John 16, I hope this will be
a blessing and a comfort. I hope God will be glorified,
Christ will be glorified, the Holy Spirit glorified. Three persons of the Trinity,
three persons of the Godhead, all are equal. All are God, equally
God, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. But you know, the Holy Spirit
is a very mysterious person, isn't He? God is Spirit, God
the Father. I feel like I know Him. Christ said He came to make the
Father known. He spoke a great deal of the
Father. I feel like I talk to and I pray to the Father. I call Him Father. Christ, I
feel like I... Know Him, call on Him, pray to
Him. But the Holy Spirit, strange,
mysterious person, isn't it? Who can grasp who the Holy Spirit
is? But He's a person, isn't it?
He's a person like God the Father and like God the Son. Look at
verses 8 through 11. He says, when He has come, He
will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, of judgment.
Sin, because they believe not on me. Of righteousness, because
I go to my Father. You see me no more. Of judgment,
because the Prince of this world is judged. Verse 13. When He's
come, the Spirit of truth He has come. He will guide you
into all truth. He went on to say, He shall glorify
me. He'll receive of mine and show
it unto you, the things of Christ. Over in chapter 14, go back there.
Our Lord, now He's, the Holy Spirit is mysterious and yet
He says here in chapter 14, verse 17, look at it. The Spirit of
truth the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither
knoweth him, but you know him. It says to his disciples, you
know him, he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. That's what
he says, doesn't it? Paul wrote, if any man hath not
the Spirit of Christ, he's none of his. He doesn't belong to
God. Because God sends the Holy Spirit to every single one of
his elect. He's the one that gives new birth.
He's the one that, through the gospel, the word, gives life
to God's chosen one. Causes them to hear the gospel,
and there's a heart. The Holy Spirit does that. Everyone
is born of the Spirit. So, he says, you know him. He's mysterious. I hope we'll
be comforted. He's called the Spirit of Comfort,
the Comforter, and Truth, the Spirit of Truth. I hope we'll
be comforted tonight in believing that we do know Him. He's in
us, and He leads us, and He teaches us, and guides us into all truth. Okay? If any man hath not the
Spirit of Christ, he's none of you. He's called over and over
again the Spirit of Christ. Isn't it? The Spirit of God,
but more than any other way, He's called the Spirit of Christ. Christ said that Father will
send Him to you in His name, Christ's name. This is his work. But first of
all, let me say this. First of all, I must warn all
who hear. Nearly everyone in this room
has heard these things many times. Any time. But some who may be
listening over the internet, some who may listen later. I
must warn all who hear who might hear later, not to be deceived
by what modern religion says of the Holy Spirit. I don't want to say too much about
this, but I've got to say something. Much is written in Scriptures
all through the Old Testament throughout the prophets of false
prophets and false religion, right? I mean, a great deal is
written. Prophets are always warning God's
people. about idolatry and false prophet.
All through the apostles. The apostles were warning, weren't
they? Warning throughout the epistles.
Didn't they? Paul, one of the last things
he said to Ephesus was, grievous wolves are going to come in when
I leave. First John. John, it's a small
book isn't it? First John, five chapters. He
speaks of the love of God and love for one another, but he
also speaks of the Antichrist. He speaks, try the spirits, doesn't
he? He says there's a sin unto death.
That's a sin against the Holy Spirit. Our Lord spoke a great
deal about false prophecy. He warned Over and over again,
all the people, beware of scribes, Pharisees, he called them hypocrite. He said many false prophets have
gone out into the world, didn't he? Over and over again. So I must at least briefly say
something to expose this stuff that's going on. Denounce it.
All that's going on in the name of the Holy Spirit. It's another
spirit. It's demonic. It's satanic. And
I'll show you that. You know it's that. Go with me
to Mark chapter 5. Mark chapter 5 is the story of our Lord healing
a demoniac, a Gadarene demoniac. And this man sounds like people
today under the spell of and possession of the devil, but
they call it the Holy Spirit. Mark 5, our Lord came to the
Gadarenes in verse 3. Verse 2, He came out of the ship
and met him a man out of the tombs, a man with an unclean
spirit. He's dwelling among the tombs. You know, all of Roman
Catholicism is among the tombs, the dead, the dead saints. and
so on and so forth. It says that he was bound with
chains. That's all men, unless Christ
frees them. Well, when the Lord healed this
man and drove the Holy Spirit out of him, look down at verse
15. They came to Jesus. When they
saw this man that was possessed of the devil and had the legion,
he was sitting He was sitting down. He wasn't
jumping up and down, hollering and screaming and wallowing on
the ground. He did that before. When Christ removed that evil
spirit, he's sitting at the feet of Jesus Christ that says, I've got to believe that's in
His righteousness. And He's in His right mind. What's that? Paul said it's the
mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2. I was going
to show you another one. Mark 9. A man brought his son
and said, nobody can do anything with him. The devil throws him
into fire. Now all you hear today is, acquire
the fire, acquire the fire. And our Lord removed that evil
spirit from it. It's another spirit. It's anti-Christ. It's demonic. That goes under
the name of the Holy Spirit that causes people to speak in an
undiscernible gibberish. That's fake. It's phony. People
are making this up. It's not the Spirit of God at
all. That's not in the Scriptures. The word unknown is in italics. That means it wasn't in the Scriptures. That's another spirit's demonic
that causes people to jump up and down and shake uncontrollably
and fall into a trance. When the Spirit of God gets a
hold of us, He sobers us up, puts us in our right mind. To
be filled with the Spirit of Christ is to be filled with the
fullness of God. What's the fullness of God? In
Christ dwelleth all the fullness of God. In Him dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily. In Him dwelleth all the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge. In Him, to be filled with the
Spirit, to be filled with a knowledge of and a love for and faith in
Christ. To be anointed by the Spirit.
Anointing. Everybody talks about the anointing.
What does the name Christ mean? Anointing. The anointed one. When the Holy Spirit anoints
you, He's going to talk to you about, He's going to tell you
about, and fill you with, and pour out on you the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what the Holy Spirit does.
That's what it means to be filled and anointed with the Spirit.
Oh, my. 1 Corinthians 1. Very quickly. I have so many scriptures concerning
the Holy Spirit. And they're all related to Christ.
Every single one is related to Christ. If somebody's talking
about the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, and Christ is not
mentioned, that's not Him. Not Him. Over in Acts chapter
2, remember when the apostles were filled with the Spirit of
God and they spake with other tongues or languages? They weren't
speaking an undiscernable, an unknown, that is a language,
a spiritual language that nobody knows. Oh no. The people that
came there were from all over the world and they said, we hear
these men speaking our language. What were they speaking? The
gospel. And Peter got up on behalf of
all of them. Simon Peter got up under the
power of the Holy Spirit and he preached Christ and Him crucified. He preached a reigning, ruling,
crucified, buried, risen, reigning and ruling Christ who is to be
feared. And it struck fear in everybody
that heard it. Thousands. It pricked them in
their heart. The message was Christ crucified.
That's what the Holy Spirit did. And every single one of them
was filled with fear that they were in the hands of this Christ
whom they killed. And Peter said, repent. And they
did. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Confess Him. And they all did. And they were
filled with joy. Joy in what? Not what, who. And nobody there went home talking
about tongues. Nobody there went home talking
about signs. Everybody there went home talking
about Jesus Christ. All this Holy Spirit talk, anointing
and all this is phony if the gospel is not being prayed. Now that's a fact. And that needs
to be exposed for what it is. 1 Corinthians 1, oh my heaven. I want to read the whole chapter.
But look at verse 4, I thank God. Notice the name of Jesus
Christ read on this. I thank my God always on your
behalf for the grace of God given you by Jesus Christ. That in
everything you're enriched by Him. In all utterance. We speak in a language alright.
We speak a spiritual language alright. It's the language of
Scripture that the world doesn't speak. That religion doesn't
speak. Like in this chapter, He's of
God. Are you in Christ who's made unto us? What? Come on. That's a language that religion
does not speak. They don't know what you're talking
about. What does that mean, to be in Him? What does it mean
He's made wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption? What
does that mean? What does propitiation mean? That's another language. You're talking gibberish to them.
