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Book: John
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John 14:16
I. Another Comforter
A. The Greek word translated Comforter is parakletos which
literally means along side to help.
1. Jesus had been a comforter to them during the time
they had been walking with Him.
2. He is talking about leaving them now and you can
imagine the thoughts that must be going through their
minds. How will ever get along without Him? Jesus was
a great one to have around.
a. Especially if you were caught in a storm out
on the lake.
b. Or if you had a tax man bugging you.
c. When you were being challenged by the hostile
Pharisee's.
d. When there was a serious illness or death.
B. This other Comforter is described by Jesus as:
1. The Spirit of truth.
2. The Holy Spirit.
C. The Father had sent His Son into the world to be a Comforter
to man, now His Son will soon be returning to the Father, but
He has promised to pray to the Father that He would send to
them another Comforter.
1. In verse 26 He says, "But the Comforter which is the
Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name."
2. In 15:26 He said, "But when the Comforter is come
whom I will send unto you from the Father, even
the Spirit of Truth which proceedeth from the
Father."
3. Further in 16:7 He said, "Nevertheless I tell you the
truth it is necessary that I go away: for if I go
not away, The Comforter will not come to you."
4. All of these verses bring into clear focus the triune
nature of the Godhead.
a. Jesus is praying to the Father to send the
Holy Spirit. In the same token Jesus is
promising to send the Holy Spirit to them
from the Father.
b. In all of the verses we see the three persons
of the Godhead.
5. On the day of Pentecost when the Spirit came upon the
waiting disciples, Peter used that fact of the Holy
Spirit coming upon them as a proof that Jesus had
ascended to the Father. Acts 2:32 "This same Jesus
hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
There forebeing by the right hand of God exhalted,
and having received of the Father the promise of the
Holy Spirit, He has shed forth this which you now see,
and hear."
II. The ministry of the Holy Spirit.
A. First of all as the Comforter, one who has come alongside to
help.
B. To teach us all things, and to bring to our remembrance the
word of Jesus Christ.
C. To testify of Jesus Christ. 15:26.
D. To reprove the world of sin, righteousness, and of judgment.
E. To guide us into all truth. 16:13
F. To show us things to come. 16:13
G. He will glorify Jesus. 16:14
F. He will show us the things of the Father and of the
Son. 16:15
G. To give us the power that we lack. "You shall receive power
after the Holy Spirit is come upon you and you shall be
witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem,----"
1. Power to be like Jesus.
a. And we all with unveiled faces beholding the
glory of the Lord are changed into the same
image from glory to glory by the same Spirit.
b. Not by works of righteousness which we have
done but according to His mercy He saved us,
by the washing of regeneration and the
renewing of the Holy Spirit.
2. Power to be witnesses. "But you shall receive
power----"
H. One who comes alongside to help, "But the Spirit also beareth
our weaknesses for we do not know always how to pray as we
ought."
III. The relationship of the Holy Spirit to the believer.
A. "For He dwelleth with you, and He shall be in you.
1. Here Jesus uses two Greek prepositions to describe
the relationship, para or with and in.
2. The Holy Spirit was with them. This is the first
relationship that you have with the Sprit.
a. He is with you to convict you of sin.
b. He is with you to testify of Jesus Christ as
your sin bearer.
c. He is with you to guide you to the truth.
3. He shall be in you.
a. When you open your life to receive Jesus
Christ, the Holy Spirit comes into your life.
b. Know you not that your body is the temple of
the Holy Spirit which is in you, you are not
your own, you have been bought with a price.
c. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, He
is none of His.
d. Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but
be filled with the Holy Spirit.
4. Jesus speaks of a still further relationship that the
believer has with the Holy Spirit, and that is when
the Holy Spirit comes upon you. "And you shall
receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon
you, and you shall be witnesses unto Me Here the
Greek preposition "epi is used. Upon or over.
a. It is one thing to have the Holy Spirit in
you, it is quite another to have the Holy
Spirit flowing out of your life like a
torrent of living water.
b. That my life whould be chosen by God as a
vessel to contain the Holy Spirit is mind
boggling. But to think that my life can become
a channel through which the Holy Spirit can
flow out to others is beyond comprehension.
IV. The Holy Spirit is a gift for the church.
A. "Whom the world cannot receive for it seeth Him not, neither
knoweth Him."
B. When on the day that the Holy Spirit was sent to the church,
the multitude asked Peter what they could do, and Peter
answered "Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ for the forgiveness of sin and you shall receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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