117 Final Words – Jim Rosser

Our readings chosen for this morning, brothers and sisters, were from John 17, where the departure of our Lord from this life or this world would soon take place.

So he prayed to his father, not for himself, but for those whom God had given him out of the world, that they might be kept from the harm and the danger of the world, and that they might be saved when their Lord comes.

So he prays that they might dwell in him, and that Christ might dwell in us.

We are asked

the question then, how does Christ dwell in us? Well, the Apostle Paul, in writing to the Ephesians, chapter 3 says, I pray that Christ might dwell in your heart by faith.

And in Colossians 1, he says, May the word of Christ dwell in you richly.

So then Christ dwelling in us is actually his word dwelling in us.

It is there so that we have heaven's help in time of temptation because the trouble with man as from the fall in the beginning is that we are prone to sin.

And this is the way that God can help us.

But

how does it

get there? Well, it gets there by preaching and by us making a decision that that will be our way of life.

In the book of Revelation, we have that well-known statement where Jesus said, Behold, I stand at the door and knock.

If any man would open unto me, I will come in unto him.

And I will sup with him and he will sup with me.

Father John Carter beautifully makes the point that if we invite him into our house, he becomes the owner of that house eventually.

And that's what we need because here we have offered to give our life to the Lord Jesus Christ and having that word from him in our hearts and our minds is a way that he can help us.

The other way that it could be spoken is that it was through the

apostle Peter.

And Peter says in his epistle, first epistle, you have been bought with a price,

the precious blood of the Lord.

The Lord, the Lamb of God, had shed his blood, and that was the price for our salvation.

And so we come into God's care.

At the point of that time, we have to admit that the Christ has been accepted by us and therefore we're giving control of our house, our body, over to the Lord Jesus.

In speaking of the knocking on the door, Brother Dennis Gillett says that our body is a house with many rooms and if we invite Christ into our life, into that house with the rooms, there should be no room in which

Our readings chosen for this morning, brothers and sisters, were from John 17, where the departure of our Lord from this life or this world would soon take place.

So he prayed to his father, not for himself, but for those whom God had given him out of the world, that they might be kept from the harm and the danger of the world, and that they might be saved when their Lord comes.

So he prays that they might dwell in him, and that Christ might dwell in us.

We are asked

the question then, how does Christ dwell in us? Well, the Apostle Paul, in writing to the Ephesians, chapter 3 says, I pray that Christ might dwell in your heart by faith.

And in Colossians 1, he says, May the word of Christ dwell in you richly.

So then Christ dwelling in us is actually his word dwelling in us.

It is there so that we have heaven's help in time of temptation because the trouble with man as from the fall in the beginning is that we are prone to sin.

And this is the way that God can help us.

But

how does it

get there? Well, it gets there by preaching and by us making a decision that that will be our way of life.

In the book of Revelation, we have that well-known statement where Jesus said, Behold, I stand at the door and knock.

If any man would open unto me, I will come in unto him.

And I will sup with him and he will sup with me.

Father John Carter beautifully makes the point that if we invite him into our house, he becomes the owner of that house eventually.

And that's what we need because here we have offered to give our life to the Lord Jesus Christ and having that word from him in our hearts and our minds is a way that he can help us.

The other way that it could be spoken is that it was through the

apostle Peter.

And Peter says in his epistle, first epistle, you have been bought with a price,

the precious blood of the Lord.

The Lord, the Lamb of God, had shed his blood, and that was the price for our salvation.

And so we come into God's care.

At the point of that time, we have to admit that the Christ has been accepted by us and therefore we're giving control of our house, our body, over to the Lord Jesus.

In speaking of the knocking on the door, Brother Dennis Gillett says that our body is a house with many rooms and if we invite Christ into our life, into that house with the rooms, there should be no room in which