Well, that passage of scripture
that he read to you is going to be the basis for my remarks
this evening, and I want to talk about the Spirit's work, that
is, the work of the Holy Spirit. But I'm going to begin in the
book of 1 John, chapter 5, and then we'll make our way back
to the Gospel of John in chapter 16. I want to speak to you on
the Spirit's work. That's a very broad subject,
and yet I was debating Friday during the day studying, trying
to prepare for today, and I just couldn't settle on any particular
message or couldn't settle on a passage of scripture. And then
yesterday morning, I got up early and I was impressed, I believe, by
the Spirit of God to deal with this subject of the work of the
Holy Spirit. But I'm going to begin here at
1 John chapter 5. Without any further introduction,
I want to get right into my message, and it's just three points. And
here they are, the person of the Holy Spirit, that's number
one. Number two, the very promise
of the Holy Spirit, and then the very power of the Holy Spirit. So the person, the promise, and
the power of the Holy Spirit. So I'll start off first of all
with the person of the Holy Spirit. He's the third person of the
Trinity. We aren't Trinitarians. We don't believe three gods,
but there are three persons in the Godhead. I'm not trying to
describe the Trinity. I'm not trying to go into any
kind of great explanation about the Trinity, that's an impossibility. When we consider the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit as Trinity, we're in very deep
waters, but really, When we look at the great doctrines of the
Word of God, we're always in deep water. We're dealing with
things that are way beyond our natural comprehension, and the
Lord has to show us these things in bits and pieces. That's the
way the Lord does. Like Isaiah says, here a little,
there a little. And that's the way we grow in
grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But look
this one verse. Here, 1 John 5, verse 7. For there are three that bear
record in heaven. Who are they? The Father, the
Word, and remember, that's one of John's favorite words to use
concerning our Savior because he said in John 1, in the beginning
was the Word, And the Word was God, and the Word was with God.
So he loves to set forth our Savior as being the Word. He's the full alphabet of God. He's God told out. He's the Word
of God. God has communicated himself
to us. God has made known himself to
us. There's no way that you can know
my thoughts and what I have on my mind right now except by the
vehicle of words. Words are vehicles of thought. Isn't that a pretty good definition
of a word? It's a vehicle of thought. Well,
God has made known his thought his thoughts, his will, and his
ways through the living word, that one who is called the incarnate
word, the Lord Jesus Christ. So there are three that bear
record in heaven, the Father, the Word, that's the Son of God,
the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. Now it says here there are three
that bear record. There are three who bear witness
of something. What is it that all three of
the persons of the Trinity bear record of? What is it that they
testify of? What is the testimony of God
the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit? What's in
the context here? Well, if you look at the first
six verses, here's the issue, the deity of our Lord Jesus.
Look at verse one. Whosoever believeth that Jesus
is the Christ, the Son, is born of God. And everyone that loveth
him that begat loveth him that is begotten of him. By this we
know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep
his commandments. For this is the love of God that
we keep his commandments and his commandments are not grievous.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world, and this
is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who
is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus
is the Son of God? This is the issue. These, all
three of the persons of the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit, or the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, they
all bear witness that Jesus of Nazareth That one who began his earthly
existence in the womb of Mary and born in Bethlehem's manger,
who lived a life of perfection, then died on the cross of Calvary,
and then was raised from the dead, he's the Son of God. And this is what all three persons
of the Trinity agree on. This is what they testify of. This is He, look at verse six,
this is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ. Not by water only, but by water
and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth
witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that
bear record, there are three that testify that Jesus of Nazareth
is the Son of God. You see, we know God the Father
is divine, we know His deity is God. But John reminds us that
the Word, the Word, the Lord Jesus, that One who is called
the Son of God, He is divine, He's deity. If He isn't deity,
if He isn't God, then all that He did upon the cross of Calvary
means nothing. You see, that which gives value
to everything that Jesus of Nazareth did and all that he said was
this, he's God incarnate. We must agree on this. You cannot
deny the deity of the Lord Jesus. You cannot deny that he is the
very son of God without denying the gospel. We have to agree with what the
Father and the Word and the Holy Spirit have witnessed together. They all tell the same story. That that one born in Bethlehem's
manger was, is, and always shall be God over all, blessed forever. I'm in agreement with them, aren't
you? I get no quarrel from me. I agree that's the way it is
because God the Father said, this is my beloved Son in whom
I'm well pleased. Hear ye Him. There's the witness
of the Father. And the Son of God said, I and
the Father are one. There's the witness of the Word.
