Jesus said He was leaving in order to send "another" Comforter, one like Himself, (Jo. 14:16). Who is He? You can't see Him with the natural eye but that doesn't mean he isn't here. Jesus said the world would not receive this Comforter simply because they couldn't see Him. He is like the wind. You can't see the wind, but if you are in the wind, you know it. You can feel it, you can see the affects of it.
Who is this Comforter? He is God (Jo. 4:24). He is not a vapor, a force, an impersonal power, a bird or flesh. He can be "grieved", Eph. 4:30, "quenched", 1st Thes. 5:19, and "blasphemed", Matt. 12:32. He is gentle but powerful. He was the power to Moses, Joshua and David. He was not only the Father of Jesus (Matt. 1:18), He was the hovering Spirit over Jesus, the anointing on Jesus to do miracles (Lk. 4:18). He is the breath of God (Gen. 1:2). He is the power of creation by which God "adorned" the heavens (Job 26:13). He is that One who leads us in the reality, the truth, of God (Jo. 16:7-15). He is the power of resurrection that raised Jesus and will raise us. Even now He "quickens" us with a touch of that power (Ro. 8:11). He is our prayer partner (Ro. 8:26-27). He is the "oil of gladness" and the "oil of joy". He gives us manifestations, or "gifts" that are called the "testimony" of the Lord Jesus. He is the "earnest", the beginning, the down payment of all Jesus provided for us on the cross.
You want to know the sad truth? The resistance we think we see to Jesus or God in heaven is, for the most part, meaningless. It does little good for enemies to resist Jesus for His role, His work, His identity is settled. For His obedience He was crowned LORD. We can accept that, or not, but that is done! No, the resistance to Christianity is not to Jesus, but to the One He sent to take His place, the wonderful "another" Comforter. The Bible says only by the Spirit can we call Jesus Lord, (1st Cor. 12:3). How much Spirit you embrace determines how much Lord you enjoy. We can just shout about Jesus all day long, sing a thousand songs, preach a million sermons, but if we do not fully embrace the Holy Ghost, we may still be falling short. And something else: with Jesus, you can get by with just believing in who He is. But the Holy Ghost? Oh, you have to experience! Communion with God is communion with the Holy Ghost. And, we were made to "drink", experience, taste, be filled with, touched by this other Comforter. And, as we embrace Him, who He is , what His mission is, Jesus rules over us as Lord.
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