PLAYING IN THE SAME KEY (Eph 2:17-22)

Midweek bible study uh... every wednesday we meet in this room at six thirty and we are going through uh... an introduction to systematic theology uh... everybody's had a book. We've been walking through a chapter at a time and we would love for you to come in and join us as part of that uh...

The youth meet over in the house uh... ages ten and up is over at the house and they have been walking through the book of first john with pastor jeremiah. So remember midweek wednesday night six thirty excellent time of fellowship and bible study and uh... just being together which is a part of church right.

Well uh... we also have uh... prayer meetings on tuesday morning uh... this past week we didn't have it we had to cancel. But this week we're on. But we typically meet every tuesday morning between seven and eight a .m.

And i know some of you a lot of you cannot make it but i've said it before even if you can come in for five minutes and pray uh... we are praying for the church. We're praying for each of the people that are here.

We even pray for the regular attenders. We pray uh... for the community. We pray that god would work in our midst. And we're trying to make a habit of just continually going to the source going to god and asking for him to work uh... because he's the one that has to do the work.

And we're just along for the ride for the most part. No amen to that huh? Okay. Alright. Well and i ask also that you would continue to pray for our deacon nominees uh... these men have been coming early on wednesdays and having to sit and listen to me for an hour uh... talk through their reading uh... a book together and learning what it means to be a minister of mercy uh... a true new testament deacon.

And and so pray for them as they as they really talk to their families their wives as they examine themselves if this is truly the calling for them uh... So continue to keep them in your prayers. And if you know who they are you can encourage them in that process.

Well before we jump into our time of worship our call our call to worship uh... we always try and pray for another local church. And this morning uh... we would like to pray for logos fellowship. We have some great relationships over there with a lot of those guys in the leadership at that church uh... we love that people and we just want to lift them up to the lord this morning and let uh... trust the lord again go to the source and ask that he would work in their midst as they gather to worship.

So if you wouldn't mind pray with me. Dear heavenly father thank you. Thank you for how you have brought us into the body into the very household of god as your people and that you were building us on that foundation of christ.

Lord i lift up our brothers and sisters at logos fellowship father i pray that you would work in their hearts lord mold them lord. I pray that you would allow their leadership discernment wisdom. But also i ask that you allow them to humble themselves before you.

We all need that i need that jeremiah needs that every christian does. Lord we would humble ourselves before you and i pray that for them that they would. They would rely on you they would trust in you they would rest in you would give them peace even now.

Lord help them to be diligent to proclaim your word. I pray this morning for their people as they as they come together to sing to fellowship to read to hear to see your word played out lord i pray that they would be further sanctified molded more to the image of our great savior jesus christ work in their midst bring about revival into their into their church that would spread into this community.

Lord we thank you for them in christ's name. Amen. Well again before we go to a call to worship we actually have one of the things that we love to celebrate here which is a new member recognition. So i'm going to ask justin and ebony to come on up.

Y 'all have seen justin and ebony around here. Y 'all been coming now for a few months right. It's been a bit now. Time flies and y 'all have seen them around here. They've gone through the new member process.

We've met many times. I've known y 'all for quite a while and so they love the lord they love the church they love ministry they love to serve. And we are so grateful to have them interested in coming and being a part of of what god's doing here.

And we're excited to see how god uses y 'all here. They have gone through that process they know what it means to be a part of this church. This is a serious matter for us isn't it. This is not just coming forward and saying i want to move my membership.

This is a process that somebody that has to know what we're about and want to be on board with that y 'all have done that are y 'all excited. So Justin. Justin is a pharmacist in Walnut Ridge and Ebony has just you're just now finishing up your masters.

I'm going to you're going to finish it next May and you're going to be a guidance counselor. That's awesome. And you currently work at Jonesboro School District. Okay I should know this. Right. But they have decided to come and move their membership here to 12 .5 and be a part so I encourage you to pray for them pray that god would guide them in the ministry opportunities to use their specific gifts and abilities into this body how he sees fit and we're grateful to have him here.

For all of you that are members of 12 .5. If you affirm Justin and Ebony as being a part of this body a part of this congregation please stand in affirmation. Alrighty. Well praise god you can be seated well as we do every time we have a commissioning.

