[Dive deep with me into the secrets of the Spirit of Truth. Let us light upon the flowers of His garden and not flit onto the deceptive blossoms of the tares.]
The abiding is the apex of the spiritual life cycle. When God abides in you, you cease to feel bound up in the prison of your earthly body. God’s desire is for us to surrender and let His Spirit take up residence in our hearts and minds. This is the ultimate growth that His elect will reach. Those who are chosen for this honor will read on.
Conversely, a 30-fold child of God wavers and is “tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine.” They do not have their “senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (Hebrews 5:14). They have need to be taught again the “first principles of the doctrine of Christ.” Spiritual “young men” and young women are walking in these principles. These are contained in the apostles’ doctrine (Heb. 6:1-2) [The book, The Apostles’ Doctrine, is available without price here: Ordering My Free Books in Paperback | Immortality Road].
Misconception of the Godhead
Children of God can’t grow very fast when they are bogged down with false concepts about God. That is why Christ in His first words to audiences, commanded them to repent of false teachings. Top on the list of false concepts is the misconception of just what the godhead is.
You could take a poll with this question: “If you could see into heaven’s throne room, how many gods would you see sitting up there? Most proclaiming Christians would say two or three–persons. This is the fruit of the trinity doctrine.
However, the Word says that there is only one God. The Spirit cries out to us: “Hear, O Israel: the LORD [YHWH] our God is one LORD” (Deut. 6:4). Only One. But many would ask, How can that be? You have the Father, the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit. It looks like three. Yes, great is the mystery of godliness.
The Father Yahweh is an invisible Spirit (John 4:24). One Spirit. He inhabits the Son of God. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself” (II Cor. 5:19). The Father shows Himself through the Son. When you see the Son do something wonderful, it is the invisible Spirit Yahweh doing it. All the miracles Christ performed were really done by the Father Yahweh who abode [dwelled] in the Son.
Everything that the Son of God did, it was not him doing it. The Son said that it was the Father inside of him doing the miracles. Christ’s fleshly body was the veil that concealed the Father who dwelled inside of him. “No man comes unto the Father, but by me,” Christ said. “The fullness of the godhead dwelt bodily,” the Spirit through Paul said.
No wonder Christ said, “It is expedient 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 to you (John 16:7). We have seen that the Comforter is the Spirit of truth (John 14:6-17).
And we know that the Holy Spirit of truth is the Father. Why? Because the Son said that the Father is inside the Son. Christ said, “…The Father that dwells in me” (John 14:10).
Consequently, Christ at the Last Supper said that he had to finish the job he had to do, and then leave, for this purpose: He had to go so that the Father, the Holy Spirit, could come and enter the apostles’ bodies. Yes, the Father is the Holy Spirit! Remember these words spoken by the Son? “God is a Spirit.”
The Promise of the Father
For “the fullness of the godhead dwelt bodily” in Christ’s body (Col. 2:9). Therefore, the Son contained the fullness of deity. After the ascension of Christ, the disciples waited “for the promise of the Father” (Acts 1:4). The Father was the promise; the Father came down at Pentecost and baptized those assembled in the upper room—with the Holy Spirit and fire. “Our God is a consuming fire.”
That is what Christ confirmed. “Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work [the miracles]” (John 14:10).
The crux of the matter is this: If you can’t believe that the Father dwelt in the Son and did the works, then you will never believe that the Father could dwell in you and do the miracles that Christ said we would do. He promised that we would do greater miracles than what he had done. That’s what he said.
Getting this right is so important for your spiritual growth. One must repent of any doctrine that pushes aside the truth of who God is. The Father is Yahweh, and He dwells in the glorified form of the Son of God. He dwells in the dimension we call heaven. Getting this right is so important that Christ pleads with us all: “Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works sake” (John 14:11-17). Kenneth Wayne Hancock
[You are called to dive deeply into His teachings. To do that effectively, you must slow down and savor His word, for Christ is the living Word (Logos). Christ is the purpose and plan of God. He wants us to study—not jump from here to there in His word. It helps to slowly read aloud words of truth found in the scriptures and in His teachings. This wards off alien thoughts, those careless interlopers who interrupt our sacred time with God. Time is growing short. Pray that Yah would send forth laborers into His great harvest.]
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