I had intended on completing the series of 'God Is Jesus' with the 6 parts, but it was incomplete, so Jesus is having me complete it. I am glad He is. A lot of what you will hear, again, will be unconventional like the previous parts, but like I always say, "If I can't show it, don't believe it." I cannot emphasize enough the importance of taking the time to stop and ask yourself, "What does that mean?"
The title of Part 7 is "Jesus In You", because of what the Apostle Paul wrote in his 2nd letter to the Corinthians in Chapter 13, verse 5;
Test yourselves to see if you are the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not
recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you -- unless indeed you
fail the test? (Literally it was written ,"Unless indeed you are unapproved."
If you notice, Paul puts an exclamation point after saying, "Examine yourselves!" Then Paul asks the question intending the hearer to answer the question for themselves, "Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?" Paul goes on to insinuate that you know that you are of the faith and are approved when you realize that Jesus Christ is in you. So, "What does that mean?" Do we fly by that, or do we seek to realize exactly what that means? Most believers should believe that by faith they are born of above and filled with the Spirit of God. These are a few verses that declare this.
Jesus stated in the Gospel of John, 3rd Chapter, verses 3,5 and 6;
(3)"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again (of above), he cannot see
the kingdom of God."(5) Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water (our
body) and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.(6) That which is
born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of Spirit is spirit."
It says, "That which is born of Spirit is spirit." When Spirit is capitalized it always refers to the Spirit of God. So that which is born of the Spirit of God is spirit.
Peter in his 1st letter in his 1st Chapter, verses 3 and 6, tells us how it is that we are born again of the Spirit, when Peter reveals this;
(3)"Blessed be the God and Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His
great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead."
(6) for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable (from man) but
imperishable, that is, from the living and abiding word of God."
We know that when it says, "from the living and abiding word of God", that Peter is referring to Jesus, from what John wrote in his Gospel in the 1st Chapter, verses 1 and 14;
(1) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God."
(14) "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory,
glory as the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."
So the Word was God and the Word became flesh. The flesh is Jesus, meaning God existed in part as Jesus. So we have been born again by the living abiding word of God. You are born again from and of Jesus.
We know that Jesus waked the earth as a man, so how it possible that Jesus could dwell in us? We read earlier that it is from Jesus resurrection that we are born again. So we have to look there to see how it translates that we who are men and mortal beings could now be born again of the Spirit of God and become immortal, having eternal life with Jesus in us.
One of the clearest truth of this was written by the apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans. In the 6th
Chapter, verses 3 - 11;
(3) "Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus
have been baptized into His death?(4) Therefore we have been buried with Him through
baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory
of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.(5) For if we become united
with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of
His resurrection,(6) knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our
body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin;
(7) for he who died is freed from sin.(8) Now if we have died with Christ, we believe
that we shall also live with Him,(9) knowing that Christ, having been raised from
dead, is never to die again; death is no longer master over Him.(10) For the death
that He died, He died to sin, once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
(11) Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus."
When we believe this truth, we have been baptized into Jesus and we are raised with Jesus with the power that raised Jesus from the dead. Paul reveals this in his letter to the Romans in his 8th Chapter,
verses 9 -11;
(9) "However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit; if indeed the Spirit of God
dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong
to Him.(10) And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the
spirit is alive because of righteousness.(11) But if the Spirit of Him who raised
Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will
also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you."
We see here something that sounds a little conflicting when it says, "if Christ is in you" and then, "if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you" and then. This only makes sense if God is Jesus. It says that the Spirit of God dwells in you, Christ is in you, and His Spirit indwells us.
Lets confuse it a little more. Lets look at what Paul wrote in his 1st letter to the Corinthians in the 6th Chapter, verse 19;
"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you,
whom you have from God , and that you are not of your own."
When we read all these verses can we just move on and come to understand that though they sound conflicting they are not, if we understand that God is Jesus, and the Spirit of God that dwells in us is Jesus. Also, since the Spirit of God is the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit dwells in us, and Jesus is in us, then God is Jesus as I tried to show in this 7 part blog entitled "God Is Jesus".
Is there anywhere else in scripture that shows that God as Jesus dwells in us, of course there is or I would not have asked the question. This was revealed right after Jesus stated this in the gospel of John in Chapter 14, verse 9, responding to Philip's request for Jesus to show him the Father;
"Have I been so long with you, and yet you have come not to know Me, Philip?
He who has seen Me has seen the Father; How do you say, 'Show me the Father'?
To understand Jesus in us, we need to read what the apostle John wrote in the 14th chapter of his gospel, verses 16 and 17;
(16)"And I will ask the Father, and He will give you give you another Helper,
that He may be with you forever;(17) that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world
cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him
because He abides with you and will be in you."