Right. And it's only one. So y 'all got to fight over which one of you gets it. Or if it's just going to be kind of the family bible but an ESV study bible. Because this is what we're about. Right. This is the tool that we base everything off of.

Why do we do ministry. A certain way. Because that tells us to. Why do we live our lives a certain way. Because that book tells us to. That is what we're looking to. So that's why we like to commission you guys with that and we're grateful to have you here.

Amen. Let's pray for them. Dear heavenly father lord thank you. Thank you for Justin and Ebony and their heart for you their desire to serve you lord. I'm so excited to see how how you use their particular gifts in this body.

I myself have been encouraged by them and I pray that they too are encouraged here by other brothers and sisters. Lord over the next few years. I pray that you would continue to use them mightily lord.

We thank you for them. And we thank you for this body in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Thank y 'all. Alright. Amen. That's it exciting. You know what. Before we before we go to a call to worship. Why don't you stand and sing this with me.

Take my life and let it be consecrated lord to thee. Take my moments and my days. Let them flow in endless praise. Let them flow in endless praise. Take my voice and let it sing always only for my king.

Take my lips and let them be filled with messages from thee. Filled with messages from thee. Thank you. Our call to worship this morning comes from psalm 146 where the psalmist says praise the lord. We will praise the lord as long as we live.

We put no trust in princes. And a son of man in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs he returns to the earth on that very day his plans perish. The lord sets the prisoners free. The lord opens the eyes of the blind.

Lord watches over the sojourners. He upholds the widow and the fatherless. But the way of the wicked he brings to ruin all god's people said let's pray a prayer of adoration to that great god. Dear heavenly father we come to you once again and we just praise you for who you are god.

You are a god who loves the righteous and none of us were righteous. Oh father. But then you send your son to redeem us and to make us righteous. And then we stand before you holy. We stand before you with no condemnation.

Father. But you are holy. You are perfect. And because of your son we are redeemed. Thank you. I pray that we would worship you this morning in spirit and truth. We know that you are with us today as your people.

As we prepare to worship you we know that you you are guiding our worship because you are the one that is working in us for your purposes and your good pleasure.

We thank you in Christ's name. Amen. All right. Amen. It's good to be in the house of the lord this morning. Amen so glad that you are with us today. We chose to come out and worship. Sing out. Lift your voices.

Worship the god who was. We worship the god who is. We worship the god who evermore will be. He opened the prison doors. He parted the raging sea. Now god he holds the victory. Sing it out church. There's joy in the house of the lord.

There's joy in the house of the lord today we shout out your praise. There's joy in the house of the lord. Our god is surely in this place and we won't be quiet. We shout out your praise. God who saves.

We sing to the god who always makes a way. Well he hung up on that cross then he rose up from that grave. My god still rolling stones away. There's joy in the house of the lord. There's joy in the house of the lord today and we won't be quiet.

We shout out your praise. There's joy in the house of the lord. Our god is surely in this place. We shout out your praise. Now we're royalty. We were the prisoners. Now we're running free. We are forgiven, accepted redeemed by his grace.

Let the house of the lord sing praise. We were the beggars. Now we're royalty. We were the prisoners. Now we're running free. We were forgiven, redeemed by the house. There's joy in the house of the lord today and we won't be quiet.

We shout out your praise. There's joy in the house of the lord. Our god is surely in this place and we won't be quiet. We shout out your praise. There's joy in the house of the lord. There's joy in the house of the lord today and we won't be quiet.

We shout out your praise. There's joy in the house of the lord. Our god is surely in this place. We shout out your praise. We shout out your praise. Psalm 72. Give the king your justice, oh god. And your righteousness to the royal son.

May he judge your people with righteousness and your poor with justice. Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people and the hills in righteousness. May he define the cause of the poor of the people.

Give deliverance to the children of the needy and crush the oppressor. May they fear you while the sun endures. And as long as the moon throughout all generations. May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass.

Like showers that water the earth in his days. May the righteous flourish amen and peace abound till the moon be no more. May he have dominion from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth.

