Ephesians 1:13a
"In whom ye also trusted,…"
Most of you now know who did Paul always write to? True Believers. Are you sure? Paul never writes to the unbeliever.
So to the believer he says:
Ephesians 1:13
"In whom ye also trusted, (placed your trust, in whom you believe) after that ye heard the word of truth, (well, naturally you can’t believe something until you hear it. And what is the word of truth? This Gospel) the gospel of your salvation: (how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose from the dead and that in God's eyes we were in Him through out the crisis) in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise."
The Holy Spirit came in as God’s mark of ownership, when? When we take this in as our own in other wards we take possession of Him, His essence a person of Spirit, that is Christ the Messiah of Life. Here's the question, How much of the house or temple does God occupy? He's the All in all. Now verse 14.
Ephesians 1:14
"Which (this indwelling Holy Spirit in this tabernacle of flesh) is the earnest (down payment, earnest money) of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory."
Now you’ve got to really pick this apart. If the Holy Spirit came into this tabernacle of flesh at the moment of redemption, then you would think that this body was redeemed as well as the soul was, wouldn’t we? But it wasn’t. We were given the right to become, this is not the fulness nor is it full privilege of being a son. Our spirit, soul was redeemed, that seed planted by God hidden within each of us. We know that. The soul and the spirit are already God’s, they’re His, they’re marked as His. When did this take place? Its recorded in Genesis chapter 3 where God is dealing with the woman, the seed is Christ in verse 15. Now the mystery is this that same seed which is Christ Jesus is also the seed hidden in each of us which becomes our spirit alive or awakened from sleep when we receive the word of this revelation in Truth and Light. Our inner heart is the ground of its planting and growth (as a grain the size of a mustard seed which draws it sustenance from the revelation of Life) in the knowledge of Him. But this old body is still down here under the curse, isn’t it? Its made of dirt or earth to house our spirit and acquired flesh life when God birthed into us His breath, again Genesis chapter 1 verses 26a and 27, and chapter 2 verses 6 and 7, Christ is the breath that was breathed or birthed into the house or flesh of mankind. It was this seed which dried up and became dormant until Christ's Eternal Life is received by us.
Not a one of us are immune from sin or pain or suffering or death. None of us. Because this old body is still an unredeemed piece of flesh or dirt. Got that? But, the indwelling Holy Spirit is God’s what? Down payment. And it’s a down payment of such a gift and size that one day He’s going to finish the payment. As we become willing to allow Him to work out our salvation with much fear and trembling on our part. Its so because we resist all that religion and the world through at us to cause us to fall back into sin.
All right, now let’s see, I think I can come to Romans chapter 8. And this all has to do with our physical body of flesh. It’s the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. It’s the dwelling place of our now-redeemed soul and spirit set free and awakened made alive quickened if you will. Consequently, we are responsible with what we do with this dwelling place until we leave it behind. Are we getting how to put the scriptures together and how by the leading of the Spirit they become bread and water to feed us and impart His Life into us? All right, Romans chapter 8 verse 18.
Romans 8:18
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us. For the earnest expectation of the creature (or the creation, all of creation) waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God."
Or the children of God. Or as said elsewhere the true spiritual Isra-El or the house in which El rules, just as He did in the Son of man, Jesus. You and I. All of creation is waiting for the day when we’re suddenly going to be ready for that glorious Kingdom, the spiritual Kingdom which Jesus Christ revealed within Himself for the 33 years of His first visitation. Now verse 20. But before we go there lets look at 1 Corinthians:
1 Corinthians 6:15, 19-20
"Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.......What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
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