The Holy Spirit

John 6:63 (NLT)

63 The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 14:16-17 (NLT)

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.

John 14:26 (NLT)

26 But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you.

John 16:13-14(NLT)

13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. 14 He will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me.

   All of the verses above are about the Holy Spirit. Jesus wanted His disciples to know that although He was going back to God the Father to prepare a place for His followers to live with Him in eternity, He was not leaving them alone. The Father would send another Advocate, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity through whom God acts, reveals His will, empowers individuals, and reveals His personal presence in the Old and New Testaments. God the Father, Jesus Christ His Son, and the Holy Spirit make up the trinity of the One True Living God.
   These facts might seem hard to understand. It is easier to understand the Holy Spirit if we read what Jesus Christ said about Him and trust that what Jesus said is true. First, the Holy Spirit gives eternal life. Our human bodies will eventually die. Without the Holy Spirit, we will be eternally separated from God. If the Holy Spirit lives in us, we have eternal life with God in heaven. The Holy Spirit comes into our lives when we surrender our lives to Jesus and believe He paid the price for our sins when He died on the cross. Second, the Holy Spirit will teach us and remind us of all that Jesus told us. It is the Holy Spirit that helps us understand what the Bible says and changes us from the inside out. Third, the Holy Spirit only tells us the truth. We can trust the Holy Spirit to lead and guide us in paths of righteousness.
   It is important for us to pay attention to the Holy Spirit's leading. The Bible tells us that if we know what we are supposed to do and choose to do differently, we are choosing to sin. The Holy Spirit will never lead us into sin. In what direction is the Holy Spirit currently leading you? Will you ask the Lord to give you keen spiritual ears to hear His voice and a heart of obedience to follow?