May desert tribes bow down before him and his enemies lick the dust. May the kings of Tarsh and of all the coastlands render him tribute. May the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts. May all kings fall down before him.

All nations serve him. Amen.

Bless your name God to set in song your great Messiah. Sing with me your glory fire it sings so it has generated you allowed us God to be here to worship your name. Father we thank you for for your son that you've sent the true and better Adam.

Praise you God. God we just praise you for sending that that gift God.

Christ the true and better Adam son of God and son of man who when tempted in the garden never yielded never sinned and he who makes a many righteous brings us back to life again. Dying he reversed the curse and rising crushed the serpent's head.

Christ the true and better Isaac humble son of sacrifice who would climb the fearful mountain there to offer up his life laid with faith upon the father's joy. And only son there salvation was provided.

Oh what full and boundless love. Oh Christ the true and ending has no helper. He has pity on the weak and the needy and saves the lives of the needy from oppression and violence. He redeems their life and precious is their blood in his sight.

Long may he live. May gold of Sheba be given to him. May prayer be made for him continually and blessings invoke for him all the day. May there be abundance of grain in the land on the tops of the mountains.

May it wave. May its fruits be like Lebanon. And may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field. May his name endure forever. His fame continue as long as the sun. May people be blessed in him.

All nations call him blessed. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel who alone does wonders things. Blessed be his glorious name forever. May the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen. The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended, amen.

Why we're here this morning is to praise you your mighty name. Thank you God praise you Lord God as we continue this time of worship and reading the word and hearing it preached. God I pray that you'd prepare our ears give us ears to hear what the spirit speaks to the church this morning.

God continuing worship and offering. Father that you would use these offerings and these gifts to further your kingdom. Father you'd put it in our hearts and our minds. Today we live for you God we thank you in your name we pray.

Before the throne of God above. I love that song. What great truth. We stand righteous because of the our savior, Jesus Christ, amen. Well go ahead and open your copy of God's word to Ephesians chapter 2 but before we get to that let me pray for us that God would illuminate our hearts and minds to his truth through the Holy Spirit.

Dear heavenly Father, thank you. Well Father I pray that you would speak to us today through your word. Father your word is clear, it's true, it's precise. But we as frail fallible creatures sometimes distort it sometimes misunderstand it.

Forgive us. Oh God. But allow us this morning your people to hear truth to know it. Guard my lips from error. Father I beg of you thank you in Christ's name, amen. Well Ephesians chapter 2. And we're going to start reading in verse 14.

And if you were with us last week you will recall that we looked at verses 14 through 16 and we saw that there was this dividing wall of hostility that has now been done away with this hostility between both Jewish and Gentile believers.

Mind you Jewish and Gentile Christians there is no longer a divide. He has broken that down and he's done so in the body of Christ. So let's read there starting in verse 14 as a reminder Paul says. For he himself is our peace who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the body of Christ.

Right. The dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in the ordinances that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two so making peace and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross thereby killing the hostility.

And as we looked at this text we saw how these earthly Christians they were building walls of division within the very body of Christ. And we were reminded as we looked at that that we ourselves today often do the same thing.

Don't we. We often build these walls of division. We build dividers between us and brothers and sisters. And we create hostility in a place where Christ himself has abolished such hostility. And we confronted with this truth.

We believers we just we can't help but feel the weight of our own sin and culpability in the propagation of this division. Right. All of us are guilty of it at times in different ways. And we feel the weight of that.

And we think just for a moment that peace it's just not really attainable. We just think so differently than other brothers and sisters. We come from completely different backgrounds. We come from completely different cultures.

That believer is not in the right denomination. I've got the right denomination. They're the wrong denomination. That believer supports the wrong political party or something as benign as well. Our personalities just don't mesh I have to love them but I don't have to fellowship with them.

Or I'll give them the shirt off my back but I won't give them my time. These walls of division. And then we wonder with all of these these differing personalities these differing opinions and theological persuasions these different ethnicities and cultures how could we possibly be unified.

How could we come together. And those of us in here that love studying God's word and love theology we understand the theological ramifications of this abstract reality. We know the fact that we are one body in Christ.

