Well, this morning, as we come to worship the Lord, our call to worship comes from 1 Kings 8, verse 27. Today is our first Lord's Day worship service at the Dos Memorial Baptist Church, what was the Dos Memorial Baptist Church. The building has been here for about 50 years. And my heart is certainly overflowing with gratitude to God for his kindness to us and providing this facility for us. We have been on this journey for over a year and a half looking for a permanent location. But in one sense, I could tell you we've been on the journey for 21 years. For as long as we've had a church, I have longed that the footprint of our church would be in my hometown of Powder Springs. I literally grew up, as a crow flies, about three miles that direction. My current home is about four miles in the other direction. I have longed for the Lord to plant our church here for the glory of God, that we would be a burning lampstand to the 18,000 residents of Powder Springs. And my desire would be that God would make us a burning lampstand to them so that this entire town is filled with the apostles doctrine. I long for the Lord to bring revival to this place. So in many ways, this is the fulfillment of almost 21 years of praying. But ever since we embarked upon our journey over a year and a half ago to find a place, I have known exactly what text I was going to use as our call to worship for the first Lord's Day morning we were here. And it is 1 Kings 8, verse 27. Because I want to remind us of some things as excited as we are about all of this. Let's remind us of the things that are most fundamentally true. The context of Kings 8 is that Solomon had completed the building of the temple. Seven years it had taken to build that place. The stones that were used to build the temple were custom quarried at the rock site where they were pulled out of the earth. They were custom chiseled according to a plan before they were ever shipped to Israel. So the Bible says there was not so much as the sound of a hammer on the site where the temple was being built because everything was custom fit to be put together. Once the temple was dedicated, and it was magnificent and so very opulent, it was covered on the inside with gold. The custom-made altars and basins and utensils and all the things that were necessary for the priesthood were inside of it. The Ark of the Covenant was brought into the Holy of Holies and Solomon prayed a prayer of dedication, which is what 1 Kings 8 is about. Perhaps the most magnificent thing about the temple, it was the most extraordinary temple in all the earth in its day, but you know what the most magnificent thing about it was? It's what was not inside of it. There were no images of the God that Israel worshipped, because you can't contain Him in a picture. You can't contain Him with a statue. You've already misrepresented Him if you do that. So there's this magnificent temple that's there, And yet, as wonderful as it was, Solomon understood something. For all the expense, for all the opulence, for all the hard work that had gone into it, that temple could not contain God. And it could not express His glory in a sufficient way. And that's why he says in verse 27, But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you, how much less this temple that I have built. It cannot contain your glory. It just isn't big enough because you are in all places at all times." So he saw God's immensity, His omnipresence, how glorious this great God is. Well, you know that the temple that Jesus and His apostles walked through was not the Temple of Solomon. It had been burned down by King Nebuchadnezzar and then rebuilt, and Herod built it, and he added all these courts to it. And as he did so, one of the courts, the outermost court, was called the Court of the Gentiles. And there was literally a knee-high wall that separated the Court of the Gentiles from everything else, and you could not pass through that wall into the inner parts of the temple if you were a Gentile. Archaeologists have literally found a sign that was put there that said, if you're a Gentile and you cross this line, you'll be killed immediately. Your head will be lopped off with a sword. That's how serious they were. Now, I want you to listen then as I read to you from Ephesians chapter 2, because Paul is invoking the imagery of the temple to describe the church. So listen to what he says. For he himself, that is Christ, is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in his flesh the enmity that is the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And he came and preached peace to you who are far off and to those who are near. For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father." What he's saying is that wall of division between Jew and Gentile, Jesus has removed it. It no longer exists. There's only one people of God, and they consist of men, women, boys, and girls from Israel, and from America, and from South America, and from Chile, and from Asia, and from all over the world. In other words, there's only one people of God. But listen to what he goes on to say, You are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit." Do you hear what Paul is saying? He's using the imagery of the temple and saying, you, the church of God, you are being built into a temple. But it isn't made up of mortar, and it's not made of rocks pulled out of the earth, and it's not made up of wood. It is made up of living stones. Each individual believer is being added by the master plan set in motion from all eternity, being built into a holy habitation, and that temple will not be complete until the last one of God's elect has been converted. And then it will be complete, which tells us something. If you're one of God's people, the church is not complete without you. You're part of the master plan. But here's the thing I want you to get. This building is magnificent. To me, it's glorious. It's about as glorious as Solomon's temple for all the time we've waited for it. But please understand something. This building is not the church. And really, you know, since we say we're going to go up to the church, technically that's not precise language. Really, we should say we're going to the building where the church meets. Because the reality is, you're the church. And all the hard work we've done this week getting ready for today, getting this building ready, the thing I've looked forward to the most is seeing you here, is hearing you sing God's praises in this place. So as we gather, this is just the circumstance of worship here. But you know what? The gospel, as Pastor Matt's going to preach in just a moment, is still the same. It hasn't changed. It's still justification by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone, apart from the works of the law. Furthermore, the God we worship has not changed. It's still God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The elements of worship have not changed. It's still the same way we're going to worship Him here. We're going to worship Him by the reading, preaching, and hearing of the Word of God. We're going to worship Him by prayer. We're going to worship Him by singing His praises with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. And we're going to worship Him with baptism in the Lord's Supper. It's the same means, and we're going to fellowship with one another. We just have a place that gives us a place to do all those things together in a more permanent way. And so it's the same God that we've come to worship. So this morning, we have gathered here in the name of Jesus Christ to worship our great triune God, the true and living God whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain, much less the sanctuary we have acquired. Let's open in prayer. Our Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we have gathered in this place in Jesus' name to worship you in spirit and in truth. And Lord, as wonderful as the building and the surroundings are, if your Holy Spirit does not fill our hearts, we cannot worship you in an acceptable manner. So we ask that the Spirit be poured out with great abundance, with great power, that we will encounter the living God in this place this day for your glory and honor. Thank you, thank you, thank you. for your provision. But Lord, we pray that your lamp stand will be with us or else this building is in vain. But we thank you for the living church that you have put here in this place. Bless us this day as we worship you, we ask in Jesus' name, amen.