BOC Bible Study

OT Background:
Abraham & Isaac / Jacob’s ladder Genesis 28:12. Moses - Exodus
Presence – Name – pillar of fire and cloud / Name dwells in Israel, ark in
tent / Temple…

Jesus as temple
John 1:50-51 - Jesus said, "You believe[a] because I told you I saw you
under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that." 51He then
added, "I tell you[b] the truth, you[c] shall see heaven open, and the
angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

Temple as body
Cleansing of Temple, “stop making - “ My Father’s House”
John 2:19 - Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise
it again in three days." The Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six years to
build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?" But the
temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the
dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the
Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

Jesus’ body is the Church

Ephesians 1: 15-23 - Therefore, I, too, hearing of your faith in the Lord
Jesus and of your love for all the holy ones, do not cease giving thanks
for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and
revelation resulting in knowledge of him. May the eyes of (your)
hearts be enlightened, that you may know 1. what is the hope that
belongs to his call, 2. what are the riches of glory in his inheritance
among the holy ones, and 3. what is the surpassing greatness of his
power for us who believe, in accord with the exercise of his great
might, which he worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and
seating him at his right hand in the heavens, far above every
principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is
named not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all
things beneath his feet and gave him as head over all things to the
church, which is his body, 11 the fullness of the one who fills all things
in every way.

Church is a temple:
Ephesians 2:17 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 sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and
members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.
Through him the whole structure is held together and grows into a
temple sacred in the Lord; in him you also are being built together into
a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

You have been raised:

Romans 8:11 - And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead
is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to
your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. (NOT ONLY @
END OF LIFE)

Ephesians 2:5-7 - it is by grace you have been saved. 6And God

raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms
in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the
incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in
Christ Jesus.

Colossians 2:11-13 … having been buried with him in baptism and

raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him
from the dead.

Colossians 3:1-3 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set
your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of
God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3For you
died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Gifts order the body:

Ephesians 4: 7 – 16 – read myself.
Ascension – Body exalted. Sacraments and Charisms are exalted
humanity.
I Corinthians 12

Morality:
1 Corinthians 6
Romans 12:1 - [ Living Sacrifices ] Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in
view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy
and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.

What does this mean for us:

We are connected – to Jesus’s very flesh and blood.