We're unified. We understand that theoretically. But the physical reality seems to be one that makes this outward expression of unity impossible. Paul knows this. Paul is human too, right? Paul understands these small things that just continue to build up and build up and cause such divisions.

And you can be sure that he felt the weight of that specifically in his time because Paul was a Jewish Christian that was ministering to Gentile Christians. But I think that's why he goes on in this letter to give us the key to unlocking this reality.

So read with me there in verse 17 as he goes on there in chapter 2 of Ephesians. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near for through him we both have access in one spirit to the Father.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone in whom the whole structure being joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord in him.

You also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. You know when me and Erica or I should say Erica and I speak properly here when Erica and I were planning our wedding when Erica was planning our wedding there was one big request about that wedding from me and it was that I wanted a string quartet.

That's what I asked for. I didn't want just a piano or an organ like any old other wedding. I wanted to make it complicated and I wanted a string quartet and so what we did is we picked a string quartet that we knew of and they were a great group.

Unfortunately this particular group had double booked and so they had to split forces. If you know anything about a quartet it's four players strings like a small little mini orchestra and so what they had to do was they had to do two fill-ins in each group and split forces and go other ways but I'm not sure that they I'm not sure that they vetted these fill-ins very well.

And so as people are coming in into the wedding and the quartet is playing in the background technically playing I guess it starts off sounding a little rough. It was a little rough. You could hear it was real pitchy.

They weren't quite playing together and all of us kind of thought well they're kind of working out the kinks. By the time the wedding starts this is going to be good. However by the time the wedding starts it had gotten progressively worse.

It had gotten worse. Mind you there are hundreds of people at this wedding. This wedding is packed and all of them are on edge because each song begins to sound more and more like a dying cat. And so by the time we get to the wedding march Erica and her father are walking down the aisle to the sound of and I'm really exaggerating that for the good it was really really bad.

And so all of these people are laughing out loud especially my mother-in-law on the front row just laughing hysterically. I guess everyone was laughing except for your dad. I jokingly tell him as soon as he turned the corner and opened the door and looked down the aisle and remembered she was coming to marry me.

He started weeping. So he's the only one crying. Everybody else is laughing hysterically. You see the good thing is is that no one ever forgot our wedding. Did they babe? If you were at our wedding you remember our wedding very well.

The bad thing is they don't remember it for the right reasons. Okay they don't remember the wedding for the right reasons. And I share this because I think that right there is often what people looking into the church remember this is often what they remember.

They remember it. They remember it. Well they remember it for its disunity. They remember it for its awkwardness. They don't remember us as Jesus said that they would know us when he mentioned that in John 13 he says by this all people will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.

So why is this. Why was this string quartet so bad at our wedding? Possibly a lack of practice wrong sheet music. I don't know but I think it had more to do with their tuning. If you're a musician you know what I'm talking about had more to do with their tuning.

You see being a musician you're forced to learn to play with others in unison. That's the point of music. That's what makes music so beautiful. Is you're playing with other instruments that are adding to this beautiful sound that's building upon each other.

And the first and biggest part of playing in unison together is proper tuning. We had a pastor at our church Pastor Rick Cobb. He was the guy that taught me anything music that I know I know from him and Pastor Rick always led our music team at church.

And whenever we had a full orchestra on a Sunday in preparation for that Pastor Rick would go to each instrument with what's called a tuning key. You all know what I'm talking about where you hit it on the side and it gives out a frequency and a pitch.

And he would walk to each instrument. And he would hit that tuning key. And he would make the violin tune to that very tuning key. And then he'd walk over to the oboe and he'd hit it again. And the oboe would tune to that tuning key.

And then he'd walk over to the guitar player tuning key every instrument one at a time. And he would hone in every instrument to this one source meticulously unified source. Then and only then were we able to properly play together in unison.

You see if each instrument that was playing if each one had tried to tune on their own based upon their own standard of tuning which some musicians will try to do. Oh I've got good pitch I can hear it.

And they tune on their own. They would not have been in unison with the other instruments. Would they. They needed to be in tune together. And I believe this analogy is similar to what Paul is telling us here in this text.

