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[ Created: 2016-04-05 12:07:25  Updated: 2025-02-26 22:13:18 Owner: rl ]
Title: The Holy Spirit    
  
  
  
  

    

  
  
  
  


And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you a different Comforter, that He Himself may abide in you for ever;
Jesus did not have to literally `pray the Father` as His Holy Spirit is the One who expressed Himself In Christ Jesus.     The purpose for Jesus coming was so that we could receive His Holy Spirit in us.     

Jesus had to perfectly fulfil the Word and will of the Holy Spirit in order for His purpose to be accomplished.     When Jesus spoke these words He had not yet died for our sins, so He was speaking of a possibility that was still conditional - He had to die for our sins.     

Once He died, His purpose was achieved, fulfilling the requirement for us to receive His Holy Spirit.     

Our Creator is a Spirit.     He is the Holy Spirit.     Jesus came to redeem us so that we can be born of His Spirit and be filled with His Spirit.     In other words, Jesus came that we may receive the Father into us and that we may be in the Father .     

For there to be a different, or another, Comforter implies that there was one previously.     Jesus was the first Comforter.     His Holy Spirit is the new Comforter.     He is a better Comforter because He can be in each of us by virtue of His omnipresence.     Christ Jesus, the image of the Holy Spirit, can only be in one place at one time.     

We have Eternal Life in the Holy Spirit.     We experience Abundant Life in this physical life as we are transformed by the Holy Spirit and the Word to the Mind Of Christ.     

If you are not in perfect peace, if you have any fear, you need the comforter - the Holy Spirit.     Ask the Father for His Holy Spirit and He will give Himself to you.     

But the Comforter, who is my Holy Spirit Father, will come in my name, and shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
The name of the Holy Spirit Father is Jesus because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit Of Christ Jesus .     

Jesus is instructing His disciples about the source of the Word - His Holy Spirit.     Jesus spoke by inspiration of the Holy Spirit.     When the Holy Spirit is in us, we can speak His Words by His inspiration and authority.     

The Holy Spirit comforts us and teaches us and reminds us of the specific scriptures to meet the situation at hand.     

No self confidence, no education, no intelligence can make up for the lack of the Holy Spirit involvement in our lives and work.

But when you receive the Comforter, who is my Father, even the Holy Spirit of truth, for truth is of the Holy Spirit, he shall testify of me:
The Holy Spirit is:
1) Comforter
2) Spirit Of Truth
3) witness of Jesus Christ.     
   ➛ Peace is a Spirit Fruit state of comfort.     
   ➛ Jesus is the Truth so the Holy Spirit gives revelation knowledge of the Truth.     
   ➛ We cannot adequately testify of Jesus without His Holy Spirit inspiration.     

But just as Jesus is in His Holy Spirit Father , and His Holy Spirit Father is in Him, making Him His own Father while saying `the Father is greater than I` , so it is with us, we can be filled with the Holy Spirit and yet have only part of the omnipresent Holy Spirit Father in us.     

The source point from which He, the Holy Spirit, issues is the Spirit Realm (heaven).     It is there in which His Majesty is best experienced

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
Jesus by and through His physical body is
   ➛ our sacrifice,
   ➛ our Saviour,
   ➛ our Lord,
   ➛ our King.     
But His Holy Spirit is the better comforter because He is in us and not just with us.     

Furthermore, when the power is all in the physical body of Jesus, we need Jesus with us physically to be able to accomplish things.     

When the Holy Spirit power is in us, then we are able to operate without His physical presence.     

The disciples needed comforting after Jesus departed and they needed His power in them more than they needed Jesus` physical presence.     

The Holy Spirit comforter is the Spirit Of Christ Jesus.     

Jesus is in the Father and the Father is seen in Jesus.     

When Jesus talked about going away He was talking about His death, resurrection and ascension.     He had to be faithful in all things in order to enable His Holy Spirit to dwell in us.     

Note that Jesus sends us His Holy Spirit and it was His Holy Spirit that sent Him into the world.     This speaks to the oneness of the Word And Spirit - Jesus and His Holy Spirit.     

 When we look at the Old Testament we find that the Comforter is God.   That makes sense because God is Spirit - He is the Holy Spirit.   
You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
Abundant Life is the will of the Lord for us.

Show me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because you, Lord, have helped me, and comforted me.
How we react to evil is a token or testimony to the wicked.     Just as evil identifies them as wicked, so good identifies us as righteous.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.
Unless we are thinking of the Lord, it is as if He is far from us, when the reality is that He will never leave or forsake us.

Mine eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?
As we speak that which is not as if it were, our hearts are healed producing the power for our flesh to be healed.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

And in that day you shall say, O Lord, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comfort me.

Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord has comforted his people, and will have kindness upon his afflicted.

For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you should be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of His vengeance; to comfort all that mourn;
This speaks to the first and second comings of our Lord Jesus.     When He retrurns there will be
   ➛ rapture as the dead and living in Christ are glorified
   ➛ a Day Of Wrath in which the rebellious are destroyed.

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.