The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1961-03-11
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By Rev. George A. Harper,
Sill Avenue g.,
Greenwood, Miss.
THE PROMISE OF THE


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THE PROMISE OF THE
SPIRIT
Lesson Text - John 14-16
Print - John AL, 1927
MEMORY SELECTION -
If a 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.
John 1929. To love the
Lord implies that His love
has been shed abroad into
the heart by the Holy Spirit
in conversion. One of the best
evidences of conversion is
that of keeping Christ's
words. To keep means to
guard with a jealous care,
to believe, as well obey His
commandments. This will as
sure and secure the presence
both of the Father and the
Son of God. When Adam sin
ned he forfeited the presence
of the Lord, his holiness and
spiritual life, also, later his
physical life. Salvation is rep
resented as God having re-
turned to the soul through
Jesus Christ.
JESUS COMFORTS HIS
DISCIPLES: Jesus announces
that He can put an end of
worry. Never doubt for a
minute that Jesus knew what
it is to have a troubled
heart. Right while He spoke
He was thinking that none of
the twelve really understood
Him. Peter would deny Him
Judas had already betrayed
Him. All the rest would de
spair shortly. Now if any one
should be close to Him and
understand Him, these men
should. So we would do well
to listen to His cure for troub-
led hearts Believe in the Son
whom He hath sent and whom
you see and know The con-
fidence which grows out of
true belief will stabilize every
troubled heart.
j Z S u S P r o MIS- E S
ANOTHER COMFORTER /:
Jesus says if you love me
you'll do what ! tell you. In
fact this obedience to divine
commandment is the prior
condition for futher blessing.
Yet, better by far, is the
promise that Jesus Himself
will pray for us. There should
be profound comfort in this
realization when we think
what j eSuS accomplished
| n + ou G h pray er. This
{ m f o e I will abide
forever. For a brief season
the disciples had Jesus as
Comforter, or Counselor. Peo-
pie who are worldly or carnal
in their natural and general
disposition cannot receive the
Spirit. They are unable to
feel any need for the Spirit.
While a man is an unbelievor
he does not and cannot know
the Spirit Spiritual things
have no appeal for him and
do not make sense to him. But
coming to Jesus will open an
entire new world before such
man. The Spirit will then
be available to him. The man
will by virtue of Spirit guild
ance have new insights into
old problems.
JESUS WILL LIVE AL
THOUGH NOT IN THE
FLESH: In the first place
we have a reference to His
resurrection. He will die, yet
He will live. Let us be re-
minded that in John Ida we
are told, In him was life. ?
Jesus is the Origin and Giver
Of Life Because of that, life
can never really be taken
away from Him Secondly,
Jesus will live in each be-
lever. Paul put it this way
in Galatians 2:2O: mo long
er |, but Christ liveth in me. .
He that hath my command
ments and keepeth them
shall be loved of the Father.
Jesus continues to refer to
the sign of a disciples love
for Him. The sign which Je-
sus demands is obedience to
His commandments. The
reward for such obedience is
to be loved by the Father
and the Son. True and Tull
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