I Will Build My Church

These five words that Jesus spoke are very interesting as well as powerful. The first word "I" refers directly to Jesus Himself taking possession and responsibility. The second word "will" express His capability, sufficiency, determination, persistence and willingness to accomplish the task that He set out to do, which brings us to the third word, "build".

To build is to bring order to and develop according to a systematic plan.So far we see that Jesus Himself made known to humanity about 2000 years ago that He willfully had chosen a systematic plan. His plan is to build "my" (the fourth word) His not ours, not angels or anyone elses "church" (the fifth word).

The church is not a parenthetical revelation that God placed into His plan due to the blindness and unbelief of Messiah by the Jews. The church was and is the eternal purpose of God and Christ Himself would be and is the master Builder.

The word church comes from the Greek word "Ekklesia" which is made up of two other words. Ek, which means "out of" and Kaleo which means "to call". Thus the word ekklesia litterally means "the called out ones".

So we see that Jesus is, the Builder of His church (Matthew 16:18), adds to His church (Acts 2:47), is the Head of His church (Colossians 2:19) and believers are the called out ones, that He will use to invade the world with the Good News that sets captives free.

In what way(s) do you see Jesus building His church today?