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The Spirit Whom Believers Receive
(Jn7:37-39; Ac19:1-7)

God is the living God (Jer10:10).
From everlasting to everlasting He lives (Rev10:6) and
He is the God of the living (Mt22:32).

Faith is believing in the living God and
The life of this faith is, in order to be judged as the living before God,
Striving to keep my faith alive now (2Co4:14).

While tombs, museums, and history books display the traces of people who were once alive,
The Bible records of the God who is living yesterday, today and forever (Rev1:4), and
Thus, it warns that there will be His judgment after death (2Co5:10; He9:27), and that
He will judge His people (He10:30-31).
This is because the ancestor of all mankind, Adam, was deceived and sinned (Ge2:17, 3:4-6),
Inheriting sin and the price of sin, death, to the sprit of all men (Rm5:12).
Consequently, all men will die and their flesh will return to dust (Ge3:19),
While their spirit will be resurrected to be condemned (Jn5:29; Ac24:15),
Thrown into the lake of fire, the second death, that is, hell (Rev20:12-14).

All those who died in faith in the Old Testament,
Such as Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David etc (He11:13),
Though their spirit was dead, the price of sin,
Since their faith was alive, went to Abraham’s bosom after death (Lk16:22-23),
As they saw from distance the day when their faith would be made perfect (He11:39-40).

Yeshua appeared and said, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days,” because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body (Jn2:19-21),
He would give life to not the flesh but the souls of men and
Perfect faith (He11:1, 12:2) for
He is the Son of the living God (Mt16:16-17),
The Son of Man who came in the flesh to die (Mt20:28; Jn1:14) but
He would be raised back to life, to live again (Jn14:19).
He promised to send the Holy Spirit to those who believe in Him (Jn7:37) as
God gives the Spirit without limit (Jn3:34).

As He died, He said, “It is finished” (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Obeyed the Father’s command and became the Lord of faith (Jn10:18; He12:2);
2) By His death judged the ruler of death, the devil (He2:14-15); and
3) Sprinkled His redeeming blood which is always living (1Pe1:23), and made perfect the faith of the Old
Testament people and made them alive, while making alive the New Testament people so by faith they
become the living (Jn11:25-26; 2Co4:11).

He resurrected and sat on the heavenly throne as the Living One (Lk24:5), the Lamb.
He was dead but now is alive for ever and ever (Rev1:18) and
He is the Judge who will judge the living and the dead (Ac10:42; 2Ti4:1).

The Holy Spirit whom He sent enters believers, that is,
The souls made alive by the blood of Yeshua, and
Lives in them forever (Jn14:16-17) to be the present-nature of God,
While the Son of Man is a historical person who went to the Father (Jn16:5).

The man of the Spirit is he who is dead to sin but alive to God (Rm6:11-13).
He builds up the house of the living God, the Church (1Ti3:15; He9:14),

Prays until answered and
Lives for Him who died for him and was raised again (2Co5:15), that is,
While alive proclaiming what God has done (Ps118:17) and
Bringing life to every soul he comes in contact with (Eze47:9-12; 2Co3:3),
For he has put his hope in the living God (1Ti4:10) and
Hopes for what he does not yet have and waits for it patiently (Rm8:22-25; 1Pe1:3) —
To be judged as the living and be resurrected to life.

O Lord,
Am I now alive or dead? Is my faith now alive or dead?
Let none of us become like Nicolas (Ac6:5; Rev2:6) and may our faith never be interrupted.
Rather, wherever I go, whether my family, school or workplace, may they come to life and
Let my faith always be alive revealing the living Yeshua! Amen.