The Indwelling…..

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John 14:23 (NASB20)
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.

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Scripture teaches that God’s indwelling is tied to one following His word… This can not be; “the more one is obedient, the more God dwells in one”, for if that was so, then man would be earning something of God, and salvation would not be a free gift…. Therefore then, if this is true, what then is meant by the term, ‘follow His word’..? It is the word of faith that is being addressed, the following of God’s word to believe… For man can not do, but man can will, and will, man can and must do, but what is this will that is so necessary to be willed…. ? It is the will to believe that when Jesus died He took all of the believing soul with Him to death, thereby freeing that soul to be born again in a new life…It is the will to believe this truth that is being addressed, the will to follow this word of faith…. For all things come through one’s believing, taking God at His word and wanting what He is offering, and that being, walking in a new life that sins not…

For it being true, the more one believes, trusts, looks to, relies on God, the more of His indwelling, that being, the more of Christ living His life through one will one experience…. This is the coming to ‘make Our dwelling with him’, the believer that trusts the more, the more of Christ will that one know and experience…..

For obedience, which is one being set free from sin, is a free gift from God to all those that would actually want this free gift…. But for one to receive this free gift one must actually and truly want it, one has to be willing to give up their life in exchange for it…. Not with lip service when it suits one, but truly seeing one’s very nature is that of a sinner and wanting to be freed from that sinful nature and then seeing that one’s only hope is from above…. For this is the word of faith one is to believe, for faith in Jesus living His life in and through one is not a sometimes faith, but a faith that is to be one’s very life… A always looking to God to manifest righteousness in one’s life, this is Christ living His life in and through, always the manifesting of righteousness… For the truth is; to the degree one believes in their death in Christ, to that degree will God be able to manifest His life through one…

Be blessed in the believing and in the experiencing of the manifesting….


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Your posts have been really blowing me away here lately.
Hi, and thank you for the confirmation, as long our hearts stay open before God He will continue to grow Christ in us…

Be so very blessed in the growing…..


A fellow follower, Not me