Lesson 3 for July 19, 2014

And I will pray the Father, and He will

give you another Helper [parakltos], that
He may abide with you forever. (Juan 14:16)
The Holy Spirit is one called to the side of. He is
sent to be beside us, to console us, to help us and to
exhort us.
para = beside
kltos = called
Jesus called the Holy
Spirit parakltos
(John 14:26).
John said, we have a parakltos with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous. (1 John 2:1). Jesus is our
representative before the Father, and the Holy Spirit is
the representative of Jesus before us.
Before ascending to Heaven, Jesus told to His disciples, I will not leave you
orphans; I will come to you. (John 14:18). That coming was not a physical one,
but the coming of a representative. Jesus had been their advisor, helper and
comforter; the Holy Spirit would be our Advisor, Helper and Comforter
since then.
Which work
does the
Holy Spirit
do that
prove He is a
Person?
John 14:26.
He teaches and reminds.
John 15:26.
He testifies.
John 16:8.
He reproves..
John 16:14.
He glorifies Jesus.
Acts 10:19.
He speaks.
Acts 13:4.
He leads people.
Acts 15:28.
He has His own will.
Acts 16:6.
He forbids.
Romans 8:9.
He lives in us.
Romans 8:26-27.
He makes intercession for the
saints.
Romans 15:30.
He loves.
1 Corinthians 2:10.
He searches.
1 Corinthians 12:11.
He distributes as He wills.
Ephesians 4:30.
He may get sad.
Titus 3:5.
He renews us.
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 14:26)
The Holy Spirit is mentioned several times
along with the Father and the Son:
He is omnipresent. Psalm 139:7.
He foretells the future. John 16:13.
He may be blasphemed. Mark 3:29.
In addition,
He is given
divine
qualities:
Matthew 28:19
Luke 1:35
Luke 3:22
John 14:26
John 15:26
Acts 2:33
2 Corinthians 13:14
Galatians 4:6
2 Thessalonians 2:13
Hebrews 9:14
1 Peter 1:2
The Comforter that Christ promised to
send after He ascended to heaven, is the
Spirit in all the fullness of the Godhead,
making manifest the power of divine grace
to all who receive and believe in Christ as a
personal Saviour. There are three living
persons of the heavenly trio; in the name of
these three great powersthe Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spiritthose who receive
Christ by living faith are baptized, and these
powers will co-operate with the obedient
subjects of heaven in their efforts to live the
new life in Christ.
E.G.W. (Evangelism, cp. 18, pg. 615)
However, when He, the Spirit of truth,
has come, He will guide you into all truth;
for He will not speak on His own
authority, but whatever He hears He will
speak; and He will tell you things to come.
He will glorify Me, for He will take of
what is Mine and declare it to you.
(John 16:13-14)
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 14:26)
not by works of righteousness which we
have done, but according to His mercy He
saved us, through the washing of
regeneration and renewing of the Holy
Spirit. (Titus 3:5)
The office of the Holy Spirit is distinctly specified in
the words of Christ: When He is come, He will reprove
the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.
John 16:8. It is the Holy Spirit that convicts of sin. If the
sinner responds to the quickening influence of the
Spirit, he will be brought to repentance and aroused to
the importance of obeying the divine requirements.
To the repentant sinner, hungering and thirsting for
righteousness, the Holy Spirit reveals the Lamb of God
that taketh away the sin of the world. He shall receive
of Mine, and shall show it unto you, Christ said. He
shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:14; 14:26
E.G.W. (The Acts of the Apostles, cp. 5, pg. 52)
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. (Acts 1:8)
How can we receive
the Holy Spirit?
First step: Asking for the Holy Spirit
(Luke 11:13)
Second step: Being baptized with the Holy
Spirit (Acts 1:5)
To be baptized is to be totally immersed in
something. It includes the whole person.
Baptism with the Holy Spirit means to be totally
under His influence, completely filled with the
Spirit (Ephesians 5:18). This is not a once and
forever experience, but is something that
needs to be constantly renewed.
To us today, as verily as to the first
disciples, the promise of the Spirit
belongs. God will today endow men and
women with power from above, as He
endowed those who on the Day of
Pentecost heard the word of salvation.
At this very hour His Spirit and His
grace are for all who need them and
will take Him at His word.
E.G.W. (Testimonies for the Church, vol. 8, cp. 3, pg. 20)