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Chris
Who are you? What drives your identity? Identity – you are who you think you are. As a man thinks so is he.
Proverbs 23:7a For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. (NKJV)
Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. (NLT)
This teaching has to be a reality in our lives. This is either true or false. It has to go beyond a mental assent. The reality of this truth goes on forever into eternity.
1. God IS With Us
Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.” (NKJV)
This was His choice. He could have chosen to plain just give up on us and He would have all the right to.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. (NKJV)
This is the result of what Jesus did for us, the end result of Christ being here on earth – not to teach us good morals, not even to just die for our sins, but that the Holy Spirit would be with us FOREVER. God did not leave us as orphans, but kept His promise to come to us. This happened at the Pentecost.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified. (NKJV)
Only those disqualified (not saved) don't have Jesus.
More Verses!
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. (NKJV)
After giving us the great commission, He promised the He would be with us always, even to the end of the age. Those there hearing Him aren't around anymore, so it must be valid for us too!
1 John 4:15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. (NKJV)
John 14:20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. (NKJV)
John 17:26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” (NKJV)
2. He Lives In Us Forever
1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. (NKJV)
Even if you doze off…Acts 9:34
1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? (NKJV)
Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. The temple of God (us) cannot have agreement with idols.
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.” (NKJV)
Unequally yoked – use kingdom principles – like fighting in a war; who will be your buddy, your riflemate in war?
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (NKJV)
He is ALWAYS with us, even if we have fallen and sinned. He is not shocked when we sin. He has already paid for it, but He wants to make us whole that we might be like Him again, made in His image.
More Verses!
Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. (NKJV)
Sealed for the Day of Redemption (that's why we can grieve Him – He won’t leave us!).
2 Corinthians 1:21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, 22 who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. (NKJV)
We have been SEALED with the Holy Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee that all His promises are "Yes" and in Him Amen to His glory!
Ephesians 1:13 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, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. (NKJV)
Because of our belief in Him, we are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. He is the guarantee of our inheritance.
3. He Has Chosen to be ONE With Us
1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. (NKJV)
Our spirit and His spirit are one, just like Jesus and the Father are one. When we see the truth of this, our lives start to change like it says in 2 Cor 3:18.
Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, (NKJV)
Jesus made Him and each of us into one!
Ephesians 5:31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. (NKJV)
Two shall be one, as in husband and wife. Christ is such so with His Church.
4. Why Did He Go Through All That Trouble?
Because You are Of Worth to Him
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (NKJV)
It’s called love. Not what teenagers do in the park. It’s considering someone else of worth higher than oneself.
For What Reason?
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (NKJV)
For you to be free from yourself, free from your sin nature. When you are free from your sin nature, only your God nature is left! Dead to the flesh, alive in Christ. He wants to make you whole, make you back into His glorious image, restore you to what you were supposed to be. He wants to fill you with His fullness, that you might shine for Him, but it needs your cooperation to come to know His love.
Ephesians 3:19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (NKJV)
So the World May Know
John 17:20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. (NKJV)
Jesus prays for the unity of His disciples to come, the church that with Him in us, we might be united with Him as one as He and the Father are one.
More Verses
Colossians 1:27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (NKJV)
Christ IN us, the hope of glory.
Colossians 3:3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. (NKJV)
Our lives are hidden in Christ. He IS OUR LIFE and when He appears we will too, in glory.
1 John 4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. (NKJV)
5. The Take Away
God is with us. His goodness and blessings are ours.
God sees us worthy and saved us to be like Him.
He wants our lives to be lived in the Spirit.
Live this way, dead to self. It is truly fulfilling!
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