05-24-2008, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Truth4Today
I would like to know how Jesus lives within our hearts? Some say thay He lives via the Holy Spirit. Others say that He lives their Himself. Which is it and why? Or is it to understood some other way?
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How hard can it be to answer you that question? I see there are 50 reads and yet not one response?
Opening verse: Mat 8:20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
The object is where “to lay His head”.
ISA 66:1 Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is ""the house"" that ye build unto me? and ""where is the place of my rest?""
..“The place of my rest”..?
The place of Gods rest is with mankind after Jesus takes away sin and brings in everlasting righteousness, and that day and time was the day of His crucifixion.
When our hearts are given to know Him, our spirits are reborn with new understandings and where now Jesus finds a place of rest.
Rest here means that Jesus is found in your heart, and not necessarily what the word means to retire from work.
So, if Jesus lives, rests, abides, communes and is your friend, it is Jesus who has found a place in your heart to live in.
Once there, He does not leave, only you can decide how much of Him you will allow to be exercised.
Your soul is bought and paid for and does not belong to you!
1Co 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?
What needs to be worked out through trials and tribulations, is the love of God in us, that in any trial or tribulation condition, His love show fourth as one is given to His will.
His will: To Love God with all our heart, mind and soul, and second, to love our neighbor as thy self.
May I add that ones ability to meet those criteria does not just happen instantly! We must experience trials in order to learn it.
So that the question that Christians can’t really answer about another is: “I wonder if they really were saved”?
A change of heart is a strong indication Jesus rests there, for a change of heart means repentance, and repentance means having gained new knowledge that superseded the old.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
We make no judgments concerning mankind’s relationship with God, only what comes out of the individual that we can discern whether it be of God or not.
Peace>>>AJ
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