is discussing the promised comforter that is to come and what he's going to do here in this passage. So, verse number one, these things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues. Yea, the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God's service. And these things will they do unto you because they have not known the father nor me. But these things have I told you that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning because I was with you. But now I go my way to him that sent me and none of you asketh me, whither goest thou? But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is expedient for you that I go away. For if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you. But if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he has come, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, of sin because they believe not on me, of righteousness because I go to the Father, and ye see me no more of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. For he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak. And he will show you things to come. Verse number 14, and he shall glorify me. for he shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you. All things that the father hath are mine, therefore said I that he shall take of mine and shall show it unto you. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the opportunity to open it tonight. And Lord, as we look at this short passage here, we pray father that you'd help us each to look and to see what it is that the spirit of God is doing in our lives and in the lives of the world and just from whatever perspective we come your work, and we pray father that we would see you at work, and that we would respond that we would respond properly to that work we look forward to all that you're going to do in Jesus name. Amen. Alright so. At the beginning of the chapter here, just to kind of recap where we came from, remember that Jesus is talking about what's going to happen after he's gone. He's dealing with the concept of, you know, there's going to be persecution, people are going to hate you, all of these kind of things. And he says this, and he says the first verse of this chapter, he says, I tell you this, uh, that you should not be offended. What he means by that is that when this happens, I don't want you to be surprised and be offended by it. Now, most of the time we think about offense, we think are being offended. We think, Oh, somebody did something to wrong me and I'm offended. You know, there's other passages in the Bible that use this word in a little bit different way. And I'll give you an example. If you remember the parable of the sower, where, you know, you have the seed going in the different places, right? Well, one of those, it says that the person who received the seed, it says that, you know, tribulation cometh and things come along and are hard for them. And it says, by and by, he is offended. and he doesn't continue, right? This word offended has to do with not just being having an offense toward a person, necessarily, but having being offended about something, something that's happened, right? A lot of times, the recipient of this offense is usually God. People are offended at life and things that they have to deal with and troubles and trials and difficulties. Something bad happens and they're offended. Well, they pour out that offense or that wrath at God. God, why did you allow this to happen? Why is this happening to me? And they get mad at God for that. And He's saying here, I'm telling you this so that you know ahead of time, this isn't happening And he doesn't explain this here, but this isn't happening because God doesn't like you. It's not happening because God planned for you to go through this trouble. Although, in the trouble, God has a plan to grow you through it. But he's saying here, I'm telling you this because the time's coming when I'm not going to be here anymore, and they're going to treat you like they treated me. He wants us to know that this is gonna happen and in this we can have comfort because the comforter will be here. Right? So he's giving a prophecy that this is, you know, the setting here, he's about ready to go out and be arrested this night, and he's going to be taken and crucified, and then he's gonna be buried, and then three days later, he's gonna rise from the dead, and he's going to show his disciples that he was victorious over sin, death, and the grave, that he had done what he said he would do, and then 40 days later, he's going to ascend, up into heaven, and then as he promised, seven days after that, when the day of Pentecost is fully come, he's going to, the Comforter is going to come and be with us. And then we find we live happily ever after, right? And so here we are living happily ever after, having the Spirit of God sealing us if we're born again. So what he says here, the basic, ministry of the Holy Spirit is is going to, from two different perspectives, you have the respect the perspective of the world, and you have the perspective of the believer, right? So the perspective of the world, the Spirit when he comes is come to reprove, right, the world of three things of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. That's his ministry to the world, to reprove them of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. Now, the word reprove there has a concept of bringing a person to an understanding that it is proven to them what he's trying to prove to them, right? Whichever of those things, and I believe it's all three of those things, And so let me use another word that we commonly use for this word reproof. It's called conviction, right? And so if you remember when Jesus was talking to the Pharisees, he asks