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Notice again in verse 21, “Growing”. Try to get this in your mind.
Here you have a building. Everything prepared beforehand, and
everything being fitted together. The stones are alive and growing
in two ways.

#1: Growing, by the number of stones. Every conversion and
repentance is adding to it. Somebody gets saved in China,
Russia, Alaska, Africa, India or Spain, the temple grows. Stones
quarried and silently fit together. God knows when the last person
is going to receive Christ. It has been prepared before the
foundations of the earth. Each stone is prepared, chiseled, cut,
and polished. Every day the temple grows.

#2: It is growing in capacity. Not only are stones added upon
stones. But as God fills and infuses His temple, its capacity is
radically increased. Stones expanding in and with the life of God.
This is a temple that is going up right now, and we are part of it.
Somehow in the mind of God He knows when each stone has
grown to capacity. One day the “Top Stone” (Jesus Christ) will be
put on. What a glorious day when He calls His Bride to Himself.
He will take up His eternal residence. The finished Church is
going to radiate and reflect the glory of the Resident. We have
the foretaste now! The earnest. The down payment. The Holy
Spirit of Christ, that dwells in our heart.

Studying EPHESIANS to Know God

Chapter 15 God’s Vision of Unity 2:14

What is the foundation stone upon which our destiny is built? The
book of Ephesians is a book of victory. It’s a book of the heaven-
lies. It’s a book about the honor and glory of the enthroned
Redeemer. But the Holy Spirit won’t let us forget what that victory
is based upon. Verse 15, “In His flesh”. Verse 16, “Through
the cross”. Not even for a moment, does the Holy Spirit let us
look away from that precious foundation.