The seven mysteries in the Bible (Part 3)
Today, by the special grace of God, we shall look at the mystery number two in the Bible.
(2) The mystery of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit:
Colossians 1:26-27 KJV “Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
It is a mystery for the Holy Spirit to dwell inside the body of human being who is genuinely born again. No saint in the Old Testament had the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of them.
But in the New Testament, after the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, once someone is genuinely born again, that particular moment the Holy Spirit dwells inside the body of such a born again Christian and at the same time the born again Christian seals with the Holy Spirit – it is a mystery to be sealed with the Holy Spirit just like that the moment you are saved – Ephesians 1:13 KJV “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.” No one was sealed with the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. It is a mystery that every Christian believer is sealed with the Holy Spirit in the New Testament.
Christ Jesus is in you and you in Christ Jesus – and the Holy Spirit lives inside your body to become the temple of God – 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 KJV” Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”
It is a mystery that a Christian believer is a carrier of God – John 14:23 KJV “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.”
By the special grace of God, next week, we shall scripturally study in details the mystery number three of God in the Bible.
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