INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - When one accepts Christ as personal Savior, the Holy Spirit gives him the life of God - eternal life - which is really His very nature. And the Holy Spirit, third Person of the Trinity, comes to live within him spiritually. This is the new birth Jesus spoke of. The indwelling Spirit confirms to the believer that he belongs to the Lord and is an heir of God and fellow-heir with Christ. The indwelling Spirit gives spiritual gifts (God-given abilities for service) to the believer to edify the church and serve the Lord effectively for His glory, helps the believer understand and apply the Scripture to his daily life. The indwelling Spirit seals the believer unto the day of redemption so that the believer’s arrival in the Lord’s presence is guaranteed after this life. When you accept Christ as your Savior, the Holy Spirit takes up residence in your heart, bringing with Him an entirely new life of love, relationship, and service to the Lord. - The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the action by which God takes up permanent residence in the body of a believer in Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, the Spirit would come and go from the saints, empowering them for service but not necessarily remaining with them. Jesus revealed to His disciples the new role the Spirit of Truth would play in their lives: “He lives with you and will be in you.” When an individual accepts Christ as personal Savior, the Holy Spirit gives the believer the life of God, eternal life, which is really His very nature.

 

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Indwelling of the Holy Spirit

What is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit?

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When one accepts Christ as personal Savior, the Holy Spirit gives him the life of God - eternal life - which is really His very nature. and the Holy Spirit, third Person of the Trinity, comes to live within him spiritually. This is the new birth Jesus spoke of. 

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The indwelling Spirit confirms to the believer that he belongs to the Lord and is an heir of God and fellow-heir with Christ. The indwelling Spirit gives spiritual gifts (God-given abilities for service) to the believer to edify the church and serve the Lord effectively for His glory.  

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The indwelling Spirit helps the believer understand and apply the Scripture to his daily life. The indwelling Spirit seals the believer unto the day of redemption so that the believer’s arrival in the Lord’s presence is guaranteed after this life. 

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When you accept Christ as your Savior, the Holy Spirit takes up residence in your heart, bringing with Him an entirely new life of love, relationship, and service to the Lord.

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The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the action by which God takes up permanent residence in the body of a believer in Jesus Christ.

In the Old Testament, the Spirit would come and go from the saints, empowering them for service but not necessarily remaining with them (see Judges 15:14; 1 Chronicles 12:18; Psalm 51:11; Ezekiel 11:5).

Jesus revealed to His disciples the new role the Spirit of Truth would play in their lives: “He lives with you and will be in you” (John 14:17).

The apostle Paul wrote, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19–20).

These verses are telling us that the believer in Jesus Christ has the third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, living in him.

When an individual accepts Christ as personal Savior, the Holy Spirit gives the believer the life of God, eternal life, which is really His very nature (Titus 3:5; 2 Peter 1:4).

And the Holy Spirit comes to live within him spiritually.

The fact that the believer’s body is likened to a temple where the Holy Spirit lives helps us understand what the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is all about.

The word “temple” is used to describe the Holy of Holies, the inner sanctum in the Old Testament tabernacle structure.

There, God’s presence would appear in a cloud and meet the high priest, who came once a year into the Holy of Holies.

On the Day of Atonement, the high priest brought the blood of a slain animal and sprinkled it on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant.

On this special day, God granted forgiveness to the priest and His people.

Today, there is no Jewish temple in Jerusalem, and the animal sacrifices have ceased.

The believer in Christ has become the inner sanctum of God the Holy Spirit, as the believer has been sanctified and forgiven by the blood of Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:7).

The believer in Christ becomes the habitation of the Holy Spirit of God.

In fact, Scripture also says that the believer is indwelt spiritually

o  by Christ (Colossians 1:27) and

o    by God the Father (1 John 4:15)

—   the Trinity is involved.

As the Holy Spirit lives in the believer, He brings about some life-changing results:

1) The indwelling Spirit comes to a soul dead in sin and creates new life (Titus 3:5). This is the new birth Jesus spoke of in John 3:1–8.

2) The indwelling Spirit confirms to the believer that he belongs to the Lord and is an heir of God and fellow-heir with Christ (Romans 8:15–17).

3) The indwelling Spirit installs the new believer as a member of Christ’s universal church. This is the baptism of the Spirit, according to 1 Corinthians 12:13.

4) The indwelling Spirit gives spiritual gifts (God-given abilities for service) to the believer to edify the church and serve the Lord effectively for His glory (1 Corinthians 12:11).

5) The indwelling Spirit helps the believer understand and apply the Scripture to his daily life (1 Corinthians 2:12).

6) The indwelling Spirit enriches the believer’s prayer life and intercedes for him in prayer (Romans 8:26–27).

