And welcome back,
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we're studying
the Gospel of John
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and
particularly the Holy Spirit.
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And Dr. John Paulien, you
said that the Gospel of John
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mentions the Holy
Spirit several times,
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we read a few verses here.
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Which can mean counselor,
a comforter, a helper,
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an advocate, what else
does this word can be used?
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Well, I think it was the
perfect choice of language
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for this particular context
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because the disciples
really have two needs,
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Jesus is going away.
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So they're
going to be distressed
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because He is going away.
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They're missing Him.
They need a comforter.
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On the other hand they're
going to go out into the world.
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The world is going to be
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accusing them of
all kinds of things.
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The world is going to hate them
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and in that context
they need an advocate,
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they need a counselor,
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a lawyer to help them
in the worldly courts.
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And one thing that happens
often in the New Testament
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is the judgments
of earthly courts
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against God's
people are overturned
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in God's heavenly judgment.
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So God's people need to know
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that when they're accused,
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when they're
judged in earthly courts,
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that God is
keeping record of all that.
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And the Supreme
Court will overturn
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those earthly
judgments in God's timing.
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So now we are and
we're still in Chapter 16.
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And 14, and 15.
We're going to different--
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We're going to that--
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Yeah, we're going
to the discourse here,
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Chapters 14 through 16
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where there are five more
references to the Holy Spirit.
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You said five references
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in the first part of
John, we just read those.
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We just read those.
There's another five references.
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In the discourse itself
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and then the 11th one is
in Chapter 20 which we read.
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Should we look at those
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five references
in the discourse?
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Let's do that now.
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Okay and that
would be in chapter--
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We'll start with
Chapter 14:16-17.
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"And I will pray the Father,
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and He will give
you another Helper,
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that He may abide with you
forever the spirit of truth,
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whom the world cannot receive,
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because it neither
sees Him nor knows Him,
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but you know Him,
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for He dwells with
you and will be in you."
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So here is the first reference
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in the discourse
to the Holy Spirit.
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And it says that
Jesus will ask the Father.
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In other words, the Holy
Spirit is sent by the Father.
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So it's also sent by Jesus.
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So once again it shows how Jesus
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and the Father are
really one in all that they do.
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And he is the spirit of truth,
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just as Jesus is the
way the truth and the life.
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He said that just a
few verses before this.
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So there's a lot of connections
between Jesus and the spirit
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which we will pick up on
I think a little bit later.
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So it's
interesting that he says,
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"The Holy Spirit is another
counselor, another comforter."
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If the Holy Spirit
is another comforter,
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who is the
comforter and that's Jesus.
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Jesus is the one that
comforted the disciples
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when he goes away,
they need another comforter.
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So the Holy
Spirit is really coming
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to take the place of Jesus.
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Jesus is the comforter,
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Holy Spirit is
another comforter.
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Jesus is the truth.
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The Holy Spirit is
the spirit of truth.
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So he has come to
take the place of Jesus
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to do for the disciples
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what Jesus had done for
them while He was on the earth.
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So he provides
a presence of God.
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But more than anything else,
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he takes the place of Jesus
right there for the disciples.
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Next text is in verses
26-27 of the same chapter.
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In John 14:26-27.
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"But the
Helper, the Holy Spirit,
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whom the Father
will send in My name,
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He will teach you all things,
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and bring to your remembrance
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all things that I said to you.
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Peace I leave you,
My peace I give to you,
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not as the world
gives do I give to you.
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Let not your heart be troubled,
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neither let it be afraid."
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So here we see now for
the first time this counselor
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is called
specifically the Holy Spirit,
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and that phrase comes
in here for the first time.
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And what is his role here?
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It is to teach them everything
that they need to know.
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Everything maybe that
they forgot about Jesus.
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His role is to remind
them of what Jesus has said.
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If you remember back from
the beginning of the series
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that the purpose
of the Gospel of John
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is to demonstrate
that the second generation
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that doesn't have a
living relationship with Jesus,
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a personal face to
face relationship with Jesus
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through the Holy Spirit
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and through the words of Jesus
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will have all that
connection that they need.
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So the Holy Spirit's role
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whenever we need
connection with Jesus
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is to remind us of the words
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that will bring that connection.
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So the Holy Spirit
provides the words of Jesus,
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provides the presence of Jesus
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and then ultimately
he provides the peace
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that they had with Jesus.
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So the Holy Spirit pretty much
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is coming in to take
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the place of
Jesus in their behalf.
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That moves us on to Chapter 15
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and again verses 26 to 27
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so that's easy to
remember, Chapter 15.
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"But when the Helper comes,
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whom I shall send
to you from the Father,
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the Spirit of truth who
proceeds from the Father,
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He will testify of Me.
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And you also will bear witness,
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because you have been
with Me from the beginning."
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All right, so
here the spirit comes
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and he's called the
spirit of truth once again.
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Jesus is the way the truth--
this is the spirit of truth.
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But it's truth in a
special context now.