That's the heart and soul of the gospel, isn't it? Verse 6, the testimony of Christ
was confirmed to you. Verse 6, look at it. The gospel
of Christ was confirmed to you. That's the gift. You come behind
in no gift. You're waiting for the coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not the coming of the Holy Spirit.
He's already come. And He's in you, and with us,
and in us. What's He doing? Taking the things
of Christ and showing them. Look at verse 17. Paul said, I'm sent to preach
the gospel. The cross of Christ. Verse 18,
to preach you the cross is to them that perish foolishness.
Paul said, Woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. He said,
I'm determined not to know anything among you except Christ's name
crucified. Every time he got up, he didn't talk about the
Holy Spirit, he talked about the gospel of Christ. And all
who do preach Christ, Christ, Christ, the gospel of Christ,
the Holy Spirit is the one that's doing that. You see? He goes on to say in 1 Corinthians
1 verse 22, we preach Christ crucified to the Jews a stumbling
block, to the Greeks foolishness. But unto them which are called
Jews and Greek, Christ is a power of God and a wisdom of God. And
in verse 30 we quoted, verse 30, verse chapter 2, Now, 2 Corinthians
2, 1 Corinthians 2 talks about the Spirit, doesn't it? Look at it. Verse 10. 1 Corinthians
2, 10. God hath revealed the things
of God unto us by His Spirit. See that? It hadn't entered into
the heart of man, natural man, but He has revealed them unto
us by His Spirit. See that? The Spirit searches
all things. Yea, the deep things of God.
What things? What did Christ say? All things
of God are mine. He's going to take the things
of mine and show me. Are you with me? Do you know
all this? I mean, you have the Holy Spirit.
You have been anointed. He dwells with you and in you.
He's leading and guides you in all truth. What's truth? He's the Spirit of truth. Christ
said, I am the truth, didn't He? So, look at 1 Corinthians
2, verse 13. Which things we speak, the things
of God, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which
the Holy Ghost teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual
things. The natural man doesn't receive, if not the things of
the Spirit of God. They're foolish in some things. What did he just
say was foolishness? What did he just say was foolishness?
The gospel. Preaching the gospel. That's
what he just said in chapter 1. They can't be known or spiritually
discerned. But he that is spiritual, verse
15, judges or understands all things. But he's not judged.
He himself judges the discernment of no man. Who's known to the
mind of the Lord? The immanent instructor. Here it is. We have
the mind of Christ. Man, it should have put a smile
on somebody's face. There it is. That's what the
Holy Spirit does. That's His work. That's what
He said to do. Take the things of Christ. Bear
witness of Christ. Bear witness of our spirit that
we're sons of God. How's that? Through Jesus Christ. Listen to this. Go back to John
14. John 14. John 14. Listen to this, Paul said this
in Romans 15, Whatsoever things are written, and we just read
about the things of God, foolishness to the Jew, stumbling block to
the Jew, foolishness to the Greek, foolishness to the natural man.
He said, Paul said, Whatever things are written, whatsoever
things are written for our learning, that we through patience and
comfort, Christ, the Spirit is called the Comforter, right?
That we through comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Okay? Whatsoever things are written.
What's the Bible all about? What did Christ say? They are
they which testify of me. All things are written in the
prophets concerning Christ, right? That we through patience and
comfort of the scriptures might have hope. What's our hope? Jesus
Christ. He's our hope. He's our hope. My hope, and I believe yours
too, is built on nothing less than Jesus Christ's blood and
righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest
frame of feeling, but wholly lean on the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Is that your hope? Is he your
hope? You've got a good hope. And he's within the veil, John.
And you're seated with him. You know what that means, don't
you, people? Don't you? You know what that means? You
know how few people know what that means or even care? Me and you and I were talking
at the table this afternoon. Talking about 1 Corinthians 1.30
and righteousness. Do you know how few people know
what that means or even care or put any significance on or
importance on? The average person would say,
that doesn't matter. Wouldn't they? You ask them,
do you have a righteousness? You have to have a righteousness
to get to God. You can't establish your own. God demands righteousness,
and you don't have it. All yours are filthy rags. You
know what that means, John Davis, don't you? And that's what you
believe in your heart. Who did that? The Spirit of God. He's in you. He's in you. It didn't make you talk like
an idiot. It made you talk about Christ and His righteousness. That's what David said in Psalm
71, I'll make mention of thy righteousness and mine only.
