(tm) First, let us consider God’s point of view.

First, let us consider God’s point of view.

God is building a house for His purposes. We are being made God’s house. It is not as important that we are pleased and obtain what we want as it is that God is pleased and obtains what He desires.

Until the believer understands that pleasing the Lord God is the main consideration of the Christian redemption he always will be attempting to manipulate the Christian discipleship so it will make sense to him and benefit him. Such self-seeking causes us to lose the Glory of God.

The house is being built for God. We indeed will be pleased with it, with what God has accomplished in us; but that is of secondary importance. The house is for God to dwell in. We can understand from this why self-will is such an enemy of Christ, such a hindrance to the plan of redemption.

When the work of reconciliation has been accomplished in us, the Father and the Son will make Their eternal abode in us. We shall become a pillar in the Temple of God.

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)

John 14:23 (above) is not speaking of the eternal dwelling of the Holy Spirit in us; it is, as it states, referring to the coming of the Father and the Son to dwell in us.

"My Father will love him, and we will come unto him."

The members of the Godhead never are confused as to identity. The Father is not Christ but dwells in Christ. Christ is not the Holy Spirit but is filled with the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit did not die for our sins. We are not the brothers or the bride of the Holy Spirit.

The Scripture indicates that there is a fullness of God beyond the baptism with the Holy Spirit. This fact is borne out in Ephesians 3:14-19. We are being strengthened by the Holy Spirit in order that we may be filled with all the fullness of God.

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Ephesians 3:19)

Today the Holy Spirit is dwelling in us.

We minister and grow in righteousness and holiness by the Holy Spirit. But the manifestations of the Spirit are fragmentary. We are seeing in a clouded mirror, as it were.

The Lord Jesus Christ did not walk and minister in a fragmentary manifestation of the Spirit. Christ was (and is) filled with all the fullness of God.

When the work of reconciliation has been accomplished in us, God will fill us with all the fullness of Himself in the personal fulfillment of the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles. There is coming an experience in God that will exceed in glory our most wondrous dreams. Jesus and His Father will take up Their abode in us as the Father dwells in Jesus.

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