And the Holy Spirit has witnessed on several occasions through
the inspired writers of the Word of God that Jesus of Nazareth
is God incarnate. They all bear witness of the
eternal sonship of Jesus Christ. Now you remember in the Old Testament,
in Deuteronomy chapter 19, in the mouth of two or three witnesses,
let every word be established. And God's gonna stay true to
his word. So there are three witnesses
that attest to the fact that Jesus of Nazareth, that one born
of a virgin, There are three that attest to the fact He is
God over all, blessed forever. The Father, and the Son, and
the Holy Spirit. Now the Holy Spirit is as much
God as God the Father. And the Holy Spirit is as much
God as God the Son. all three of them have different,
well, we'll call them offices, specific works that are attributed
to them, and yet all three of them are in agreement that in
one of the Trinity, in one person of the Trinity, the preeminence
will prevail. And that's the Lord Jesus Christ,
and he has all the preeminence of the Godhead. The Father and
the Spirit and the Son all agreed that the very fullness of all
that God is is to be had and viewed in the
Lord Jesus Christ. And it's the Spirit's work to
reveal the Son of God to us, to reveal the gospel of God's
grace to us. Nobody's going to believe the
gospel of redemption, the gospel of sins fully put away, the gospel
of God's election unto salvation, the gospel of that work of atonement
which our Lord Jesus accomplished, the work that the Spirit of God
must do in a sinner, in regeneration, in revelation. Nobody's going
to believe this message of good news without the work of the
Holy Spirit. He's the one who reveals the
gospel to us. I go back to John 16. So we're
talking about the third person of the Trinity here this evening. And this is the person of the
Holy Spirit. And I'm going, before I actually
get into talking about the Spirit of God, I wanna read you something,
what the Savior said about himself. Very powerful verse. Here in
John chapter 16, look at verse 28. Now he's talking, and Bill
noted this, he's talking to his disciples. Not all 12 of them,
Judas is gone. At this point, Judas has been,
he has been dismissed from the circle of the apostles. He has gone out to finish the
work of of betraying, of selling out the Lord for 30 pieces of
silver. But there are left with our Savior,
11 men who genuinely believe Him, who really love Him, who really
look to Him. Now they still have much, much
yet they need to learn. And he's going to continue teaching
them in the rest of this chapter. And then in chapter 17, they're
going to listen to him as he pours out his heart to the Father
in prayer. For John chapter 17 is the Lord's
Prayer. This is the Lord's Prayer in
chapter 17. But he makes, the Savior makes
this very powerful statement in verse 28 of chapter 16. He says, I came forth from the
Father. There's his pre-existence. There's
another evidence that he's God. You see, you began your existence
in your mother's womb when you were conceived. You began your
existence. Before that, you had no physical
existence, you had no real existence except in the purpose of God. In the purpose of God, He chose
you unto salvation long before He ever made this world. In fact,
in eternity past, that's how I refer to it, in eternity past,
He has always loved you, you have always been one of His children,
you have been one of His adopted sons and daughters, you have
been His own, and you've been redeemed by the blood of that
Lamb who would be would be crucified in time. But you didn't begin to exist
until you were made according to the power of God as a result
of the union of your mama and your daddy. But our savior, he
came forth. He came forth. He's always been. He's always God. He is the great
I am. There in the book of Exodus,
chapter three, when he spoke to Moses out of the bush that
burned, but it wasn't consumed, he said, I am that I am. I'm
the God who's everlasting. I'm the God of eternal existence. I'm the God who has no past and
no future. I'm always in the present. And
our Lord Jesus identified himself as the great I am. John chapter
eight is one of the passages where he told the Jews before
Abraham was, I am. There's his preexistence. I came
forth from the Father. Secondly, watch this. And I am
come into the world. There's his incarnation. He came
into this world. He came from the Father into
this world to do a work that was purposed for Him from all
eternity, that was to save His people from their sins. He didn't
come to set up an earthly kingdom. He came to save. He said, the
Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which is lost. This
is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners, Paul said, of whom
I'm chief. He came on a mission. I am come
into the world. I am come voluntarily. I am come
to fulfill my obligation that I put myself under in the covenant
of grace. I am come. I'm here. I'm here to do work. I'm here
to save a people. I'm here to satisfy my father's
law. I'm here to save. I'm here to
reconcile sinners, all of my people under God. I'm coming
to the world. Again, he continues, I leave
the world and I go to my father, but he didn't leave this world
till he finished the work that he came to do. His work was not
unfinished. He will say later on as he hung
upon the cross of Calvary, he will say, it is finished, the
work is done. Whatever he came to do, he finished
it. Well, what did he come to do?
