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He says in verse number 16, I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever. Now the reason that he says here another comforter is because it is someone other than himself. He is obviously a great source of comfort to them because he's there with them, exhorting them, strengthening them, helping them, and he's going to leave. He's going to depart this world. He's of course going to die and be buried, rise again, and eventually ascend up to the Father. And then he will send another comforter who will be with them forever because he's not going to be there forever. He says, yet a little while and you see me no more. They've walked and talked with Jesus for the last three and a half years. He's about to be gone, but he's going to leave and he's going to send the comforter to be with them. And then he tells who the comforter is and it says in verse 17, even the Spirit of Truth, we would typically call him the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost, 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. So the Holy Spirit has dwelled with them. So it's not that they've never met the Holy Spirit or that the Holy Spirit is completely foreign or new to them. First of all, we know that Jesus Christ is of course filled with the Holy Spirit above all measure. God gave not the Spirit by measure unto him. And of course, even in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit would come upon men of God and they would do great work such as preaching or maybe fighting a physical battle. The difference here though is that the Holy Spirit is actually going to be in them. He said that he has been with you but he shall be in you. He already dwells with you but he shall be in you. Now flip back if you would to John chapter 7, just a couple of pages back in your Bible. Look at John chapter 7. And this is when Jesus is preaching at the feast where a lot of the Jews have come to worship at the annual feast. And it says in verse 37, in the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried. Cried there of course means that he's just yelling. It has nothing to do with tears or weeping. He cried saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified. So until Jesus glorified, the Holy Ghost is not yet given. But we know that the Holy Spirit was already around. Just like he said, he dwells with you but he shall be in you. Now in the Old Testament, when the Holy Spirit would come upon men like Samson, Saul, David, all kinds of prophets and warriors, that was a temporary thing. The Holy Spirit would come upon them. They would be filled with the power of God and then that could depart because if you remember when Saul disobeyed the commandment of the Lord, then the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul. And then the Spirit of the Lord dwelled upon David from the time that he was anointed with oil by Samuel. And if you remember, David was afraid of this in Psalm 51 when he had sinned with Bathsheba. He said, take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Because he had the Holy Spirit's power upon him and he didn't want to lose that because that's a temporary thing. But that is a completely different phenomenon than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament which did not come until after Jesus was glorified. Because he said here, the Holy Spirit was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified. But here's what a lot of people get mixed up on. They think that the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament replaces the Holy Spirit upon you from the Old Testament or the filling of the Holy Spirit from the Old Testament. But in reality, both of these two phenomena exist side by side in the New Testament. So in the Old Testament, you have men of God where they're filled with the Spirit of God to do some great work, preach the sermon, fight the battle. That didn't go away in the New Testament, but it was augmented. You have this additional thing of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Now the difference with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is that it's permanent and it's every believer that's indwelled by the Holy Spirit. So even if you have a believer, even if you have someone who's saved and they're just completely not right with God, they're walking in the flesh, they're not obeying the commandments of God, they are still indwelled by the Holy Spirit. They don't have to worry like David, you know, oh take not thy Holy Spirit from me about the indwelling because no matter what sin they commit, he will never leave them nor forsake them. They're always going to be indwelled. That's why the Bible says if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he's none of his. Every believer is indwelled by the Holy Spirit. The moment that you got saved, the Holy Spirit came and indwelled you and he is permanently there and will never leave. He is the earnest of our salvation. He's the down payment. We've been sealed by that Holy Spirit of promise unto the day of redemption. So that is a guarantee that will never be broken. He will never leave us or forsake us. So that's the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Now one of the things that we see if you flip over to John chapter 20 is that in John chapter 20 they receive the Holy Ghost because of the fact that Jesus has died on the cross, he's been buried, he's risen again and so now he's going to give them the comforter. Now if you remember what he said