‘In my Father’s House are many mansions' or many dwelling places. Well that is the Church. That is another chapter we have destroyed. We have given that chapter to funeral parlors. I go to prepare a place for you, and the impression always I got in my spiritual upbringing was that Jesus was up there desperately banging houses together and building and preparing a place for me. And one day I have a mansion just over the hilltop, glory to God, then one day the Holy Spirit showed me that I have got it right now – I go to prepare a place for you. Where did He go? He went to the Cross, and there He prepared a place for me. What was that place – a place of many dwelling-places, so it fits perfectly with a description of a city. It came down from God, God made all the dwelling-places. The dwelling place is in His heart, it is in union with Him, it is walking with Him. We live in God – you are part of this City, you live there, you move there if you are born again, and your new birth came from God, too. John 3 says, you are born from above, born from above. There is nothing human about the Church. - Malcolm Smith