Jesus said in John 16:12-13 (Amplified), "I have still many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now. But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth Giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the truth (the whole, full truth) For He will not speak His Own message (on His Own authority) but He will tell whatever He hears (from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him), and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future)."
For many readers, the four gospels are the words of Jesus and the other books in the New Testament are the words of Peter, Paul, James, John and other followers. The truth is that all the Words we read are the Words of the Father. It was the Father Who spoke through Jesus, according to John 12:49 (Amplified) which says, "This is because I have never spoken on My Own authority or of My Own accord or as self-appointed, But the Father Who sent Me has Himself given Me orders (concerning) what to say and what to tell."
2Corinthians 12:1-4 (Amplified) says, "True there is nothing to be gained by it, but (as I am obliged) to boast, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord, I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago-whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows, was caught up to the third heaven." Verses 3-4 go on, "And I know that this man-whether in the body or away from the body I do not know, God knows. Was caught up into paradise, and he heard utterances beyond the power of man to put into words, which man is not permitted to utter."
Jesus told His disciples that, "He still had many things to tell them, but that they couldn't understand them yet," above. He said that the Holy Spirit would reveal these things to them. Jesus never spoke the words about the new creation and neither did the Holy Spirit, but the Father. When Paul was taken into the third heaven before the Father, the Father Himself revealed the new birth to him. The Teacher of the Church, the Holy Spirit speaks to us from the Father.
The words we read from the time of Jesus' death, is the revelation the Father gives through the Holy Spirit. Although, it is the Holy Spirit revealing these things to us, it is the Father Who is speaking through Him like He did through Jesus. Jesus said in John 14:25-26 (Amplified) that, "I have told you these things while I am still with you, 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."
The Father, Who was living in the flesh and blood body of Jesus, was the One speaking and doing the works and the Word. Now, the Father is living in us, by the same Spirit of God , and is continuing the Words that Jesus couldn't tell the disciples. Without the same Spirit of God (the Holy Spirit) living in them, they couldn't understand the new covenant.
When Paul was taken up into the third heaven (Paradise), the Father spoke to him the mystery of the new birth and the new creation. It's the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (God in Spirit Form) living in and speaking through Paul that reveals the things Jesus' disciples couldn't yet understand, to us. The Father speaks and is completing the Message Christ came to deliver, by the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus told His disciples that He was going away, but He wouldn't leave them (or us) as orphans and that He would come again in John 14:28 (Amplified). Jesus did exactly that on the Day of Pentecost and will return soon. The Father was in Jesus returned to His followers in the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit, Who is God.
Galatians 1:11-12,16 (Amplified) says, "For I want you to know brethren, that the gospel which was proclaimed and made known by me is not a man's gospel (a human invention, according to or patterned after any human standard) For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but (it came to me) through a (direct) revelation (given by) Jesus Christ (the Messiah)." Verse 16 says, "To reveal (unveil, disclose) His Son within Me so that I might proclaim Him among the Gentiles (the non Jewish world) as the glad tidings (Gospel) immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood (did not consult or counsel with any frail human being or communicate with anyone)."
We see in the above scriptures, the things that Jesus couldn't and wouldn't declare before His death. The Father would only speak through Him on the "flesh" side of the cross. And, now we see and hear the Father speak to us about the other side of the cross. That other side is the one the Spirit of God within us can reveal. These are the finished Words of Jesus that He couldn't speak before.
Before the Holy Spirit, man could never understand the "mystery" of the new birth and how the God Head would actually indwell within the spirit of man. We still stumble with and stagger with the blessed mystery of the Holy Spirit's living in us. We continue trying to deal with the righteousness or right standing in our carnal thinking instead of the revelation of the Father speaking in and through us. Jesus said, "The Words that I am speaking are not My Own, but the Father in Me, He speaks the Words."
It's difficult for us to understand this truth too, that the Father speaks to us. We seem to lack the revelation that it's the Father in us and that it's His Words we speak. So, we can see why even Jesus couldn't teach His followers beyond the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. When God spoke to Paul about the new covenant, Paul singularly held that revelation. The Holy Spirit was "poured out" from heaven on Pentecost, but Paul still lacked the revelation about the Gentiles being in covenant with the Jew.
Satan kept the Church at odds with itself concerning revelation. As long as man tries understanding without the Holy Spirit, we will always be at odds with one another. Only the Holy Spirit can continue in the Words Jesus began teaching. The Holy Spirit, or God in the Spirit or Jesus, indwelt by God the Father in the Spirit, has come to reveal what Jesus couldn't teach during His earthly ministry. Jesus said in John 16:12 that the Holy Spirit hadn't been given yet and the Plan of God couldn't be revealed to satan.
1Corinthians 2:7-8 (Amplified) tells us, "But rather what we are setting forth is a wisdom of God once hidden (from the human understanding) and now revealed to us by God (that wisdom) which God devised and decreed before the ages for our glorification (to lift us into the glory of His presence) None of the rulers of this age or world perceived and recognized and understood this, for if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory."
We can now understand why Jesus couldn't explain or reveal to His Own disciples, the plan of the new covenant. He could only say what the Father told Him to say and do what the Father told Him to do. Now, by the Holy Spirit, this mystery has been unfolded and revealed to all those who will listen to the Teacher of the Church. The Father is still speaking to us like He spoke through Jesus, if we will only begin to listen to His Spirit in our new born again spirit.
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