27th April 2011

John 14:14-31 – Jesus promises the Holy Spirit

• “You cannot be a disciple of Jesus*
• *technically
• To be a Talmid you would go everywhere your rabbi went. If he went to a different region so would you.
• You stuck to Him like glue. Or you would as the Jews taught; “cover your head with the dust of your rabbi” because you walked so closely to Him.
• You would watch how He prayed, how he spoke, how he ate, even how he used the rest room!
• A rabbi’s students wanted to know what the rabbi knew but a rabbi’s disciple wanted to be who the rabbi was – you could only do that by following him physically and watching and copying what He did.
• So how can we possibly be disciples of Jesus?
• We can’t because we cannot follow Him!
• Or can we?
• In this passage Jesus promises ‘another advocate/counselor”.
• There are two words in Greek that are used for the word ‘another’.
• allos – another of the same kind.
• eteros – another of a different kind
• The word used to describe Jesus’ promise in the Bible is allos.
• The Holy Spirit is just like Jesus – He is Jesus – the Ruach HaKodesh.
• We can be disciples of the Spirit of Jesus!
• To do that we have to follow the Spirit in the same way that the 12v disciples followed Jesus’ body.
• We go where He goes when He goes there. We watch what He does and how He acts.
• and then we copy Him.
• And we teach others what we see Him teaching.
• Study how the disciples followed Jesus’ body and then follow His Spirit in the exact same way.
• In this way we can be the disciples of Jesus and those who worship in Spirit and in truth.
• Will spend some time praying for this today and anyone who asks for prayer for this on my facebook note.