The Comfort Has Come
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
John 14:26 (NIV)
I, you, us, we are not without guilt—all of us—but my Advocate has pleaded for me so that I am not getting what I deserve. And what is it that I deserve? Death for the wages of sin is what we all deserve. Instead, we are comforted by the knowledge of the grace and mercy that God has extended to us. The opportunities you are chasing in life are not based on you deserving them. The Advocate has pleaded for you to have a right to chase life more abundantly based upon the paid sacrifice of Jesus, whose blood was enough to atone for all of our sins.
God created us and gave us free will, knowing that it would cause us at times to make choices for the satisfaction of the flesh. So think of it like this: God set it up so that you would not have to stand before Him based on your guilt, receiving the wages of your sin. He sends Jesus to tell you that you don’t have to live as a slave to sin, and He proves it to us by taking on sin without sinning. He knows that even with that knowledge, we are going to sometimes choose the flesh over the spirit. So He sends the Advocate who stands as a reminder, in the place of our guilt, of the sacrifice of His Son, so that God is not revengeful or vindictive.
Jesus then introduces what will be the gifting of the Holy Spirit—not among you, but inside of you. This emphasizes the enduring nature of the Holy Spirit’s presence and the Holy Spirit’s guidance in the lives of believers. The Spirit moves in us all the time, in every believer, never having to divide His time. The Spirit’s movements include moving between temporal and eternal realms. You are connected to an eternal reality that you are existing in right now, which means you are in God’s presence as you always will be.
God wants to dispense grace to you. Therefore, He arranged things so that you could be the recipient of His grace that connects you to His eternal being.
