TWO THINGS CHRIST COMFORTS HIS DISCIPLES WITH - Part 1

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE for WEDNESDAY, 21ST DECEMBER, 2022.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Topic: TWO THINGS CHRIST COMFORTS HIS DISCIPLES WITH  - Part 1

Part 1 - That They Should Be Under The Tuition Of His Spirit.

MEMORIZE: "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 things that I said to you.” John 14:25.

SCRIPTURE READING: John 14:25-27.

"These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. "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 things that I said to you. "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

EXPOSITION:

Things Christ comforts his disciples with:-- 

I. That they should be under the tuition of his Spirit, John 14:25-26.

The reflection Christ would have them make upon the instructions he had given them: These things have I spoken unto you (referring to all the good lessons he had taught them, since they entered themselves into his school), being yet present with you. This intimates, 

(1.) That what he had said he did not retract nor unsay, but ratify it, or stand to it. What he had spoken he had spoken, and would abide by it..

(2.) That he had improved the opportunity of his bodily presence with them to the utmost: "As long as I have been yet present with them, you know I have lost no time." Note, When our teachers are about to be removed from us we should call to mind what they have spoken, being yet present with us. 

The encouragement given them to expect another teacher, and that Christ would find out a way of speaking to them after his departure from them, John 14:26. He had told them before that the Father would give them this other comforter John 14:16, and here he returns to speak of it again; for as the promise of the Messiah had been, so the promise of the Spirit now was, the consolation of Israel. 

PRAYER POINTS:

Holy Spirit, help me to remain steadfast in you till the end in Jesus name.

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DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  2 Peter 1-3