What The Holy Spirit Does For The Christian Today (2)

Continuing yesterday's message, here is another view from the scriptures on what the Holy Spirit does for us Christians today. 

Today's Message:

2. The Holy Spirit dwells in the Christian

Paul discusses this subject at length with the Roman Christians: “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you” (Romans 8:9). Paul used a very strong contrast here between the flesh and the Spirit. In this kind of speech, he denies that the Christian is in the flesh in order to emphasize the spiritual aspects of his life. 

He punctuates the spiritual things because they are what are truly important. Our tendency is to lay stress on the fleshly things of earth and disavow the significant, the paramount, and the things which are imperative and which should be in the highlights of our lives. 

Paul said if we would give the spiritual the principal place in our lives, then the Spirit of God will dwell in us. It is interesting that he used a word for dwell, which means to house. Paul continues, “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spint who dwells [houses] (oikei) in you” (Romans 8:11). 

“Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own” (1 Corinthians 6:19)? He uses a special word for temple (naos) which means “the dwelling place of God.” He takes the stand that the body of the Christian is the dwelling place of God and then declares that the Spirit of God dwells in that temple. So, there is no doubt about it, the Holy Spirit indwells or houses in the Christian. But there is a difference in the Holy Spirit indwelling in the Christian and his empowering the Christian to work miracles!

If we would not lose sight of the purpose of miracles in the first century. Our problems would be greatly reduced or solved altogether!

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