Grace Fellowship Church
www.GraceDoctrine.org
Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard
Sunday, December 19, 2010
John 15:26
The Spirit Leads in
Triumph!
John 15:26,
“Whenever the Helper (God the Holy
Spirit) comes, whom I (Jesus) will
send to you all from (the source of)
the Father, that is, the Spirit of Truth,
(Bible Doctrine), who proceeds from
the Father; That One will bear
witness concerning Me.”
Principles:
1. The antidote to the
antagonism of the world is
found in the Word, vs 25,
and the witness of the Holy
Spirit, vs 26.
2. The terms “Advocate,
Counselor, Helper”, all add
to our understanding of the
Third Person of the Trinity,
but they don’t tell the whole
story.
3. This verse tell us of the
Spirit’s work of testifying
about Christ.
4. He gives that testimony
through the apostles and
disciples of the Church
Age.
5. PARAKLETOS has a
legal associations.
6. The Spirit’s task is the
conduct of the case of
Christ before the world.
7. We are to leave the
ultimate defense of Christ to
His powerful pleading
through us, rather than trying
to fight against or clean up
the devil’s world.
8. The PARAKLETOS builds
an Edification Complex of
the Soul, (ECS), in the
+ believer so that he can
stand up against the pressures
of Satan’s Cosmic System.
9. To build our ECS we need
the Grace Apparatus for
Perception, (GAP), [the
teaching ministry of God the
Holy Spirit] to teach us the
Word of God.
10. Once we have learned
and stored God’s Word
within our soul we are able
to be a witness for the
prosecution in the appeal
trial of this Angelic Conflict.
11. “Whom I will send”,
tells us what Jesus will do
for the apostles, and us,
after His Resurrection and
Ascension.
[Give us His Spirit!]
12. Verses 26 and 27 are
evidence that God’s plan will
continue on the earth after
Christ has ascended via the
ministry of the Spirit and the
ministry of the + believer.
John 15:27,
“And you also will bear
witness, because you all
have been with me from
the beginning
(of My ministry).”
Principles:
1. This is a reference, first of
all to the disciples. When the
Church Age begins they will
bear witness of Christ.
Acts 2:1-47; 5:32
Acts 5:32,
“And we are witnesses of
these things; and so is the
Holy Spirit, whom God has
given to those who obey
Him.”
2. This witnessing
principle has been
perpetuated from the
disciples right down to us
today.
3. Two things that counterattack the antagonisms from
the devil’s world: the ministry
of the Holy Spirit and the
witness of the gospel through
the individual believer.
4. The testimony of the
Spirit and of the disciples
is, as Christ said “of Me.”
That’s the fundamental
message of Christianity.
[It is of Christ!]
5. Any message that fails to set
forth truly and triumphantly
the sovereign and saving
Messiah, Jesus Christ, can
hardly claim to be the witness
that pleases Him, or the
witness of the Spirit of God.
John 12:32,
“And I, if I am lifted up
from the earth, will draw
all peoples to Myself.”
6. When we preach our
own experiences, people
may be interested, but it
awakens no real sense of
need for a savior in them.
7. But once Jesus Christ is
“lifted up,” the Spirit of
God creates an awareness
of the need for Him.
8. The creative power of
the redemption of God
works in the souls of men
only through the preaching
of the gospel.
9. It is never the sharing of
personal experiences that
saves people, but the Truth
of redemption.
John 6:63,
“It is the Spirit who gives
life; the flesh profits
nothing; the words that I
have spoken to you are
spirit and are life.”
Grace Offering
Grace Fellowship Church
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Tape # 10-140
We are Witness of Christ
Upper Room Discourse, Part 453
John 15:27; 6:63; 12:32; Acts 2:1-47; 5:32
James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2010