To be the dwelling place of God is our highest calling. For us to stay on point, our main focus must not be on who we are called to be but on who He is and how we conform to His image. We are changed by beholding His glory, not our own. We need to know our calling and be devoted to it, but our main devotion must be to seeing and following Him. Only in this way can we attain to what we are called to be.

       Preaching the gospel of the...

       Buildings and programs are not the temple of the Lord; His people are. We don’t go to church; we are the church 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our structures and organizations will never be a substitute for what He called His church to be. Only His people can be this church.

       As we have covered, men have done great things for the Lord, and the Lord will bless the things done for Him as much as He can. However, He will not inhabit those things. He only inhabits what He builds,...

        Knowledge of the Lord is a treasure of uncountable value. Our calling is likewise an unfathomable honor of the highest value. It is, “the building up of the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. … We are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the Head, even Christ” (see Ephesians 4:12-15).

       Are we growing up into Him?...

       We must be born again to see the kingdom, but not all who are born again see it. They can, but they don’t. Why? That is an important question that needs to be addressed for all who are about to be born again, and for all who have been in the past but still do not see the kingdom. We must see—and start living in—the kingdom of God in order to preach the gospel of the kingdom.

       A common reason many are born again and yet fail to see the kingdom is because their...

       Abraham was apparently a member of the aristocracy of perhaps the most interesting nation and culture in the world at the time. He left it, and his family, to seek the city that God is building. As great as the things that man has accomplished are, none of them can compare to what God is building. Once we see what God is doing, it is hard to be too impressed with anything man has done.

       We’re not called to just leave something but to go to something far greater. The law of entropy...