and 2) is the lumberyard, and over here (Revelation 21 and 22) is the building. And brethren, what is in the tomb? The old man. Praise the Lord! In the middle, the building is put together. Are we in the beginning? Are we in the end? We’re in where? We’re in the middle, and we are supposed to be built up, but the enemy has deflected the work of God. We live in the very midst of the picture of individualism.

If you stay in the church, and I’m not sure all of you are going to stay after this weekend, but…let’s laugh. That wasn’t a threat, but I think it may have some truth. The individual has got to go. For God is going to put us, build us, and join us together. You are going to have to be built, and let me tell you, a lot of your American ways are going to have to go. And a lot of your…no…all of your religious ways are going to have to go. And your background is going to have to go. I think you believe you can get rid of your religion better than you can your collegiate ways. You were much stronger with that. Brothers and sisters, I don’t know which will be the hardest to get rid of, but you are in the middle, and God is simply saying, “You are to be built.”

Did you ever walk through a lumberyard? I don’t know how you feel walking through a lumberyard, but I just get a little distressed. Over there is a pile of bricks. Over there is a window. Over there’s a bunch of lumber that’s been discarded; maybe there is a porch just sitting there, the steps up to a porch, and it’s not going anywhere. And it’s just there. Brother, today, all over America, you see the material lying all over the ground. It’s just lying everywhere. I had such a burden when I talked to these kids, and up until now, only one or two have received it. I said to them, ” Brothers, you are so beautiful. You’re beautiful, saint. But one piece of grain is over there, and another one is piled up there beside a house somewhere, and another one of them is out in the yard, and one of them is out in the desert, and another one is in an ark. You’re not built up. You’re just independent children.”

I’m going to be quite honest with you, brothers and sisters here. May I, may I, in love, I’ve got to, by now we’ve got to be honest with one another. Amen. You are going to have to be honest with me. I’m going to have to be honest with you, and we’re going to have to do just like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin said, “If we don’t hang together, we’re going to hang separately.” We really are. We have all stepped out a little too far. You know what? There’s no way to go back from here.