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Issue No: 923 Published: 01 Jul 2019
A REVELATION OF……. THE THIRD AND FINAL DWELLING PLACE OF GOD’S GLORY PLUS THE RIVER OF LIFE. Part 5
THE RIVER OF LIFE (Continued)
PRESENT TRUTH
The river is a picture of the need for us to seek its source, figuratively, the place where the presence of God dwells. As Jesus said…..
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” (John 7:38)
So what did He mean? Let us look at the verse in context….
37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”[c] 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. (John 7:37-39)
The sourceof our ‘living water’ is the Holy Spirit, living within us. Of course, the Holy Spirit is God Himself, dwelling in His temple, our body…..
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. (1Corinthians 6:19-20)
As in the Old Testament Holy of Holies, in the Tabernacles and Temple…..
89 When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law. In this way the Lord spoke to him. (Numbers 7:89)
The presence of God dwelt in the Holy Place, where only the High Priest was able to enter, it is in our body, our temples, today. And from where the Lord speaks to us too. This is why sexual sins, of whatever form, are regarded more seriously by God than others, in spite of the general teaching that all sin is the same…..
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;20 you were
bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. (1 Corinthians 6:15-20)
And again…
3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, 5 not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; 6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. 7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. (1 Thessalonians 4:3-7)
Put bluntly, by definition, those who live in and with unforgiven sexual sin, cannot be holy, so they will not see the Lord.
[ Warning and Encouragement ] Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. (Hebrews 12:14)
These Scriptures need to remembered and applied to believers in the sexually permissive society of the world, and sections of the church, today.
(Continued next week)
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Jesus Predicts His Betrayal (Matthew 26:21-5), Mark 14:18-21, Luke 22:21-3, John 13:21-30)
By Judas.
“I tell you the truth, one of you is going to betray me.”
“It’s the one to whom I will give a piece of bread after I have dipped it.”
“What you’re going to do, do it quickly,”
A New Commandment Given (John 13:31-5)
“Now the Son of man is glorified, and through him God is glorified. If God is glorified through him, then God will glorify the Son himself, and will glorify him immediately. My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, but I’m telling you now just as I told the Jews: you cannot come where I’m going.
I am giving you a new command: Love one another. Love one another in the same way I have loved you.
If you love one another you will prove to everyone that you are my disciples.”
Dispute About Who is to be the Greatest (Luke 22:24-30)
Of the disciples.
“Foreign kings lord it over their subjects, and those having power even want people to call them ‘benefactors. “But it should not be so with you! Whoever is highest among you should be like the lowest, and the leader should be like a servant. Who is greater—the one who sits at the table, or the one who serves?
Isn’t it the one who sits at the table? But I’m among you as the one who serves. You have stayed with me throughout my trials. And I grant to you authority to rule, just as my Father granted it to me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
Jesus Predicts a General Denial (Matthew 26:31-2, Mark 14:27-8)
Of the disciples.
“All of you will abandon me tonight,” Jesus told them. “As Scripture says, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the flock of sheep will be completely scattered.’ But after I have risen, I’ll go ahead of you to Galilee.”
(Continued next week)
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