“If you love me, you will keep my
commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate,
to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he
abides with you, and he will be in you.”
“I will not leave you orphaned; I am
coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will
see me; because I live, and you will live. On that day you will know that I am
in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who
have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me
will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will reveal
yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “Those who love me
will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and
make our home with them. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and
the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the Father who sent me.”
“I have said these things to you while
I am still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have
said to you.”
Before He went back to heaven, Jesus
promised to send a constant companion to His disciples. He told them He would
not leave them alone but would send the Holy Spirit to be in them. That promise
is still true for believers in Jesus today. Jesus told us that the triune God
make His “home” in us.
The Lord is
our close and faithful companion throughout our entire life.
The
Christian’s heart is the Holy Spirit’s home.
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