7) The indwelling Holy Spirit empowers the yielded believer to live for Christ to do His will (Galatians 5:16). The Spirit leads the believer in paths of righteousness (Romans 8:14).

8) The indwelling Spirit gives evidence of new life by producing the fruit of the Spirit in the believer’s life (Galatians 5:22–23).

9) The indwelling Spirit is grieved when the believer sins (Ephesians 4:30), and He convicts the believer to confess his sin to the Lord so that fellowship is restored (1 John 1:9).

10) The indwelling Spirit seals the believer unto the day of redemption so that the believer’s arrival in the Lord’s presence is guaranteed after this life (Ephesians 1:13–14).

When you accept Christ as your Savior (Romans 10:9–13), the Holy Spirit takes up residence in your heart, bringing with Him an entirely new life of love, relationship, and service to the Lord.

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THE SAME SPIRIT - As believers, our time here on earth is just the practice field or dressing room for eternity - God has already placed His Spirit in all those who confess Christ as Savior. It is a heavenly down payment on a forever future in the presence of God. The Spirit of God gave life to the three-day-dead body of the Prince of God. Death could not hold Jesus in the grave, and was overcome by the life of God that was demonstrated in Him when He came out of that borrowed tomb. In the same way that Jesus was resurrected, our bodies, too, will be resurrected from the grave by the operation of the Holy Spirit. Your faith in Jesus Christ guarantees the resurrection of your flesh and blood body by means of the same Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. He will raise you from the dead, too, if you hold fast to your confession of faith during this lifetime. Sickness is nothing more than limited death. God’s will is for us to be well in our bodies. You don’t have to suffer from sickness — God wants you to be well, and He has sent His Spirit to give you greater life — sufficient in quantity and superior in quality — than anything this world has to offer. And the proof of it is that God has sent His Spirit to indwell you — not in the sweet by and by, but right now! - “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.”

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The Same Spirit

In the same way that Jesus was resurrected, our bodies, too, will be resurrected from the grave by the operation of the Holy Spirit

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As believers, our time here on earth is just the practice field or dressing room for eternity - God has already placed His Spirit in all those who confess Christ as Savior. It is a heavenly down payment on a forever future in the presence of God. 

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The Spirit of God gave life to the three-day-dead body of the Prince of God. Death could not hold Jesus in the grave, and was overcome by the life of God that was demonstrated in Him when He came out of that borrowed tomb. 

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Your faith in Jesus Christ guarantees the resurrection of your flesh and blood body by means of the same Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. He will raise you from the dead, too, if you hold fast to your confession of faith during this lifetime. 

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Sickness is nothing more than limited death. God’s will is for us to be well in our bodies. You don’t have to suffer from sickness — God wants you to be well, and He has sent His Spirit to give you greater life — sufficient in quantity and superior in quality — than anything this world has to offer. And the proof of it is that God has sent His Spirit to indwell you — not in the sweet by and by, but right now!

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“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.” - Romans 8:11

 

As believers, we have a hope that goes beyond this world.

Our time here on earth is just the practice field or dressing room for eternity.

One of the reasons we know this is that God has already placed His Spirit in all those who confess Christ as Savior.

It is a heavenly down payment on a forever future in the presence of God.

I believe the text indicates that this works two ways.

First and foremost, we know that the Spirit of God gave life to the three-day-dead body of the Prince of God.

Death could not hold Jesus in the grave, and was overcome by the life of God that was demonstrated in Him when He came out of that borrowed tomb.

In the same way that Jesus was resurrected, our bodies, too, will be resurrected from the grave by the operation of the Holy Spirit.

If Jesus doesn’t return in your lifetime, your faith in Jesus Christ guarantees the resurrection of your flesh and blood body by means of the same Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead.

His power has not been diminished in any way — He will raise you from the dead, too, if you hold fast to your confession of faith during this lifetime.

What a great hope this gives to all of us who name the name of Christ!

But I believe there is another benefit that we must not overlook, and that is the promise of divine healing.

Sickness is nothing more than limited death. We know that God’s will is for us to be well in our bodies.

The text says that God “… will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.”

I am convinced that one of the ways our mortal bodies receive life is through the healing power of God.

You don’t have to suffer from sickness — God wants you to be well, and He has sent His Spirit to give you greater life — sufficient in quantity and superior in quality — than anything this world has to offer.

And the proof of it is that God has sent His Spirit to indwell you — not in the sweet by and by, but right now!

Dear Lord, I love You.

All that I've expressed above is the desire of my heart.

I confess that sometimes my actions and reactions betray my love for You.

Please forgive me.

Thank You for Your grace that is able to recognize this new day as a new chance to walk closer with You.

In Jesus' Name,

Amen.

Further Reading

Romans 8:11

1 Corinthians 6:14

Acts 3:15

 

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