them, which of you reprove with me or approve with me of sin? Which of you can convict me of sin or convince me of sin? In other words, these same kind of words all go to the same concept that the Spirit's job is to prove, reprove, to show us those three things. So before we were saved, if you're not saved tonight, that's what He's trying to do. He's going to show to you and convince you and convict you and reprove to you that you're a sinner. First of sin, right? And he says, why? Because I have not believed in me, right? So that you're reproved of sin being told that you are yet in your sins, right? If you've not trusted in Christ, you're yet in your sins. You've not believed in him. And so he's going to reprove us of sin. How does he reprove us of sin? Well, you're going to find later when it talks about what he's doing with the Christian, that he doesn't speak of himself. So the spirit isn't going to come up to you and say, hey you, you're a sinner. He doesn't speak of himself. He doesn't say, uh, it doesn't like guide you and lead you to understand that you're a sinner. Although God is working circumstances and all of these things together, but the way that he's going to convince you of that is he's going to speak what he has heard. of Jesus. Who is Jesus? John one. He is the word. So the spirit is going to utilize the word to reprove you make sense. So the word that's spoken is spoken and the spirit says, that's right center. That's, that's the way it works, right? He says, that's right center. So what, what kind of words is he going to, uh, what kind of the word of God is he going to use? Well, we know that, uh, that the law tells us that we're sinners. It's our schoolmaster that brings us to Christ. It's the law itself, the Old Testament, and the holiness of God, his character, and all that that we find in the Old Testament tells us that we're to live a certain way. That law tells us that we're sinners, right? I had not known covetousness except the law say, Thou shalt not covet, right, or thou shalt not this or that. So the law is there then to show us that we're sinners from the mental perspective, and the spirit is there to prove to us that we're sinners from the heart perspective, to bring that, to take it from the brain to the heart. Now, I don't mean physically, I mean spiritually. Okay, we're not talking about he's taking a thought and sticking it in your blood pumper. What we're talking about is he's taking it from the intellect, and he's bringing it down into the soul, and he's bringing about conviction, where not only do you know that you're a sinner, but you know that you're a sinner. And it doesn't feel right. That's the Spirit of God reproving the world of sin. It's when sin's no longer just, oh yeah, everybody sins. I'm a sinner, you're a sinner. She's a sinner, he's a sinner, he's a sinner. We're all sinners, right? We all know this. But when you know it from the heart, when you know you're a sinner and that that's not okay, that God's not okay with that, that's when the Spirit of God has convinced you that you're a sinner. He's reproved you of sin. Now, How do we now we just say sin in general, you can name it, right? He says, that should not bear false witness. Anybody ever told a lie? Anybody never told a lie? We'll do that. That's easier. Never told a lie ever in your life. Never told a liar. What's that say there? Did we just become best friends? I like that. Has he ever cried and nothing was wrong? He's never told a lie. Whoa. Time's coming, all right? Trying to convict him, that's right. How old is he? He's not even a year old yet, is he? He just turned a year? Oh, last month. That's right, he was sick. I forgot, yeah. So, happy late birthday, like a month late. I guess he hasn't told a lie yet. We'll get there. No, I'm just kidding. I think he's safe so far. A year old. All the rest of us have, though. Well, the one hiding under the blanket hasn't yet. Or has he already? Has he already told a lie? He's a liar, okay. All right. The Bible says we come out of the womb speaking lies. So he might be an exception for a while. So another question. Let's see here. You ever stolen anything? Stolen anything? You want to know one of the most common things to be stolen? Pens and lighter. Oh. Depends. It's absent-mindedness, but when you look down and you realize, where'd I get that pen? Then you start thinking, oh, I took that from someone. It doesn't belong to me. Now you realize that it doesn't belong to you. So now your responsibility is to try to remember who you stole it from so that you can give it back. This is Rose's wife. She actually puts on all her pink compliments. Oh, really? You know who you got it from, right? I generally, because I specifically make sure that I have something that I can write with that erases, in case I write something that I need to erase, and something that I can write with that does not erase, in case I need to write something that I don't want someone else to erase. So I keep those on me at all times. So if anybody ever asks, can I borrow a pen? I usually am like, no. But sometimes I'll say, okay. And then as soon as they write what they needed to write, I say, don't forget to give my pen back. In the military, I just say, why are you out of uniform? because they're supposed to have something to write with on them, because if they don't, they're out of uniform. That's, they teach in basic training. It's part of your uniform, something to write with. You know, it's just as important as not forgetting your cover, right? Not, or not forgetting your, your clothes, you know? So I said, well, you, you, it looks like you're wearing your boots. You didn't forget that, where's your pin? You know? I'm not a drill sergeant by the way, I'm a chaplain, so. Chaplain's