Sunday, June 12, 2016

Our Advocate, the Spirit of Truth


Our Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom I call the "Divine Whisper," dwells within us to show us all truth and to direct us through it. We just have to have spiritual ears to hear His still small voice and be obedient to it.



June's Message, Day 13:

And 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. John 14:16-17 NIV

And:

“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. John 15:26 NIV

And:

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. John 16:13 NIV



God is truth and His Word is truth. God reveals His truth to us both through His written Word and as Himself through the Holy Spirit, our Advocate, the Spirit of Truth. All believers have access to the Holy Spirit for He resides within you, forever. As Jesus said, the Holy Spirit reveals to us the truth of God and guides us in and through it, notably by pointing to the finished work of Christ on the Cross. Our Trinity God is three-in-one as a unity, one essence but as three unique persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Each display uniqueness in what they do. One God in three persons, if you will. That is why we see the Holy Spirit testifying and pointing to Christ, our Savior, the God-Man, and Christ always points and directs us to the Father, who sends us the Holy Spirit. They are all one God, but interact and work uniquely as three persons of their one essence of being. God is obviously complex and beyond human comprehension, and that is precisely why the Holy Spirit dwells within us to help make sense of it all, so we know Him and His truth all the better.

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