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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Indwelling of Christ and God, #3
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. (John 15:4)
The believer goes through a spiritual wilderness as he seeks to bring his own personality into the will of Christ. When the disciple has learned all that the Holy Spirit has put in his course of study (the curriculum is tailored to each person) he finds himself in the place of complete and perfect rest in the Father and the Son through the Holy Spirit.
The Christian is to dwell in Christ and God in the same manner that Christ dwells in God:
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. (John 6:56)
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. (John 14:23)
The next verses from John reveal clearly that the Christian is to dwell in Christ and God in the same manner in which Christ dwells in God:
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:21-23)
The theme of the Christian dwelling in Christ and God, and Christ and God dwelling in the Christian, is found in the Epistles.
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (II Corinthians 6:16)
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. (Philippians 1:20)
The mystery of the Gospel is "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). The plan of God is to restore to mankind all that was lost in Eden, including His actual Presence. God intends to restore His Presence through Christ, the Anointed Deliverer.
The Christian Church has known for centuries that Jesus of Nazareth is Christ, Messiah, the Servant of the Lord, the anointed Deliverer proclaimed by Isaiah and the other Hebrew Prophets. The Church has been aware also (though sometimes vaguely it seems) that Jesus Christ will return and that at His appearing the peoples of the earth and the power of darkness will be judged.
To be continued.