nice, right? But, I usually carry a couple. Actually, I got a couple in my bag, too, just in case something like that happens. But I don't carry pens to give them away, necessarily. But that's one of the most common things to be stolen, pens, and in the world, lighters. I keep a lighter on me in case I need to catch something on fire. I don't know if it works, because I haven't used it for a very, very long time. Actually, I don't know where I got that lighter. I probably stole it from someone. I'm just kidding. I think someone gave it to me, but I can't remember. I also carry chapstick on me all the time. That doesn't usually get stolen unless you steal it. Actually, this chapstick was stolen. No, it wasn't. This was the one that I paid for because of one that was stolen because you stole it. Long story. he accidentally stole it. And we went all the way back to, where were we, Jeffersonville, Indiana? And we were in that same Thornton's gas station. And I went and I grabbed a chapstick. And I said, ring this up twice. And they're like, what? I said, we were here about six months ago and stole one by accident. So bring it up twice. So we paid for it. But what's that? You stole it, I paid for it. I'm just messing with you. But the fact is, the Bible says, thou shalt not steal beef. But the spirit of God convinces us that that's sin. Now we joke about it and we laugh about everybody's sins and all that. But at some point in your life, you've got to come to the realization that sin's not okay. And the only way that you come to that realization, make sure the barrel's not pointed at anybody. At some point when you come to that realization, he's got a good trigger control though, his finger wasn't on the trigger, so that's good. When you come to that realization, it's a realization that needs to be more than mental. You can't do that. That's what the spirit does. That's what God's spirit does. He convinces you that that sin is not okay, right? The law makes sin exceeding sinful. The spirit makes it real to us, right? Now we can name all kinds of other things and we won't get into, you know, everything else. Those are the two real simple ones, right? I don't want to ask, you know, anybody ever murdered anybody? No. Uh, well, he says if you hate your brother, you're a murderer. You ever hated anybody? Uh, maybe, maybe not. Hope not. So, uh, by the way, if you still hate somebody, give it up, let it go, deal with it, fix it, get it right. If you're angry with them without a cause, if you're angry with them because they exist, you hate them. If you're upset with them because of something they've done, then you have something that needs to be resolved. There should never be something that's left unresolved, right? By the way, AJ, I forgive you for breaking my ladder rack. He opened the back door of the view earlier and like it broke the luggage rack off because it lifted the ladder. and pushed it down from the front up in the back and broke the luggage rack. He didn't mean to. He wasn't like, hey, I wonder if I can break dad's luggage rack, you know. So I was pretty upset with him at the time. And so I brought the ladder in here and drove home and fixed it, just bolted it with another bolt. And we brought the ladder in here, leaving you out. some washers and stuff and then fixed it. We brought the ladder that's back on there and it's solid. Good to go. Thanks for breaking it because now it's better. Because if that would have happened on the road, I don't have my hardware kit to bolt the thing down with the washers and all that stuff. So glad it happened there. Now it's actually the bolt and the washers. There's wouldn't believe how cheap those things are made the the ladder or the the luggage racks the the plastics like that thin and so it just snaps easy. Fortunately I broke the other side when I was installing it and I already had repaired it with that way so when I noticed how it was broken I was like oh It didn't come out of the roof, the bolt, so I can fix it. So anyways, so it's more solid. So I say all that to say that you've got to resolve problems, right? We can't just let it be there and faster. And he might have thought, tomorrow, while he's on his way to West Virginia, I wonder if dad's still mad at me about the ladder rack. No, I'm not. It's, what do they say, water under the fridge or something? A ladder in the wind would have, right? So I've gotten over it, right? But as far as that goes, right, anger can be a major issue. It can be a major issue. As a matter of fact, I don't know of any human being that's capable of utilizing anger in a biblical and righteous way. I know a lot of people that like to say that they're just righteously indignant, but in all reality, they've just lost their temper and blaming it on somebody else, right? That, oh, that person did this evil thing, and so I need to pour out wrath on this situation because I am angry at sin. No, you're mad at somebody, and you wanna vent, and you wanna let it go, and you wanna just, Blow up! We talked about temperance a while back, and a temper's a good thing to have and to keep and not lose, right? And so, do that. So hopefully the Holy Spirit is convincing us of sin. Well, he convinces the world of sin. That means those that are in the world now. Does that mean that he stops after you're saved? No. Now he doesn't say it here, leading us in, guiding us into all truth, that's part of that, continuing to convict us. In fact, most of the time, he reminds us before we do it, when we're thinking about doing something wrong, he's like, nope, wrong, don't do that. And you're like, maybe just this once? No, don't do it. Okay. You're right, I'm wrong, I shouldn't do it, right? That's the way he's preemptively convincing us of