John 16:17 “I’ve told you these things to prepare you for rough times ahead. They are going to throw you out of the meeting places. There will even come a time when anyone who kills you will think he’s doing God a favour. They will do these things because they never really understood the Father. I’ve told you these things so that when the time comes and they start in on you, you’ll be well-warned and ready for them. I didn’t tell you this earlier because I was with you every day. But now I am on my way to the One who sent me. Not one of you has asked, ‘Where are you going?’ Instead, the longer I’ve talked, the sadder you’ve become. So let me say it again, this truth: It’s better for you that I leave. If I don’t leave, the Friend won’t come. But if I go, I’ll send him to you.
John 16:17 So let me say it again, this truth: It’s better for you that I leave. If I don’t leave, the Friend, the comforter, won’t come. But if I go, I’ll send him to you.
“For this is for your benefit.”
Matthew 3:11 I baptise you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Matthew 3:11 He will baptise you with The Holy Spirit and with Fire. (Lightning)
This is the purifying fire.
The context is “I baptise you with water for repentance.” To overwhelm you, immerse you, submerge you, make you clean.
The implication is that when the Holy Spirit is evident, so is purifying fire.
Revelation. 3:18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich, and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness, and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. Deuteronomy 4:24, The Lord your God is a consuming fire. Deuteronomy 9:3, The Lord your God will Himself go before you, a devouring and consuming fire. Hebrews 12:29, Our God is a consuming fire.
Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Acts 19:1-7 A While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when[a] you believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” 3 So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?” “John’s baptism,” they replied. 4 Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” 5 On hearing this, they were baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues[b] and prophesied. 7 There were about twelve men in all.
John 16:17 So let me say it again, this truth: It’s better for you that I leave. If I don’t leave, the Friend, the comforter, won’t come. But if I go, I’ll send him to you.
“For this is for your benefit, for He is the Parakletos”
Parakletos (pronounced par-ak’-lay-tos) an intercessor, consoler:–advocate, comforter. 1) summoned, called to one’s side, especially called to one’s aid 1a) one who pleads another’ s cause before a judge, a pleader, counsel for defense, legal assistant, an advocate 1b) one who pleads another’ s cause with one, an intercessor 1c) in the widest sense, a helper, succourer, aider, assistant 1c1) of the Holy Spirit destined to take the place of Christ with the apostles (after his ascension to the Father), to lead them to a deeper knowledge of the gospel truth, and give them divine strength needed to enable them to undergo trials and persecutions on behalf of the divine kingdom.
Parakletos is a Greek word that is passive in form but is always active in meaning. It literally means “one who is called in”.
And if he is called in, then He is engaged in the active participation with you in your stuff, whatever that stuff or situation might be. (i.e. Never leave you or forsake you.)
One of His primary roles is to convict you of your sin, and convince you of your release. To remind you of who you are and who you called to be.
He is the Third Person of the Trinity and has a personality. He is not an inanimate object nor is He an incantation. He is the given imago dei.
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