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The Daily Word of Righteousness
In My Father's House, #14
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; (John 14:16)
The Holy Spirit is God among us. His mission is to bring us to Christ and Christ to us.
The Holy Spirit has been charged, as was Eliezer, the servant of Abraham, to seek a bride for the Son and Heir of the Father.
It is not possible for Christ to come to us immediately in His fullness. The Holy Spirit has been given charge over us. He supervises the purification process. Many washings and anointings must be accomplished before we are ready for the fullness of the indwelling of Christ.
We see these washings and anointings typified in Esther 2:12:
Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;) (Esther 2:12)
The preparation is spoken of also by the Apostle Paul:
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; (Ephesians 3:16)
A period of time is required in order for us, who were born with a sinful, rebellious, stubborn, proud nature, to be made ready for the complete indwelling of the Father and the Son.
We are to obey the Holy Spirit in every aspect of our life because His mission is to present us to Christ. We cannot be made ready, we cannot be prepared, we cannot be presented to Christ, unless we cooperate in faith and obedience with the Holy Spirit as He works the necessary righteousness and holiness in us.
From the moment we believe in Christ we are placed in the charge of the Holy Spirit of God. It is He who assigns and directs the gifts and ministries. It is He who brings forth the moral image of Christ in us. The Spirit accomplishes all this by using the virtues of Christ, which have been given to Him to make ready the Bride of the Lamb.
Now we come to the personal appearing of the Lord—that to which He was referring when He stated, in verse three: "I will come again and receive you unto myself."
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. (John 14:19)
The world cannot see Christ and is ignorant of the true Person of Christ. But the saint who has been purified by the Holy Spirit will be visited by the Lord in the spiritual fulfillment of the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:33-43).
We shall see Him. We now are learning to live by His Life. In that Day we will be indestructible because He is indestructible. We are to learn to live as He lives, to eat His flesh and drink His blood. His Life is to become our life (Galatians 2:20).
To be continued.