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A COMFORTER PROMISED.
LESSON ", FOURTH QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, OCT. 25.

Text OF the Lesson, John xiv, l-S and 10
27-COmmit Verses. -3-+Golden Text,
John xiv, Io-Commentary by the Rev.
d. M. stearns.
Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly By
permission Of H. =. Hoffman. publisher. Phil
adelphia.l
L Let not your heart be troubled, ye
believe In God, believe also in Me"
The passover lamb mad been eaten, the
supper to commemorate. THE Lords
death till He come" had been instituted,
and very soon now He would go forth to
his agony in Gethsemane, but He thinks
not of Himself; He feels for these sheep
whom He Is so soon to leave, and He com.
forts them.
2. "In My Fathers house are many man.
sions; II it were not so | would have told
you. go to prepare place for you"
After the resurrection He said, my
Father and your Father Xxx, ~ Being
In Him, His Father is our Father and all
the glory given to Him, He shares with us
xvii, 22) What the mansions are we may
not know, but every believer may thank
fully say, there is one prepared for me.
B. "And If go and prepare a place for
you, will come again and receive you unto
Myself; that where ! am, there ye may be
Also"
IS. "If ye love Me deep Ny command
ments."
The questions of Thomas and Philip and
the Saviour's replies tC them are passed
over in the intervening verses, but / trust
the teachers will not pass them over
Every word of Christ has breadth and
length and depth and height that eternity
alone can unfold. Observe particularly
the great promises of verses 49, IA and the
key words, ain My name" "That the
Father may be glorfed.' The verse we
are now upon will be more fully before us
In verse 81, but notice XIV, 10, "If ye keep
my commandments ye shall abide in my
love; and John v, 3, This is the love OF
God, that we keep His commandments"
Then John Iii, %, opens to us the mean
ing, This Is His commandment, that we
should believe on the name of His Son
Jesus Christ, and love one another as He
gave us commandment"
49, "And | will pray the Father, and He
shall give you another comforter, that He
may abide with you forever"
The Spirit Is not Christ, but a different
personality, even another comforter who
would he to them all that Jesus was, and
VINO would never leave them.
H. "The Spirit of Truth; whom the
world cannot receive, because it seeth Him
not, neither knoweth Him; but ye know
Him, for He dwelleth with you and shall
be In you.n
Because He is u Spirit of Truth we can
not know Him unless we are truthful.
l8 Il will not leave you comfortless
will come to you"
49, "Yet s'littie while, and the world
seeth Me no more; but SO see Me; because
live ye shall live also"
Observe His other references to this
Little while that He was to be with
them in chapters vii, 81, xii, 80; xiii, 33, and
then see His reference to another Little
while" in xvi, 1910 That the present age,
during which He is personally absent, as
to His visible presence is but Little
while" See Heb X, 81, the revised reading
of which is, "Yet very little while, He
that shall came will come and will not
tarry." He is alive forevermore (Rev. i,
18), and being reconciled by His death,
much more shall we be saved by His life
(Rom. v, 10y. But we long for the time
when we shall be with Him and like Him
Il John iii, Phil iii, 20, 21).
90. "At that day ye shall know that am
81. "He that hath My commandments
and keepeth Them he it is that loveth Me,
and he that oveth Me shall be loved of My
Father, and will love him and will mani
fest Myself to him"
This includes verse Is and indicates how
we may know that we love Him. If we
love to do His will and take delight in His
commandments; If they are more to us
than gold or silver, or than even our daily
food Ops. cXiX, ~; job xiii, 12), then we
may know, indeed that we love Him and
may expect special manifestations of the
Fathers love.
"a Judas saith unto Him, not Iscariot,
Lord, how Is it that Thou will manifest
Thyself unto us and not unto the worldP"
This was Judas the brother of James,
the son of Alphaeus, who also wrote the
Eplstle of Jude duke vi, l6; Jude d.
20. Jesus answered and said unto him,
If man love Me he will keep My words;
and My Father will love him, and we will
come unto him and make our abode with
him"
Here He again enforces the test of our
10 20 to Him, as our love to His word How
can one be said to love another even in this
world If they love not to hear from each
other when absentP
"a. "He that loveth Me not keepeth not
is not Mine, but the Fathers Which sent
Me-"
%. "These things have | spoken unto
you being yet present with you"
The r. Y. says; while yet abiding with
your Soon He would be absent from them,
and they would no longer talk with Him
face to face, How little they knew or APP
preciated the privilege they were now en-,
1oying and so soon to lose.
%. "But the Comforter, which Is the
Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in
My Name, He shah teach you all things"
Here Is some light upon the meaning of
the words "ln My Name" The Holy Spirit
was to be another Comforter VERSE l6),
taking the place of Jesus as guide, in
struotor, helper, friend, full of power, wis
dom, might, and all because He came "In
jesus Name" We can be said to pray in
jesus Name Oversees 10, l4), and 20. forth
in His Name (Math. xix, 29) only when
filled with the Spirit, our aims are His
and we are wholly one with Him. Then
we can count upon the Spirit TO teach us
all things that we need to know as we
revereutly study His word
"And bring all things to your remem.
brance, whatsoever have said unto you"
AS it dawned upon them that He was to
leave them, or as ii became a fact that He
had actually gone away how they would
wish TO remember His words, and what
comfort they would then find in this prom
ise of a remembranCer. II we first lay up
the word of God in our hearts, we may
then rely upon the Spirit to bring it to
mind as we need it either for ourselves or
for others.
81 peace leave with you, My peace
give unto you; not rs the world giyeth give
! unto you"
Every true believer in Christ has peace
with God, for Christ Himself is our peace,
and our standing IN Him is Interchangeable.
See Rom v, /; Eph. ii, "A; Heb. xiii, s. But
there is the peace of God which will be
ours or not just "a we stay our minds on
Him mud rnst NIL our care on Him or