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Deborah-Leigh:
Hi Santikos
Your question is excellent. :)
You ask..........how is HE (Jesus) coming back if He is now with us?
If He is with us, He dwells WITH us and IN us. That is how He is coming back ~ coming back, to us by dwelling with us and in us. Jesus says:
Joh 14:17 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. 8)
By us KNOWING HIM ~ that He is in us and with us, we RECIEVE Him, which the world can’t do.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Blessings
Arc
santikos:
--- Quote from: aqr on November 24, 2010, 12:22:24 PM ---Hi Santikos,
Try the Scripture below for confirmation. There are many other such verses that will help you to see.
(ASV).
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 6:19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
Wow, it was there all along. We are his temple. It's amazing, we hear it so much that we sometimes forget the true meaning of his word.
We are saviors, thank littleboi.
Arc, you are correct, our carnal minds will never understand
Mark, it's within us, it seems the word will never cease to amaze me.
1Co 6:20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
--- End quote ---
Kat:
Hi Santikos,
--- Quote ---He also said that jesus was in heaven and will come back. but if we are the heavens how is he coming back if he is now with us?
--- End quote ---
Yes there are a few that are His temple, He does come to those in this life, to those predestined to be His Elect and seals them with the Holy Spirit of PROMISE. Now in this life they receive the guarantee/earnest in their mind/heart/heaven.
Eph 1:1 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,
v. 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
v. 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
v. 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
2Cr 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
So the few, in this life, have their mind/heaven "renewed" by the Holy Spirit.
Eph 4:23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
v. 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
But this renewing of your mind/heaven is to prepare the few to enter the first resurrection to rule with Christ in the next age, that's the guarantee. The hope we have is beyond this life, it's the resurrection.
1Cr 15:17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!
v. 18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
v. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
v. 20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
v. 21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.
So yes Christ is indwelling for the few now, but will return to those in the grave, because they died with the guarantee.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
v. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
v. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
santikos:
Oops seem that I quoted everything earlier.
I really have some thanksgiving lunch & dinner & next day reheat with all of your inputs and scriptures.
Wow, it was there all along. We are his temple. It's amazing, we hear it so much that we sometimes forget the true meaning of his word.
We are saviors, thank littleboi.
Arc, you are correct, our carnal minds will never understand
Mark, it's within us, it seems the word will never cease to amaze me.
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