For Christ did not enter into a holy place made with human hands, which was only a copy of the true one in heaven. He entered into heaven itself to appear now before God on our behalf. (Hebrews 9:24)As a child, I sang “Tiptoe, tiptoe in God’s house …” I forget the rest, but it meant that we were to b quiet in the church building and not run around. After all, this is the house of God.
Or so I was told.
The book of Hebrews said that God doesn’t live in physical properties. He lives in spiritual ones. He doesn’t live in a church building, he lives in the church. He doesn’t live in a chapel, he lives in the heart.
No place can be a holy place unless there are holy people there. It really doesn’t matter how people may feel about a sanctuary or auditorium or any other part of a church building, it is the people who are holy, not the place.
God lives in us. He lives in our hearts and in our minds.
In the Old Testament, the high priest went into a holy place by himself, once a year, to take sacrifices before God. But when Jesus died, he went into the perfect holy place to take the sacrifice of himself before God.
When he did this, he nullified and negated all physical properties from being holy. The church building, no matter how you may feel about it or love it, is not holy. It is just a building, a structure.
It’s easy when there is so much praise and so much contact with God in a certain place to begin to make it special. But it is really our hearts that are special, not our buildings. It is our lives that are special, our minds, ourselves.
He lives in us and that makes us holy.
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