1Co_3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co_3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
'The Soul under the Spirit’s Control
Very early in this volume we likened our whole being—spirit, soul, and body—to the ancient Jewish temple of God’s habitation. God dwells in the Holy of Holies. A curtain separates it from the Holy Place. This curtain seems to enclose God’s glory and presence within the Holy of Holies, barring His glory from the Holy Place. Men of that time therefore can only know the things outside the curtain in the Holy Place. Apart from faith they in their outward life cannot sense the presence of God. This curtain, however, only exists temporarily. At the appointed hour, when the flesh of our Lord Jesus (which is the reality of the curtain, Heb. 10.20) was crucified on the cross, the curtain was rent from top to bottom. What separated the Holiest and the Holy Place was removed. God’s aim was not to dwell permanently just in the Holy of Holies. Quite the contrary. He desired to extend His presence to the Holy Place too. He was merely waiting for the cross to complete its work, for it is the cross alone which can rend the curtain and permit God’s glory to shine out from the Holiest Place.
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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The cross truly needs to perfect the work in us.
The cross, the daily cross connected to Christ's own cross. If we do not accept what Christ did on His cross, any cross we may perceive is ours to bear will be merely a play toy we are pretending is a cross He calls us to bear daily. A play toy that we pick up and lay upon our shoulders telling ourselves all the while it's the real thing. We are deceiving ourselves, something we do all the time. Pretend Christians, wolves in sheep clothing and we are totally clueless because Satan uses deception to hide the truth from us and we lap up that deception because it is easy to do, it takes little effort, deception makes us feel good. Of course when we find out we've been deceived it sickens us, or rather, when we are FORCED to see the deception, forced out of our comfortably numb state we can't believe how stupid we were falling for the deception. We tell ourselves we should have known better. We start blaming the deceiver as if it is all their fault and none is ours.
MANY are going to be deceived--
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
The daily cross we bear NEEDS to be connected to Christ's cross and it needs to be REAL, not a play toy.
Please, help us LORD, help us to comprehend the TRUTH you would have us know! Help us to live in Your truth, in Your love, in Jesus Christ our Lord, our Savior, now and forever!
More tomorrow on this by the grace and mercy of our LORD.
1Co_3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
'The Soul under the Spirit’s Control
Very early in this volume we likened our whole being—spirit, soul, and body—to the ancient Jewish temple of God’s habitation. God dwells in the Holy of Holies. A curtain separates it from the Holy Place. This curtain seems to enclose God’s glory and presence within the Holy of Holies, barring His glory from the Holy Place. Men of that time therefore can only know the things outside the curtain in the Holy Place. Apart from faith they in their outward life cannot sense the presence of God. This curtain, however, only exists temporarily. At the appointed hour, when the flesh of our Lord Jesus (which is the reality of the curtain, Heb. 10.20) was crucified on the cross, the curtain was rent from top to bottom. What separated the Holiest and the Holy Place was removed. God’s aim was not to dwell permanently just in the Holy of Holies. Quite the contrary. He desired to extend His presence to the Holy Place too. He was merely waiting for the cross to complete its work, for it is the cross alone which can rend the curtain and permit God’s glory to shine out from the Holiest Place.
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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The cross truly needs to perfect the work in us.
The cross, the daily cross connected to Christ's own cross. If we do not accept what Christ did on His cross, any cross we may perceive is ours to bear will be merely a play toy we are pretending is a cross He calls us to bear daily. A play toy that we pick up and lay upon our shoulders telling ourselves all the while it's the real thing. We are deceiving ourselves, something we do all the time. Pretend Christians, wolves in sheep clothing and we are totally clueless because Satan uses deception to hide the truth from us and we lap up that deception because it is easy to do, it takes little effort, deception makes us feel good. Of course when we find out we've been deceived it sickens us, or rather, when we are FORCED to see the deception, forced out of our comfortably numb state we can't believe how stupid we were falling for the deception. We tell ourselves we should have known better. We start blaming the deceiver as if it is all their fault and none is ours.
MANY are going to be deceived--
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
The daily cross we bear NEEDS to be connected to Christ's cross and it needs to be REAL, not a play toy.
Please, help us LORD, help us to comprehend the TRUTH you would have us know! Help us to live in Your truth, in Your love, in Jesus Christ our Lord, our Savior, now and forever!
More tomorrow on this by the grace and mercy of our LORD.
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