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is (hath been) judged (12) I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them new: (13) Howoeit when hethe Spirit of truth is come, i he will guide you into all (the) truth: for he shall not speak of (from) him. self: but. whatsoever (what things soever) he shall hear, that (these) shall he speak, and he will show you (shall declare unto you the) things to ttilat are to) come. G4) He shall florify me, for he snail take of mine, and shall snow (declare) it unto you.
 Time.-Lale Tuesday night or very early "Wednesday morning, April 4th or 5th. A. D. 30. Place-Near the Kidron.
 Expositior-t When the Comforter is Come" 26-27. The Lord had told them again and again of the hate they were to endure from the world l (vs 1s.25); now He tells them of the mighty friends who was coming to guide and protect them and to testify 1 of Him. This 'Paraclete" would pro- ceed from the Father but Jesus would send Him. He is called the Spirit of 1 Truth because it is His work to re- 1 veal the truth and 1t is only through l His teaching that any one ever comes 1 10 know the truth. All truth is from l f1lHl, put iI IS HIS eSpeCldi WOlf to bear witness of Jesus who is the
 truth" (ch. A: 6). Because "thc spirit
 of truth should testify to them con- corning Jesus they in turn must tes tifv to others. They would be quail 1 fled for such testimony, lot only be- cause the Spirit testified to them but also because they had been with Jesus
 from the beginning" and were thus eve witnesses Of what He did and
 was, anG lad heard exactly what He said and what He claimed to be.
 H. The Work of the Paraclete, 7-15. Their sorrow over the departure oe Jesus was altogether needless. It was profitable fer them for Jesus to go. i for another Divine Friend was coming 1 to take lis place, a Friend who could 1 be much nearer and more constantly l near to them than Jesus could be
 during the days of His flesh. How
 clearly the personality of the Holy | Spirit comes out in all this. Can we
 conceive of Jesus saying that it was
 profitable for Him to go, if the One
 who was to come and take His place was ont a person but only an imper- sonal influence or power? The word 1 translated Comforter means tha- and Ear more 1t is the same work 1 that is translated advocate in 1 Jna ?: l. But advocate does not give 1 it's fall force. It means one called to
 stand beside another, as constant : helper counsellor, guide, friend. Jesus,
 up to this time, hSd been a friend constantly at hand, but He was going
 and another Divine Friend was com ing who would not only be with them, but dwell in them tch. 14: 1s, 17). A i Christian need never be lonely if he would only bear in mind that fact that in him dwells the best of all
 companions, the Pereclete, the Holy Spirit The Comforter has come. His
 first work is to show the world its | error about sin, to show that this
 ereat, decisive damAing sin is not to
 believe in the Son of God (cf. Ac 2:
 a6 27; jno. 3: IS. i9) and that they
 arc guilty of this sin. It is not our
 work to convince the world of sin. If
 we tried to do 1t, We should fail; but
 there is Cne WlO can do it if we look
 to him, tle Holy Spirit, but He does
 it through us. Jesus says, T will send
 Him nto you' (v. D. "adn when H
 is come (unto you), He will convict
 the world" As far as the Scriptures
 reveal, the Holy spirit has no channel
 through which He can get at the
 world except through those who are
 already saved. Are you an unob-
 strGcted channel3 How man. tliere is
 in our homes and our classes that the
 Holy Spirit is trying to get at and
 He is trying to get the use of our
 lips but we will not place them at His
 disposal Or, if we do place them at
 His disposal, our own lives are not surrendered fully tp Him and so He
 cannot work through us. He slows
 the world too it's error about right eousness. He shows to the world by
 the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, that JesIs is the righteaus One
 and the only righteousness possible
 10 Us in Him (cf. Phil. ?: g, R. N). There are two things that a man
 needs to see n order to be saved
 first, himself, that he is q sinner;
 second, Jesus, Ills righteousness. and the righteousness of God provided
 for Us in Eim. It is the work of the , Holy Spirit to show these two things to men. He also shows the world its error about judgment, i. e., that there is to be Q judgment for it, inasmuch as its prince is judged already (ths judgment of the Prince of this
 world' being q sure guarantee of the future judement of the world of which : he is 'prinHel. + there is anythine : above all others that the present age
 needs to be convinced of, it is 'judg- inert" Belief in judgment" ana sterT | punishment for sin, and especially fol the sin of unbelief in or rejection oi Jesus Christ has nearly died out ir