Children of God are delivered from the residence of sin.

Ezekiel 37:23b

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 “…but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.” Ezekiel 37:23b.

This is the promise made to the Jewish people if they keep the covenant made with God, “This is the covenant created by God, “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ ” Exodus 19:5-8 Unfortunately, the Jewish people have rejected Jesus Christ, the New Covenant, and are no longer considered His special treasure. Jesus Christ said, “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” Matthew 26:28

In this life, our place of residence is on this sin-plagued earth. This is the place where we have inherited sin as we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. God promised, and has fulfilled His promise, to deliver us from the residences of sin in this world and to cleanse us through Jesus Christ “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 Through Jesus Christ, we are His people and He is our God, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name…” John 1:12

While living in the sin-plagued dwelling places of this world, Jesus prays that we will be sanctified while on this earth, but not that we be taken from this world, “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.” John 17:15-19

A day is coming when God is going to literally remove us from the dwelling places of this earth to bring us to be with Him forever. Our earthly body will be thoroughly and 100% cleansed from all sin as God clothes us with a resurrected, redeemed, and eternal body. We will enter the eternal New Jerusalem where we will forever be His people, and He will forever be our God.

“For we know that when this tent we live in now is taken down—when we die and leave these bodies—we will have wonderful new bodies in heaven, homes that will be ours forevermore, made for us by God himself and not by human hands. 

How weary we grow of our present bodies. That is why we look forward eagerly to the day when we shall have heavenly bodies that we shall put on like new clothes. For we shall not be merely spirits without bodies. These earthly bodies make us groan and sigh, but we wouldn’t like to think of dying and having no bodies at all. We want to slip into our new bodies so that these dying bodies will, as it were, be swallowed up by everlasting life. This is what God has prepared for us, and as a guarantee He has given us His Holy Spirit.

Now we look forward with confidence to our heavenly bodies, realizing that every moment we spend in these earthly bodies is time spent away from our eternal home in heaven with Jesus. We know these things are true by believing, not by seeing. And we are not afraid but are quite content to die, for then we will be at home with the Lord. So our aim is to please Him always in everything we do, whether we are here in this body or away from this body and with Him in heaven.”
2 Corinthians 5:1-9

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1