Didn't he? He said it over and over and
over again. Oh, we're so blessed. You've received the anointing.
He's taken Christ, the gospel of Christ, and showed you. He's
called, look at John 14, the comforter. Verse 16, I'll pray
to the Father, He'll give you another comforter. Christ was
their comforter. What He's saying is that they
didn't need the Holy Spirit while He was with them. He and the
Spirit are one, and while He's there, He is their comforter. Right? He is guiding them in
all truth. He is the truth. But when he
leaves, he sends the Holy Spirit to be with him always. He's a
comforter. He's God's in all truth. He's
teaching him all things. In fact, he's going to bring
things. Christ says, you can't bear what I'm telling you right
now, but when he comes, he's going to bring back to your memory
everything I said. And they're all going, I remember
what he said. I remember what Christ said.
I remember what he did. I know what that's all about.
That's the Spirit of God. Bring it up to thanks of Christ.
He's called the Spirit of Truth. Verse 17 of chapter 14. The Spirit of Truth. Why's that? Because He speaks of Christ who's
the Truth. The Truth of the Gospel. Word
of Truth. The Gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Alright, now go back to chapter
16. Now look at this. We read it. Our Lord said, it's necessary
I go to send a comforter to you. Our Lord Jesus Christ is a man
right now. He's God. He's a man. That's comforting. He's the God-man. He's the only God we'll ever
see. He's the only God that we'll ever handle. We'll ever touch. We'll ever hear His actual voice.
But He and the Father and the Spirit are one. All the fullness of the Godhead
bodily is in Christ. Okay? Christ went back to the
right hand of the majesty on high after he finished his work
as a man, poured out his blood, shed his blood for the remission
of our sins. That's what put away the sins
of God's people. Nothing more, nothing less. The
blood of Jesus Christ. And the righteousness that he
established and performed, keeping the law, that's what made his
people righteous. That's it. Nothing else, nothing
more, nothing less. And he went back after finishing
his work and sat down at the right hand of the majesty on
high. That's where he sits right now, reigning and ruling with
his feet on the circle of the earth. Controlling, bringing his people
in and he sends the Holy Spirit. He sent the Holy Spirit. The
Holy Spirit is Spirit. He's omnipresent. The Spirit
is omnipresent. What does that mean? He's everywhere
at the same time. He's in every one of God's people.
When He says, Christ in you, that's the Spirit of Christ in
you. Okay? That's a new creature in
Christ that's in you. Now, the Holy Spirit is called
the Spirit of the Comforter. While our Lord was with His disciples,
Everything He said to them was comforting, wasn't it? Everything
He said to them was comforting. He kept comforting them by...
What was He comforting them with? Telling them who He was. I Am. He kept telling them. I Am. Well, show us the Father. I Am.
He kept telling them what He came to do, didn't He? He kept
telling them that for their comfort. He kept telling them that He
came for them. Didn't he? He told them future
things. He declared the end from the
beginning. He told them what was going to happen to him, what
was going to happen to them. He said, when it happens, you'll
know I said it. And he said, I'll go to prepare a place for
you, and if I do, I'm going to come again and receive you. And
he did. That was their comfort. And he
kept telling them over and over again, be of good cheer, peace. My peace I leave with you. My
peace I give unto you. In the world you have tribulation.
He told them you're going to have all kinds of fiery trials
and troubles and tribulations. Be of good cheer. What? What's
going to comfort us? He said, I have overcome the
world. I run this place. Anything that
happens to you, I did it. It is I, Christ said. There's comfort in it. Isn't
that comforting? That's comfort. He is our comfort. The Spirit of God keeps telling
us over and over again the same
things that Christ said to us. He keeps reminding us of who
Christ is, what He came to do, where He is now, and the promise
that He's coming back for you. That's comforting. In the midst
of a sinful, troubling world, our comfort in all of this is
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, He reigns and rules.
