Indwelling By The Holy Spirit!

INDWELL'ING, n. Residence within, or in the heart or soul.

Yesterday I discussed the difference between baptism by the Holy Spirit and being filled with the Holy Spirit. Today I want to discuss the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Every believer at the moment of Salvation is indwelt by Spirit of Christ. His Spirit comes to live in us and direct us in all truths in God's Word. Every Born Again believer has the Holy Spirit in him.
Romans; 8:9
(But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.)
The Spirit of God makes His home in everyone who trust in Jesus Christ.
1Corinthians; 6:19-20
(Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's)
The Christians body does not belong to him but to the Lord, and is the Holy Spirits temple.

The renewing of your mind, can only take place as the Holy Spirit changes our way if thinking. This happens as we diligently study Scripture and meditate on them day and night.
Romans; 12:1-2
(I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.)
A renewed mind is controlled by the Word of God. You saturate your mind with the Word and allow the Holy Spirit to direct your life.

We are also told that when we accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, and love Him and keeps His commandments, He will come and make His home with us.
John; 14:23
(Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.)
Jesus told us that when He went to the Father that He would send us another Helper, The Holy Spirit from God. He will dwell in all believers.
John;14:15-17
("If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that he may abide with you forever-the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.)
Abiding has to do with his permanent residence in believers.

We are told that when we receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit will come and teach us all truth, He is the Spirit of truth.
John;16:7
(Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.)
This was to bring us comfort knowing that we will not be left with out help. When we are studying the Word of God, the Holy Spirit gives us understanding of what we read. He gives us the capacity to discern divine truths.
John;2:13-14
(These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.)
If you do not have the Holy Spirit in you, you will not be able to understand spiritual truths. You will be able to read the Scriptures, but you won't have the Holy Spirit in you to explain them to you.

Jesus told the disciples that He had many more things to say but that they could not bear them.
He told them that the Spirit would teach them after His departure to the Father.
John; 16:12-15
("I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truths; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.)
This teaches how God has revealed Himself through Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit will make these things clear to us.

Now we know that we have the Holy Spirit in us if we truly belong to Christ. We have seen that He is our Helper, our Teacher, our Guide to Spiritual truths. He is the Spirit of God living in us. He is the Holy Spirit of promise through Whom all believers have been sealed.
Ephesians; 1:13-14
(In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.)
The Holy Spirit is the indwelling power in a Christians life. He is working in our lives to make us more Christ like, to produce fruit, to make our light shine in a dark world.

God Bless You!