KEY SCRIPTURE: John 16:7 KJV” Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.”

In today’s study, I will throw more light on our previous study. In that study, I explained that when the Holy Spirit comes to fill up the children of God; we would have so many people with the same Holy Spirit like Jesus, on the earth. God did not send Jesus to raise followers, but to raise a family, people who are like His Son Jesus Christ. Rom 8:29 KJV “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”  Jesus is our senior brother, meaning we are of His similitude.

Through the death of our Lord Jesus, He has brought many sons into glory. (Read Heb 2:10) Please note that according to Matt 9:17, the Holy Spirit would only fill a man if He has been changed totally. The Lord explained that no man pours new wine into an old wineskin. From Heb 2:10 our Lord Jesus through His death has brought us into glory. This glory isn’t the glory we would receive at His appearing. This is a glory we received as a result of our identification with Him in His suffering, death, resurrection, and glorification. He clearly stated in Rom 8: 30, that, He predestinated, called, justified, and then He glorified us. From Rom 8:30,  this glorification is not in the future but is in the past.

Our glorification is not only in our Spirit, but in our flesh also, and that gives the Holy Spirit, that new wineskin to fill. Rom 8:3 KJV “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:” He has condemned sin, where? In our flesh. This has placed us in a very glorious state. We should not entertain the thought of being sinners or acting in any way that is sinful, for through our Lord Jesus, even our flesh is not the same as before our conversion into Christ. (Well, we do not have a complete glorification of our flesh yet.) Settle this fact fully; once the Holy Spirit has come to live in us, then our flesh is not the same as when we were unsaved. (Rom 8:11″ But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”)

THOUGHT: THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVES IN US BECAUSE WE HAVE A NEW WINESKIN

FURTHER STUDIES

Rom 8:30 KJV” Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified”.

Heb 2:10 KJV “For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.”