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GOD LIVES BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION (VOL 1) part 2
1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. KJV
We established some truths in the scriptures about where God dwells beyond our carnal mind, and we said that God is a spirit and dwell in the light in the spirit realm, today we'll go deeper into the deep things of God revealed to us by his spirit.
In the four Gospels where Jesus was teaching his disciples, though they were being obedient to the laws and couldn't understand Jesus message.
Mostly Jesus communicated to them in parables,
Parables are words/ or a way used to communicate to dull people ie slow of understanding spiritual things because they believe everything was to be physical, they never understood that Jesus is always talking in spiritual terms, they needed to see to believe, they needed things to touch,etc but that was not the gospel of Jesus; in regards to their dullness of heart to believe and see in spiritual terms Jesus said to them in John 16:12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
Paul also encountered same people who always think carnal during his ministry especially the Christians in the Galatian church, Paul also refer to them as bewitched/carnally minded people in
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Galatians 3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
The new testament is in the spirit and not in physical things, the old covenant was always founded upon physical things, they needed to see,do to believe but yet it was a shadow of the real thing to come, a typology of the things to come, Jesus says to the woman in the well that God seeketh worshippers who will worship him in the spirit not on their physical things like images,visionary beliefs etc.
There is a belief that God lives in a heaven no doubt,I'm not denying that which many may think I am,but God does not dwell in the things made to be physical he lives in the spirit as we had established, there is a deeper knowledge about who you are in God and this was what Jesus was trying to communicate to the disciples and paul was trying to communicate to us, that living and seeing in the carnal profited nothing but our reasoning should be spiritual as new creations,
Jesus said to his disciples when they were asking him to show them the father, he tried to communicate spiritual things to them but they kept thinking at the physical,let's look at John 8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Jesus was teaching them to see the father inside him, ie helping them understand that God lives inside him but not in a physical place, this is similar to the pauline gospels were he was showing us exactly the same thing in his gospel in 1 Corinthians 6:19 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?
1 Corinthians 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
This same thing happened when Jesus referred to himself as temple in the four gospels,
Matthew 26:61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
When Jesus made this statement they were still thinking in the flesh because they showed Jesus the physical temple of Jerusalem, but Jesus was trying to teach them spiritual realities of how one can become Gods abode,thank God this happened when Jesus died and ressurected, I remembered on one occasion where Jesus told them that whoever beloved in him, he and the father will make his abode in him John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Keeping his words there means believing in his gospel, paul also establishes this fact that we are the temple of God, always have in mind that the old covenant was founded upon physical things, while the new is in the spirit, the scriptures says in 2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Right from the old covenant they believed that God lived in heaven but in these new testament God lives in our hearts/us, we are his home,we are spirit even book of proverbs confirms this Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Live with the consciousness that God lives in you as a new creation, and no more in a physical place, as the old covenant people believed, he is seated at the quarters of your heart,that is why he called you holy and accepted, you are the best place God can ever live.
We'll continue with the next series tomorrow to establish more fact that God lives in you beyond heaven's mentality.
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