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THE TEMPLE WAS DAVID'S CONSUMING PASSION! The main purpose of the church is not celebration, but evangelism. The reason God saved us was not for our comfort - we are called to work and serve God! To glorify Him! King David began his life as a great warrior. But in the last part of his life, he had a consuming passion to glorify God. From the time that David began the vision of the Temple in his heart - and God gave him every detail - the very purpose of the Temple was to be a demonstration to the world of the power and the glory of God! But God also ordained that the Temple sacrifices would be the way to bring God's forgiveness to the ordinary people.

Three thousand years ago the Temple was the very presence of God on earth, the evidence of God to the world - today we are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, God lives in us, and we are the demonstration of the glory and power of God on earth.

GOD'S HEART OF COMPASSION 'We ought to lay down our lives for those who are our brothers in Christ. But if anyone has this world's goods [resources for sustaining life] and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, how can the love of God live and remain in him? Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech, but in deed and in truth [in practice and in sincerity].' 1 John 3:16-18 Amp.

In February David was invited to hold church evangelism in Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, East Ukraine. These are pioneer churches with a vision to reach the drug addict, the alcoholic, the homeless, destitute children and the very poor - the outcasts of society for whom Jesus died!