Now What? The Promise

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Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”
John 14:1-4
New International Version (NIV)

“If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him,
for he lives with you and will be in you.
I will not leave you as orphans;
I will come to you.
John 14:15-18
[NIV]

All this I have spoken while still with you.
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father
will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.
I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
John 14:25-28
[NIV]

Holy Spirit
power, and wisdom, and truth

Holy Spirit
power, and wisdom, and truth
Advocate

Paraklētos:
counselor, intercessor, advocate, helper, one who encourages and comforts, one who speaks in defense of.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2
[NIV]

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness,….”
Genesis 1:26a
[NIV]

“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—
he will testify about me.
And you also must testify,
for you have been with me from the beginning.
John 15:26-27
[NIV]

…, but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless
I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
John 16:5-15
[NIV]

When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:
about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father,
where you can see me no longer; and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
John 16:5-15
[NIV]

“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he
will make known to you.”
[NIV]
John 16:5-15

Holy Spirit Brings Revelation
revealing the true meaning of what Jesus did and who He was



the trinity
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit