Their Spirit in our spirit

“Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.” (1Jn. 1:3).

“I am ... the truth....

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 

Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more; but ye see Me: because I live, ye shall live also. 

At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you. 

He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him. 

Judas saith unto Him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us, and not unto the world? 

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.” (John 14:18-23).

The comfort Jesus promised would come from the presence of Himself and His Father. The Two would be the Comforter, and thus it happens.

“If ye love Me, keep My commandments. 

And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; 

Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.” (John 14:15-18). 

As the result of loving the truth, so much so that one obeys it (“If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them”), Jesus would come to His disciples with His Father. But how do They come? In what form do They come and abide in the believer? Where do They abide in the believer? In the heart? In the soul? In the mind? In the spirit? In the conscience?

Yes, to all five because the heart, the soul, the mind, the spirit, the conscience, are all the same. We have a spirit because we are especially made in God’s image. So Paul elucidates this topic. “What man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” (1Cor. 2:11).

The obvious parallel here is that the spirit of man is the only entity that can know the private thoughts of that man, and anyone to whom he divulges his secrets. And likewise, the only One who can know the private thoughts of God is God Himself, and those to whom He deems trustworthy to communicate them.

Who might such privileged persons be?

First and foremost, His dear Son. “All things are delivered unto Me of My Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him.” (Matt. 11:27).

Secondarily, redeemed men and women and children. “At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.” (Matt. 11:25). “God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.” (1Cor. 2:10). “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that He may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” (1Cor. 2:16).

Thirdly, His angels. “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 

Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 

Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 

Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. 

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” (1Pet. 1:9-13).

“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (Heb. 1:14).

To where do they, how do They manifest themselves to us? They reveal Themselves in our spirit. Their one Spirit unites with our spirit. The remade connection and union with God that Adam had brings us great peace and happiness. But Their reconciliation with previously disaffected children of Adam brings Them infinitely greater peace and happiness than it brings the children.

They reveal Themselves to us in our conscience, our heart, our spirit. But, in what form, what substance do they reveal Themselves? In the form that our consciences can receive them, in Spirit, in truth. They come as truth. It is truth that our minds process to be remade into Their image, in Their Spirit. Their Spirit is Them in the form of truth, righteousness, right doctrine, high conceptualizations, visions. Without the vision of truth, which is Jesus, there is no life; but in Him there is life. He is the life of the soul. “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” (Prov. 29:18).

Therefore, the Spirit is truth, the Nicene “substance” of the Spirit, is actually spiritual truth, which has no substance. “It is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.” “The anointing^G5545 which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” (1Jn. 5:6;1Jn. 2:27).

The anointing is the Spirit, which is truth to our soul, our spirit, our mind, our heart, our conscience.

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χρίσμα

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From G5548; an unguent or smearing, that is, (figuratively) the special endowment … of the Holy Spirit: - anointing, unction.

Where does the truth also abide? In the commandments from Jesus, His words, His sayings, etc., as we see above.

“If ye love Me, keep My commandments....

He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them….

If a man love Me, he will keep My words...

He that loveth Me not keepeth not My sayings.” (John 14:15,21,23,24).

This is, as Judas asked, How is it “that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us, and not unto the world?” (John 14:22).

In Spirit, that is by truth received into His disciples, Jesus would come to them and comfort them by His presence. In Jesus the truth, the scriptures would give them eternal life. The Spirit of truth would be His written word received into their consciences, and thus He could be present to comfort them.

“I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; 

Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 

Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more; but ye see Me: because I live, ye shall live also. 

At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.” (John 14:16-20). 

At the throne of the universe the Father and Son are in Their bodily forms. But, in Their front yard here on Earth They are in Their spiritual states, that is, in Their truth. So the Spirit of God not only brings—but is—a new state of nature because when They infuse our possession of truth with the creative

-power They bring to keep the truth, then we receive a mind under the possession of heavenly agencies. And the Spirit lives in the truth because the Spirit is truth. Therefore, the Spirit dwells in the written word and is inculcated into the believing soul. Wit truth rooted and grounded by the truth and Spirit that believer becomes like Adam in Eden, a living soul.

And therefore the Spirit is not a third person. And everyone who knows the experience of Christ’s power and presence as His truth is imbibed in the repentant spirit knows that the Spirit of truth cannot be simply a person in a Trinity. They know that the Spirit is the reconciliation with God; the new reconnection with God’s Spirit. They soon realize that that third person thief and deceiver has usurped the experience of truth in the mind of man, by offering in exchange for the living experience with their Creators a supposed hope and an assumed blessing from God that is devoid of Jehovah’s strong, scourging convictions by His high standard.

All who dodge spiritual thrusts from stinging truth will never know the true God and His only Begotten, and Their united Spirit that They join to the spirit of man. “He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” (1Cor. 6:17). Truth dodgers will always opt for the Trinity, the religious system which offers empty promises of redemption, but never provides for victory over sin. And this is just what the dodger of truth desires. Therefore they will always remain among other lost, blind, and the dead of mankind, comparing themselves among themselves and measuring themselves by themselves. They will join hand in hand, and all be punished. They will do as all the perverted world have ever done, congregate with the godless Canaanites in their temples of Dagon and perish when the Lord’s Samsons bring down the house. Those who disregard the straight testimony of Ellen White will all be lost with the wicked, godless Trinity deception.