Let's open to John chapter 14. If we can remember, we're still in the upper room with Jesus and His disciples. We're in Jerusalem on the last week of Jesus' life. This is Thursday night, and Jesus is about to die on Friday. And it's been revealed, Jesus has told him a few different times that, I'm leaving. I'm leaving you. So, Jesus is having a conversation with his disciples for chapters 13 through 17 in John. We need to remember, I talked about it last week a little bit, we need to remember the attitude of the disciples. The attitude of the disciples on this night. So chapter 13, verse 37, Peter says to him, Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you. So Jesus says, I'm leaving. You can't follow me. And Peter says to him, I want to follow you. I'll lay down my life for you. So we can see clearly that the attitude of the disciples on this night is that they love Jesus, right? They love Jesus. They truly love Jesus. They seek Him in everything. They seek Him for comfort. They look to Him for guidance. They look to Him for protection and wisdom. They love Him. They love Jesus. But we see again and again that they don't trust Him. We see that in John 14, that they don't trust Him. They're prideful. They're selfish. They only think of themselves. Look at v. 8 in chapter 14. Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it's enough for us. They doubt. They doubt Jesus as the Son of God. They don't trust Him, which is unfortunate. Because Jesus, He's been trying to get them to trust Him. Because He needs them to trust Him. Not only love Him, He needs them to trust Him. He's told them countless times, I'm leaving you. And they just aren't listening to His words of comfort. They aren't listening to His words of care and wisdom. Jesus has been trying to point them in chapter 14. He's been trying to point them to beyond the resurrection. Beyond the trials of this life. So look at verse 2 in chapter 14. Jesus says, "...in My Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go prepare a place for you?" that Jesus is going to his Father's house. He's going to heaven. That's where Jesus is leaving. That's where he's going to. His Father's house. And he's trying to show the disciples, look, there's something better. Take comfort in this. Take comfort in heaven because I'm preparing a place for you. There's a place for you. I'm not leaving you. I'm coming back for you. We have, I have a tendency to be kind of harsh with the disciples, kind of hard on the disciples because of their doubt. But I understand why they're upset, right? We understand why they're upset. They trusted Jesus for three years to provide for them, and now he's just, it seems like he's just leaving them. It's getting ripped out of their hands. But Jesus is hard on them though. Jesus is also hard on them. He asked Philip in verse 9, Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, show us the Father? So he's hard on them. He's disappointed in them. How can you even say, show us the Father? It's on them now. It's on the disciples now to trust in Jesus. They need to trust that he is from God, that he is God, because Jesus is handing them off to the Father. We know this, right? That Jesus is giving them to the Father, and they need to trust the Father the way that they trust Him. They need to take comfort in the Father. They need to seek the Father for wisdom. And He's been trying to point them to that. Those of us who are Christians understand the comfort of Heaven, right? Why Jesus is trying to use the Father's house and use Heaven to comfort them. We take comfort often knowing that there's an end to all this sin. There's an end to all this death. There's an end to all this pain in our lives. It's comforting when there's seemingly no joy in our lives or no hope. The whole world is like turned against us. We can still have a unwavering hope knowing that one day we're going to be with God. know the full glory of God someday. And we understand that heaven is not just a place, right? It's not only a place. In Revelation, it is described, the materials that it's made out of, the dimensions, the colors, stuff like that. But it's not just a place. Heaven is the full glory of God. That's what heaven is. It's the presence of God. In Exodus 33, Moses asked God to show him his glory. Moses says, show me your glory. And God says to him, you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live. So we can't even see the full glory of God. We can't even know the full glory of God while we're on earth, while we're humans. And that's what we have to look forward to. That's what Christians have to look forward to. To look to heaven. To look to a spot in heaven that Jesus has prepared for us. And finally, finally be in the presence of God. Right? That's comforting. Those who aren't saved, Those who have not been indwelt by the Spirit of truth, those who have not had their eyes open to taste the comfort of heaven, they don't understand. We're going to see that today, that those who don't understand the truth can't understand the truth. And just like those who have not had the truth revealed to them, the truth of heaven, These disciples are like that, right? They refuse to be comforted by looking beyond, looking to heaven. But now in these verses, in John 14, Jesus switches gears. He stops talking about the comfort that we see beyond this life, the comfort of the promise of heaven. He switches gears