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enemy can never defeat the Lord Jesus. The gates of Hades can never prevail against the builded church (Matt. 16:18). The church is still going on and is still growing. Although the enemy may try his best to tear it down, we will see the victory. We will see not only that the Lord Jesus Himself is prevailing but that the church also is prevailing.

THE BUILDING OF GOD'S HOUSE

In the changing of water into wine, the prin ciple of life was set forth. Now, in the dealing with the temple, the purpose of life is shown. The principle of life is to change death into life. The purpose of life is to build the house of God. The principle of life is for the purpose of life. The changing of death into life is for life's building, the building of God's house. These two points gov ern the whole Gospel of John. This is why after the introduction in the first chapter, the second chap ter follows to show us these two points by two events. Then chapter 3 through chapter 11 is the record of the nine cases proving how the Lord came into all kinds of human situations and changed death into life. After all the cases have been related and after the last message has been given in chap ters 14, 15, and 16, the Lord offered a prayer in chapter 17 to the Father about oneness. This prayer

for oneness was simply a prayer for the building. If we are not built together, we can never be one. For example, a heap of materials is not one, be cause the materials are not built together. A house is composed of many materials, and these mate rials are one because they are built together. Only when the materials are built up together as one building is there oneness. Oneness means to be built up together. Therefore, the purpose of life is to build up God's house, God's temple, for God's habitation. The purpose of the Lord being life to us is to build the church as God's dwelling place. Life is for the building. Life is for the church. It is for the building of the church, Christ's Body and God's house, that the Lord has come to be our life.

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