Notice how he first further affirms this wall of hostility being abolished. Look back at verse 17 with me. I want us to really hone in on this reminder. In verse 17 he says. And he. And who's the he. Who's the he Jesus.

Right. This is Jesus. And Jesus came and preached peace. When I read that I can't help but think of what we studied not too long ago in the Sermon on the Mount. Right. All the words of Jesus from that Sermon on the Mount.

I just they're resonating in my head as I read this passage. And Jesus came and he preached peace. He preached peace to you who now who's the you. He's speaking to Gentile believers. Right. These are Gentile believers.

They're in Ephesus. He says he preached peace to you who were far off. You were not. You were not in the the covenants at that time. You were you were alienated from it as he had said previously. But he says Jesus preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near the Jewish believers.

For through him who Jesus. Right. We both Jew Gentile white black male female anyone have access in one spirit to the Father. Now as a side note I want you to notice something here in Scripture. I want I want you to pay attention to this notice the Trinitarian language.

I've been hitting this the whole time through this book. Remember this is something that only a Triune God could accomplish. Look look at verse 18. For through him Jesus we both have access in one spirit.

And notice that spirit is capitalized. Who is that the Holy Spirit to the Father the Father chose us the Son redeemed us and the Spirit seals us. This has been the resounding theme from the beginning of this letter.

Hasn't it. This is Paul's purpose in letting us understand this. This is a this is a Trinitarian work. If you have a non-Trinitarian God you do not have the Gospel. This is core here. So look at verse 19 though.

So then some of your translations probably say therefore it essentially just means because of this because of this peace that is made with Christ and that is abolished all of this that we've just studied over the past over yet last week and today.

So then because of this therefore you who Gentile Christians he's writing to Ephesus are no longer strangers and aliens. But you are fellow citizens. The language used here that Paul in Paul's writing in the Greek it's contrasting these previous two words that he has used strangers and aliens.

What is Paul saying here. He's saying that you were strangers and aliens. What he means by that is you were a foreigner you were completely detached from this nation from this country from this people.

But now now when he uses the wording that he uses for fellow citizens he brings it together in perfect unity and says you Gentile believer you have the exact same rights privileges and standing. You're a fellow citizen.

Okay. And then he says you're a fellow citizen. Notice with the saints. Who are the saints. Right. Who are they every believer. Right. Jew and Gentile. How do we know this. How do we know that these Gentile believers are saints.

Because it looks like he says fellow citizens with the saints. Maybe he's calling the Jewish believers the saints. And he just says well you're a fellow citizen with them. But that's not the way it's written here.

And we know that because of chapter 1 verse 1 in his greeting who's Paul writing to Gentile Christians in Ephesus. And what does he say Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God to the saints who are in Ephesus these are fellow saints.

They're fellow citizens and fellow saints. And what does he mean by that that you are members of the household of God. See up until now Paul has been using this analogy of the body to refer to the church.

Hasn't he. We talk about that a lot around here. The body the church universal is this organic thing. It's a body. And this analogy is a beautiful analogy. And that's what he's been using. And now he switches analogies.

Notice. He tells us that we are members of the household of God. You see analogies have limitations. Don't they. Every analogy falls short of the perfect picture of what it's seeking to portray especially heavenly truths.

And that is why I believe that the New Testament switches back and forth with analogies in regards to the church and its relationship to the triune God. We need multiple avenues to understand this great truth.

This relationship between the church and the triune God is so intricate it's so complex it's so personal it's so other worldly that mere human terms cannot express its magnificence. Can it. It can't even come close.

And so we need multiple analogies just to get a glimpse into this glorious truth. Don't we. And that's why Paul uses this and this analogy of the household of God. It gives us a picture of something lost that has been found.

Actually let me rephrase that it gives us a picture of something lost into something infinitely greater. What do I mean by that something lost into something infinitely greater. Well think back to the first three chapters of the Bible.

God created the earth and it was good wasn't it. We see God communing with Adam and Eve right there in the garden. You see the garden was a temple of sorts. The temple essentially mediates the presence of God to his people.

Okay. And so this in the garden Adam and Eve walking with God is a temple of sorts. It's a dwelling place it's a household. But what happened. Sin. Adam's sin separated us from the presence of God separated Adam and Eve from the presence of God.