Matthew 1, 21 says he came to save his people from their sins. Did he save his people from their
sins? Did he or did he make an attempt
to do it? Did he open the door so maybe
we would be saved? He said, it's finished. And having
finished the work, he left the world and he went to the father. And the father said, sit here
at my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
And there in heaven's everlasting glory, he sets upon his throne. One who is of our nature. Imagine this, a real man, a real
man seated upon the very throne of glory. But that man is more
than a man, he's the God-man. He's not part God and part man,
he's all God and he's all man. Bone of our bone, flesh of our
flesh. We have a friend, we have a savior,
we have an elder brother who is the Lord of glory and he's
seated upon his throne in heaven. He earned the right to be Lord
by virtue of the fact that he was obedient unto the death that
the Father appointed him to die. And God has exalted him and yonder
he sits upon his throne in heaven. I was reading this past week.
I was reading a few things about William Jay. I don't know that
you've ever heard of William Jay, but he was the son of the
very first Supreme Court Justice, Justice John Jay. John Jay was the first Chief
Justice of the United States Supreme Court. And his son, William,
his son, William, wrote these four things about the very throne
of Christ Jesus. And I jotted them down. I just
thought they were excellent. They blessed me. He said, number
one, he said, when the Son of God wrote his law on the tablets
of stone, he sat upon the throne of legislation. And his law, the law of God the
Son, Father, Son, and Spirit, of course, His law, his legislation
is summarized this way. Be ye perfect, for I am perfect. Be ye holy, for I am holy. Why did he give that law? To
shut our mouths and leave us guilty before God. He didn't
give it as a means of salvation and he didn't give it as a means
of sanctification. He gave the law of God to shut
our mouths and show us our guilt before the Lord. So when the
Son of God wrote his law, he sat upon the throne of legislation. Number two, William Jay said,
when the Son of God administers these laws, he sits upon the
throne of sovereign government. Why should we obey his law? Why does his law have any validity? Why does his law have any sticking
power? Because he's the lawgiver. He gave the law. He demands perfection. He demands holiness, he demands
righteousness, and will settle for nothing less. Exact obedience, that's what
God's law requires. That's his, the governor has
said, be holy. And you're gonna have to be,
you're gonna have to be holy yourself or find holiness in
a suitable substitute or you're gonna perish. That's the way
it is. Number three, he said, when the
Son of God judges his creatures by this law, he sets upon the
throne of judgment. You see, the final judgment is
according to righteousness. It won't matter in that day how
you stack up with somebody else. You may say, well, preacher,
I'm better than you are. I hope you are. But that's not saying much. Because
we're all just wiggling maggots. And one maggot doesn't have a
right to say, hey, I'm better than all the rest of you. We're
all fallen creatures. The final judgment is according
to righteousness, that the law of God demands. That's why Christ
told the Jews, don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There's one that accuses you,
even Moses, that is the law of Moses, in whom you trust. He said, for had you believed
Moses, you would have believed me, for he wrote of me. And then William J. says this,
fourthly, But when he receives his people, and when he receives our worship, and when he receives our works, and when he receives our petitions
and requests, he sets on the throne of grace. He is as a throne of grace to
us. Our Lord's gone back to heaven
where he sits upon his throne of grace for us. So our Lord
Jesus is the second person of the Trinity. And he is revealed to us by the
third person of the Trinity, God the Holy Spirit. It's God
the Holy Spirit who prepared his body for him. You remember
when our Savior entered into this world, it's related there
in Hebrews chapter 10. He says, a body thou hast prepared
for me. God the Father ordained the body,
the body of our Savior. In fact, that body that Adam
had, that was patterned after the body that God ordained for
Christ to have. And our Savior says, a body thou
hast prepared me. God ordained for him a body in
the council of grace, the council of peace, and the Holy Spirit
formed that body in the womb of Mary. He overshadowed Mary,
the Holy Spirit did. He's vitally involved in the
birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we know that in that little
infant abode the Father and the Spirit
as well as the Son. Because all of the Godhead is
manifested bodily in the Lord Jesus Christ. See, that's why,
that's why When Philip said in John chapter 14, he said to the
Savior, he said, show us the Father and He'll satisfy us. You say you're going to the Father?
