Hello Everyone,

While Jesus was still on earth He told His disciples that though He would be leaving them, He would not forget them. He would ask the Father, and the Father would give them another Helper, another Paraclete who would never leave them (John 14:16).

They could depend on Him!!!

This Paraclete Jesus identified as the Spirit of truth (John 14:17) and as the Holy Spirit.

As the Paraclete and Guide into all the truth, He would convince the world with respect to sin, show things to come, and glorify Jesus by taking the things of Christ and showing them to His followers (John 16:13–15).

Later we read that the Church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria "was strengthened; and encouraged by the Holy Spirit" and "it grew in numbers" Acts9:31).

The Holy Spirit brought POWER from Heaven for the spread of the gospel and the growth of the Church both spiritually and in numbers.

"In another sense, without distracting from the promise of a future Second Coming, Jesus indicates that He Himself comes to us in the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit mediates both the Father and the Son to us (John 14:18,20,23).

When Jesus says, ‘I will not leave you comfortless [orphans]; I will come to you’ (John 14:18, KJV), He means by the Holy Spirit.

Calling the Spirit another Comforter, Jesus distinguishes between Himself and the Holy Spirit as a distinct Person. Jesus is not the Spirit. Jesus sends the Spirit (John 15:26; 16:7)."

The Holy Spirit is the go between in our worship as we look to our Father in Heaven.

The Spirit knows what is going on in the mind of God (1 Corinthians 2:10, 11).

In the weakness of our present bodies we do not understand what God wants for us, nor do we understand ourselves, or our own needs.

The Spirit, as our Paraclete, our Helper, is right there to help us.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phil