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There is a bit of this
law court coming in here.
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He will testify of me.
So this is court language.
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The Holy Spirit comes to
testify about Jesus to us.
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And to testify
about us to the world.
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So you have legal language
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that higher court kind of
thing that I mentioned earlier.
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This is also in the
context to the vine.
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It is through the Holy Spirit
they were connected to the vine.
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Connected to the branches,
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the words of Christ
all connect us together.
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There's all of a piece
what Jesus is saying here.
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So Holy Spirit comes, he
takes the place of Jesus,
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he connects us to the vine,
he testifies in our behalf.
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So comforter, counselor,
it's all part of a piece.
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As we're connected to the vine,
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our lives are changed
and we'll become new people.
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Just as the
Holy Spirit brings us
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a new birth to be born again.
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So, moving on Chapter 16:7-11.
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And this is
probably the toughest part
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of these passages, bit
the hardest to understand.
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"Nevertheless I
tell you the truth.
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It is to your
advantage that I go away,
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for if I do not go away,
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the Helper will not
come to you but if I depart,
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I will send Him to you.
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And when He has come,
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He will convict
the world of sin,
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and of righteousness,
and of judgment of sin,
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because they do not
believe in Me of righteousness,
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because I go to My Father
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and you see Me
no more of judgment,
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because the ruler of
this world is judged."
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So here the focus is
more and more on the world.
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Up until now he has been
focused on the disciples.
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He will be your comforter,
he will be at your side,
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he will testify for you,
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he will bring
you into connection
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to the words of Jesus.
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But now the focus is
a bit more on the world,
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the world that is
hating the disciples.
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The world that is
judging the disciples.
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And he comes in here
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and he convicts the
world of three things.
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He says he convicts him of sin,
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and of
righteousness, and of judgment.
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What's that all about?
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He is convincing
the world of sin.
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The persecutors think what.
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They're doing God's will
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when they're
killing the people of God.
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They think that
they're serving God,
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the Holy Spirit
brings conviction
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that what they're
doing is actually wrong.
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He convicts them
of righteousness,
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he points everyone
to the Father side--
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that's the place
where righteousness is.
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Through the intersession
of Jesus with the Father,
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we received the righteousness.
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And then he
convicts them of judgment,
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that he can liberate them
from Satan's power and control.
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The judgments of this
world will be overturned.
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So the Holy Spirit comes
not just for the disciples
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but in relation to the world,
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to deliver them from the world.
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And then the last
part verses 13 to 15.
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"However, when He, the
Spirit of truth has come,
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He will guide you into all truth
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for He will not
speak on His own authority,
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but whatever He
hears He will speak
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and He will tell
you all things to come.
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He will glorify Me,
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for He will take of what
is Mine and declare it to you.
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All things that the
Father has are Mine.
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Therefore I said
that He will take of Mine
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and declare it to you."
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So the Holy Spirit brings
Jesus to us, that's fundamental.
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But there's one
extra thing here.
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He will also
bring us things to come.
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The Holy Spirit will not
only minister Jesus to us
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but it will help us to
understand Bible prophecy.
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John doesn't say whole
lot about Bible prophecy.
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But right here he makes it clear
when the Holy Spirit comes,
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there's more
things for you to learn.
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Was the Book of
Revelation already written,
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is that what he is
referring to very possibly?
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But the Holy
Spirit is as important
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to the Book of Revelation
as it is to the Book of John.
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So receiving the
spirit is crucial.
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So to summarize here
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in the couple of
minutes that we have left.
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For John, the Holy
Spirit is all about Jesus.
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The Holy Spirit isn't
looking to be glorified.
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Isn't looking to us to pay
attention to the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit
works behind the scenes,
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pointing us to Jesus.
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The Holy Spirit is selfless.
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The Holy Spirit
is self sacrificing.
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He glories when people
pay attention to Jesus.
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So in that sense the
Holy Spirit also shares
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that self sacrificing
spirit of the Godhead.
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The Father sacrificed Himself
by giving Jesus to the world.
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He lost that
connection with Jesus.
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He took a huge risk.
Jesus sacrifices Himself for us.
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The Holy Spirit sacrifices
himself to point to Jesus.
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You see that
beautiful spirit of non pride,
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self-abnegation that
comes in all of the Godhead.
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And so the Holy Spirit
comes to replace Jesus.
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He and Jesus are both the truth.
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They are both called teachers
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and they're both
sent by the Father.
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They're both
judged. They both remain.
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They both speak what
they've heard from heaven.
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They're both
associated with the Word of God.
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When you compare
Jesus and the Holy Spirit
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throughout the Gospel of John,
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you see the Holy Spirit
has come to be Jesus for us.
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Well, Dr. Paulien, once
again we want to thank you
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for being with us
with this Bible study.
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And friends,
perhaps the Holy Spirit
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has been leading you
in this Bible studies
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and leading you towards Christ.
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If so take that decision,
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accept Jesus Christ
today till next time.
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