Jesus tells us He is the Comforter. The Comforter is also
called the Spirit of truth.
"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of
truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth
him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not
leave you comfortless: I will come to you." - John 14:16-18 KJV
Jesus is explaining that the Comforter (the Spirit of truth)
was with them when Jesus was dwelling with them because the Comforter (the
Spirit of truth) Jesus’ Spirit. He then let His disciples know that His Spirit
would come to them and be in them. We see that what Jesus told His disciples,
He fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost.
"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they
were all with one accord in one place. ... And they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance." - Acts 2:1, 4 KJV
"But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto
you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the
Father, he shall testify of me:" - John 15:26 KJV
When Jesus poured out His Spirit (the Comforter, the Spirit
of truth, the Spirit of your Father, the Holy Ghost, all descriptions of the
Spirit of Jesus) on the Day of Pentecost, what Jesus said happened. The Spirit
testified of Jesus when the believers were speaking in tongues.
The believers didn’t know what they were saying, because
they were speaking words of languages they didn’t know. But the Jews from all
nations that heard them, each recognized the language of the country they were
from, hearing the believers speaking “the wonderful works of God.”
"And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men,
out of every nation under heaven...Behold, are not all these which speak
Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
...we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God." -
Acts 2:5, 7-8, 11 KJV
To be continued…
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