Jesus, He's the Savior. He came to save, and He did it.
He's the Christ. He's the Messiah. He's coming
back for His people. Take them into His kingdom. That's
comforting. It's called the Spirit of Truth.
Look at verse 8. Here's the truth in three verses. Here's the essence of who Christ
is, what He came to do, and the Gospel. When the Spirit comes,
He will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, and judgment. Now, like John 3.16, God doesn't love every single
person in the world, does He? No, God said He didn't. He named
several people He didn't love. But He loves the people out of
every kindred, nation, and tongue under Him. Out of a world full
of people. When the Spirit of God comes,
He will convince every single person that God has chosen, every
single person Christ died for that's in the world, Jew, Gentile,
every kindred nation and tongue under heaven, in the world, He'll
convince every single one of them of the same thing, three
things. Convict them, convince them,
reprove them. Number one, sin. Sin. You know, I'm quite sure that
religion, if they listen to us on the radio or whatever, listen
to you, talk to them, they believe we talk too much about sin. And I'm here to tell you, and
you know it so, they don't say anything about it. Do they? It's almost like, in fact, there
is no sin. God loves you exactly like you
are. Isn't that what they're saying? That's a lie. You've got to be
as holy as God for God to love you. You've got to understand
why we're yet sinners. God loved us in while we were
sinners. God considered all his people in Jesus Christ before
they were ever born. Christ was a lamb slain before
the foundation of the world. When God said they're holy and
righteous and justified in Christ, when he said that, it's done.
It's going to happen. He considered them in Christ
from the beginning. Sin. The first thing the Holy
Spirit does to every single child of God is convict them of sin. If any man say he hath no sin,
there's no light in him, no truth in him. The gospel hasn't heard
it. Sin is what we are. But our nature,
by our nature, it makes us do what we do. Sin in us makes us
commit sins. Both are evil. God will judge
men for what they are and what they do. Both. Can't separate
the two. What's God got to do? That's
my second point. I can stay right here. Number
one, he said sin because they what? Believe not on me. Now, there was a time when I
did not, you know, I believed in the historical person, Jesus
Christ. I believed in the facts of the
doctrine. I believed, you know, in my head,
I believed. I didn't believe on Christ. I didn't love Christ. I didn't
cast my soul on Him. I didn't repent and call on His
name. I didn't confess Christ. No,
no. I really didn't believe Christ. I didn't believe His words were
life or death. I didn't believe that I needed Him more than anything. I didn't believe that. I do now. Don't you? I do now. What happened? God
sent the Holy Spirit. Religion. Religion doesn't believe
on the Christ of Scripture. Do they? I don't know. That's the wrong one. It's another
Jesus. When He comes, the Spirit of God comes, He'll convince,
He'll reprove every child of God of sin because they believe
not on the Lord Jesus Christ. And when He does, they will. They will. They believe on Him. Verse 10. When He comes, He'll
convince, reprove, convict of righteousness. Righteousness. Because I go to my Father and
you see me no more. Listen to this Scripture. Listen
to this. You know Acts 17, 31. God has
appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness
by what? That man whom He hath ordained.
Jesus Christ. Everybody's got to be as good
as Jesus Christ. Christ said, I go to the Father.
I'm going back to God. Psalm 24, open the gates. Who can go into that? Clean hand,
pure heart. Who can? Who went? Who'd the
gates open up for, John? the King of Glory. Come on in. He's righteous. He's holy. And
God said, well done. Sit down at my right hand. I'm
well pleased for thy righteousness sake. Now why did He do all that? For the glory of God and for
us. He made a righteousness to cover
His people there. A robe of righteousness. The
king's daughter is all glorious within. She'll come to the king
in work of gold. Somebody wrought it. Somebody
worked it. Somebody made this garment. It's
without seam. It's without spot. It's without
blemish. Who made it? Jesus Christ did. And He robed
like the prodigal son, the first thing God does to a sinner that
He brings in repentance. He says, bring the best robe
and do what? Put it on him. Jeanette and I were reminded
of what the New King James Version says, which is a perversion.