back in chapter 14, he said, he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you. Now he's not going to come to them and permanently be their comforter because the Holy Spirit and Jesus are not the same person just like God the Father and Jesus are not the same person because we believe in the Trinity, three persons, one God. Obviously Jesus is not God the Father, Jesus is the Son. The Holy Spirit's the Holy Spirit. So that's why he said I'm going to pray to the Father and the Father's going to send another comforter other than himself. But when he says I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you, it's because he's going to come to them after the resurrection, he's not just going to leave them comfortless, he's going to come to them and impart unto them the comforter. He's going to impart unto them the Holy Spirit who's going to be with them forever and is not leaving. So look down at your Bible there in John chapter 20, in verse number 21, the Bible reads, Then said Jesus to them, again, peace be unto you, as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said unto them, receive ye the Holy Ghost. So it's pretty clear, right? In chapter 14 he promises that the comforter's coming and then in John chapter 20 we have the fulfillment of that. He doesn't leave them comfortless, he shows up and he says, receive ye the Holy Ghost. But stop, think about this. This is in the upper room. This is before he ascends up to heaven. He already delivered on his promise to give them the comforter. But yet he tells them to wait for the promise of the Father, tarry at Jerusalem. He tells them, don't leave Jerusalem, stay at Jerusalem until you have been endued with power from on high. So Jesus breathing on them and telling them to receive the Holy Ghost does not give them the power that they're still waiting for. That power comes on the day of Pentecost, right? So even after they've already received the Holy Ghost in John chapter 20, what are they waiting for? Something else, okay? Because this right here in John chapter 20 is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit like we all have. This is the Holy Spirit inside them. Now that Jesus has been glorified, they're indwelled permanently by the Holy Spirit. But what's going to happen at the day of Pentecost is basically like unto that Old Testament phenomenon where the Holy Ghost comes upon them in mighty power the way the Holy Ghost came upon Samson, the way the Holy Ghost came upon Saul, David, Oded, the prophet, you name all the different people in the Old Testament that had the Holy Spirit upon them in mighty power. So he tells them, John baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. When the day of Pentecost is fully come, they're all assembled together in one place and the Bible talks about how there's a mighty rushing wind and tongues of fire resting upon them and they're all filled with the Holy Ghost. But even though they're filled with the Holy Ghost in chapter 2 and that's them quote being endued with power from on high, yet in chapter 4 we see some of those exact same people praying for the power of God and the Bible says when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spake the word of God with boldness. So you see how they're filled with the Holy Ghost in Acts chapter 2 but then those same people get filled with the Holy Ghost in Acts chapter 4. Why? Because this is not a permanent phenomenon but a temporary phenomenon. So the point that I want to make here is to clear up any confusion about the difference between the indwelling of the Holy Spirit versus the Holy Ghost upon you or the fullness of the Holy Spirit just as in the Old Testament the fullness of the Holy Spirit or the power of God upon you was temporary. It's still temporary in the New Testament where someone could get up and preach a sermon with power and they could go out soul winning and be filled with the Spirit of God and be used greatly by God in that way. But if they start living a life of sin, they could lose that power and they could not be filled with the Holy Ghost. They could be walking in the flesh. That's why the Bible tells us be not drunk with wine or in his excess but be filled with the Spirit. If it was automatic, if you were just automatically filled with the Spirit, he wouldn't command you be filled with the Spirit if it were just totally automatic. Now here's what is automatic, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. So if you get saved, you believe on Christ, you are indwelled by the Holy Spirit. That's just a for sure thing and I don't care how bad you get, the Holy Ghost will never leave you or forsake you. But does that mean you're filled with the Holy Spirit? No. Does that mean that you have the Spirit of the Lord upon you like the great prophets of old? No. That is something that they had to wait for even after they got the indwelling in chapter 20. They didn't get the power until Acts chapter 2. He said wait for the promise of the Father. Of course, they disobeyed the Lord because not only did they wait in Jerusalem to receive the power of the Holy Spirit but then like 20 years later, they're still there. And that was not God's plan. God told them to go into all the world. He told them go teach all nations and yet they're like okay, apostle Paul, you go do that. And a lot of them ended up staying in Jerusalem for way too long because they were really just supposed to wait until the day of Pentecost and then they were supposed to get out there and evangelize the whole world.