And the Savior said, I'm going to the Father's house. It's what
He said, wasn't it? I'm going to the Father's house.
And Philip said, well, if you'd show us the Father, we'd feel
better about it. And our Lord said, Philip, Have
I been with you all this long? And you don't understand. In
seeing me, you see the Father. And in seeing him, they saw the
Holy Spirit. Though they're individuals, Father,
Son, and Spirit, yet all three make up the Godhead, the Godhead. The Spirit of God was involved
certainly in the covenant of grace before the world began.
The Father choosing a people unto salvation in Christ. The Son of God volunteering to
be the surety of, the savior of, the sin bearer of, the sacrifice
for all of those given to him in covenant love before the world
began by the Father. The Father choosing, the Son
agreeing to be the Savior, to be the Redeemer, to be that one
who would join His own deity with flesh forever, by the way. There's never been a divorce.
There's never been a separation of the Godhood of Jesus Christ
and His humanity. He's God and man forever and
ever. And he agreed to be the Savior
of his people. And the Spirit of God was involved
in that covenant of grace too. He agreed to reveal Christ Jesus
as the only Savior to the people that God gave Christ in covenant
mercy. He agreed to regenerate, to cause
them to be born again, to reveal the truth to them. This is the
person, the person of the Holy Spirit. But remember this, the
Spirit of God couldn't be given until Christ was glorified. Turn
back to John chapter seven. Look at John chapter seven. Verse 37. John chapter seven
and verse 37. In the last day, the last day
of the Feast of Tabernacles, that great day of the Feast,
the eighth day. Jesus stood and cried saying,
if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. And I say
to all of you, if anybody here, if anybody out there is thirsty,
thirsty for God, thirsty for God's salvation, Thirsty for
righteousness that God approves of? Thirsty for the forgiveness
of all of your sins? If anybody thirsts, come to Christ. Don't move a muscle, but come
to Christ. Come in your heart. That's where the work is done,
in the heart. One of the greatest transgressions. I suppose that's ever happened
as far as religion is concerned was when the altar call came
about of Mr. Finney back in the mid-1800s,
calling people to come to the front. And even till today, this
is quite popular throughout religion. Come to the front and believe
on Jesus. And people remember walking the
aisle. Let me tell you something. When
I was just a little boy, sitting right down here, not in this
church, but in Bassett, Virginia, our preacher preached a hell-fired
brimstone sermon. It scared me to death. And he
gave an altar call, and buddy, I was there. And I cried. Because I didn't want to go to
hell. Who does? Who wants to go to hell? Nobody
wants to go to hell. Especially after he painted it
with such weird pictures. It scared the hell out of people.
That's what it does. It scares you to death. So that
you'll make a decision. And buddy, I'll tell you, when
they started singing Just As I Am, here I come. And I didn't
have far to go. And he said, you want to go to
heaven? I said, yeah. You don't want
to go to hell, do you, Jimmy? I said, no, I don't want to go
to hell. All you got to do is believe on Jesus. I said, I believe
on Jesus. He said, now you need to be baptized.
After that, you join the church. and live a holy life, okay? I
said, okay. He said, you're saved now. We're
gonna give him the right hand of fellowship. I remember all
that. I walked down the short aisle, just like Joe don't have
far to come, I didn't have far to go. But I tell you, I still
remember that experience. That's my point. Even though
I know I found out later that was worthless. In fact, it was
less than worthless. It did me damage. You hear me? Salvation is not
walking an aisle. It's not raising your hand. Why
do preachers say bow your head and bow, every head bowed, every
eye closed. If you want to be saved, raise
your hand. It's the preacher who's looking. Why is that necessary? Do we think God can't see our
hearts? So you gotta raise your hand.
