* They say they are Christians but they do not believe that Jesus (The Word) lives in us and comes to us today to lead and guide us.



All people know there was a man who walked on this earth and his name was Jesus.

But few know that Jesus lives inside the believer today by HIS Spirit ... and the Spirit of Jesus brings scripture and concepts to the mind of the believer to teach him, to guide him, to show him things to come.

Few people, even those people in churches, believe that Jesus has come into the body of the believer to live in that believer by His Spirit.

I Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

I Corinthians 6:19-20   What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?   For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

II Corinthians 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Romans 8

7  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.  8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.

10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

11But 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.



Jesus lives in each believer today by that Spirit which God gives us after we believe the Word.


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John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.



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I Corthians 2

1  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

2  For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ (The Word), and him crucified.

3  And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

4  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

5  That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6  Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

8  Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.

10  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.


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Ephesians 1

3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (The Word):

4  According as HE (God) hath chosen us in HIM (in Jesus) before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before HIM in love:

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ (The Word) to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

6 To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein HE hath made us accepted in the beloved.

7 In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace;

8 Wherein HE (The Word) hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which HE hath purposed in Himself:

10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times HE might gather together in one all things in Christ (The Word), both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him:

11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will:

12 That we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted in Christ (The Word).

13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His glory.


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All believers have the Holy Spirit and all are led by God by HIS Spirit.


Romans 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.



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John 6:45   It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of (by) God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of (from) the Father, cometh unto me (The Word).


We are taught "by" God, by the Spirit of God, by the Spirit of Truth.

We learn "from" the Father.

God brings The Word to each of us who are chosen by God and we believe The Word that comes down from above and we know we have heard from God.

It is not that we read "about" God.  As believers we hear "from" God.

Matthew 16  

15  He (Jesus) saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

16  And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

17  And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

God revealed The Word to Peter and the church is built upon that Word brought down from heaven by God and given to that individual.  God taught the individual The Word.  And the gates of hell will not prevail against that Word God reveals to us.

We know it was God who revealed HIS truths to us.  No man revealed this nor made us understand.  Only God can do this, make us understand the truth.

By HIS own will, God opens our eyes to see truth and to understand The Word and all things as HE wills.

John baptized in water.  Jesus baptizes us by the Holy Spirit.

Acts 1:5   For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

Then we have the power to understand and be witness to that which God has done in our lives.

Jesus, The Word, lives in us.



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