Jesus said in John 14:26 (Amplified), "But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Stand-by), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My Name (in My place, to represent Me, and act on My behalf); He will teach you all things, and He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you."
This work and ministry is to represent and act on behalf of Jesus. The Holy Spirit's ministry is to represent Jesus in the office Jesus now holds. He is also to act on the behalf of Jesus as the Ever present One in our lives and born again spirits. The Holy Spirit is to carry on the "finished" work of the cross. He is to reveal the work of Jesus as Redeemer to every child of God. The Holy Spirit allows us to read the Father's Word as the Redeemed and not the lost.
John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received (all had a share and were all supplied with) one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, and even favor upon favor and gift (heaped) upon gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, grace (unearned, undeserved favor and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ."
All the things that Jesus is and brought are dispensed to us through the Holy Spirit. The grace Jesus brought is ours through the Spirit of Grace, Who is the Holy Spirit. The grace, truth, blessings, favor and gifts that are Jesus, are administrated to the Church through the Holy Spirit, Who is the Executor of the will.
It's only by knowing and hearing the Holy Spirit in our lives that we can truly come to understand and receive all that Jesus has done on our behalf. When we allow the Holy Spirit to be "real" in our lives, He will show us Jesus in all His Risen Splendor. Even this grace is dispensed by the Holy Spirit. The grace has been granted by the Father already, but without knowing the Holy Spirit, we cannot receive of it the way the Father intended.
Even though grace has come, only the Holy Spirit can reveal to us the full power of this grace. We must know grace in order to give grace. The Holy Spirit will be the One Who gives the grace to administer grace to others. We will continue trying to walk in Law and not grace when we don't know Him. Only the Holy Spirit can reveal grace to us in a way where we can walk above the guilt and condemnation from our past.
Many Christians don't read the Word from the position of the redeemed, but only from the position of the lost. We can read about grace, truth, gifts and favor for the believer, but then live and walk like these things aren't real. The Holy Spirit is to reveal truth to us and once we're born again, He is the most important thing in your life. Jesus said in John 14:26 (Amplified) that, "The Holy Spirit would be sent in His place to represent and act on Jesus' behalf." The only way to truly know Jesus, is by the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 1:3 (Amplified) speaks about Jesus, saying, "He is the sole expression of the glory of God (the Light-Being, the Out-raying or radiance of the divine); and He is the perfect imprint and very Image of (God's) nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His Mighty Word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt. He sat down at the right hand of Divine Majesty on High."
Jesus reveals God to the Church as Father and Love. Jesus is the Only way we can really know Father God. The Holy Spirit is the One Who reveals Jesus. Without the Holy Spirit, we don't know God as we should or as we are intended to know Him.
We begin to know God as not only God, but as Father when the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus in His total grace. The value of the Holy Spirit, in a Christian's life, is paramount to walking in His grace. He is the One Who strengthens our faith in the finished work of the cross. Many in today's Church have never allowed the Holy Spirit to reveal Jesus beyond the cross. They see and know Jesus proceeding the cross and they believe in His resurrection, but they haven't allowed the Holy Spirit to reveal that we were resurrected with Him. Romans 6:5 (Amplified) tells us, "For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be (one with Him in sharing) His resurrection (by a new life lived for God)."
This is the Holy Spirit as Teacher in the Church today. As we, through the Holy Spirit, begin seeing ourselves the way the Father sees us now through Jesus, it will set us free from the bondage of guilt and condemnation from the old, dead man who was crucified with Christ. Then, we will actually live the new life that we, through His grace, have already received.
These things belong to every born again believer. But, without the revealing of this truth, we fail to appropriate it in our lives. We still live as mere men like Paul discussed in 1Corinthians 3:1 (Amplified) which says, "However brethren, I could not talk to you as to spiritual (men), but as to non-spiritual (men of the flesh, in whom the carnal nature predominates) as to mere infants (in the new life) in Christ (unable to talk yet)."
Paul spoke about the mysteries of God in and through Jesus, in 1Corinthians 2:10 (Amplified) saying, "Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the Holy Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God (the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny)."
The only way to know and understand these things is by the Holy Spirit according to 1Corinthians 2:13-14 (Amplified) which says, "And we are setting these truths forth in Words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the (Holy) Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual truths with spiritual language (to those who possess the Holy Spirit)." Verse 14 says, "But the natural, no spiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God."
The Holy Spirit is everything Jesus said He would be in our lives. We're the ones who have limited Him in His ministry and His work. He is still revealing Jesus, even in His place with the Father. He is revealed as our High Priest, our unity with Him in God, and much more than we know yet.
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