We are working through the theme right now of “Our Riches in Christ.” These are the treasures that we have in the Lord Jesus, or privileges, if you prefer to call them that. This week, we are looking at five more of these wonderful riches that are ours. These are things we have only because we know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
Today we are going to talk about the presence of God. We know that the Lord is everywhere, He is omnipresent. He is everywhere, at all times. We know that. If we had the capability to look around us and see all the things that are invisible to our eyes, I think it would scare us to death. Sometimes as I sit in my house as I look through a sunbeam coming through a window, I see all the dust particles that are there, and I say to myself, how do we even live? How can we breathe with all these dust particles that normally I do not see at all? Only if you have the right light can you see those kinds of things. It’s kind of astounding. How many more things are like that? Things that are totally invisible to our eyes.
If we think about the spiritual realm, we know that the angels and demonic powers live in the heavenly places, and somehow, they are around us in an invisible sense. We do not know how that works. I think if we could see that, we would be petrified. Then, of course, there is God. The Lord Himself is everywhere, yet He is invisible to us, we don’t see Him, and yet we find in the Scriptures that He is always with us, and we, as Christians, can enjoy His presence.
The fact that He is everywhere means that all people, whether they are believers or not, are living in the presence of God. Scripture tells us that because we are His we have a very specialized form of His presence. As Christians, according to the Bible, the Holy Spirit lives in us. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 tells us, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.” The Legacy Standard Translation translates this word “temple” as “sanctuary”. Sanctuary is a better translation because in the Jewish temple it was a very large building with many compartments, but the sanctuary was where the presence of God dwelled. That is what it is saying here. We are the very sanctuary of God. The Holy Spirit dwells in us if we are His . . .
