Semantics: Where is Jesus right now?

[amila]

John 14 :
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
(John 16:5–16)
18I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live. 20On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. 21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.

25All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

 

[Tanya]

On one hand we have a few verses similar to....

Rom 8:10; If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

2Cor 13:5 Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?

These verses are sometimes taken as Jesus is literally dwelling inside you.

On the other hand we have quite a few verses similar to...

John 16:7; "But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

Seemingly Jesus told people, He was going away.

Acts 1:11; They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven."

In fact in seems He did go away, and will eventually return.

John 14:3; "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.

Most of Christianity has this concept of a "second coming" where Jesus is going to return.
Obviously He wouldn't need to return, if He was still here.

There are some verses that have to be taken in context.

Col 1:27; to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

This verse doesn't say Jesus in currently dwelling in you, but rather the hope (of glory) is that He eventually will.

.. to be continued ...

Jesus christ is omnipresent He is part of the Godhead. When you accept Him as your personal Lord and Savior you actually receive God in our heart. The Holy Spirit, Jesus, and Father God. Jesus can be physically in heaven but also in every believer. You can't receive one without the ther other two because they are God.

 

[B-A-C]

Jesus christ is omnipresent He is part of the Godhead. When you accept Him as your personal Lord and Savior you actually receive God in our heart. The Holy Spirit, Jesus, and Father God. Jesus can be physically in heaven but also in every believer. You can't receive one without the ther other two because they are God.

Perhaps, but I wonder why we have to ask separately.

Luke 11:13; “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

Also, I wonder why every single time someone was baptized with the Holy Spirit in the New Testament ( five different passages about different people ) it was some period of time after they became believers.

Acts 19:1; It happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus, and found some disciples.
Acts 19:2; He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said to him, “No, we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”
Acts 19:3; And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” And they said, “Into John’s baptism.”
Acts 19:4; Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
Acts 19:5; When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 19:6; And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying.
Acts 19:7; There were in all about twelve men.

We don't know exactly when this happened, but we know Paul's ministry didn't start until at least 3 years after Jesus was resurrected and ascended to Heaven.
It was the same for the Samaritans in Acts 8:14-18; It was the same for Cornelius in Acts 10. It was even the same for Paul in Acts 9.
Not to mention those in the upper room in Acts 2. All of these people had been believers for some period of time before they received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
There is not one recorded instance in the New Testament of anyone receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit at the moment of accepting Jesus.
(The one exception, John the Baptist had the Holy Spirit before he was even born) Luke 1:15;

There is only one God. True. But that God is three separate persons.