What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (1Cor
6:19)
It would be incomplete to see the coming and in-filling of
the Holy Spirit as just being Power that is endued from on high as the enablement for God’s
people to prophecy, for divine healing, etc. We have to be reminded constantly
that the Holy Spirit is the third Person of the God-head, not merely seeing Him
as an authority or empowerment that we can summon according to our will. The
Old Testament temple is a place that is most holy or separated from common
practices and must be held as the place of great reverence. The difference now
is that Jesus Christ went to be with the Father that His Spirit will tabernacle
within His people. Holiness has not been downplayed and now the body has
replaced the building to being an uncommon or holy dwelling of the Holy God.
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you
from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he
shall testify of me: (John 15:26)
The Holy Spirit’s indwelling presence in earthen vessels demonstrates the Lordship of Jesus Christ in and through the wider body of
Christ. Prophecy is to reveal that which God has hidden, likewise divine
healing is to show God’s mercy and power over sickness and oppression, etc. The
Spirit’s dwelling in us is that God will Lord over our will, mind and work out
what He has worked in through our physical capabilities. We need not beg nor
pray to be filled with the Spirit, Jesus has promised, we need to only believe.
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