Jesus said, "But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." (John 14:26)
Continuing on the theme from the last post, the Holy Ghost is our Comforter. Jesus spoke of the Comforter who would come (after Jesus ascended once and for all) and lead and guide us into all truth. But unlike the false tale spun by the modern day religious culture -- that presents God as three persons/a triune God, the Holy Ghost is NOT a person.
How do we know this? Because Jesus Himself called the Holy Ghost -- the "Spirit" of truth. He never once refers to the Holy Ghost as a person. Why? Because the Spirit of God is not the same as the person(s) He created in the beginning. Indeed, He is the Maker of heaven and earth, and everything within. (Psalm 146:6) We are but the clay -- moulded and created in His image. (Genesis 1:27)
“But now, O LORD, Thou [art] our Father; we [are] the clay, and Thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of Thy hand.” (Isaiah 64:8)
Further to my original point, Jesus said the Father will send the Holy Ghost "in My Name" -- the Name of Jesus. (John 14:26)
Jesus said, "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of Me." (John 15:26)
Jesus told His disciples, "Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away and come [again] unto you. If ye loved Me, ye would rejoice because I said, "I go unto the Father for My Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe." (John 14:28-29)
We know from the scriptures that the Holy Ghost is the same Spirit of God that moved upon the face of the waters in the beginning. (Genesis 1:3) The same Spirit which came upon Mary and overshadowed her -- "therefore, also this holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." (Luke 1:35) The same Holy Ghost who the angel said to Zacharias about John the baptist/baptizer--"he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb." (Luke 1:15) The same Holy Ghost that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, "the babe leaped in her womb, and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost." (Luke 1:41)
Jesus told His disciples that He had to go away if the Holy Ghost were to come, but Jesus also said that He would never leave us or forsake us. You ask -- how can this be? The scriptures make the mystery of Godliness clear. (I Timothy 3:16)
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ..." (Titus 3:5)
How do we know this? Because Jesus Himself called the Holy Ghost -- the "Spirit" of truth. He never once refers to the Holy Ghost as a person. Why? Because the Spirit of God is not the same as the person(s) He created in the beginning. Indeed, He is the Maker of heaven and earth, and everything within. (Psalm 146:6) We are but the clay -- moulded and created in His image. (Genesis 1:27)
“But now, O LORD, Thou [art] our Father; we [are] the clay, and Thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of Thy hand.” (Isaiah 64:8)
Further to my original point, Jesus said the Father will send the Holy Ghost "in My Name" -- the Name of Jesus. (John 14:26)
Jesus said, "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of Me." (John 15:26)
Jesus told His disciples, "Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away and come [again] unto you. If ye loved Me, ye would rejoice because I said, "I go unto the Father for My Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe." (John 14:28-29)
We know from the scriptures that the Holy Ghost is the same Spirit of God that moved upon the face of the waters in the beginning. (Genesis 1:3) The same Spirit which came upon Mary and overshadowed her -- "therefore, also this holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." (Luke 1:35) The same Holy Ghost who the angel said to Zacharias about John the baptist/baptizer--"he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb." (Luke 1:15) The same Holy Ghost that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, "the babe leaped in her womb, and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost." (Luke 1:41)
Jesus told His disciples that He had to go away if the Holy Ghost were to come, but Jesus also said that He would never leave us or forsake us. You ask -- how can this be? The scriptures make the mystery of Godliness clear. (I Timothy 3:16)
"Until the day in which He [Jesus] was taken up, after that He [Jesus] THROUGH the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen ..." (Acts 1:2)
Not a different or separate Holy Ghost but the One and Same Lord God who was in the beginning. The One God who we worship with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Mark 12:29-31) The same God who loved us so much that He became the perfect sacrifice on the cross. (Hebrews 1:1-12) He became our Saviour. (Titus 3:4-7) God in Christ. The Word made flesh. (John 1:1-18)
"He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not." (John 1:1-14)
He Himself took on sin prone flesh (and yet was without sin) so that He could freely offer to us His plan of salvation. He Himself who knew no sin became accursed for us (for as the law from afore states, he who dies on a cross will be cursed).
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ..." (Titus 3:5)
When Jesus said to His disciples that "now I go My way to Him that sent Me" it was because "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, and when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness and of judgment ... Howbeit, when He the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, [that] shall He speak and He will shew you things to come. He shall glorify Me; for He shall receive of Mine and shall shew [it] unto you. A little while and ye shall not see Me; and again, a little while, and ye shall see Me because I go to the Father." (John 16:5-16)
The disciples did not understand what Jesus was saying, and asked among themselves about Jesus' words. And their confusion could be understood because Jesus had not yet gone to the cross. But us? There is no excuse because we have His Word which is God's love story to you and I -- woven like a thread from the very beginning.
"The mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints: to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, whom we preach ..." (Colossians 1:26-27)
And within His Word is the truth.
"Thy Word is truth." (John 17:17)
The Word that was in the beginning with God and WAS God! (John 1:1) The Word that was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14) After Jesus ascended, we begin to see the power of the Holy Ghost experienced on the day of Pentecost.
Jesus said, "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." (Acts 1:8)
And by extension, to us also who believe and are baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then Peter said unto them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2:38)
Therefore, "study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth." (II Timothy 2:15)
We too can be filled with the Holy Ghost -- the Spirit of the Lord Jesus living within -- as the disciples first, and then the 120 in the upper room, and then the 3,000 souls who gladly received the Word.
Yes, indeed, Jesus came forth from the Father "and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." (John 16:28)
"And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to Thee Holy Father, keep through Thine own Name those whom Thou hast given Me, that they may be ONE as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Thy Name, those that Thou gave Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to Thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Thy Word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world ..." (John 17:11-14)
God manifest in the flesh. (I Timothy 3:16) God was justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. This is the mystery of godliness that was held in the bosom of the Father from the beginning of the world.
After His kindness and love, God became our Saviour so that we might have life more abundantly. Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost -- in Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead. (Luke 4:1; Colossians 2:9)
"For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell, and, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him ..." (Colossians 1:14-23)
If you have previously subscribed to the false erroneous teaching that God is a person, or three persons as the tri-une God teaching presents, it is time to ask the Lord Jesus to reveal Himself to you. It is time to understand that -- "All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." (II Timothy 3:16)
Therefore, "study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth." (II Timothy 2:15)
And, come out from among them so that you too do not suffer their plagues. Peter (standing with the eleven) told those who listened on the day of Pentecost that this same Jesus whom ye have crucified is both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36) Jesus is the Lord who came forth as a mighty man. (Isaiah 42:13; Isaiah 9:6) After His kindness and love, God became our Saviour. (Titus 3:4-7)
His Name is Jesus. One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. One God and Father of all.
Once again, He is King of kings and Lord of lords. Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending. The Holy Ghost renewed. And it is His Spirit -- the Holy Ghost that lives within, leading and guiding us into all truth.
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