The Place Where God Lives

After Jesus has promised that the “Father … will provide,” His Followers “with another Friend … the Spirit of Truth,” who will “even be ‘in’” them, He makes a further, startling promise.

“I will not leave you orphaned. I'm coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you're going to see me because I am alive and you're about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I'm in my Father, and you're in me, and I'm in you.”

With that He takes the promises to a whole new dimension. “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them and we will come to them and make Our home with them.”

The Spirit of God – the Spirit of Truth – will be “in” Christ’s Followers. Christ, Himself, will be “in” them. The Father and Jesus will “come and make (their) home,” with those Followers.

If these promises are kept, as we love and follow Christ, we can expect amazing possibilities to materialize. The Spirit of God Himself will come alongside us and “be in us.” Jesus will “be in us.” He, and the Father will be making their “home in us.”

Something else bursts into brilliant light there in that Upstairs Room, and in us, reading John’s memories of that night. God comes into us in three dimensions. The Spirit settles in us. Jesus is “in us.” He and the Father “make their home in us.” Three distinct persons, step-by-step settling into those who “love” them; who “follow” them as they follow “Christ.”

Through this marvelous teaching Jesus reveals to the men with Him that night, and us who read their Story of it, that God is One yet Three. Suddenly it makes sense. When God says, in Genesis, “Let us make ‘humankind’ in ‘Our’ image,” it was a conversation. Father, Son, and Spirit making plans. It wasn’t until Christ, the Ultimate Word from God, to us, explained this Partnership that night that these lights were turned on. Now we know.

What was about to happen in Jerusalem over the next several hours would bring the “rule of God” in His entirety, among our Race and within each individual who turns with incontested, wholehearted love to Jesus.

The potential is limitless!

“All the preliminaries have been taken care of. The rule of God is now accessible to everyone. Review your plans for living. Base your lives on this remarkable new opportunity.”

(Jesus of Nazareth – Mark 1: 15 Paraphrase)

“LOVE the Lord, your God, with all your HEART, SOUL, MIND, AND STRENGTH …”

With God, loving God, “nothing is impossible!”