This Adam who was a priest of sorts remember he was tasked to care for the temple there in chapter 2 verse 15. That's why God put him in the garden. He says here's the garden care for it take care of it.

And so Adam is somewhat of a priest there in the temple of God the very the very dwelling place where God mediates with his people. When he he's in the presence of God. But now after eating the fruit he's what he's cast out of the temple out of the presence of the creator.

And when I say presence I don't mean that God doesn't know where he's at. God is omnipresent. He's everywhere at all times. What I mean is communion with the father. He's cast out of communion. But then later on we see God making a way.

Don't we. We see glimpses of it all the way from chapter 3 all the way to the end of Revelation we see it building up to this this point of where he's taking it. But he he makes a way for his people to be with him again.

But he does so in a tent. Doesn't he a temporary mobile temple while his people are in the wilderness. God makes a way. And once again we have priests involved. Don't we. We see this to care for the temple in Numbers chapter 3 where God tells Moses to establish the Levites as priests for the temple to care for the household of God.

And ultimately the Jewish temple was built. Wasn't it when when Israel finally comes out of the wilderness and they they come into Jerusalem. Eventually this temple was built. And this right here this right here is where the people of God came to make sacrifices.

This is where the people of God came to be in the presence of God himself in communion with God. Oh but this thank goodness was not the ultimate plan. Was it this was not the the end. All you see Jesus himself confirmed this to the woman at the well.

Didn't he in John 4 21. What does he say. He says woman believe me the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. And later on in verse 23 he says. But the hour is coming.

And now is here when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. You see earlier I said this analogy of the household of God is something lost into something infinitely greater. You see Adam the priest walked with God in the cool of the day.

Didn't he. He walked with God God by his side communing with God in the garden. And now now Jesus the great high priest what does he do. He brings us into perfect spiritual union with the triune God. We are no longer walking side by side with him.

We are in perfect union with him. You see we are no longer caretakers and friends. We are now sons and heirs. As Paul has laid out previously in this letter we are members of the very household of God where where he meets with his people.

He's with his people. He's in perfect communion with his people. See this is why I think Paul is using this analogy. And he goes on to further expound on this analogy. Look at verse 20 with me this household of God built built on.

It's a house. It's a structure. It's a building. It's something in this analogy that we're seeing that is being built. It's built on the foundation. Now anyone in here ever seen a house or a building get built.

The first thing that ever has to happen what is it is. A foundation has to be laid. The ground has to be prepped. The soil has to be properly cared for it has to be the right location. And then that foundation gets poured.

And at best it better be able to handle the weight of what's going forward but not only handle the weight of what's going forward. It lays out the trajectory of this building is going to be square and stable.

It lays out the footprint of what this building is going to look like. There is a foundation that is laid. And that's what Paul says. He says this household of God it's built on the foundation of. And what does he say.

Is this foundation the apostles and prophets. Wait a second. I thought I thought the foundation was Jesus. Paul said that over in 1 Corinthians. Didn't he. This foundation is Jesus. So what does Paul mean here.

That this foundation of the apostles and prophets. Well to help us better understand this actually turn to that passage in 1 Corinthians. With me. Chapter 3. 1 Corinthians chapter 3. We're going to look at verse 10 when Paul writing to the church in Corinth there he says.

According to the grace of God given to me speaking of himself like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation. Actually look back at verse 9. What does he mean. By this we can see this how this is connected.

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field God's building. It's the same type of analogy that he's using here you Christians in Corinth you are God's building and I have been laying a foundation.

What were the apostles and the prophets. They were the beginning of this building. Weren't they. They were at the very beginning the onset of this this church universal this dwelling place for God with his people their efforts as builders was used by God to build this temple this household of God which is you and I.

Now we have been now 2000 years. That building is continually being built and those blocks are continually being laid the whole of the church. You and I are stones in that building. Notice that Paul goes on in 1 Corinthians there in verse 10 of chapter 3 he says.

And someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care. How he builds upon it. You see this analogy of the church being built. This dwelling place of God this temple of God dwelling with his people started in the garden man ruined that then God started to restore it.