August 18
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THE GREATEST TEACHER LIVING INSIDE YOU
25 “These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. 28 You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. 30 I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has
nothing in Me; 31 but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here. – John 14:25-31
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In this discourse of Jesus with His disciples, He points to the role of the Holy Spirit who is going to be their Helper. During the three years that Jesus was with His disciples, He taught them many things. Jesus reassured His disciples that though He isn’t going to be there physically to teach them, the Holy Spirit will live inside each one of them and will be the greatest teacher living inside each one of them. The Holy Spirit will remind them of all the things that He has taught them already during the time He was with them. He will also bring to memory all the lessons that He already told them.
Jesus also commanded them to receive the peace that He is giving them. He told them to never allow fear or troubles defeat them but instead, they must choose the peace that only comes from Him. He said that the world can never be able to bring them such peace. He declares to them that obedience to His Father’s will is the gauge for the world to know that He loves His Father.
In this account, Jesus explains to His disciples some of the roles that the Holy Spirit is going to play in their lives once He is physically gone. The Spirit of God will be the one to bring to memory all that He has taught them and also teach them how to apply them in their lives. Peace was emphasized also in these last words from Jesus. He declares that only from Him will they be able to experience peace. The world will never be able to give it to them. Jesus prepared His followers what was going to happen even before it happened. Only the one true God can see what will happen and only He knows everything.
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REFLECTION
• Why do some Christians forget that the Holy Spirit is the only source of Truth and wisdom? Why isn’t it easy to rely on the Holy Spirit to guide and teach us?