“Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them… I will also save you from all uncleanness and I will call for the corn, and will increase it and lay no famine upon you” Ezekiel 36:25-27 & 29.
LIGHT FOR NOW: His presence is in us forever.
We have seen clearly from our analysis so far that the new creation in Christ has the reality of the indwelling of the spirit; this man is God’s temple; he is the temple of the Holy Ghost and if you are looking for God’s address, look at this man because he is the residential address of God. It is important to note that Ezekiel’s prophecy about the indwelling of the spirit is the same thing David echoed in his cry in Psalm 51, it reads “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me: cast me not away from your presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit” (Psalm 51:10). By reading this Psalm alone, you can imagine how many believers have made their Psalm to cry and sing ignorantly, without an understanding of what David was communicating. Observe when he said “Create in me a clean heart”, he further explains that clean heart as the “right spirit with him” which he further explains in verse 11 as the Holy Spirit, and further explains as salvation (joy of salvation) and free spirit in verse 12. What was David’s cry in this text about? David was crying for the indwelling of the spirit; he wanted to be born of the spirit; that is, it was a cry for eternal life which is found in salvation and this cry of David here is what the reality of the man in Christ is.
Why then should the believer who has the reality of what David was crying for begin to cry this cry of David or sing this as a song? Why should you cry for what you have? David was crying like this because he was looking for what you have and he died without having what you have, how then should you who has what David did not have being to cry for what you have that David did not have? We believers no longer cry or sing like David did in Psalm 51 because we have the reality of what he sought for. David cried or prayed like this because Jesus was not yet risen from the dead. Good news! He is no more in the in the grave, Jesus is not about to die neither is he about to rise from the dead; he is risen and exalted at the right hand of the father, and we have received the spirit by faith in the gospel. We affirm this reality that his spirit lives in us forever. Even Jesus affirmed this in John 14:4; “And I will pray the father and he will give you another comforter, that he may abide in you forever; even the spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive; because it seeth him not; neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you” (John 14:16). His presence is in us forever. We are in the father in Christ and the father is in us in Christ. Glory!!!
INSTRUCTION: You are what the word says you are so say what the word says you are.
PRAYER: Thank you Lord for my realities unveiled to me in your word, in Jesus Name, Amen.
For More Light; get the message, “Fulfilled in Christ” by Dr. John Linus
QUOTE: We don’t invite God’s presence into our midst; we affirm God’s presence in our midst because we are the custodian of that presence.
DAILY BIBLE READING: MORNING: JOHN CHAPTER 15; EVENING: GALATIANS CHAPTER 3
LIGHT FROM THE WORD 