sin. He's saying, hey, if you do that, it's sin, and oh yeah, you're right. By the way, the only thing that he utilizes for that is his word. Sometimes our own conscience will say that we're doing something wrong, but we have to recognize that we need to train our conscience according to God's word. I know some people feel like this is wrong, and that's wrong, and that's wrong, and that's wrong because they feel that way. Well, it doesn't really matter how you feel. What's wrong is what God says is wrong, and what's right is what God says is what's right. Although a weak conscience in the sense that it's run by emotions can be helpful to keep you from doing sin in some places, it can also not be so helpful because when you decide to rebel against your conscience, then you're kind of, there's a whole ugly mess of things going on there that you end up in sin anyways. And so it's important to train yourself according to the word of God, what's right and what's wrong, right? Having our senses exercise to discern good and evil, not something that's an extra that's exercising, right? Anybody ever exercise? Okay, a couple people. Anybody ever heard of anybody exercising? I was listening to somebody this afternoon. It's a joke anyways. So that's something that doesn't just happen. Oh, I know right and wrong. I'm saved now, I know right from wrong. You know, I know a lot of saved people that ought to know certain things are wrong and certain things are right. Sit up in your seat, Emma. But people don't just automatically know. You know, there's some things, you know, when I got saved, I know there were some things the spirit of God just, I just, he just, I just knew it was wrong. Can't do that anymore. I know that's wrong. some of that had to do with maybe a little bit of knowing what Christians do and don't do, because I didn't really know the Bible at the time, right, when I got saved. So, some of it may have had to do with the fact that, oh, I know he doesn't do it, so I can't do it, right, or I know that, you know, that my pastor doesn't do that, so I can't do it, or I know that I'm supposed to do this, and so, or they do this, and so I'm supposed to do this, but at some point, we've got to get beyond doing things because we know other people do them and not doing things because we know other people don't do them. And we need to be exercised. Right. We need to actually get in the word and we need to start learning for ourselves. This is right. This is wrong. And there you go. But that's part of the spirit guiding us into all truth after we've been saved. But before we've been saved. He convinces us or reproves us of sin. And then We have to have a standard by which we know what righteousness is, right? Well, the spirit is going to convince the world of righteousness. Well, wait a minute, how does the spirit do that? Well, again, as he said, he's not gonna speak of himself, but what he hears from the word of God, Jesus. And so he's going to reprove the world of righteousness by what? What is it that Romans says? How do you get, how do you get the, how does, how does the world get to hear what God says? Romans chapter 10 says, but the word is nigh thee, I think it's verse eight, even in thy mouth and in thine heart, Verse nine, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, or no, even the word of faith, which we preach, that in verse number nine, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart, man believeth under righteousness. How is that? Because God shows us what righteousness is. We see the righteousness of God in his word as it's preached, right? And with the mouth confession is made into salvation. And we go on down, uh, there were 17 ish. And, uh, it says, how should they hear without a preacher? Right. And, and there you go. Um, but actually that was after that, but it says, uh, so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Right. Um, and this is, this is how we believe unto righteousness because we've heard that there is one who is righteous, Jesus, right? And then we hear, we read, we hear, we begin to understand, and then he convinces us of it, reproves us of it. And then it goes back to the first one again. Because once we're convinced or reproved of righteousness, we have to remember the fact that we've been, reproved of sin. And then that brings us to the third thing, and that is that he reproves the world of judgment. Because we know that we are sinners and we know that he is righteous, we know that there's going to be a judgment. Now that simply is a logical conclusion, right? If God's good and I'm bad, I'm going to be judged. He made me. I didn't make him. So he calls the shots, and someday I'm going to be held accountable for what I do, and I know I've done wrong, and he's right, and I'm going to be judged someday. That's what the Spirit does. He convinces us that that's true. Now, although that's a logical conclusion, the spirit of God then impresses that upon our heart. And then it becomes more than just a logical conclusion. It then becomes a conviction. It then becomes recognizing that God's good. I'm not, I'm going to be judged someday. And there's got to be something to do about it. Right? Of course, he explains why he says, because, uh, the first one of sin, because they believe not on me of righteousness. And that's how you fix that sin thing. of righteousness because I go to my father, right? And, uh, and you see me no more. So Jesus isn't physically here for us to see his righteousness. So the spirit has to convince us of the righteousness through the preaching of the word of God and then of judgment because the prince of this world is judged. We know that, you know, everybody's excited about Satan being judged. Nobody's excited about me being judged. I don't mean just me. I mean, me as in us, me, you being judged. We're not all excited about that, but we're convinced that it's true. Or he's working on convincing you that it's true. And once you know that it's true, he doesn't give the answer here. But once you know that it's true, not just no, but no, that's true. and you realize something has to be done about this. Something has to be done about this. I can't continue on and being sinful, him being righteous, and me going to his righteous judgment someday as a sinner. That can't happen. The problem is I can't erase my sin. I can't get rid of it. I can't fix it. I've already done it. It's too late now. But Jesus paid for it when he died for us at Calvary. And so because he's done that, what sayeth it, right? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart, even the word of faith, which we preach, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved, right? I just quoted all that just a minute ago. The point is that we change from being of the world to being of Him by believing, by trusting in Him, by coming to Him, the only one who can provide the solution for our major problem. And we humble ourselves before him and we accept or receive him as john chapter one says, but as many as received him to them, gave you power to become the sons of God. And by receive him, it doesn't mean that we receive him using, uh, through the, the Lord's supper, receiving him means receiving him by faith, receiving him to be your savior. And when he becomes your saver, when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, as Isaiah 53 says, then he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and something shall prosper in his hand. Now I forget how it goes. But when we make his offering, or make his offering, so an offering for sin, when we recognize that his sacrifice was for us, and when we bring it to God and say, God, he's done this for me, if you'll accept it on my behalf, then that would be awesome, right? I'd be excited about that if God would accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ in my place. And by the way, he will accept his sacrifice in your place. And when he does see that, When he does accept that sacrifice in your place, then you are cleared. His satisfaction is made, right? He shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. And so once you're saved, now the spirit of God is come to guide you into all truth. And again, as you'll notice that he puts some little disclaimers, so to speak, right? Because Jesus knew that there were gonna be people that were always going to blame everything on the Holy Spirit, that were gonna say, the Holy Spirit told me this, the Holy Spirit told me that, the Holy Spirit told me this, the Holy Spirit told me that. Well, Jesus said, the Holy Spirit doesn't tell you anything except what he's heard. By the way, it's not Jesus over there whispering in his ear. and then the Holy Spirit comes down and tells you. Now what the Holy Spirit has heard, he heard from Jesus, the Word of God. And so that's how we get direction. Anytime, I've been saved for 20 years, and anytime that I believe the Spirit of God is speaking to me, he is speaking to me either completely the word of God itself that I've already read, right, reminding me of a verse, reminding me of a passage, reminding me of a of a doctrinal truth that I've studied out. That's how he's speaking to me, or he's speaking to me things that are scriptural, either their direct scripture or their scriptural. He never speaks to me outside of the scripture. And I don't mean, what I don't mean by that is I don't mean he doesn't speak to me when my Bible's not open. What I mean is when he does speak to me, and he often speaks to me when my Bible's not open, he speaks to me from the word of God, right? Now, there have been a few times where I felt like the Lord was leading me to do something that I couldn't necessarily find a direct verse that he was giving me, but as he's guiding me, He's guiding me according to his word. I remember a particular time where I was walking through town heading to church to do some lawn care stuff. This was many years ago at our sending church and I was walking through town and I was the whatever you call it, visitation director for a certain area of town where I would be the one to visit all the people. And so I would see everybody in their houses twice a year, about every six months. And so there was a particular house that I hadn't gotten an answer at. And I wasn't really thinking about that house, but I was walking toward the church building and that house was out of the way, but I felt as though the Lord was leading me to go to that house. I wasn't on visitation. I was going to do some weed eating or something, and it was as though the Lord was leading me to go over there to that house. Well, in that case, now, I can't say, well, I could maybe go to Proverbs and say that it says, turn not to the right hand or to the left. I don't think that's what he was saying, but I was just like, okay, maybe I just kind of feel like I need to go over there. Maybe it's just me. I don't know. But I went over there and I knocked on the door and somebody answered. I talked to him for 45 minutes. He had a lot to say. And, and, uh, you know, he just said he was sitting there and he was thinking about the Lord and, uh, he was thinking about eternity and his life and all of these things. And I said, well, I was walking that way. And God told me to come over here. I said, I don't know that he said it. Like, I mean, it wasn't like, Hey Aaron, go over there. It was just like, I just kind of felt like, you know, sometimes Lord just remind you of something and you're like, Oh yeah. Nobody ever answered the door over there. I'm