The Spirit of Truth

The Spirit of truth.

The Helper, the mentor, the promise and the guarantee of every thing Jesus, living in us….in our bodies.

Our bodies, His temple, His HOLY place. The same Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead doing that in us....quickening us. How amazing is that? It was His PROMISE. “I will send another Helper, the Spirit of truth, who will be with you and in you, who will take of mine and reveal it to you, who will lead you into me, the truth, the life, the way….and into the community that we, Father Son and Holy Spirit share. This is so spectacular that you will not even miss me when He comes. You will not be orphaned. It is better that he be here than me in person. In fact if I don’t go He won’t come. It is so for your best! He will guide you into all truth, He will take of what is mine and reveal it to and in you. This is going to be way cool.”

That was the promise Jesus made to the bedraggled, weary, forlorn, confused disciples the night he was betrayed. And that night He took care of everything. He was made to be sin for us. He purchased our Redemption with blood…and accomplished on our behalf every thing necessary for Life and Godliness. Brenan Manning call’s the cross His signature. Love beyond measure. He died and was buried and the earth groaned. Sadness and sorrow enveloped the land. Darkness crept in and Satan rejoiced thinking he had won the day.

…But there was a promise.

This is so cool. Jesus knew the Spirit of Truth. But bigger than that He believed… and died in Faith. “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone, but if it dies it will produce much fruit”. These were His own words. He believed that the Holy Ghost (the good ghost) would come and He chose to prove that what He had said was more than theory. This was the test, the proving ground. This was the day that all of the ancient’s had foretold, the culminating focal point in all of history. Jesus trusted His father and put to test the theory. He became the test pilot for all of mankind. Satan with held none of the vilest weapons in his arsenal. Mel Gibson’s The Passion depicted it well. But Jesus had a bigger promise, the person called Holy Ghost. In an amazing act of faith and love He offered up His body. The torn and broken body of Jesus was then removed from the cross and placed in a tomb.

But just as He had promised, the Holy Ghost ( the amazingly good ghost) appeared on the scene and went into that tomb and quickened Jesus body. WOW! And He arose from the dead conquering all of hell on our account.

It is said that he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. He believed the promise and took the promise to the ultimate test and became a living demonstration of the power of the Holy Ghost.

He appeared over a period of time to His disciples and then left them with this instruction “go and wait for the promise of the Father “which you have heard from me…you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now”

And then, our moment in history arrived. Just like He promised, He came. Who? The Holy Ghost (the good ghost), and with Him, everything Jesus.

It say’s in the story called the Acts of the early disciples that on the day of Pentecost, the disciples were all in one accord and in one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting and there appeared tongues of fire upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began speaking in different languages as the Spirit gave them utterance. How cool is that? It is very interesting that from that day onward the disciples did not speak of the good old days of when Jesus was here among us. They didn’t sit around and reminisce of better days. They looked at each other with disbelief, “He is here! He has come!” What Jesus had promised in their regard was fulfilled that eventful day and is fulfilled in us the moment we receive the promise of the Holy Spirit. He is the Spirit of truth, the Spirit who makes Jesus real in us and brings us into the fellowship and community of the trinity, the spirit who is at work in our lives as truth, the spirit who is daily in the process of transforming us into the image of Jesus,” until Christ be formed in us!”

Paul asked “ Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? You were bought at a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God’s. I don’t belong to me. I have been purchased. I am owned by Him. I am actually His new creation, a unique piece of work, His workmanship, crafted by and filled with Him. Again “do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? For the temple of God is Holy, which temple you are.” You want to know some thing. This is true beyond feeling. It is true regardless of how I feel or what I see in my life right now. It is true regardless of my circumstance. This is the truth made real by the indwelling presence of the Holy Ghost, (the good Ghost) He is the guarantee….the first fruit of our inheritance. He is in me and I am in Him. This is the promise fulfilled and it becomes more true every day. “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory just as by the Sprit of the Lord….therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day (transformed),”…for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are being transformed into the image of Christ! We are called to grow up into Him in all things. Jesus is our true potential. You and I have been chosen to Re-Present him in this world, the here and now and this is the work of the Helper, the promised Spirit of truth. Come Holy Spirit.

And What Does He Look Like?

Again go back to the promise. Every thing Jesus. LOVE!