2) He speaks into the hearts of sons who love him, in relationship with him, to become builders, and to work with them in that building.
3) He brings revelation of the pattern of how to build, so you will build according to what He wants, the way He wants, motivated by love, not by self-centeredness.
4) God will supply and provide everything you need to build.
5) He will fill it with his presence.
If you want your marriage filled with God's presence, build it God's way.
If you want your family filled with God's presence, build it God's way.
If want your business in favor with God, build it God's way.
Now lets go into the New Testament now, and we'll see if the pattern is still there. The Old Testament shows you natural things happening, and they all pointed to something that really God wanted to do - little glimpses of it, so we could understand it. The real house God wants to build is people - people of the temple of the living God. Jesus said: I'm the temple, I'm the house of God.
Jesus is the one who who builds a house for God. The Bible lays out that Jesus is the builder, and we build with Him, as sons. He came as a carpenter.
2 Samuel 7:12-16. This is an incredibly important prophecy that came in 2 Samuel, and it's a prophecy concerning Israel; but beyond Israel, to the coming kingdom of God and the earth. This is a promise, a covenant God made with David. God loved David, and God made a covenant with him concerning the coming kingdom, that would invade and fill the earth. It doesn't look like that now, but that doesn't mean it won't happen; it just means it hasn't happened yet.
You either build according to what you see around you, or you become word-focused, and build according to God's plan and pattern where he's going. You build generationally.
2 Samuel 7:12 - "When your days (that's David) are fulfilled, and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom".
The kingdom is the rule of a king. It's a territory, it's a culture, and laws. It's a people. I will do this - God's promise to David.
He said: "He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father. He shall be my son."
2 Samuel 7:16 - "Your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever".
To help you understand this, we'll show you its fulfillment. This is a promise to David, that in his family line, God would raise up someone who would build the house of God. Now, short term that was fulfilled by Solomon; but it actually is prophetic about Jesus, and what He would build.
"He will build a house for my name". It's not just the natural temple. It's a people for His Name. "I will establish the throne of his kingdom, and I will be his father. He will be my son".
He's talking about God raising up a kingdom that will fill the earth. It was fulfilled naturally in Solomon; but it actually referred to Jesus, the true son of David.
You find the same principles - God desires, and initiates a plan, to build a dwelling place. This time, it says: Jesus is the son who will build the house. When Jesus came, it was not just to save us; it was to build something, and restore something. He was a son. He came to restore what we're supposed to be, and what we're called to function like. Jesus is the son who builds the house of his father.
Hebrews 3:4-6 - "Every house is built by someone, but he that builds all things is God. Moses was faithful in his house, as a servant, for a testimony of things that will be spoken of afterwards (things that would come), but Christ is the son over his own house, whose house we are, if we hold confidence and rejoicing of hope, firm to the end".
Moses was a servant; servants complete tasks. Servants don't have a a legacy or inheritance; but Jesus is the son. Sons build their father's house, because they know that whatever they build for their father, will be theirs in the future. Different thinking.