Open—Enos McCavour
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John's Gospel, chapter 14.
The only one that they can encourage us in this pathway.
The only encouragement that we have for our lives.
In the pathway here comes from the book that you have in your hand God's Word. And when the Lord Jesus was here with his disciples, he was a word manifested and he encouraged them all the time. He was here with them and before he left to go back to glory.
John 14.
He spoke of his death and his resurrection.
Chapter 14.
Verse three, If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you onto myself.
To where I am.
There you may be also. That's a promise that we're waiting for, has not been yet fulfilled. We're waiting to hear the shout. Could be this very day when everything will change for us and we will be with the Lord.
The fulfillment of this promise, what we realize? He also made another promise, though, before he went home.
To be with the Father.
He made a promise to the disciples, but for us to also.
The 14th chapter, he says. Umm.
Verse 16 I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter. He may abide with 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.
Verse 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name.
He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
And then if we go to uh.
Chapter 16.
There's other references to the Holy Ghost, but just read the one in in chapter 16, verse 7. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth of the IT is expedient for you that I go away. For if I go not away, the comforter will not come unto you. But if I depart, I will send him on to you. And when he has come, he will reprove the world of sin and righteousness.
And of judgment and.
13th verse Albeit when He, the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever he shall hear that shall He speak. He will show you things to come.
And so the Lord knew that His people, you and I, would need to be comforted. We would need to have a comforter here in this scene as we journey through. And He made allowance for this before He went back.
And winning with back to glory, He fulfilled that promise that He had made on the day of Pentecost. He has set the Holy Spirit down. Each one here that knows the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior has that divine guest within.
But do we realize?
The Holy Spirit as that is within us.
Also the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit dwells within us.
Everywhere we go, we take the Trinity with us. We've never been living in a day like this before.
With all the Old Testament Saints, they could have the Holy Spirit that would come and go and so forth, but we've never been living in a day such as this, a day of grace.
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I'd like to turn to uh.
First Corinthians, chapter 6.
Verse 15.
Says know ye not?
No, ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ.
And uh, shall I then make the members of Christ?
And make them the members of the harlot, God forbid.
Verse 19.
What know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost?
Which is in you, which you have from God a year, not your own.
Per year, bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body, in your spirit, which are Gods. The body that I have I can stand up here with today is not my own.
It belongs to God, the Spirit, which I'm able to speak to you from God's Word, spiritual things.
Belongs to God.
They belong to Him and so it's interesting in the context here where we have the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, our bodies being a temple.
That it brings before us certain conditions, Not that we can lose the Holy Spirit that dwells within us, We cannot.
But we certainly can quench that spirit.
And uh, mentions here about things perhaps could quench the Spirit of God that is within us.
And so.
If we wanna make use of the resource that the Lord Jesus has promised and had given to us on the day of Pentecost.
And Holy Spirit that dwells within we should be exercised about how we keep ourselves.
And certainly the Holy Spirit is the one that takes the things of Christ and makes them good to her soul. He's our comforter here in this scene. He helps us in many different ways in our prayers. Sometimes we don't know how to pray. We're so distraught about things. And the Holy Spirit says in Romans he'd grown with groanings. He makes utterance the gods so that.
God knows what we are thinking and we would wish to say, but we just can't, can't find words to say it.
And so.
If we turn over to 2nd Corinthians chapter 6.
Here again.
Mentions uh verse 16. It says what agreement at the temple of God with idols?
For ye are the temple of the living God, as God has said. I will dwell on them and walk in them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them and be separate, saith the Lord, and touched off the unclean thing, and I will receive you.
And will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters.
Saith the Lord Almighty.
I mean to say if we.
Are going on with things that, uh, we shouldn't be going on with that we don't have the father within.
No, it just means that perhaps we're missing the enjoyment that we could have knowing the father is within and the father is the one that says here I will be.
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Ye shall be my sons and daughters.
That the Lord says the Lord Almighty.
And so he wants to be a father. He wants.
For you and I to be sons and daughters. He wants to help us. He wants to encourage us and strengthen us every turn of the pathway here. But sometimes we hinder that ourselves. We can hinder that enjoyment of the Father being within.
And so.
It says someone may say well.
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? And you say well.
We're living in.
This century we don't worship idols. There's no idol worship around. There's no temples available anymore. There's there's no statues that I bow down before to and worship.
Look at a verse in Colossians.
Colossians, chapter 3.
Verse two Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For your dead and your life is hid with Christ and God. When Christ, who is our life shall appear, then we shall also appear with Him in glory.
Mortify, therefore, your members, which are upon the earth fornication on cleanness, inordinate affection, evil occupants, and covetousness.
Which is idolatry.
Covetousness, which is idolatry.
If we are putting something in our lives.
That we.
Have an attraction to before the Lord's things becomes an idol.
That thing that we put before the Lord can shut the Lord out.
It can cause us, perhaps, to neglect reading His word. It can take us away.
And uh, there are many things to attract and we may not consider them as idols, but God says that covetousness is the same thing.
I don't have to spend too much time on this, but uh.
I also like to look at uh.
First, John.
First John 4.
Verse 12.
It says that no man has seen God at any time.
If we love one another, God dwelleth in US and as love is perfected in us. But we had in in 2nd Corinthians 6 that God does dwell within our bodies, our temple, and God dwells within here. It's more to do with the nature of God, nature of God.
Is proof that we have this nature when we love one another.
It says here is in love not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for her sins. Beloved of God, so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
And no man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in US.
And as love is perfected in US.
And so we carry as nature with us.
And we can encourage one another with that nature that we have.
We can show love and kindness to one another.
And uh, I would like to go on with different examples of how we can encourage. There's many in scripture. We can encourage one another by prayer. We can encourage one another by visitation. Uh, we can encourage one another just by helping another person in some way. There's many, many different kinds of ways in which we can.
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Encourage one another.
Of the Lord Jesus, he saw a need for us to be encouraged ourselves and he did everything he possibly could to encourage us. Now we had the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, our bodies, and we have God the Father dwelling within us. And let's look at.
Colossians.
After.
One I believe it is.
Chapter One.
Speaking of the mystery here.
Of the church.
This is a 26 verse, even the mystery which have 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 His glory, of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory?
Here we have Christ in US, dwelling in US, and every believer we're taught that we're in Christ. In fact, all our blessings, that tells us in Ephesians.
That we have, we have with Him, but here we have Christ in US. I think it's nice in this verse that it brings before us Christ being in US, and then it says the hope of glory.
Isn't that nice? Because when we think of Christ, we think of.
The Messiah that came into this world, we think of, uh, Price as the one that went to the cross and gave himself for us, there to redeem us.
And we think of our Lord Jesus Christ now as risen.
And what has he given to us while we wait? Hope. It's not a chancey hope, it's a certain hope. But it's a hope of glory. We're going to be with the Lord Jesus and like Him in that coming day. And so he brings before us a connection with Christ being in US, that present hope each one of us have.
Of soon being with the Lord Jesus Christ.
And glory.
I'll stop there because if I go any further.
Might take up too much time.
But.
These structures perhaps would encourage us. I know it's encouraged by Brother Allen and.
Scripture certainly can encourage us. We know that we're not, we're not Old Testament safe, but we can look back there and we can see.
Uh, in their actions, what they did, how, how, how affected God's favor towards them. If they were disobedient, of course then they would suffer consequences from God for their disobedience.
If they went on faithfully, then they were, uh, commended for their faithfulness and they had certain rewards for that. And, uh, I believe it's so different for us in the New Testament. We have more, we are more responsible, uh, but we have the Trinity within and as we go our way each day.
If we if we would remember that it might help keep us better on track.