not too far away. Maybe I'll go over and see. It might've just been me, but I believe that It was maybe a little bit of guiding from, from God as well. So I showed up and we went through and we talked about things and I asked him about his soul and his relationship with God. And he said that he had never been saved. And, uh, I, and I went through this, what the spirit of God does. And I explained to him, I, you know, asked him about his sin and his life and things. And he understood that he was a sinner and. And it seemed to sink down into his heart that he was a sinner, that God was righteous and that he was going to someday be judged. And he realized that there was a problem with that and something needed to be done. And then I told him about Jesus. And then I went and did the weed eating. And because that one time that I just kind of felt like I ought to go over there, I don't know where he is now. I don't think he even lived there for another week. He moved out of town. Don't know where he is now. Don't even remember his name, but I know someday I'm going to see him in heaven because he trusted Christ that day. And it was all because I just kind of felt like the Lord was leading me over there. Now, let me ask you, is there scripture for that? I think I can go to Matthew 28, where it says, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel. I was somewhere in the world and I was preaching the gospel scriptural. Now we don't want to be so wishy-washy that every time we tell somebody we're going to end up somewhere else doing something else, because that's not scriptural either. We're not keeping our word, right? Nobody was expecting me at the church building. I just knew that it needed to be done. And so I was going to do it. But on my way, I went to that and then went on to continue on doing what I was doing. Now, of course, if I would have said to the pastor, I'm going to be here on this day at this time, and I'll be there, I would have a conflict, wouldn't I? I'd have to call the pastor before I decided to veer off course and say, hey, I know I told you I was going to be here and do this, but I kind of feel like the Lord wants me to go visit this house. I'm going to be a little late. Just wanted to give you a heads up. You know, that would be right, because scripturally, if I told him I was going to be there, I needed to be there, right? So I'm just trying to balance this, because sometimes people say, well, I just kind of felt impressed with the Holy Spirit to go over here and do this, but they had prior commitments that they were like, well, you know, God's not ever going to tell you to do something that's going to make you lie to someone, right? Because you told them you were going to be doing this, and now you feel like God wants you to do this. Well, if that's the case, call them and say, I really, I said I was going to be there. I really intend on being there, but I feel really impressed. Like, maybe the Lord's telling me I need to do this and, you know, at least give a heads up, right, for something like that. But when it comes to Him leading us and guiding us, it is a wonderful thing to know that, you know, a man's heart divides it this way, right? But God orders our steps. It's a great thing to know that we can trust him to guide us. Now, we have to give him material to guide us with, right? The Holy Spirit doesn't just stick Bible in our head randomly. It's not the way it works, right? You can't expect, oh, let's see, I'm gonna go to bed tonight. Lord, send the Holy Spirit to make sure that some of this goes inside my head as I sleep on it tonight, and I'm going to absorb it through osmosis, right? No, it doesn't matter if you use Moses name or not. That's not how it's getting in there. The only way it gets in there is you read it, you listen to it, you study it. That's how you get it in there, right? You got to give him material to use, to guide you. Remember what he said. He said, He will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will show you things to come. Now, this was a specific prophecy, that part of it, specific prophecy concerning what was to be written in the word of God after this point. But then in verse 14, it says, he shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you. what? Of his word. He's going to receive of him, of Jesus, who is, in the beginning, right, was the word, the word was with God, the word was God. We recognize that he is saying here that, in other words, that Jesus is going to tell us what to do through his word, and the Spirit's going to guide us using that, right? So he says, all things that the father hath are mine, therefore said I, that he shall take of mine and shall show it unto you. What belongs to the father? Well, all things belong to the father, but the truth that we're going to be led and guided in is the word of God, right? Remember when Jesus said, sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth. right? So, we have multiple places here in this passage where it's pointing back to what the spirit is going to utilize to guide us is going to be God's word. God's word because it's the truth. God's word because it's of Jesus, right? And not of the spirit alone. So, application questions for you tonight. First of all, have you been convinced, reproved by the spirit of God of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. If you have, have you allowed him to do something about it? Have you allowed him to pay for your sin? If you've not, don't leave tonight without letting that happen. By the way, if it's all in here, you need to go to the Lord in prayer and ask him to put it here. There's a lot of people that are about 18 inches away from hell. They know the truth, but they don't know the truth, right? Salvation