The Words of Jesus Christ Page 61 The Holy Spirit
Back Home Contents Index Feedback Next
_____________________________________________________________________
PAGE 61
4 THE HOLY SPIRIT
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers
shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek
to be his worshippers. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship in spirit and truth.
j0423-4
[Quoting from Isaiah:]
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor:
He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives,
And recovering of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty them that are bruised,
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
l0418-9
But if I by the Spirit of God cast out devils, then is the kingdom of God
come upon you. Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and
spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil
his house. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not
with me scattereth. Therefore I say unto you, Every sin and blasphemy shall
be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be
forgiven. And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall
be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall
not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come.
m1228-32/l1120-3&1210
But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through
waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not. Then he saith, I will
return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it
empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven
other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and
the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it
be also unto this evil generation.
m1243-5
[To Nicodemus:] Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of
water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is
born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born anew. The wind bloweth
where it listeth, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence
it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
[Nicodemus: How can these things be?]
Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things? Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and bear witness of that
we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I told you earthly things,
and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you heavenly things? j0305-12
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how
much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask
him?
l1113
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and
he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you forever, even
the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him
not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be
in you. I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.
j1415-8
These thing have I spoken unto you, while yet abiding with you. But the
Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he
shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said
unto you.
j1425-6
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father,
even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear
witness of me: and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from
the beginning.
j1526-7