Secondly, your assertion that
"Man was created by God's Word and has God's indwelling Spirit" is also erroneous, therefore misleading, especially so to
"they that are unlearned and unstable," not being as knowledgeable as they ought to be about the Spirit's indwelling of human flesh. I think it important to always bear at the fore of our minds, that the things we publicly express, whether it be written or oral, are not only seen and heard by fellow saints, but visitors to this forum who know little or nothing about the truth.
And, as our Lord has warned,
"That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned" (
Matthew 12:36-37). I'm confident that you, like myself, desire to be justified by the things which we publicly express as truth, therefore we MUST exercise extreme caution to insure that we publish ONLY that which is true!
Are you yet ignorant of the scripturally stated fact that NO human being (excepting our Lord, of course) ever possessed the Spirit as an "indwelling" Entity in their mortal bodies until AFTER the Lord Jesus Christ was Himself glorified?
This indisputable fact is clearly shown in the words of
John 7:37-39 ...
"In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, 'If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.' (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: FOR THE HOLY GHOST WAS NOT YET GIVEN; because that Jesus was not yet glorified."
Unless one is willing to be so brazen as to insinuate that John the apostle, the writer of the gospel account which bears his name, has lied, then we MUST conclude that NO man was indwelt with the Spirit prior to that moment, when approximately ten days following the bodily ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ to His throne located in the invisible heavens, the Spirit was given tp about 120 disciples in an upper room in the city of Jerusalem (see
Acts 2:1-4).
No one, and I do mean NO ONE, prior to this event, had been indwelt with the Spirit. But wait! That's not all there is to be said about the matter, as you'll discover in my next statements.
Lastly, your statement which asserts,
"Therefore there is only one place that man will abide: in God," also stands in conflict with the inspired words penned by Paul the apostle, and found recorded in
I Corinthians 15:24-28, most notably that small phrase which ended his description of the ending of the matter, that is,
"that God may be all in all." Please note that Paul was NOT stating that after all has been said and done, and eternity shall be the fate of all of the righteous souls of men, that we are to be "in God," as you state, rather quite the opposite. Paul explicitly states that God (who is Spirit -
John 4:24) will be "in" His saints, just as He was, and is, in the heavenly body of Christ Jesus!
This is why John the apostle was inspired to write and advise the saints, saying,
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM; for we shall see him as he is" (
I John 3:2). God has affirmed John's proclamation by stating through the interpretation of a significant "message in tongues" received during a worship service at a renown UPCI assembly,
"You will be Mine and I will be yours, and we will have the glory AND SHARE IT TOGETHER."
It is my sincere and prayerful hope that you will give due consideration to the scriptural worthiness of the things I've expended of my time and effort to compose and post here. May you be blessed in your continued effort to seek after the "righteousness" of God!
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