Summary
Gilt, shame, questioning, doubting the very faith that had been given to that Christian, all of this arose as the Christian looked about and began comparing what looked to be it filled people with the Christian life that this Christian knew because in the Christian's life, the manifestation of the spirit didn't show itself to be big or outward or enthusiastic, didn't seem to move with great feeling and emotion. God creates and brings order to the chaos of the pre-created and then everything is perfect and orderly and in the exact place and placement and the order that God has created in his own perfection and then Adam and Eve bite of the fruit and sin enters into this world and once again creation is plunged into the chaos under the curse of sin and it is plunged into an non-ordered existence and state of being and in the chaos of the cursed creation and in the chaos of sin the world cannot recognize God's spirit. But most importantly, the spirit teaches us the truth of Jesus Christ who died upon the cross and was raised from the dead for the sin and for eternal salvation for those in the faith without the spirit of truth, without the Holy Spirit abiding in and with us, we would know nothing of the truth of Jesus Christ. We are called into faith by and through the Holy Spirit and as we are called into faith and as we are sealed in the cross of Christ and the Holy Spirit, that is for all eternity and part of that baptismal promise of God for you is that you are filled with His own Holy Spirit and that is where, as we've been working in our text backwards, now we can go to verse 15 where it reads, if you love me, this is Jesus speaking to His disciples, if you love me, you will keep my commandments, and I will ask the Father and He will give you another advocate to be with you forever. We receive righteousness through His death and resurrection and it's that righteousness and in that righteousness that we stand in the truth of God's spirit abiding in us and we know that we can stand in the promise of God's love and in the promise of Jesus Christ and in His forgiveness because He has given us His spirit. God sent His spirit, His advocate in this verse where where we hear Jesus saying He will ask the Father and He will give to us another advocate that word advocate in the Greek is periclet or pericletos and it can be translated advocate or helper or comforter or periclet or one who stands by we have the Holy Spirit to help us to comfort us, to sustain us because the devil as Saint Peter wrote, the devil is like a lion prowling ready to pounce ready to devour.
Video citations
- "How Do I Know I am filled with the Spirit?" 5-30-21 — If you would please open your Bibles to the Gospel of John 14th chapter, we're opening to the Gospel of John 14th chapter. I want to share a story with you of a Christian who grew up in a church in…