to the life that we live on earth. He's about to go into the most detailed and important verses on the Trinity, the three persons of God, the Holy Spirit, the role of the Holy Spirit, and why it's so important for us in this life to understand those truths. There's just promise on top of promise for this life that Jesus is revealing to these disciples. for the next basically two chapters. It's just promise and promises for us. And that's what we need to remember. I've said in every message that that's the theme of the Upper Room is God's love for us, right? That's the only thing that makes it possible for us to accept these promises. That's the only thing that makes it possible for us to have a place in heaven. John 13 verse 1, the beginning of the upper room, it says Jesus loved them to the end. He loved them fully, completely, infinitely. He loved them. It's because of Jesus' love that we get to have a taste of heaven. That's what this is about. The taste of the presence of the glory of God. A taste of the relationship. that will be fully realized at the end of our lives. We get to have that on earth. That's what Jesus is switching gears to, to talk about promises for this life. So we're going to talk about today the promise of the Holy Spirit. The promise that the Father is going to send the Holy Spirit. So let's look at these promises. John 14.12 is where we're going to start. 14.12. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do, and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper to be with you forever. even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. You know Him, for He dwells with you, and He will be in you." Let's pray. Father, I thank You for these verses. I thank You for the Scripture that John wrote down for us to read that we can go back and see the words that Jesus spoke to these disciples. I thank you that we can have these promises. Lord, I thank you that you've provided these things for us, to comfort us, to help us, Lord. And I pray that you be with us this morning, be with me this morning, Lord. Guide my words and guide my thoughts. In Jesus' name, amen. So before we look at the promise of the Spirit, Before we look at the promise that Jesus gives us, I want to look at how you get these promises. How do you actually attain these promises? It's in these verses, okay? It's important to know how to get these promises because you can't have the promise unless you do the things to get the promise. So look at verse 11. Verse 11, chapter 14. Believe me. Jesus says, believe me. Look at verse 12. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes me. So what's the key here? It's obviously it's belief. It's belief that Jesus is the Son of God. That's what he's been trying to show them for two chapters now, is that I am the Son of God. I am God. Believe in me as God. Not only that he's God, but he's a part of the three-person Godhead. He's a part of the Trinity, okay? We have to believe in Jesus. You have to. That's the fundamental truth of what Christianity is. Everything is built on this, that Jesus is God. Believe in me. Believe in me. I'm the truth. He said, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. I would not lie to you. But now he gives them a promise. He says, if you believe in me. If you believe in me. But there's something else. As we all know, it's not enough to believe in the facts about Jesus. It's not enough to believe that Jesus is God and just go along with your day. Acknowledging that Jesus came from God. What else is there? There's a verse in here that seems a little out of place. It doesn't quite fit with the rest of the context. Look at verse 15. It's verse 15. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. Why does Jesus say this? It doesn't really fit. The verses before are talking about prayer and these great words. The verses after are talking about the promise of the Holy Spirit. Why does he say this? If you love me, you'll keep my commandments. This is what you need on top of belief. Love and obedience. Love and obedience. Look at this statement. It's indicative. It's not a command. It's not a question. It's a statement. If you love me, you will keep my commands. You have to believe in Jesus, right? You have to seek him. You have to know him as God. But you need to love him. You need to cherish him. How can you love someone you don't believe in? You have to believe in Jesus in order to love him and to obey him. Obedience starts with love. That's what the statement is saying. Obedience starts with love. You have to love Jesus. You have to love God. That's the key to Christianity. Christians are defined by their fruit. That's what true Christians are, is those who love God and obey his word. Jesus tells us this, if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, this is the greatest and first commandment. That's Christianity. That's the greatest commandment that Jesus gave us, is love the Lord. This is a part of that taste of heaven, right? The taste of heaven that we can have on earth, this is a part of that. It's the relationship that we get to enjoy with God on earth. Obedience comes, but we must love him. True love is action, right? True love is self-sacrificial obedience and action. That's how we get these promises. That's how we get the Spirit, is believe and love and obey. How can we not love Him? If you believe in Jesus, and you believe that He's from God, and you believe