tozer. man: the dwelling place of God.

This heart and flesh within me lies dormant in the sleep and decay of death until quickened by the sound of the Word spoken by the Voice of God. My heart now quivers with life and joy as the Spirit of God resides once more in my human heart.

I know that sounds crazy. But nothing else feels more right.

An excerpt from Tozer...

"Deep inside every man there is a private sanctum where dwells the mysterious essence of his being.... The deep-in human entity of which we speak is called in the Scriptures the spirit of man. 'For what man knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no man knoweth the the things of God, but the Spirit of God' (1 Cor 2.11). As God's self-knowledge lies in the eternal Spirit, so man's self-knowledge is by his own spirit, and his knowledge of God is by the direct impression of the Spirit of God upon the spirit of man. ...

The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4.23-24)

Here the nature of worship is shown to be wholly spiritual. True religion is removed from diet and days, from garment and ceremonies, and placed where it belong - in the union of the spirit of men with the Spirit of God.

From man's standpoint the most tragic loss suffered in the Fall was the vacating of this inner sanctum by the Spirit of God. At the far-in hidden center of man's being is a bush fitted to be the dwelling place of the Triune God. ... By the mysterious operation of the Spirit in the new birth, that which is called by Peter "the divine nature" enters the deep-in core of the believer's heart and establishes residence there. "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his," for "the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God" (Romans 8.9, 16).
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Religious externals may have a meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security..."