John 15:26 (Amplified) says, "But when the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Stand-by) comes, Whom I will send to you from the Father, The Spirit of Truth Who comes (proceeds) from the Father, He (Himself) will testify of Me."
The Holy Spirit will Ally Himself with those who will allow Him into their lives. He is the One Who is continuing the work of Jesus and the Father here on earth. We often think that Jesus completed His work on earth and is exclusively working in His heavenly ministry now. Nothing can be further from the truth, though. Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit are all One in One, so the work Jesus was doing on earth has never diminished.
While Jesus was on earth, He could only be in one place at a time, but now He is Omnipresent through the Holy Spirit. We are a new creations, born of God and are His children, through the Holy Spirit. Now, through the Name of Jesus, Who is our Mediator between God and man, we have unlimited, infinite access to the Throne of Grace at any and all times.
Many people speak at length about Job's sufferings and use that as an excuse for tribulating and blaming God for all their hard times. Job said something in Job 9:32-35 (Amplified) that applies to us in these last days. Thus, he said, "For (God) is not a (mere) Man as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in court. There is no Umpire (Mediator) between us and God who might lay his hand upon us both, (would that we were) That He might take His rod away from (threatening) me. (Then) would I speak and not fear Him, but I am not so in myself (to take me afraid, were only a fair trial given me)."
As New Testament children, we have an Umpire and Mediator in the Man Jesus Christ. 1Timothy 2:5 (Amplified) tells us, "For there (is only) One God and (Only) One Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus." We have the Umpire Job was lacking and we have no need to fear our Heavenly Father or hold back from speaking to Him on our behalf.
Jesus said in John 16:26-27 (Amplified), "At that time you will ask (pray) in My Name; and I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf (for it will be unnecessary) For the Father Himself (tenderly) loves you because you have loved Me and have believed that I came out from the Father."
Too many times, we view ourselves as being no different than the Old Testament people. We struggle trying to find ways to get God's attention and hear us, then we feel like Job and repeat his words that, "The Umpire is not a mere man as I man, that I should petition Him." Job never had an umpire or mediator on his side, but we do in Jesus. Job was just a "mere man," like he said, but we are no longer "mere men," but new creatures in Christ because of Jesus.
We need not rely on the sacrifices of bulls and goats like Job offered to appease God. We have a sacrifice Who is already acceptable and pleasing to God...Jesus. We don't need someone or something to forge a path into God's presence for us, because the Father Himself provided everything that would ever be needed to come before Him.
The Holy Spirit will reveal all of these truths to us if we will only let Him. We continue trying to become what Jesus has already made us. We keep trying to become righteous when the Lord says we've "been made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus," in 2Corinthians 5:17-21 (Amplified). We continue trying to "make our case" and "state our case" before God. We need to understand that Jesus has already made our case for us. He has received and paid our penalty. God has already found us "not guilty" because of our Umpire, Jesus.
We read God's Word as those who are trying to be redeemed instead of those who are already redeemed when Psalm 107:2 (Amplified) says, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary." We are the "Redeemed" already. We're not waiting to be redeemed. The only part of our redemption that is yet to be fulfilled is receiving our "new body."
Job was afraid to speak to God on his own behalf. We, on the other hand, have no need to be afraid of God at all. 1John 4:18 (Amplified) says, "There is no fear in love (dread does not exist), but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors, and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and (so) he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love (is not yet grown into love's complete perfection)."
This tells us that we have been like Job who was afraid to face God, because we have failed to understand and allow God's love to be fully implemented in our lives. We previously read John 16:26-27 (Amplified) that, "At that time (the time that Jesus was to be received in the heavens for us) you will ask (pray) in My Name, and I Am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf (because it will be unnecessary), For the Father Himself (tenderly) loves you because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from the Father."
The love John spoke about here is a love that "expels fear" and is the full understanding of God Himself Who tenderly loves you. We needn't fear rejection or punishment and we don't need an umpire because it's all been done for us in Jesus, through the Holy Spirit of the Father Himself.
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