requires conviction of the heart, not just, oh yeah, I know, I know I'm a sinner. I believe Jesus died for my sins. I'll confess. Now, yes, I'm using the ABC thing there, but if you keep it here, and you just say it, and it's in here, and it's never actually reached a point of real conviction, it's not salvation. You gotta have conviction. And that conviction is what causes repentance, what causes repentance of the heart, which will over the lifetime, over your lifetime, will cause repentance of life, right? Progressive sanctification, but that's, God working in you, right? That's your growth and grace after you're saved. But the part that saves you, that's true conviction in the heart. And then trust, truly trusting in him, right? Turning to him for the solution rather than thinking that you've got it under control yourself. If you haven't done that, don't leave tonight without doing it. If you have, Work on giving the spirit of God more material to guide you with. Read God's word. I know I say this, I've been saying this often lately. I don't know why, maybe God's just really thinks it's important for me to remind you over and over again to read your Bible. If you've already read all the way through it, you're good. Don't have to ever do it again, right? You know it all. No, no, if you've already read all the way through it, Why haven't you read through it 100 times yet? Keep on. Keep on. Keep on. Because as you read through over and over again, listen to the Bible. I listen to the Bible all the time, every day. Listen to the Bible. Read the Bible. Read it out loud, right? You want to hear the voice of God? I heard one preacher say this. You want to hear the voice of God? Read the Bible out loud. Right? It's God's word. Get it in there. Memorize it. I'll tell you, most of what God leads me with is stuff I've memorized. Now, some stuff I've memorized without meaning to memorize it. Now, I forget stuff. I mean, man, I forget my own name sometimes. That's why I keep him around, because if I forget my name, I just ask him what his name is. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's my name. And my son, too. That's why I named my son after me, so I don't ever forget my name. I forget things all the time. Somehow, I'll rattle off verses like, some of those verses I'd rattle off, now some of them I mess up, but some of those verses I'm rattling off, I never really sat out to memorize them, it's just that I've gotten so familiar with it that it's, there it is, God just gives it to me, boom, it's there. Sometimes I forget what I'm talking about. But God can remind me of the things that he's taught me in his word. And this is the, there's another part where it says that he's gonna bring all things to our remembrance, right? Whatsoever I have told you. Again, what he has told us. How can we remember something we haven't listened to? How can we remember something we haven't read? How can we remember something we haven't been told? He's told us, we just haven't been listening, right? We haven't been reading. So read, and then listen, because he will guide you. He will guide you. Not only read, but apply. Read with the intention of understanding and doing, right? And if you don't understand, ask questions. Ask other brothers and sisters in Christ that may know the answer. and they can help you. Speaking of that, next week, every service is Q&A. Be here, ask questions. You got questions? Ask questions. Study your Bible this week and write down the questions you have. Ask them Sunday. What is the spirit doing in your life? You're not saved tonight. That's what I mean by, that's what we mean by being reproved. of sin, righteousness, and judgments. Once you've been reproved of that, you're convicted, you realize that you need to be saved from sin, delivered from that sin, and you trust in Christ, now you're saved. You're safe, you're saved. from the power of that sin, or rather you're saved from the penalty of that sin. And then you're being saved then from the power of that sin, right? As he makes you more like his son. And then someday we're gonna get saved from the presence of the sin, right? We're gonna be delivered out of its presence altogether. We'll go to heaven and no more sin for us to be dealing with down here. If you're not saved tonight, I encourage you. Come to God for salvation. If you are saved tonight, trust God to lead you, but give him material to do it. Get in there, convince or rather commit yourself to God tonight that you're gonna be in his word every day, every day. If you forget in the morning, guess what? If you remember at lunchtime, better late than never, right? You remember, after you get to work, and it's time to get started on things or whatever, stick your buds in your ear and play the Bible. Listen to it. Do something every day with God. I don't know how many of you have friends that you never talk to. We have a friend that's sticking closer than a brother, and sometimes we just ignore him until Sunday. And we shouldn't do that, right? In fact, he's one who dwells in us, but it's got to be more about him, less about us, right? That's right. That's right. God's not a step-parent, or God's not an estranged parent that just gets weekend visitation, right? Not only does he want to see you every day, but he wants you to be his. He wants you to belong to him. be thinking about him all the time. God's interested in actually having a relationship with you, not just having a status with you, right? God's not your Facebook in a relationship. He's the one that you actually ought to be communicating with. We didn't really talk about prayer, but that's how you talk to him and that's how he talks to you. Amen, let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word.