I'm telling you, come to Christ. Christ said, if you're thirsty,
come to me. Don't move a muscle, though,
lest you think that that has got something to do with your
relationship to God. It has nothing to do with it. It's a heart work performed by
the Holy Ghost. That's what it is. Now watch this, keep going. Christ
said, he that believeth on me as the scripture hath said, out
of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this he
spake of the Spirit. Now watch what he says. which they that believe on him
should receive in his fullness, for the Holy Ghost was not yet
given in his fullness, because Jesus was not yet glorified." In other words, the Holy Spirit
could not come. and would not come until our
Lord Jesus had laid down his life for the sheep, the good
shepherd doing that, and then take his life back again because
he did the work that God sent him to do. And then he would
go back to heaven, and then when Christ was glorified, then the
Spirit would be given. So look back at John 16, that
passage Bill read to us. Look back at John chapter 16. So there's the person of the
Holy Spirit. Secondly, the promise of the
Holy Spirit. Notice what Christ says in verse
seven. Nevertheless, I tell you the
truth, it is expedient, it is absolutely necessary for you
that I go away If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto
you. I've got to go away. He said,
I'm going to the Father, and the way to the Father was by
way of Calvary. And then having saved us by the
shedding of his blood, and having put away our sins and brought
in everlasting righteousness, He gave up the ghost. He justified
us. And then he was raised again
and he went back to glory. And then 50 days, 50 days after
the Passover lamb, Christ had died, 50 days later when the
disciples were gathered together, that's when the spirit of God
came in his fullness. Only after Christ had been glorified. Christ said this in chapter 14. You don't have to turn there.
Well, yeah, I do want you to turn there. Look at chapter 14.
Chapter 14, verse 16. He says, I will pray the Father,
and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with
you forever. Now, what's a comforter? One
who aids us, one who helps us. One who's with us. And Christ
said, I'm gonna give you another comforter. And the word another
means one just like me. One of the same kind, one of
the same nature. It's an interesting, if you wanna
do a little word study, get you a Strong's Concordance or Young's
or whatever kind of concordance that you prefer to use, look
up the words the word another. And you'll find that right here
in John chapter 14, when he says another, that means another of
the same kind. More like one in a series, a
continuation. See, the Spirit of God, though
he is the Spirit and he's not the Son, yet he's one of the
same kind. He's divine. But there's another
place where the word another is used. You remember in Galatians
chapter one, Paul says, I'm amazed that you folks are believing
another gospel. Remember that passage? Galatians
chapter one, verse four, I believe it is. That doesn't have the
same meaning. There, the meaning is, one of
a totally different kind. It's not the same gospel. See,
there's only one true gospel. It's the gospel of grace. It's
the gospel of sovereign love. It's the gospel of redemption
accomplished. That's different. But our Lord
says, I'm going to send you another comforter, another aid. You see, Christ aided us. He
came for us. He came to help the helpless.
We needed a Savior. We couldn't save ourselves. We
needed a Redeemer. We couldn't pay our ransom price.
We needed the Son of God, and He came to our aid. He came to
help the helpless. And He says, now, another comforter's
coming, one of the same nature as myself. He's gonna come right
alongside of you. And you can depend upon Him just
like you depend upon me. He's gonna speak comforting words
to you just like I've been speaking comforting words to you. This is the very promise of the
Savior concerning the Holy Spirit. And then quickly, let me get
to this last thing. Talk about the power of the Holy
Spirit. Look at verse eight of chapter
16 now. Having said, if I go not away,
the comforter will not come to you. In verse seven, but if I
depart, I'll send him unto you. He says in verse eight, and here's
the power of the spirit. And when he is come, he will
reprove over in the margin center column, my Bible says, or convince,
do your Bible say that? That's a good definition of reprove,
convince, or convict. He'll convince, convict, reprove
the world, the world of his people, the world that God loves, of
sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. Well, what does that
mean? Well, the Savior goes into detail,
verse 9, of sin, because they believe not on me. What does the Spirit of God convince
us of? What does he convict us of? People
a lot of times talk about Holy Spirit conviction. What does
he convict us of? Well, sin, because that's what
we're guilty of. We're all sinners. He convinces
us of sin, and here's the main thing about our sin, it results
in unbelief. God sent his son into the world,
we don't believe him. It is a fact that 2,000 years
ago, the son of God came down here clothed in human flesh.
He tabernacled among us. Do you believe him? Most of the
world don't. They have no real interest in
Him. They have no confidence in Him.