Over in Revelation 19, it says that the church was granted that
she would be arrayed. That means somebody puts clothes
on you. Right? Arrayed. It was granted
unto her she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. For the fine linen is the righteousness
of saints." Not the righteousness of the saints, but the righteousness
of saints. This fine linen, this wedding
garment. Who made this? Where did we get
it? It's the righteousness of Christ.
The New King James Version says, the fine linen is the righteous
acts of the saints. They're wearing a garment they
made. Look what I've done, Lord, aren't
you pleased? You know what the Lord said to
that person? Bind him hand and foot and cast him out of here.
It takes away Christ's glory, His righteousness. They stripped
Him to clothe us. That ain't doctrinal error, it's
blasphemy, isn't it? You don't know the truth if you
don't know that. The Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit of God reveals
the wedding garment, the robe that we wear, the righteousness
that Christ made for us and covers us in. Adam and Eve both knew. They both knew as they sat there
trembling, trembling, thinking God's going to kill us both.
We're guilty, we've sinned against God. But God. But Christ. He was in the garden.
They heard the voice walking. And He came and He took a lamb
and slid its throat and slid it and took its skin off of it.
And Jesus Christ wrapped both those sinners in that. They had
nothing to do with that. They were arrayed. They were
covered. Love covereth. This ain't doctrine. This is
Christ. This is the truth. We don't worship doctrine. We
worship the Christ who was stripped from us and who covers us in his own precious blood. Judgment. And our Lord said,
no man comes unto the Father but by name. I go to the Father,
and there's one way you're going to get to the Father. Christ
said, one way. It doesn't matter who it is on
planet Earth. Jew, Gentile, Muslim, Hindu,
it doesn't matter. There's one way to get to God
the Father and for Him to be your Father. That's in Jesus
Christ. And then He says, He'll convince,
he'll approve, he'll convict of judgment. Look at it. Judgment,
verse 11, because the prince of this world is judged. You
remember back in chapter 12, he says, now is the judgment
of this world. Remember that? We looked the whole message at
that. Armageddon. He said, now shall the prince
of this world be cast out. What's that talking about? What
is he talking about? Judgment. The prince of this
world is judged. What is the judgment all about? God's going to judge all people
in two men. In Adam, all died, condemned,
cast out. In Christ, all made love. 2nd Adam from above. What was
the top lady's Christmas carol? Anyway, 2nd Adam from above. Brews the serpent's head. Is
that Hark the Herald Angels? Well, but Christ came to do battle
with the prince of this world. The first mention of the Holy
Spirit in the Gospel is when Christ was baptized. You see
that? The Holy Spirit descended on
him, act like a dove, and said, He's saying, This is He. God
from heaven said, This is He. That's the Holy Spirit from the
beginning. The next mention of the Holy Spirit is He led Christ
into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan. You see, He's the captain
of our salvation, Kelly Pender. He's our covenant head. He's
the second Adam. He's got to do battle with the
Satan. I can't do it. I'm unresponded. I'm in captivity
to Satan from birth. What's my hope? You see, the Holy Spirit takes
and shows you that Christ for you met your adversary head on. Did He win? Oh, yeah! On the cross, He cruised His
head. He took captivity. Me! Captain! A stronger than he. Prince of this world's cast out.
There's a judgment. There's a judgment for all human
beings. All human beings are going to
stand either judged in their own merits, in their own works,
or in Jesus Christ. Which do you want to be judged
on? And the prince of this world, the God of this world, he's making
everybody except God's people believe that if you turn over
a new leaf and you do this and you do that and you try your
best and you're sincere, it doesn't matter what you believe, you
go to God and he'll accept you. That's devilish. That's demon
doctrine. That's doctrine of devil. That's
what Satan wants you to believe. The Holy Spirit, as God, comes
with the truth. The truth of sin, righteousness,
and judgment. If you get to God, you'll be
by Christ. If your sins are gone, it's by
Christ. If you stand in the judgment,
uncondemned, no condemnation, it's in Christ. And if you've been delivered
from the God of this world, Christ did it. It's all Christ. It's all Him. Every single thing
the Spirit teaches and does is all about Jesus Christ. Okay,
stand with me.