Ask yourself right this moment, do you want Christ living in you?

We need to LIVE for Jesus but you know what? We are too busy living for ourselves! We are! We are so busy living just for ourselves that to truly live for Jesus is something we can't quite fathom as a reality. Is it a reality to you?  Do you UNGRUDINGLY obey the Holy Spirit? Seriously, do you?!  Does the Holy Spirit even speak to you? Do you even comprehend the Holy Spirit's leading? If we DO NOT we have to get down on our knees and pray that our God help our UNBELIEF! 

You say you believe, that believing isn't your particular spiritual problem? I say you're wrong. It is TRULY believing that allows us to have the Holy Spirit's leading in our lives. It is by FAITH.

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1Co_3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

'God today would have His own enjoy such a temple experience in their spirit and soul: if only the cross is allowed to perfect its work in them. As they ungrudgingly obey the Holy Spirit the communion between the Holy and the Holiest grows deeper day by day until they experience a great change. It is the cross which effects the rending of the curtain; that is, the cross so functions in the life of the believer that he has a rent-curtain experience between his spirit and soul. His natural life renounces its independence and waits upon the spirit life for direction and supply. The curtain was torn in two, “from top to bottom” (Mark 15.38). This has to be God’s doing, not man’s. '   --The Spiritual Man-  Watchman Nee

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By faith we allow the Holy Spirit to guide us, to lead us. By faith we OBEY the Holy Spirit. Truly we need our temple experience. We need to RENOUNCE our independence. To comprehend the truth of God's word.

Our RIGHTEOUSNESS - that part of us we deem God fearing, that bit of us we try to tell ourselves is doing what it should do as God instructs- is nothing but filth.

I mean it, our righteousness is filthy. Every good act we commit is nothing but filth the moment we are deeming it self-goodness, self-induced obedience, our righteousness. IF by the GRACE of God we commit a single act of right behaving it is due to God's power not our own.  We want to have power of our own and we want to call that power a good power, but we have none! We want to be Christian super heroes but they don't exist. Every single Biblical person who belonged to God and committed Godly actions in a Godly life did so through God's POWER not their own. They stepped aside and allowed God to work through them. We need to know that God uses us, that God works in us and through us. We need to accept our very breath is from God. We need to truly live by the grace of God, recognizing it's God's grace and not us being 'good', not us attaining  a special Christian status.

Remember this--

Isa_64:6  But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags

We need the temple experience in us- we need the Holy Spirit flooding into our soul-self allowing us to be led by the Holy Spirit towards the life Jesus would have us lead.

We can't hope for this experience to give us self-righteousness, if that's what we are waiting for it will be a wait in vain. We have to hope for this experience to give us Jesus' righteousness! We need the constant realization that Christ must live in us-- not an improved us, a fixed up us, a repaired us, but a Christ filled us - filthy sinners that we are.    Christ in us will alone give us the life we need.  Ask yourself right this moment, do you want Christ living in you?

Col 1:26  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 

Col 1:28  Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus

Christ in you the hope of glory.

Is Christ in us- remember we can't wait to become clean and pure to have Christ in us-Christ needs to be in us now, doing His special work in us!  All by His grace and mercy, His love, always by His forgiveness, His sacrifice.