The Tabernacle of the Most High

Spurgeon opens by forcefully dismissing all superstitious reverence for physical church buildings — arguing that bricks, stained glass, and consecrated graveyards have no moral or spiritual quality, and that true holiness can only reside in conscious, living persons — before turning to the text's claim that there is a real house of God: the living spiritual temple made of converted men and women, built on Christ as the cornerstone whose laying was cemented in his own blood, shaped from the rough quarry-stones of sinners by the saw of the law and the chisel of the gospel, and held together by love into an indestructible structure that no enemy has ever successfully stormed. He then develops the image of the church not merely as a building but as God's habitation — the place where, like a man at home, God lays aside the terror of his public majesty and shows his inner tenderness to his children, makes revelations he shares nowhere else, takes his rest and delight, and toward which all of providence — wars, angels' errands, harvests, hidden riches — ultimately tends as a household tends toward the home at its center. He closes on two notes: the security this gives the church, since a God who calls it his home will defend it as fiercely as any man defends his hearth; and the practical duty it lays on every member to keep themselves holy, since one defiled stone defiles the temple, and the Divine Inhabitant cannot share his house with sin. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on August 14th, 1859. Listen for free on the following platforms: Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1Rndn9d... Podcast Index - https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7491057 iHeartRadio - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-da... Podcast Addict - https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/dai... Castro - https://castro.fm/podcast/fc718d93-28... Castbox - https://castbox.fm/channel/6814639?co... Deezer - https://www.deezer.com/us/show/100221... PlayerFM - https://player.fm/series/daily-sermon...