It says, Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I depart, I will send Him to you. Now that verse is packed with doctrine. It supports the Filioque clause in the Nicene Creed we recited, and the Filioque clause is just talking about the Spirit proceeding from both the Father and the Son. There are enormous implications to that doctrine, which we won't get into, but if you're curious about it, you can read R.J. Rushdoony's book, Foundations of Social Order. It's just amazing how practical that doctrine is. Anyway, the verse also demonstrates the unity and the indivisibility of the Holy Trinity, and that there is no subordination of the persons in the Trinity, but they all have separate roles. It deals with the difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, even deals with the doctrine of the Lord's Table. And so like I say, it's packed with doctrine, but I'm just going to look at one little slice from this, and it's Christ's absence from them and His spiritual presence. What does it mean that Jesus leaves and the Spirit is coming? In what way did He go away? Well, He obviously didn't go away as to His deity. As to His deity, He was always present. He says, Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. And so He didn't go away as to His deity. Instead, He says He was going away as to His humanity. He's saying that His body would be absent from them. So as to his body, where is it located? It's located seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven. His body is not omnipresent or it would not be a body. And so that's a real strong testimony against the Roman Catholic view, and there are some Lutherans who have a similar view. It's different. It's not transubstantiation, but They believe that Christ's body is actually present here, and we are actually eating His body. Well, His body is not omnipresent. It says very clearly here that He was going away. Second, Jesus says, it is to your advantage that I go away. And so when we deny the physical presence in the sacrament, we speak of the spiritual presence of Christ in the sacrament. We're not talking about second best. Jesus says we are in a way better position now than the disciples were when he was bodily with them. It's to our advantage. And so the Reformed view of his spiritual presence and his human absence is advantageous. Third, Jesus says, if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you, but if I depart, I will send him to you. And so Christ's death, burial, and resurrection purchased everything that was needed to pour out his Holy Spirit into the church. The Holy Spirit is not just given to extraordinary men and women like happened in the Old Testament. Everyone has access to the Holy Spirit. All believers do. So these visible elements at the Lord's table are a reminder that we have everything that we need. Jesus has already paid everything that was needed for you to ask for the Holy Spirit to come into your life. And that means that this age is not just the age of the Messiah, it's the age of the Holy Spirit. And it's true, in the Old Testament, he was provisionally given to believers, but now he comes in his fullness. There's a huge difference. And in the Lord's Table, we claim the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Now, that's one of the reasons why I prayed at the beginning of this service, that the Holy Spirit would be poured out in his fullness in each one of your lives. And actually, it's something we should regularly pray for, daily pray for. And then finally, the Holy Spirit is being sent as our helper, and I love that name for the Holy Spirit. He is our helper. That's his name. It's not just a situation where we hope maybe once in a while he might help us. No, this is so much a part of the Spirit's heart to be a helper to us that he actually named himself that, praise God. And as we come to the Lord's table, let's not feel gypped or cheated or deprived in some way that we didn't get to see Jesus while He was physically here on earth. That verse says that we are in a much more advantageous position. His body and blood accomplished everything we need for the Spirit. And so when He says, this is my body, this is my blood, He's not referring to the omnipresence of his physical body, right? This was obviously a symbol of what his body and his blood achieved for us. And so he is saying that we are much more advantaged, that he is now physically absent, and that he is spiritually present with us. And we have all of the overflow that is needed in the Holy Spirit's gifts and resources and enablements. And so when you come to the table this morning, I would encourage you to, by faith, lay claim to the Spirit's abundance in your life. You can have it. So let's pray. Father, thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for your promise in Luke 11, 13, that in comparison to the generosity of parents with their children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? And we lay claim to that how much more this morning and ask that each one here would experience what it means to be full of the Holy Spirit. And with that fullness, to also be full of faith and full of power in the Spirit. We ask this in the strong name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen.