The Indwelling Christ

[Walter and Deborah]

Sunday 10-16-22 1st. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Tishri 19 5783 25th. Fall Day

The Indwelling Christ

Read: John 14:15–24 | Bible in a Year: Isaiah 47–49; 1 Thessalonians 4
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On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. John 14:20

English preacher F. B. Meyer (1847–1929) used the example of an egg to illustrate what he called “the deep philosophy of the indwelling Christ.” He noted how the fertilized yolk is a little “life germ” that grows more and more each day until the chick is formed in the shell. So too will Jesus come to live with us through His Holy Spirit, changing us. Meyer said, “From now on Christ is going to grow and increase and absorb into Himself everything else, and be formed in you.”

He apologized for stating the truths of Jesus imperfectly, knowing that his words couldn’t fully convey the wonderful reality of Christ dwelling in believers through the Holy Spirit. But he urged his listeners to share with others, however imperfectly, what Jesus meant when He said, “On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you” (John 14:20).

Jesus said these words on the night of His last supper with His friends. He wanted them to know that He and His Father would come and make their home with those who obey Him (v. 23). This is possible because through the Spirit Jesus dwells in those who believe in Him, changing them from the inside out.

No matter how you picture it, we have Christ living inside us, guiding us and helping us to grow to be more like Him.

What difference does it make to you that Jesus dwells within you? How do you see His presence in others?

Dear Jesus, You’re God and man. Thank You for giving of Yourself so sacrificially, that I might be called a child of God.

INSIGHT

Jesus promised that “another advocate” (John 14:16), the “Spirit of truth” (v. 17), would be with His disciples after He was no longer physically present (v. 28). The word advocate (Greek paraklētos), used only by John, is a word with legal connotations, a bit like a defense lawyer or counselor. Jesus’ words suggest that He was an advocate and teacher to His disciples while on earth.

After Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, the Spirit would continue this work (vv. 25–26). First John 2:1 points to an inseparable relationship between Jesus and the Spirit as advocates for believers in Jesus. Here, we’re told “we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.”

By Amy Boucher Pye |October 16th, 2022

Holy Spirit John Fourteen:15-24

15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

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Love, Walter and Debbie

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Sunday 10-16-22 1st. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Tishri 19 5783 25th. Fall Day

The Indwelling Christ

Read: John 14:15–24 | Bible in a Year: Isaiah 47–49; 1 Thessalonians 4
Download MP3
Subscribe to iTunes

On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. John 14:20

English preacher F. B. Meyer (1847–1929) used the example of an egg to illustrate what he called “the deep philosophy of the indwelling Christ.” He noted how the fertilized yolk is a little “life germ” that grows more and more each day until the chick is formed in the shell. So too will Jesus come to live with us through His Holy Spirit, changing us. Meyer said, “From now on Christ is going to grow and increase and absorb into Himself everything else, and be formed in you.”

He apologized for stating the truths of Jesus imperfectly, knowing that his words couldn’t fully convey the wonderful reality of Christ dwelling in believers through the Holy Spirit. But he urged his listeners to share with others, however imperfectly, what Jesus meant when He said, “On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you” (John 14:20).

Jesus said these words on the night of His last supper with His friends. He wanted them to know that He and His Father would come and make their home with those who obey Him (v. 23). This is possible because through the Spirit Jesus dwells in those who believe in Him, changing them from the inside out.

No matter how you picture it, we have Christ living inside us, guiding us and helping us to grow to be more like Him.

What difference does it make to you that Jesus dwells within you? How do you see His presence in others?

Dear Jesus, You’re God and man. Thank You for giving of Yourself so sacrificially, that I might be called a child of God.

INSIGHT

Jesus promised that “another advocate” (John 14:16), the “Spirit of truth” (v. 17), would be with His disciples after He was no longer physically present (v. 28). The word advocate (Greek paraklētos), used only by John, is a word with legal connotations, a bit like a defense lawyer or counselor. Jesus’ words suggest that He was an advocate and teacher to His disciples while on earth.

After Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, the Spirit would continue this work (vv. 25–26). First John 2:1 points to an inseparable relationship between Jesus and the Spirit as advocates for believers in Jesus. Here, we’re told “we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.”

By Amy Boucher Pye |October 16th, 2022

Holy Spirit John Fourteen:15-24

15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

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Love, Walter and Debbie

You have touched the backbone of the Bible.

God made man a perfect human and then gave him duties far above his "pay-grade". Adam ( and Eve for she is bone of his bone and  flesh of his flesh) were to be a mirror image of God in their daily life, and mankind was to be a Bride meet (up to the standard of) for Jesus. A perfect man cannot do these things any more than a dog can enjoy the opera. A perfect man can be adequate for human things, but not the divine. All through the ages men have aspired to be divine or at least be part divine, but contrary to the divine expression of Jehovah, man has expressed the Serpent. BOTH expressions are a result of what a man eats. Two Trees stood in front of the first man - and God's adversary was able to get the man to eat of the forbidden Tree. He, the Serpent, knew how crucial man's diet was.

If man had eaten from the Tree of Life he would have permeated his being with God's Life - specifically God the Son's LIFE. The Son is a unique Person. He is BOTH God and Man. But unlike Adam and all men after him, He possessed the divine nature from conception. And thus, what ever He did as a Man was mingled with His divinity. God is theorized over by men. But He is the most practical and experiential God. The LIFE of Jesus was first to be enhanced by a full experience of human life, death and resurrection before it was infused into man. John's gospel is the Bridge between Eden and New Jerusalem. It is the record of the Son of God taking humanity to His deity, living the perfect life before all Jehovah's requests, dying and being resurrected and the only infusing Himself into the human spirits of those that embrace him.

Jesus Christ does not sit in heaven and save men. He saved men while on earth and now imparts Himself as the Spirit into the spirits of men who believe in Him. F. B. Meyers apologized for not being able to state it adequately, and I must do the same for not being able to explain it adequately, BUT the Christian is not here while our Lord sits in heaven and celebrates His lofty position. Jesus Christ directs the building of His Church from heaven, but His work is as the Holy Spirit DWELLING IN the spirit of the Christians to permeate outward into the sol of the Christian to FORM Himself into the thought process, feeling process and deciding process of the believer. And it is not some heavenly magic which zaps the Christian. It is the practical experience that Jesus has accumulated as a MAN ON EARTH that is worked into the Christian. John 7:38-39 says;

38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.

Jesus retired to heaven in the FLESH. He said it was "expedient" that He went because as flesh and bones He could not enter the sprit of man. But the Spirit could (Jn.16:7). He is BODILY set in the Father's Throne in heaven as a MAN, but as the prepared Spirit, He dwells in each believer. And this is not some show of power. It is so that the LIFE He lived as Man with the divine nature would be worked into His disciples t make believers what Adam should have been if he ate from the Tree of Life.

God's whole plan with Man and with the earth is wrapped up in Jesus the Spirit. Humanity was added to divinity and then imparted to us so that slowly, day by day, a believer is changed from what Adam became to what Adam should have been. And tha is why our Lord is called the "second Man" (1st Cor.15:47). God wants MEN to do men's things. But to bring man up to His standard He does NOT give laws and rules. He gives Jesus, the accomplished Man as the iNDWELLING SPIRIT. 

27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (Col 1:27)