Times Of Swaziland: HOLY SPIRIT WORKING ON EARTH IN SPECIAL WAY

HOLY SPIRIT WORKING ON EARTH IN SPECIAL WAY
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Editor on 06/11/2024 06:40:00


Sir,
The dispensation in which we are now living is the dispensation of the Holy
Spirit. The Holy Spirit is now working on earth in a special way. On the
Passover night, just hours before His crucifixion, Christ promised His disciples
that the Holy Spirit would come. “I will ask the father and He will give you
another helper, that he may be with you forever: the spirit of truth whom the
world cannot receive ...for he abides with you, and will be in you,” John
14:16-17. What an amazing passage!
Promised
Jesus promised to ask the Father for the Holy Spirit on our behalf. John 14
tells that He said He will send another helper. He did not say the Holy Spirit
would merely be with us, as Jesus was with the disciples. Now the Spirit is to
be in us. The Holy Spirit is someone like Jesus and He is with us forever. While
Jesus serves as the second Adam, representing humanity in heaven, the Holy
Spirit serves on earth as God with us. Jesus didn’t just say the Holy Spirit
would merely be with us, as He was with the disciples but the Spirit is to be in
us.
Powerful
Jesus intends our reception of the Spirit to be so powerful, so concrete, so
life transforming, that it is like going from having life with you to having
life in you. The reception of the Holy Spirit changes us forever. Time and again
on that Passover night, Jesus brought up the subject of the Spirit. He told His
disciples that the Spirit would teach them all things and bring to their memory
what He taught them (John 14:26). He said that the Spirit would bear witness of
Him, and thus they would themselves bear witness (John 15:26-27). He assured
them that the Spirit of Truth would guide them into all truth and that the
divine helper would disclose to them what was to come (John 16:13). He told them
that His leaving was to their advantage because it meant that the Spirit could
come (John 16:7).
In fact, looking to the day of the comforter’s arrival, the day of Pentecost,
Jesus tenderly said to them, I will not leave you as orphans, ‘I will come to
you....In that day, you shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in
you’ (John 14:18, 20). Jesus expected to be closer to His disciples after His
departure than He was while He was physically present with them. Dear reader,
without a doubt, our greatest need is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit into our
hearts.
Bopoto Gwinyai