Post by ResLight on Sept 25, 2013 19:05:29 GMT -5
I have been asked: "Did Jesus say my Father and I will make our home with him? How is Jesus going to do that?"
The evident intent of the question is with the thought that both Jesus and his Father cannot make their home in a person except that Jesus and his Father both be God Almighty.
Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. -- John 14:23.
John 6:56
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
How is it that a follower of Jesus is to live in Jesus?
Nevertheless, this promise of the abiding presence of the only true God and His Son conveys that their thought and care and interest will be constantly upon us, and that at any instant we may engage the special attention of either or both. The same idea is also conveyed by the words of the Apostle Peter (1 Peter 3:12) -- "For the eyes of [Yahweh] are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers." And we are urged to be "instant in prayer," to "pray always, and not to faint," to "pray without ceasing;" for "Like as a Father pitieth his children, so [Yahweh] pitieth them that fear him; for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust." "As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him," and "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." Yea, "the mercy of [Yahweh] is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children, to such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his commandments to do them." -- Romans 12:12; Luke 18:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; Psalm 103:13,14,11,12,17,18.
Thus, each individual saint becomes "a habitation of God through the spirit," a holy temple, a royal residence. (Ephesians 2:22) "Ye are the temple of the living God"; and "ye are not in the flesh [in the old carnal condition], but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you." (Romans 8:9) And if the spirit of God dwell in us, it is to sanctify and glorify these temples of his, that even now we should show forth the praises of him who hath called us out of darkness into his marvelous light.
The saints, therefore cultivate acquaintance with God and with thier Lord Jesus, communing with them through the divine word and prayer, working toward the goal of perfecting holiness in themselves. (2 Corinthians 7:1) To be thus in communion with the only true God is to receive more and more of their mind and disposition.
John 14:20
In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
John 17:21
that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
Romans 6:11
Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
The evident intent of the question is with the thought that both Jesus and his Father cannot make their home in a person except that Jesus and his Father both be God Almighty.
Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. -- John 14:23.
John 6:56
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
How is it that a follower of Jesus is to live in Jesus?
Nevertheless, this promise of the abiding presence of the only true God and His Son conveys that their thought and care and interest will be constantly upon us, and that at any instant we may engage the special attention of either or both. The same idea is also conveyed by the words of the Apostle Peter (1 Peter 3:12) -- "For the eyes of [Yahweh] are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers." And we are urged to be "instant in prayer," to "pray always, and not to faint," to "pray without ceasing;" for "Like as a Father pitieth his children, so [Yahweh] pitieth them that fear him; for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust." "As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him," and "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." Yea, "the mercy of [Yahweh] is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children, to such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his commandments to do them." -- Romans 12:12; Luke 18:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; Psalm 103:13,14,11,12,17,18.
Thus, each individual saint becomes "a habitation of God through the spirit," a holy temple, a royal residence. (Ephesians 2:22) "Ye are the temple of the living God"; and "ye are not in the flesh [in the old carnal condition], but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you." (Romans 8:9) And if the spirit of God dwell in us, it is to sanctify and glorify these temples of his, that even now we should show forth the praises of him who hath called us out of darkness into his marvelous light.
The saints, therefore cultivate acquaintance with God and with thier Lord Jesus, communing with them through the divine word and prayer, working toward the goal of perfecting holiness in themselves. (2 Corinthians 7:1) To be thus in communion with the only true God is to receive more and more of their mind and disposition.
John 14:20
In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
John 17:21
that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
Romans 6:11
Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
