The Extraordinary Liberation of the Post-Pentecost-Gospel
To all who received him [Jesus]…He
gave the privilege to become children of God.´(John 1:12)
“You know [the Holy Spirit] for He [now] dwells
with you and will [soon] be in you.” (John
14:17)
“Whoever abides in me and I in him [or her],
it is they that bears much fruit.” (John 15:5)
“I am in my Father, and you in me and I in you.”
(John 17:20)
Jesus is praying to the Father, “The glory that you have
given to me I have given to them [the disciples] that they may be one even as
we are one, I in them… * that the love with which you have
loved me may be in them and I in them.”(John 17:22-23, 26)
“I [Jesus] am with you always to the end of
the age.” (Matthew 28:20)
In his initial Pentecost sermon Peter quotes from the Old
Testament prophet Joel, “And in the last days it shall be, God declares,
‘that I will pour out my Spirit on [ALL] flesh.’”
(Acts 2:17a)
“But if Christ is in you… your spirit is
alive because of righteousness.” * If the spirit of [the
Father] who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you (oikei en humin), He…will
give life to your mortal bodies through His spirit who dwells in you.”
(Romans 8:9-11)
“God’s Spirit dwells in you (oikei en humein)…and you
are that temple.” (1 Corinthians 3:16,17)
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation,” (2 Corinthians 5:17)
“Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Christ
is in you?” (2 Cor. 13:5)
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who
lives in me.” (Gal. 2:20)
“In [Christ] you also are being built together
into a dwelling place for God in the Spirit.” (Eph. 2:22)
"But we have this treasures in jars of clay [us]...so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh." (2 Corinthians 4:7,10).
“That He may grant you to be strengthened with power
through [Christ’s] Spirit in your inner being, so
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.” (Ephesians
3:16,17)
“…the riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you,
the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)
“ Therefore as you have received Christ as Lord,
so live in Him.” (Col. 2:6)
“For [Christ] who is in you
is greater than he who is in the world. * Whoever confesses that Jesus
is the Son of God, God abides in him. (1 John 4:4, 15)
Jesus says, “If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,
I will come in to him and have fellowship with him.” (Revelation
3:20)
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