~~PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, JESUS !
--"Touching Lives" // Dr. James Merritt

--“If you love Me, keep My commands. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever.” -
---[John 14:15-16]

--"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word [Jesus], and the Holy Ghost [Holy Spirit] = "and these three are One." ~
---(1 JOHN 5:7/KJV)~~

~~When Jesus told His disciples in John 16:7 that it was to their benefit that He leave them, they must have been shocked and terrified. How could it benefit them for Him to go away? He was the Messiah…the Promised One who would save Israel. What they didn’t understand at the time is that Jesus would leave them, but not desert them. God was going to send another Advocate, the Holy Spirit.

The word “another” is important. There are two different Greek words for “another.” One means, “another of a different kind;” but that is not the word Jesus used in John 14:16. He used the Greek word that means, “another of the same kind.” In other words, He said, “I am going to send Someone who is exactly like Me.”

This tells us that the Holy Spirit is not an “it,” but a distinct Person, of the Triune God. John went out of his way to emphasize the personality of the Holy Spirit by all of the masculine pronouns he used to describe Him. The Holy Spirit is a real Person; and a Christian is someone who has a personal relationship with both God the Son and God the Spirit.

Too often today, we think of the power of the Holy Spirit as something like electrical or solar power – something you tap into and use that is totally impersonal. But the Holy Spirit is more than protons, neutrons and electrons. He is a real Person that wants to have a real relationship with us. In John 14:15-16 He is called an, “advocate,” or “helper.” That Greek word, paraclete, is only used twice in the New Testament. It always refers to a Person, not to a thing or to a force or power.

A Christian is not just someone who believes in God and has accepted Christ. A Christian is someone who has a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit of God.
Application: Do you have a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit?
[-- Friend, If you have accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, confessed your sins before Him, and asked Him to come into your heart. He will. He does! God knows the intents of our thoughts. He knows your heart. Please do not let another day pass if you have not accepted His gift of salvation.
"If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
"For with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. For whoever will call on the Name of the LORD will be saved" [Romans 10:9,10,13] ~
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