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Pentecost 2 The Fire Within
Pentecost 2 The Fire Within
A boy is on the field playing soccer. He has been at a lot of practices, learned many skills and now he is in the game. It’s up to him to put all he has learned on the field. His father, in the background, worked with the coach, taking him through many routines. He helped to sharpen his strengths and work on his weaknesses. He patted him on the back before each game and was always on the sidelines encouraging him. The game progresses and fatigue sets in but there, on the sidelines is his father with a smile and that caring spirit that sets him at ease and takes him beyond his fatigue. The ball comes to him and, with a feint he was taught, moves the ball deftly to his centerhalf, sprints around the opposing player and receives a pass. He kicks and ……goal! The father, the coach and the spirit---a trio in unity, same purpose and shared spirit---the will, the one who acts out the will and the willpower.
Jesus said, “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever---the Spirit of Truth (14:16).” Now He is sending the One who inflamed the hearts of the Emmaus disciples when Jesus spoke (Lk.24:32).
The first thing to note here is the Trinity. Jesus the Son asks the Father to send the Spirit who is the Counselor. It is the Father’s will to send the Son to be the visible Truth who in turn will be internalized in the believer by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth. Instead of being someone outside they can see, the Spirit comes into the heart making Jesus (the external truth) an internal reality. “The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you (vs.17).” What Jesus taught externally the Spirit takes and teaches internally. “But the Counselor, 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 (vs.26).” Jesus makes this crystal clear when He says in 15:26, “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, He will testify about me.”
The second thing to note here is the unity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Each wants what the other wants. Each thinks what the other thinks and each acts according to the role they have in the Trinity. While there is no human way to make a perfect statement about the Trinity, Scripture has clearly defined for us all we need to know and trust. My own personal way of approaching this is to say the Father is the architect, the Son is the contractor and the Holy Spirit is the labor force. They totally are One God, agreeing, sharing and acting as One while remaining distinctly three unique persons.
The third thing to note here is that we are created in the image of God. We have a mind, a heart and a spirit. Broken they may be, but they are what Jesus came to regain, repair and restore that we may again be one in the One God, “He in us and we in Him.” Stay tuned for the Holy Spirit event in Acts 2.
A boy is on the field playing soccer. He has been at a lot of practices, learned many skills and now he is in the game. It’s up to him to put all he has learned on the field. His father, in the background, worked with the coach, taking him through many routines. He helped to sharpen his strengths and work on his weaknesses. He patted him on the back before each game and was always on the sidelines encouraging him. The game progresses and fatigue sets in but there, on the sidelines is his father with a smile and that caring spirit that sets him at ease and takes him beyond his fatigue. The ball comes to him and, with a feint he was taught, moves the ball deftly to his centerhalf, sprints around the opposing player and receives a pass. He kicks and ……goal! The father, the coach and the spirit---a trio in unity, same purpose and shared spirit---the will, the one who acts out the will and the willpower.
Jesus said, “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever---the Spirit of Truth (14:16).” Now He is sending the One who inflamed the hearts of the Emmaus disciples when Jesus spoke (Lk.24:32).
The first thing to note here is the Trinity. Jesus the Son asks the Father to send the Spirit who is the Counselor. It is the Father’s will to send the Son to be the visible Truth who in turn will be internalized in the believer by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth. Instead of being someone outside they can see, the Spirit comes into the heart making Jesus (the external truth) an internal reality. “The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you (vs.17).” What Jesus taught externally the Spirit takes and teaches internally. “But the Counselor, 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 (vs.26).” Jesus makes this crystal clear when He says in 15:26, “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, He will testify about me.”
The second thing to note here is the unity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Each wants what the other wants. Each thinks what the other thinks and each acts according to the role they have in the Trinity. While there is no human way to make a perfect statement about the Trinity, Scripture has clearly defined for us all we need to know and trust. My own personal way of approaching this is to say the Father is the architect, the Son is the contractor and the Holy Spirit is the labor force. They totally are One God, agreeing, sharing and acting as One while remaining distinctly three unique persons.
The third thing to note here is that we are created in the image of God. We have a mind, a heart and a spirit. Broken they may be, but they are what Jesus came to regain, repair and restore that we may again be one in the One God, “He in us and we in Him.” Stay tuned for the Holy Spirit event in Acts 2.
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Comment by Rita Campbell on June 7, 2009 at 7:06pm
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W. your insight is soooooooooo meangful - thanks for sharing your gifts with us - too beautiful! rita
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