Genesis 11:3 “And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.”

1 Peter 2:5 “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”

Babylon is built with bricks, while the house of God is built with living stones. Man creates bricks, God creates stones. May we reflect on our lives and all we are building. Though they may reach into the heavens, our brick structures are worthless in God’s sight. He is ONLY desired in constructing a spiritual house founded on the corner stone, Jesus Christ Himself.

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Who are we in this story?

22 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

² The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,

³ And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

⁴ Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

⁵ But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

⁶ And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

⁷ But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

⁸ Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

⁹ Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

¹⁰ So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

¹¹ And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

¹² And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

¹³ Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹⁴ For many are called, but few are chosen.

1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”

This verse is a wonderful exhortation for our fellowship with our Lord Jesus Christ and other saints partaking of the same divine nature in Christ. We would be deceiving ourselves if we were to think this fellowship described is what we have come to know in most western churches as coming to some church building once, or maybe a few times a week, to hear a message then go home.

This verse lays out a condition. IF we walk in the light, as He is, THEN we have true fellowship and cleansing from all sin. IF we don’t walk in the light THEN those promises don’t apply to us. The Greek word for walk (Strong’s 4043) implies to live a certain way. The Greek word for light (Strong’s 5457) implies a manifestation of God’s life. Are we living in the manifest presence of God? Is our fellowship with others based on THAT manifestation of life alone or are we deceiving ourselves fellowshipping on the basis of something else? Maybe our fellowship has actually become founded on our denomination or way of thinking instead of the life of Christ. We could have at one point been walking IN the light, but do to various reasons no longer are. May we take an honest assessment of our lives.

This fellowship is much deeper and real. This fellowship can happen at any place and anytime IF we are walking in the light. This fellowship exists only in the light, where He is. It is hidden from the eyes of men. There are no easy roads into this fellowship, only through the door Jesus Christ Himself. This type of fellowship cleanses us from all sin, and most importantly it’s where the Lord Himself is manifesting to His people standing in their midst.

May we begin to, or continue to simply walk in the light where He is.

John 12:26 “If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour”

If He arrives, we arrive. If He leaves we leave.