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The Spirit of Christ; Thoughts on the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the Believer and the Church
The Spirit of Christ Thoughts on the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the Believer and the Church Author:Andrew Murray General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Original Publisher: Nisbet Subjects: Holy Spirit Religion / Christian Life / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Theology / Christology Religion / Christian Theology / Ecclesiology Religion / Christian Theology / Pneumatology Notes: Th... more »is is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Twenty-fourth Day. THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST. Efje Eemple of tfje olg Spirit, ' Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you t' -- 1 Cor. iii. 16. IN using the illustration of the Temple as the type of God's dwelling in us by the Holy Spirit, Scripture invites us to study the analogy. The Temple was made in all things according to a pattern seen by Moses on the Mount, a shadow cast by the Eternal Spiritual Realities which it was to symbolize. One of these realities -- for Divine Truth is exceeding rich and full and has many and very diverse applications -- One of these realities shadowed forth by the Temple, is man's threefold nature. Because man was created in the image of God, the Temple is not only the setting forth of the mystery of man's approach into the presence of God, but equally of God's way of entering into man, to take up His abode with him. We are familiar with the division of the Temple into three parts. There was its exterior, seen byall men, with the outer court, into which every Israelite might enter, and where all the external religious service was performed. There was the Holy Place, into which alone the priests might enter, to present to God the blood or the incense, the bread or the oil, they had brought from without. But though near, they were still not within the veil; into the immediate...« less