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Excerpt: It is difficult for one who does not walk with God to believe that we can dwell in God, and God in us. But it is clearly said, "If any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." He dwells in us, and the soul that walks in communion with God enjoys this, rejoicing in it with humility and gratitude.
The presence of God never makes us proud. He is too great for us to be anything before Him. It was not when Paul was in the third heaven that he was in danger of being exalted above measure, but when he came down again. Moreover, the Holy Spirit gives us to know that we are in Christ, and Christ in us (John 14:20). There is no condemnation for them that are in Christ Jesus. Not only are our sins forgiven, but we are made acceptable to God in Him who is the Beloved, accepted in Christ, according to the preciousness of Christ Himself, who is our righteousness, and loved as He is loved.
Here, again, we see the believer's perfect acceptance, as also his responsibility. Before God I am perfectly accepted in Christ. But if I am in Christ, Christ is in me as life and power, and I am responsible to manifest this life before the world. Christ is for us before God, and we are for Christ before the world.
We know, then, by the Holy Spirit that we are in Christ, and Christ in us. What a magnificent fact, that the Spirit of God dwells in us! the effect of the perfect redemption accomplished by Christ. But what a responsibility likewise for the Christian! God did not dwell with Adam innocent, even in the garden of Eden. He did not dwell with Abraham; but as soon as even the external redemption of Israel was accomplished, He came to dwell in the midst of His people, and sat between the cherubim, as on His throne. And now that true and eternal redemption is accomplished, He comes to dwell in believers individually, and in His people, gathered by the Holy Ghost. His presence is more than conversion. The converts washed in the blood of Jesus become the habitation of God, sealed thus for glory by means of the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to the Bible, An
2. Galatians*, Notes on the Epistle to the
3. Galatians 1, Notes on
4. Galatians 2, Notes on
5. Galatians 3, Notes on
6. Galatians 4, Notes on
7. Galatians 5, Notes on
8. Notes on Galatians 6
9. True Path of a Christian, The
10. Acts 20:28
11. What Is the World and What Is Its End?
12. For Me and Thee
13. "Ifs" of Scripture, The
14. Sacrifice in the Ways of God, The Place of
15. Revelation 1:5-6, Fragment on
16. Revelation 2:1-11, Fragment on
17. Revelation 2:8-17, Fragment on
18. Revelation 3-4, Fragment on
19. Revelation 4, Fragment on
20. Revelation 4, Fragment on
21. Revelation 5, Fragment on
22. Revelation 6 and 7, Fragment on
23. Revelation 11 and 12, Fragment on
24. Revelation 13, Fragment on
25. Revelation 14, 15, and 16, Fragment on
26. Revelation 17, Fragment on
27. Revelation 18, Fragment on
28. Revelation 20, Fragment on
29. Revelation 22, Fragment on
30. Revelation 22:16-17, Fragment on
31. Burnt Offering, the Meat Offering, the Peace Offering*, The
32. Omniscience - God's Searchings
33. God's Ways and Testimony
34. Matthew 13, On
35. Waiting and Working for Christ
36. My Delights Were With the Sons of Men
37. Savior and the Sinner, The
38. Servant Forever, A
39. Christ for My Sins and Christ for My Cares
40. Father Seeking Worshippers, The
41. Pool of Bethesda, The
42. Feast of Tabernacles, The
43. Christ Departing to the Father
44. Father's House, The
45. Responsibility, Our
46. Christ's Desires for the Christian
47. Responsible Man and the Man of Purpose, The
48. Cleaving to the Lord, A Word on
49. Thoughts on Galatians 3
50. Romans Compared With Other Epistles
51. Character of Christian Life, The
52. Law and the Gospel of the Glory of Christ, The
53. Gospel of the Glory, The
54. New Creation, The
55. Lord Jesus in Humiliation and Service*, The
56. Colossians Compared With Romans and Ephesians
57. Meetness and Growth
58. Risen With Christ
59. Life of Christ in the Believer, The