April 06, 2005.
37. THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH. Truth is His very nature. He is truth. He speaks the truth in revealing the Lord Jesus. He will make known the Christ of God in detail. He will not speak of Himself, He will exalt the Lord Jesus. What He hears of the Father, He will both manifest and declare. John 16:13 Equal in nature and being to the Father and the Son. He is called the Spirit of God. Therefore, all that is of God and is found in God must also be in Him. Mt. 3:16 He is the Spirit of the Lord or the Spirit of Jehovah. Judges 11:29 His ministry is to glorify the Lord Jesus and not Himself. He is to take those things which pertain to Christ and make them real and alive to the bride. John 16:14 Jesus likewise stated that, ALL THINGS belonging to the Father were His. What an amazing statement. Nothing withheld, all things shared and shared in equal measure. So, when the Holy Spirit is revealing the things of Christ, He is also making the things of the Father known. John 16:15 He will come forth from the Father. Proceeding out of the Father as the very breath of the Father. Not one who is commissioned as an angel would be, but is the emission of the very inspiration of the Lord. John 15:26 The Holy Spirit is the breath, the essence of the Lord. The Lord Jesus breathed upon His disciples after His resurrection and commanded them to receive the Holy Ghost. John 20:22 That became an accomplished matter on the day of Pentecost when they were filled with the Spirit. That gentle breath became a hurricane accompanied by the sound and strength of nature. Only, this was spiritual and not a weather related event. They were all filled. Acts 2:2-4
WE WILL COME. Obedience to the Word is a requirement for the abiding presence of the Lord in the life of the believer. That is a matter which is easily accomplished, if we love the Lord Jesus. The whole of the gospel is based on love. Without the love that is the very nature of the Lord, it is impossible to please Him. Today, in the person of the Holy Spirit we are privileged to be the dwelling place of the living God. Jesus said, We will come and make our abode with him. John 14:23 John presents the same thought in his first Epistle in the statement, ye shall continue in the Son and in the Father. 1 John 2:24 We must keep in mind that we know the Father and the Son through the person of the Holy Spirit. Again he stated the fact that God has chosen to take of Himself and dwell within a changed and altered spiritual man. One who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God will find that he is dwelling in God and that God dwells in him. Astonishing, amazing yet true. 1 John 4:15 To seal the fact and to give us another witness we turn to the writings of the Apostle Paul. He gave a good report and verified the presence of the Lord in the members of the body of Christ, by saying, ye are the temple of God. How can we verify that today? By the presence of the Spirit of God, who is now
occupying our hearts and spirits. 1 Cor. 3:16 Furthermore, he attributed to the Lord Himself the statement that He would dwell and walk and be a God to a people who were His. 2 Cor. 6:16.