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Convicted by the Spirit

Posted by Becky Brown on June 05, 2022

In our last quarter of lessons, we spent LOTS of time with Jesus and His disciples during  the week of His crucifixion.  We started in the early part of the Passover week with the discourse on the Mount of Olives as recorded in Matthew 24.  Jesus shared with His men about the near future events of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the distant future events leading to His return.  With the testimony of Jesus, we were assured that no one knows the day or the hour of His return except The Father. 

We also spent time with Jesus and the Twelve in the Upper Room on the night of His betrayal and arrest after the Lord’s Supper.  These events are presented to us in the gospel of John chapters 13-17.  The lessons for this quarter continue that discussion in the Upper Room.  We see the deep concern Jesus has for His disciples as they are about to see him crucified the very next day.  He spends quality time assuring them that even though He is going away, He has absolutely NO plans to leave them alone.  He prepares to introduce them to the Third Person of the Trinity:  God the Holy Spirit. 

Jesus is God with us.  His name “Emmanuel” makes that very plain.  Some like to say that Jesus is God “with skin.”  Those same thinkers move that thought to a deeper level to say that The Holy Spirit is God “inside our skin.”  Jesus chose to limit Himself to a human body and live on this Earth.  God “became” us as He came to us.  He was fully God and fully man at the same time.  God sent Jesus.  Jesus sent the Holy Spirit.  As we are sent to serve, the Holy Spirit dwells IN us and goes WITH us to help us follow in the path that Jesus left for us…the path that God charted for us from before the beginning of time. Jesus was now no longer limited to a human body Himself.  Now, through God the Holy Spirit,  Jesus could live IN us and be WITH us and never leave us or forsake us. 

When we say that The Holy Spirit is the “third” person of the Trinity, we are not saying that He is of less importance than God the Son or God the Father.  This eternal relationship of the Trinity is not a “pecking” order.  God was revealed in the Old Testament as Creator and Sustainer and Covenant Maker.  Jesus was revealed in the Gospels as Savior.  The Holy Spirit is revealed on the day of Pentecost as He came and filled the worshippers in Acts 2. 

When we first see God in scripture, He is saying, “Let there be light!”  When we first see Jesus in scripture, there is a special starlight in the heavens to lead the wise men to the place of worship of this newborn king.  When we first see the Holy Spirit in scripture, there is a rushing, mighty wind and there are flames of firelight resting on receivers as they are filled with The Holy Spirit.  Every revelation of the Trinity brings God closer to us!  The Holy Spirit is God with us, God in us.  Wow.  That makes me want to shout and sing for joy.

I always try to say that we must remember that The Holy Spirit is not an “it.”  He is a person.  I like to say that He is the SPEAR that pierces us and reveals our sinfulness and helps lead us to the Father.  Jesus shed His blood to save us.  The Holy Spirit is here to help us shed our sin and draw us closer to The Father through a relationship to Jesus Christ. 

The Holy Spirit is our “called alongside” One. This name in Greek for Him is “para-klaytos.” Para means beside.  Klaytos means called. Jesus will not leave us without help.  God the Holy Spirit will convict us of sin. He will guide us into all truth.  He will bring glory to Jesus, Who brought glory to The Father.

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