INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT (3 OF 9)
Scripture: Romans 8:9-11
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Indwelling Holy Spirit (3 of 9)
Series: Romans 8
Stephen Whitney
Romans 8:9-11
Scripture teaches us that God cannot dwell among sinners unless there is an atonement made mfor their sin. We see this in the OT where the Lord required his people to have a Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) in which the people were cleansed (Leviticus 16).
It was the one day of the year when the High Priest was permitted to enter the Holy of Holies and stand before the presence of God's glory over the ark of the covenant. He was required to wear holy garments woven from white linen instead of his normal colorful garments overlaid with the golden breastplate.
He would take a gold bowl filled with bull's blood and enter the Holy of Holies where he would carefully sprinkle blood once upward and then seven times downward before the Ark of the covenant so the sins of the people would be forgiven for the past year. It was called Yom (Day) and Kippur (covering) because the sins of the people were covered by the blood for the past year.
Revelation 7 we have a similar picture of this great multitude from every nation are standing before the presence of the Lamb. They are allowed to come because as we are told in verse 14 They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. We are only allowed to come into God's presence when our sins have been forgiven by a sacrifice.
The Scriptures emphasize the absolute holiness of God which is seen by the fact that he is more often called holy than Almighty. God is so holy that he cannot even look at sin or tolerate it in his presence. Habakkuk 1:13 You are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong. God cannot be in the presence of sin or to put it another way sin cannot be in the presence of God.
The Holy Spirit could never have come to dwell within us if Christ had not lived and died for us to be forgiven. If God did not see us as righteous, he would never have sent his Holy Spirit to live within us b ...
Series: Romans 8
Stephen Whitney
Romans 8:9-11
Scripture teaches us that God cannot dwell among sinners unless there is an atonement made mfor their sin. We see this in the OT where the Lord required his people to have a Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) in which the people were cleansed (Leviticus 16).
It was the one day of the year when the High Priest was permitted to enter the Holy of Holies and stand before the presence of God's glory over the ark of the covenant. He was required to wear holy garments woven from white linen instead of his normal colorful garments overlaid with the golden breastplate.
He would take a gold bowl filled with bull's blood and enter the Holy of Holies where he would carefully sprinkle blood once upward and then seven times downward before the Ark of the covenant so the sins of the people would be forgiven for the past year. It was called Yom (Day) and Kippur (covering) because the sins of the people were covered by the blood for the past year.
Revelation 7 we have a similar picture of this great multitude from every nation are standing before the presence of the Lamb. They are allowed to come because as we are told in verse 14 They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. We are only allowed to come into God's presence when our sins have been forgiven by a sacrifice.
The Scriptures emphasize the absolute holiness of God which is seen by the fact that he is more often called holy than Almighty. God is so holy that he cannot even look at sin or tolerate it in his presence. Habakkuk 1:13 You are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong. God cannot be in the presence of sin or to put it another way sin cannot be in the presence of God.
The Holy Spirit could never have come to dwell within us if Christ had not lived and died for us to be forgiven. If God did not see us as righteous, he would never have sent his Holy Spirit to live within us b ...
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