Their confidence is in themselves, and that's a confidence wrongly
placed. You can't help yourself. Only one can introduce you to
the Father. Only one can take you to the
Father. Only one can be a mediator between
you and the Father, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you believe Him? Do you rest
in Him? Oh, I pray that you do. The Spirit
of God convicts us of that. You need a Savior, and the only
Savior is Christ Jesus. Of sin, because they believe
not on me. Somebody told Mr. Spurgeon one
time, said, you know, he talked about us being sinners, He said,
I don't think I'm really that bad. Spurgeon said, you don't.
He said, no. He said, I've never got drunk.
He said, I don't ever recall taking the Lord's name in vain.
He said, I try to be good to my wife, good to my children,
try to be a good neighbor. I'm honest at work. I just don't
think I'm really too much of a sinner. And Mr. Spurgeon said, but there's
something that's missing in all of that. Fellow said, what's
that? He said, you don't believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Redeemer. Fellow said, well,
I'm religious, but I don't go overboard. The world thinks that those of
us who love and embrace and preach and believe Christ Jesus the
Lord, they think we've gone overboard. Bunch of fanatics up there at
13th Street Baptist Church. Somebody told Scott Richardson
one time, I think you've made a God out of Jesus Christ. Yeah,
but I didn't make him God. We honor Him. We honor Him. He's the Savior of sinners. And
He's the one we need. He convinces us of not believing
Him. Here's your problem. You don't
believe on the Son of God. And God's gonna damn you for
that. He sent his darling son into this world, and the world
turned thumbs down on him. What about you? World said, we have no interest
in him. What about you? The religious
world said, we're doing just fine without you. We're living
by the law of God. We don't need you. And they died
and perished in their sins because they were absolutely, absolutely,
totally in denial of the fact that they needed the Son of God. Of sin because they believed
not on me. Of righteousness because I go
to my Father and you see me no more. Tell you what, he established
righteousness. He made his people right with
God by his death. And of judgment, because the
prince of this world is judged, he judged all of our enemies. And then he says, I have many
other things to say to you, but he says this in verse 13. When
he, the spirit of truth, has come, he'll guide you into all
truth. All truth you need to know, he'll
guide you into it. Say, Jim, there's so much I don't
understand, so much I don't know. Spirit of God will teach you. He'll teach you all you need
to know. And when he teaches you, you will learn. You'll learn. He is the mighty
instructor. He teaches us who God is, what
we are, who Christ is. He's a mighty teacher. He's the spirit of truth. He'll
guide us, he'll direct us into all truth. And when he teaches
you a truth, you won't rebel against it either. Somebody asked me not too long
ago, you think a person has to believe in divine election in
order to be saved? How would you answer that? I
said, well, I'll tell you what Paul and Silas said, believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Salvation is not believing a
doctrine, it's believing somebody. I'll tell you this, when God has saved you and a
preacher of the gospel, somebody who knows the truth by the power
of the spirit, shows you something in the word of God, you will
bow to the truth then. It won't be any of this, well
I'm not gonna believe that. I never will embrace that. If
you want of the Lord you will, Because the Spirit of God is
going to teach you. And if you have an unteachable
spirit, that's a rebellious heart. And that's a heart that's void
of the presence of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God guides you
in all truth. And then he says he's not going
to speak for himself. I tell you, that really gets
this charismatic movement. These Pentecostals all talking
about Holy Ghost this and Holy Ghost fire and Holy Ghost power
and Holy Ghost this and that and something else. Where the
Holy Ghost is present, he doesn't speak of himself. There's this
agreement in the God hand. that the Father and the Spirit
direct the attention of those sinners that they have purposed
to save to the Son of God. And they find in Him Father,
Son, and Spirit, and full salvation in Him. And then he says in verse
14, here's what the Spirit of God will do. Christ said He'll
glorify me. How do you know if a man's ministry
is blessed of the Holy Spirit? Well, let's hear who he's glorifying. That's a fair question, isn't
it, Terry? Who's he glorifying? Who's being honored as he preaches? I'll tell you what, if he's God's
servant, preaching by the power of God's Spirit, Christ is gonna
be glorified. and the saints of God will say
amen, won't they? What will the saints of God say?
Amen. Reckon the saints of God could
say it just a little bit louder? Amen? Amen. All right, that's
good. Well, I hope that'll help you
a little bit. Let's sing 274, Jesus Never Fails.
Number 274.