So, in these two verses, Jesus is revealing a few things. He is saying that the Father, is sending a Helper. It is capitalized so the Helper is God, who will be with us forever. The Helper is the Spirit of truth. We know that Jesus, in John's gospel Chapter 14, verse 6, stated this;
"I am the way, and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me."
Jesus is the Spirit of truth. Jesus tells the disciples that they know Him because He is with them, talking about Himself and will abide in them. So in these verses, Jesus is revealing to His disciples that he will come to dwell in them as the Spirit of truth, the Helper.
In verse 18, Jesus tells His disciples this;
(18)"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."
In other words, Jesus is telling His disciples that He will come to them and He will not leave them Fatherless as orphans, but He will be their Father."
In verses 19 and 20, Jesus says this;
(19) After a little while the world will behold me no more; but you will behold
Me; because I live, you shall live also.(20) In that day you shall know that I am
in My Father and you in Me, and I in you."
What Jesus is revealing here, is that He was going away and because He will go to be with the Father, all those who put themselves in Him by choosing what Jesus did for them on the cross to forgive their sin, will now be born of the Spirit of God with Jesus now indwelling them in the presence of His Holy Spirit.
Jesus stated this in the Gospel of John's 16th Chapter, verse 7;
"But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go
away, the Helper shall not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you."
If Jesus is not the Helper, then why would Jesus have to go away for the Helper to be sent? Jesus ascended into heaven with all glory. Flesh and blood cannot enter the Kingdom of God. So, Jesus after He ascended was Spirit. Being He is a part of the Father, who is the Holy Spirit by which Jesus was conceived, they exist as one. I wrote about that in earlier blogs. This One, "For the Lord our God is One", has chose to be called by the name which is above all, the name of Jesus (Yeshua), The Lord Our Salvation.
Jesus goes on to say in John Chapter 14, verses 21 and 23;
(21)"He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me; and
he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and I will
disclose Myself to him.(23) If anyone loves Me, he will keep my word; and My
Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode in with him."
What Jesus is revealing here is that this One, the Father (the Holy Spirit) and the risen glorified body of the Father (Jesus) will come and dwell in all who love Him.
In verse 26, Jesus reveals this;
(26)"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He
will teach you all things, and will bring to your remembrance all that I said to you."
If you notice here that it says that the Father will send the Helper and what we read in Chapter 16, verse 7, that Jesus said that Jesus would send the Helper. This is either a contradiction or Jesus and the Father are One and the same.
Jesus said this in 28;
(28)" You heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved
Me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater
than I."
Jesus is saying that they should rejoice, because when He goes to the Father, He can now return as the Helper in the souls of all who would believe. Jesus could not do this while He was still here as the Holy Spirit's body. For there is just one mediator between God and man and that is Jesus, the body of the Holy spirit. We can only address the Holy Spirit of God through that part of the Holy Spirit that is Jesus, the risen Lamb.
In concluding, I will leave you with this from the gospel of Matthew Chapter28, verses 18-20;
(18)"And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given
to Me in heaven and on earth.(19) Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the son, and the Holy Spirit,
(20) teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you
always, even to the end of the age.'"
If Jesus has been given all authority in heaven and on earth, that would mean that God would have no authority unless they are One and the same. Jesus said He will be with us, even until the end of the age. He is with us as the Helper, the Holy Spirit, who fills our souls, Jesus Christ in us.
Jesus commanded His disciples to baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Did they misunderstand Him or were they being defiant when they did baptize. Maybe they understood what He meant, for all throughout the book of acts of the apostles, they all baptized in the name of Jesus. They were either being disobedient or understood that the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit is Jesus and that God is Jesus.
Acts Chapter 2, verse 38;
"And Peter said to them, 'Repent as be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the
the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.'"
Acts Chapter 4, verse 12;
"And there is salvation in no one else (talking about Jesus from verse 10); for there
is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must
be saved."
Acts Chapter8, verse 12;
"But when they believed Philip preaching the good news of the kingdom of God
and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike."
Acts Chapter 10, verse 48;
"And he (Peter) ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ......."
Acts Chapter 19, verse 5;
"And when they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus."
And finally I leave you this out of the book of Acts, Chapter 20, verse 28;
"Be on you guard for yourselves and all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit
has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased
with His own blood."
As profound and revealing as this is, this verse is the verse that Jesus placed in an obscure part of scripture, fulfilling the encouragement to seek and you shall find. This verse reveals that the Holy Spirit purchased with His own blood the church(His body). This reveals that Jesus was the Holy Spirit's body here on the earth Who shed His very own blood to save man and offer them eternal life.
God is Jesus. Let Jesus' name be exalted in all the earth.
May Jesus' Grace and peace be with all who hear and may the eyes of the blind be opened.
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