One spirit book of days1/26/2024 ![]() If this was Israel's position as near to God, what was that of the poor Gentiles, as "without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world"? (Eph. ![]() The common people could only get to the door of the tabernacle. 16:2, 13) accompanying the divine instructions of the manner in which he was to enter. Once a year the high priest entered the presence of God to make atonement, and with the grave warning "that he die not" (Lev. There was no access to God under the legal system. Nothing could be greater than this, not even the possession of the inheritance itself, for the divine Person who indwells us is surely greater than that which He gives us to inherit. The Spirit not only assures us of the inheritance, but gives us to foretaste that which we shall enjoy in the coming day. While waiting the day of possession, God has given to us the Holy Spirit which He promised when the Lord Jesus was on earth. Israel's inheritance was earthly, ours is heavenly in association with the heavenly Christ. We are already God's sons and heirs, but await the coming day to enter into all that God has called us to inherit. God will take up all those who are joint-heirs with Christ. When Christ is publicly manifested as Head over all in the dispensation of the fulness of times, those whom God has made His sons will have an inheritance along with Christ. The oil is put upon the blood, for God seals by His Spirit one who has heard with the hearing of faith the Gospel of God's salvation. In the type of the cleansing of the leper, the blood of the trespass offering was put upon the tip of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on his thumb and on his great toe, "and of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear, upon the blood of the trespass offering" (Lev. The believer is wholly claimed for God, body, soul and spirit and the body that enters into death will be claimed and changed at the coming of the Lord Jesus. ![]() A seal is the claim to ownership, and everyone who truly believes in the Lord Jesus, as having died for his sins, and having come out of death, is marked by God as His own possession through His Spirit. Having believed the Gospel of their salvation, the message of the death and resurrection of Christ, the Ephesian believers were claimed by God for Himself, and He put His seal, the Holy Spirit, upon them (Eph. ![]() In Colossians the life of our heavenly Head is expressed in the members of His body but in Ephesians the Holy Spirit is the One who gives us the good of all our divine blessings, and enables us to be here for the will and pleasure of God. It is noticeable that while Ephesians has mentions of the Holy Spirit in every chapter, there is but one mention in the whole of Colossians, "Epaphras … also declared unto us your love in the Spirit" (Eph. The former unfolds the purpose of God, and in relation to it brings out the blessings that belong to the saints as united to Christ the Head of the body, whereas Colossians brings before us the greatness of the Head of the body, and the sufficiency that is in Him for His assembly. STEM Publishing : Magazines : An Outline of Sound Words : Volumes 81 - 90 : The Holy Spirit in the Epistle to the Ephesians The Holy Spirit in the Epistle to the EphesiansĪlthough there are marked similarities between the epistles to the Ephesians and the Colossians, there are clear distinctions.
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