~ By James Fire
In JOHN 7:37-39 the LORD declared:
In JOHN 7:37-39 the LORD declared:
37 In the last day, that great day of the
feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me,
and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his
belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which
they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given;
because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
The Spirit of God
was not yet given, but once the LORD completed the work for which He was sent
to Earth, and the Father glorified Him via the crucifixion and made His soul an
offering for sin (ISAIAH 53:10), the
opportunity for saints to be indwelt by the Spirit of God, sealed by the Spirit
Who is our earnest in fact became a reality (2 COR 1:22)! No other age in all the history of the Bible afforded
such an astonishing privilege as to literally become the temple of the Holy
Spirit (1 COR 3:16)! This is
something distinct with the body of Christ, the church of the living God (1 TIM 3:15) in this present age.
However, once the Messiah returns to this Earth that He also purchased with His
own blood (REV 5:9) Israel will
receive Him and the prophecy of EZEKIEL 36:26 will be fulfilled (ZECH 13:6;
ROM 11:26).
Yet where we are
now in the study of MATTHEW is the midst of that ministry of sacrifice,
atonement, propitiation, redemption and judgment. Our LORD, our LAMB of GOD Who
takes away the sin of the world (JOHN
1:29), was cut off from the land of the living: for the transgressions of
His people Israel, was He stricken (ISAIAH
53:8) . . .
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