Jesus said in John 14, “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you”.
Then later, Jesus said, “the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you”.
For many of us, believing that there is a God who loves and cares for us just seems right. It isn’t hard for us to believe. It’s as if we were created to believe in God. Many of us are also able to admit that we are sinful by nature, and that we were in need of salvation. Accordingly, many of us have even taken that step of faith by trusting Jesus Christ with our lives today, and our eternal future tomorrow. But if we’re honest – while we may feel that we know or at least have some understanding of God the Father and His Son Jesus our Savior – we would draw a blank if called on to explain Who the Holy Spirit is, why He came, what He does, and what we should do in response to Him.
Did you know that, among other things, the Holy Spirit came to teach us, to comfort us, to remind us, to speak to us, to fill us with God’s love, to sanctify us, to pray for us, to empower us, to give us righteousness, joy and peace? What do those things even mean? And why does He do them?
You ask GREAT questions! Let’s talk about all that. Join us for the next three weeks in October for Crossroads new series ‘Ghost’.
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