The Father and the Son through the Holy Spirit

take up Their eternal residence in our transformed personality.

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 verse above announces the spiritual fulfillment of the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles. This is the Kingdom of God-the coming of the Father and the Son to us and finding Their eternal rest in us. The blood of the Lamb provides the authority for the establishing of the Kingdom. The Holy Spirit gives us the wisdom and power to enter the Kingdom. The eternal judgment of sin and the creating of Christ in us prepare the way. The end result is the coming of the Father and the Son to fill the temple.

God will dwell only in Christ. As Christ is formed in us it is as a great Light penetrating deeper and deeper into the caverns of our personality. As the light descends it exposes the creatures hiding in the labyrinth. The worldliness is dealt with and removed. The bats and creeping things, the lust, murder, drunkenness are seen clearly and driven out by the Spirit of God.

Finally that great leviathan, King Self, is forced from his dark hiding places. The sword of the Spirit plunges into his heart and the filth that pours forth is a raging torrent, awesome to behold.

Leviathan is cunning and will play dead, only to arise when the Light has passed on. The sword must be driven into his heart again, again, again. His head and claws must be chopped off. Even after all of this he still will writhe fiercely like a snake with its head cut off. This is King Self, the archenemy of God and His Christ.

The throne that has been created in every human being is occupied by King Self. Satan and King Self are close friends. They get along very well until Satan is certain that King Self is forever in his clutches. Then Satan turns on the individual and mocks him as he descends shrieking into the blue flames of the Lake of Fire.

A large part of our discipleship consists of God removing King Self from the throne of our personality and installing Himself and His Christ thereon.

When God and His Christ are clearly and eternally established on the throne of our personality, then we are allowed back to sit with them on the throne.

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. (Revelation 3:21)