Debrecen Messages #11 – The River of Life Within: Christ as Living Water (Genesis to Revelation)

The strongest human element in the city, human element, not element, but human element in the city is the stone. You are what? Living stone. Now, do you remember we talked about living water? And a living tree? That’s Him. Now, I know that there is a cornerstone to this city, and that’s Christ, but I also want you to know there are other stones in that city, and this is the one place we get to join in to be. Gold is inanimate, but here it is living. Water is inanimate, but here it is living. The tree is living and pulsating with the Lord’s life, that we eat and drink, the pearl is something of Christ being changed and you being changed, but here is the humanity. This is where the divine and the human become one, and we become something that is normally inanimate. You know what inanimate means? It comes from the word animal, animal alive, inanimate, not alive. Inorganic. Right, thank you. It’s a good word.

What can I tell you? You are living stones in that city. Here’s a stone, here’s a stone, and the stones are moving and cut so that they fit. Paul, we need the church; it’s the only place that stones can get cut to fit one another.

I’m going to tell you now, Daniel, you asked me a question. What are you going to do here when I leave? And I’m going to answer you.

You’re going to get cut on. You’re going to get cut on. You’re going to get great cutting. A lot of pressure to turn carbon into diamonds, rubies, and onyx, depending on what gets put under pressure. And the church of Jesus Christ is made up of stones that are being pressed. And our humanity is growing richer and richer by the tremendous pressure of cutting.

And that’s what you see in the Garden of Eden. And I’m going to just close this way. As I step back and look at the Garden of Eden, I’ll tell you what I see, but I don’t know if this illustration is going to work in Eastern Europe. I have been going to places to buy wood, lumber, and material, but they don’t have much.

Let me tell you what’s in a lumber yard in my country. And forgive me for this, but it’s the best way I can illustrate this. If I go to a lumberyard in my city, I can find kitchen cabinets there. And there are bathroom sinks. And there is plumbing. And there are wood and windows, roofing, nails, hammers, electric saws, and floor tiles. I can even purchase steps, doors. and wood of every kind and shape imaginable, plywood, sheetrock, all sorts of things to make.

Now, imagine this lumberyard. To me, that is the garden. You walk into the garden, there’s some gold over here, there’s some bdellium over here, there’s some onyx stone over here, there’s some water over there, there’s a tree over there, and it’s all scattered all over the place. And God is building.

How can I tell you this?

The building process is the church of Jesus Christ.

That’s why she must not just be something that meets on Sunday. And this is why in America, I don’t do a whole lot. Now, I’m going to tell you why I don’t do a whole lot, Kalia, because I won’t work with a group of people unless they’re all moving to the same neighborhood together, because if you come in from all over the city, 10, 15, 20, 25 miles, and you meet one another on Sunday, there’s no building, sister.

The door is over here, the window is over here, the lumber is over there, the nails are over there, and the roof is over here. There has to be building. Read it in the New Testament, built up as what? Built up as…one more word…Living stones. We make such a terrible blunder when we just have Sunday meetings with sermons and singing. There’s no cutting. There’s no chiseling. There’s no transformation that is caused by one another. The church of the first century was not a meeting. It was a people, a civilization, a nation, and God uses the word, it is a building, being built. And the garden is a lumberyard, and the church is a building process.