that He came to earth to take the debt that we accumulated, how can you not love Him? How can you not obey Him? God has not only sent his son and abandoned his son in my place, but he has these promises on top of promises for us. He sent us a helper. He sent us a comforter. How can you not love him for that, right? To guide us. He has done so much more than he ever needed to do. He could have came to earth and died for our sins and said, all right, that's it. Now live for me. I paid for your sins. The rest is on you. But he doesn't do that. He has more promises for us, a helper, love and obedience. In order to obey, we got to have our hearts changed. We got to have the spirit. That's what these promises are. What specifically is this promise? John 16 verse 7, that's later in the upper room, Jesus tells the disciples, nevertheless, I will tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away. It's to your advantage that I go away. If I do not go away, the helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. We know that all Jesus cares about is his disciples. Everything he's said, everything he's done, everything he's promised on this night is for their advantage. It's for them. He's not doing, he's not saying anything that's gonna hurt them. He's doing everything because he loves them. He's been pouring out his love for them all night. He's been pouring out his love for all the future saints on this night. And not just on this night, but for three years, all he's done is for them, right? And now, just because he says, I'm leaving, they lose faith in him. They lose all their trust in him because he says, I'm going. That's all they care about. They don't hear, it's to your advantage. They're not listening to that. All they're listening to is, I'm leaving. It's upsetting. It's confusing. As all sinners do, they are only thinking about themselves. All of us do this. I just want to be comfortable right now. Right now, I just wanna be comfortable, I wanna be happy, I want Jesus to pander to me. Look at verse 16 in chapter 14. Verse 16 in chapter 14. I will ask the Father and He will give you another helper to be with you forever. How wonderful is that? Jesus is leaving to go to his father to prepare a place for us, but not just prepare a place for us He's going to ask the father to help us now To send us a helper look at the end of verse 17 This is why it's to our advantage. This is how it's to our advantage You know him for he dwells with you and will be in you That's why it's to our advantage Because now we have a person of God dwelling in us, in us. We have a person of God with us at all times. Jesus, the person of Jesus, the human Jesus, he could be in another room, he could be down the street, he could be in another country, but the spirit of God, the spirit of truth is with us always. He indwells us. He's with us as our helper all the time. He will never leave us. Look at the end of verse 16. The helper will be with us forever. Forever. We can always count on Him. It's important for us to understand the role of the Holy Spirit. What does the Holy Spirit actually do? What does He do for us? Jesus here calls Him the Helper. It's actually capital H. The helper. That's his name. That is his title. How does the spirit help us? What is he helping us with? A few of the commentaries that I read point this out. Look at verse 16. He will give you another helper. Look at the word another in there. The word another. In Greek, there's two words for another. They both mean another, but there's two different words. In English, we only have one word that means another. So in Greek, one of the words for another means another of a different kind. And the second is another of the same kind. So for example, Paul in Galatians tells us, if anyone teaches another gospel, let him be accursed." Another gospel. See, Paul's saying a different gospel. If anyone's teaching another gospel, as in a different gospel, not the same gospel. But look at John 14, verse 16. Jesus said, He will give you another helper. This another means another of the same kind. The same kind. In order to have another, you gotta have a first, right? In order to have the second, you gotta have the first. What's the first in this verse? Another is the Spirit. The first is Jesus. Another of the same kind. The Spirit is going to be a helper exactly like Jesus. Exactly in the way that Jesus helped. He's going to help. Why did Jesus say another helper? Why didn't He just say, we're sending you a helper? Because he's trying to show the disciples something. In Greek, you can see it. We can't really see it in English, but in Greek, you can see it. He's trying to tell them, this helper is gonna be with you the same way that I was with you, the same way. He's gonna help you in all the things that I helped you with. Well, how did Jesus help? How did Jesus help the disciples? How was he there for them? Well, think about how many times Jesus just evaded death. Think about that. He's constantly, the Pharisees are picking up stones to stone him three or four times, and Jesus just disappears. He's given them protection from death. He's given them provision. He's provided them food. He's provided them shelter. He's provided every physical need that they have. For three years, They sold everything, they gave up everything to follow Him, and He's provided for them. He's trustworthy. But not only that, but He's answered