Did I Really Ask Jesus Into My Heart

These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. - John 14:25-26

Have you ever heard someone speak about asking Jesus into your heart? I have heard many people talk about Jesus in their heart. But I don't think He is. What I think is that Jesus was returning to heaven and the Father was sending the Spirit. Let me explain.

if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved - Romans 10:9

You are not saved if Jesus is in your heart - but you must have faith and believe that Jesus is Lord of all and the Father raised Him from the dead.

Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. - John 3:5-6

Yes, it is a fact that you must be born again, spiritually, to enter the kingdom of God. 

In Him [Jesus] you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. - Ephesians 1:13-14

And when we are born again by faith - God, the Father, seals our hearts, if you will, with the Holy Spirit. We are adopted as children of God.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? - 1 Corinthians 3:16

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? - 1 Corinthians 6:19

Is Jesus in us? No, the Holy Spirit is in us. So where is Jesus

It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. - Romans 8:34

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. - Hebrews 4:14-15

Jesus is the eternal sacrifice - After His ascension, He sat down at the Father's right hand. He will return but not in our hearts.

[Jesus said] But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven. - Acts 1:8-11

[The Father] has appointed [Jesus] heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds [John 1:1]; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. - Hebrews 1:2-3

So where is Jesus and where is the Spirit. Jesus is in Heaven and the Spirit is in every Believer.

I may have "the love of Jesus down in my heart. Where? Down in my heart!" - but I have the Spirit of God in me.

Lastly, the Father is conforming us into the image of Jesus by His Spirit and the Word of God.

For whom He [the Father] foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed [transformed Rom 12:2] to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. - Romans 8:29

Think about it – Pray about it – Believe it – Walk in it. Let your light shine and give God the glory.

By Faith Alone By His Grace Alone And For His Glory Alone