every question they've had. He's opened the truths of the scriptures to them. He's shown them the Father. He's provided every spiritual need. Why do we need a helper? Why do we need a helper as Christians? In order to help someone, you gotta know what they need help with, right? The spirit is here to help us with our needs. What are our needs? We're weak. We're weak. Like these disciples, we're weak. I feel like if we let our eyes off the Lord, if we let our eyes off of Jesus for one second, we're so far into sin. Our default is just to sin. All the time, our default is to sin. Our default is to doubt the Lord. We need the Spirit. We need the help of the Spirit to guide us back to the Lord. We need the Spirit to show us the truths of the Lord once again. His mercies are new every morning. His truths are new to us every morning. That's the most important role of the Spirit. The Spirit is revealing the truth of God to us. He's pointing us to the truth. Look at verse 17. Jesus says, even the Spirit of truth. The Spirit of truth. Just a few verses before, Jesus is saying, I am the truth. But now He's saying, this is the spirit of truth as well. This further emphasizes for them and for us that the Holy Spirit is from God. He's a part of God. And we're here to trust Him. We need to trust Him the same way that we trust Jesus, the same way that we trust God. Again, this is the most important role of the Holy Spirit. We can't miss this. It's the foundation of what it means that the Spirit helps us. This is what He does for us. To reveal the truth to us. It's in His name. The Spirit of truth. Why is that so important? Why is it so important that we have the truth revealed to us constantly? Every day, forever, we need the truth revealed to us. It's important because that's how we walk by faith. We walk by faith and not by sight. The world cannot walk by faith. They can't. They can't walk by faith, and they can't obey because they can't see the truth. That's why. Because the truth is not constantly being revealed to them. 1 Corinthians 2.14 says, The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God. They are folly to him. He's not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. Those who can't see the truth can't walk in the truth. This is what separates those who are spiritually discerned from those who are not. I remember in my salvation, I remember being younger and not being a Christian. And I grew up in this church, obviously. I grew up reading the Bible. And I remember reading the Bible and none of it made sense to me. I could read the words all day long and I knew what the words meant, but the depth of the truth of the Bible didn't make sense to me. I didn't care. I didn't care what it had to say. I didn't even really understand what it had to say. And I hated it. I hated reading the Bible. I hated listening to the word, to the truth. Because it's folly. It's folly to the fallen man. And those of us who are saved have had that same experience. One day you're reading the Word of God and it means nothing to you. It means nothing. It's folly. And one day you read the Word and it means something to you. It's because of the Spirit. The Spirit is there revealing the truth of the Word to you. It's no longer folly. For an easy example of this, Look at the disciples, right? Look at Peter. We'll just talk about Peter. Peter is probably one of my most favorite examples. He's one of the most obvious examples of redemption before and after receiving the Holy Spirit, right? Look at Luke 22, verse 60. Luke 22, verse 60. This is Luke's account of when Jesus is being arrested. They've arrested him. They're bringing him to the high priest to be judged. And Peter is following closely behind. That's what it says in Luke 22. Peter is following closely behind. And Peter, at this point, where we're going to start, he's denied Jesus two times already. OK, this is the third time he's denying Jesus. Verse 60, Peter said, Man, I do not know what you are talking about. And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said to him, before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times. And he went out and wept bitterly. So we can see clearly in these verses and other examples of Peter before the Holy Spirit that he's weak, right? He's weak. He's not committed to the Lord the way that he thought he was. He believed in Jesus, he trusted Jesus up until it cost him something, right? Up until it was gonna cost him his reputation or his life. Then he started denying Jesus. Not once, not twice, but three times he denied Jesus. And we gotta remember Peter's personality too, right? Peter's kinda, he's like the leader of the disciples. He's loud, he's kinda brash, he's confident. That's Peter before he receives the Spirit. He's not able to see the truth of Jesus, the true Son of God, he's not able to see the truth of who he is in light of Jesus. Because the Spirit has not indwelt him. The Spirit is not with Peter at this point. He hasn't revealed the truth to him. Look at Acts 2 now. Right? That's Peter before, look at Peter after. Acts 2. This is the day of Pentecost. At the beginning of the chapter, the disciples and a few other people are in the upper room in Jerusalem. Jesus has gone back to the Father once and for all. He's gone. And now they're just sitting in the upper room praying. They're praying. It says they devoted themselves to prayer. But at one point, the Spirit enters the room. and fills them. Look at verse 4. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. They're filled with the Spirit on this day. Immediately. Immediately, what does Peter do when he's filled with the Spirit? He goes out into the streets and he starts preaching. He can't help but proclaim the Gospel And he gives one of the most straightforward, comprehensive gospel messages recorded in the Bible. Verse 22. Men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know, this Jesus, This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. Peter's full. He's full of the Spirit. He's preaching the full, complete gospel. What do the people do? They ask him. What must we do? We killed Jesus. We killed Him. What do we do, Peter? He tells them this. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. It's such a beautiful gospel message, right? It's such a straightforward gospel message, especially when we remember who is it coming from? Who's preaching this? Peter. It's Peter. who one week before this is denying Jesus. He doesn't, I don't even know who he is. Curses on me if I know who that man is. One week before that, what's the difference? What's the difference of Peter on the day of Jesus' arrest and Peter on the day of Pentecost? It's the Spirit. Peter received the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is helping him. The Holy Spirit has revealed the truth of the Word, the truth of the Gospel to Peter, and Peter can't help but preach. The Holy Spirit is enabling Peter as He enables Paul, He enables the rest of the Apostles to preach and teach for the rest of the New Testament. We have that Spirit. Look at the mighty works that the Apostles did. Look at all the stuff they did. They did it by the Spirit. They did it in faith. Because they were able to walk by faith. This brings me to verse 12. I kind of skipped over it. I read it and I skipped over it. Because I think we need the Spirit in order to explain what this verse is. Verse 12 is weird. Verse 12 is pretty unique because It's highly debated on what the actual meaning of this verse is. It's a scary verse for me to try to talk about. So let's read it and then we can discuss the different views on it. So verse 12 is truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do and the greater works than these will he do because I am going to the Father. So there's two prevailing interpretations on this verse. There's a lot of different interpretations. Everyone has a different view on what this actually means. But there's two big ones, okay? There's two big ones. This is the first view. That this verse is telling us That if you believe in Jesus and are filled with the Spirit, then we're supposed to be able to perform miracles and the acts and the signs that Jesus performed. And even greater miracles. Right? That's the first view. That we're supposed to be able to do all the healings and the raising from the dead and all that stuff that Jesus did, we're supposed to be able to do that. We don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. It's called continuationism. And there's a lot of problems with this view. There's a lot of problems with thinking that we're able to perform miracles that Jesus performed. The main problem is this. The main problem is that this doesn't happen. People don't have the signs. They aren't able to perform the miracles that Jesus performed. The apostles were. The apostles were, but not even to the extent that Jesus did. We can't say that, oh, I'm able to do miracles that Jesus did. You can't. Jesus did the greatest miracles known to mankind. Every day he's doing miracles, day in and day out. You can't do greater miracles than those. So what are these acts that Jesus is talking about? It can't be that. That's the first view. The second view is this. This is a view that I agree with, that most Reformed theologians agree with, is that Jesus is talking about the magnitude that the gospel reaches. The geographic magnitude. Jesus, when he says the disciples are going to do greater works, It's the magnitude that the gospel reaches. Think about that, okay? Think about this. On the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, the disciples are preaching and teaching. They just got filled with the Spirit, and they're preaching. 3,000 people came to know Jesus on that day. They came to the Lord, and it says that they were added to their number. That never happened under Jesus' ministry, ever. The disciples and all future Christians are going to bring the gospel to the whole world. And there's no greater work than bringing a sinner to believe in the Savior. That's the greater works that Jesus is talking about. Think about the disciples in the upper room. In John 14, the disciples in the upper room, they're scared, they're faithless, They just got finished asking Jesus to prove that he's God. Show us that you're God. Peter, who's one of the most bold apostles, is about to deny Jesus, right? We read later that Jesus is praying and they can't even stay awake. They can't even stay awake to pray with Jesus. They're weak and they're lazy and they know it. They know they can't live without Jesus. They know they can't do this without Jesus in the upper room. Look at verse eight again. Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father and it's enough for us. Philip is basically telling Jesus, I don't think we can do this. I don't think we can do this thing by faith. But now Jesus is encouraging them by telling them, you guys are going to do these works and you're going to do even greater works. And they did. They did. They spread the gospel further than Jesus ever did. Jesus hardly ever went outside of Israel. And these guys are going to the whole world. How? How is that? How is it that we can do greater works than Jesus? Or equal to the works that Jesus did? How is it that these guys, these weak guys, are going from bumbling, Jesus denying, disciples in John 14 to emboldened saints in Acts 2. How does that happen? Jesus tells us at the end of verse 12. Because I'm going to the Father. It's because I go to the Father. We learned in verse 16 that Jesus went to his father to send the spirit. Jesus went to the father to send us his spirit. It's by the power of the spirit that these disciples became these saints that they did. It's through the power of the spirit that they're able to do these mighty works. We have that same spirit. We have the same spirit of truth that they had. We have the power to do these same works. in the Spirit. There's two things that we need to note about this that I want to add to this, about these greater works. They're works done in faith. They're works done in faith. The disciples didn't have Jesus anymore. They didn't have Him. He wasn't with them. He left. But they have the Spirit, and they have faith. Works done in faith are blessed works. John 20, Jesus tells Thomas in John 20, blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. So it's blessed. It's blessed to do works in faith. And that's only made possible in the Spirit. The second thing to note about these mighty works is in verse 13 and 14. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. So we know these greater works are done in faith because Jesus wasn't with them, but they're also done in prayer. Jesus tells us to just ask him, to ask him for help. It reminds me of when Jesus said, If you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will our Father who's in heaven give good things to those who ask Him? Our Father who's in heaven. He just adds that in there. Verse 13 and 14. Jesus, He just had to add that in there. He's telling them, hey guys, you're going to do great works. You're going to do greater works than me. That's encouraging. You have a helper. That's encouraging. He's going to comfort you. He's going to show you the truth. Oh, by the way, by the way, in case there's anything else you need, just ask. Just ask. And I'll do it for you. What's more comforting than that? Anything. Anything. This is probably the time that I'm supposed to note that this is not a blank check. Right? Because verse 13, look at the end of it. It says, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Right? That the Father may be glorified in the Son. He's going to help us glorify the Son. That's what the Father's going to do for us. Ask for anything to glorify the Son. I want to bring us back to the beginning of the sermon about how Jesus is pointing these men in the upper room to heaven. He's been pointing them to heaven. He's been pointing them to the promise of a place for them in heaven with the Father. He's been trying to comfort them by telling them that. There's a spot in heaven for all of you and anyone who might believe. But now, in this life, in our time, For the church, throughout the ages, we don't have only death to look forward to, to take comfort in. We can have a relationship with the Lord, a taste of heaven, through the Spirit, through the Word, through the truth that the Spirit reveals to us. The Spirit who has been with Jesus The Spirit of Truth will now be in us. Forever. He'll be in us. He will help us. And His first and most important job is this, to reveal the truth to us. That's how we can have a taste of heaven. That's how you can have a taste of heaven on earth. Because of this. Because of the Helper who sent from our Father. Because of God dwelling in us. We can do mighty works. We can do what He has told us to do. We can bring others to know Him. We can implore people and nations to come and seek the Lord. The greatest act that we can do. These are great promises. These are great promises that the world cannot understand. The world can't see it. Look at verse 17, the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. Of course the world can't see it, right? Of course they don't understand the truth, but we do, we get it. For those of us, who are not Christians, for those of us here who don't know the comfort and the help of the Spirit, the love of Jesus in your life, if you don't know the comfort of the Great Comforter, if that's you, if you don't know these promises, if you don't understand the truth, Jesus tells you to come. Come. Matthew 11, 28, Jesus says, come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Come. Come and all these things will be added to your account. You will know the truth. You will understand the truth. You will be able to love Jesus. Amen. Let's pray. Father, I thank You for these promises, Lord. I thank You for the promise of the Spirit, the promise of the Helper, Lord. I thank You that You promised to dwell with us and in us, Lord. I pray that we would be grateful for that. I pray that we would do these mighty works. Lord, I pray that we would reveal Your truth to others, Lord. I pray that You would use us to send the Spirit. Be with us. In Jesus' name, Amen.