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039 - Note G On the Name Comforter Chap 10 · Spirit of Christ

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  Speaker 1: Section thirty eight of the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Note g.
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  Speaker 1: On the name Comforter, chapter ten, it is admitted on
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  Speaker 1: all hands that the word comforter does not give the
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  Speaker 1: full meaning of the Greek word parakleitos. There is an
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  Speaker 1: active form parachleto, of which comforter is the correct translation.
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  Speaker 1: The passive form paracletos, just like the Latin advocatus, means
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  Speaker 1: one who has been called in to assist, to take
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  Speaker 1: charge of a case, or to plead a cause. Among
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  Speaker 1: those who take advocate as the correct rendering, there is
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  Speaker 1: more than one way of applying the word. Some think
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  Speaker 1: of him as bearing this name because he has been
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  Speaker 1: called in of Christ to undertake his cause with the
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  Speaker 1: disciples and the world. Others as one who can be
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  Speaker 1: called in by the disciples when they are in need
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  Speaker 1: of advice or strength. With those who think that the
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  Speaker 1: rendering advocate expresses fully what our Lord meant, there is
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  Speaker 1: also a diversity of exposition. Owen says he is an
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  Speaker 1: advocate for the Church in with and against the world.
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  Speaker 1: So also how the advocate of great Pleader who undertakes
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  Speaker 1: to manage the cause of Christ and Christianity against the world.
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  Speaker 1: In this view, the work of the Spirit in meeting
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  Speaker 1: the personal need of the believer does not come out sufficiently.
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  Speaker 1: Others think of the Spirit as the advocate for Christ
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  Speaker 1: with believers. This is expressed by Bowen. Christ is our
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  Speaker 1: advocate with the Father, and the Holy Spirit Christ's advocate
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  Speaker 1: with us. As Christ pleads for us at the throne
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  Speaker 1: of Grace, so the Spirit pleads for Christ in our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: The Spirit vindicates him from our unworthy thoughts, shows him
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  Speaker 1: to be the chief among beeriads and altogether lovely. These
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  Speaker 1: views give but partial aspects of the work of the
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  Speaker 1: blessed paraclet quote from W. Kelly The work of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: The word has an incomparably larger meaning than advocates on
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  Speaker 1: the one hand, and comforter on the other. It includes both,
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  Speaker 1: but takes in a great deal more than either. It
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  Speaker 1: means one who is identified with our interests, one who
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  Speaker 1: undertakes all our cause, one who engages to see us
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  Speaker 1: through all difficulties, one who in every way becomes our
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  Speaker 1: representative and the great personal agent that transacts our business
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  Speaker 1: for us. End of quote. And yet even this does
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  Speaker 1: not appear to cover all the ground. An advocate is
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  Speaker 1: indeed a representative. But the most most comprehensive and most
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  Speaker 1: precious aspect of the spirit's work is this, that he
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  Speaker 1: was to be the representative of Jesus. He was to
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  Speaker 1: make Jesus always present to us. This was the sorrow
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  Speaker 1: of the disciples that they were to lose their Lord.
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  Speaker 1: This was the comfort Jesus promised that they would have
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  Speaker 1: one in whom his presence should be restored. And this
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  Speaker 1: makes the Spirit the other advocate that he has been
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  Speaker 1: called in and given by Jesus to represent him and
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  Speaker 1: make his presence real to them, to reveal and impart
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  Speaker 1: all that our Lord is to us. When Jesus, in
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  Speaker 1: speaking of another Paraclet implies that he is the first,
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  Speaker 1: and when he bears that name in John chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse two, we must regard him as appointed and given
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  Speaker 1: by the Father as the medium of intercourse between him
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  Speaker 1: and us, obtaining and communicating his blessing. The word Paraclet
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  Speaker 1: or advocate, covers his whole work and person as he
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  Speaker 1: mediates the divine life and love to us, securing for
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  Speaker 1: us all the Father has to give, and bringing to
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  Speaker 1: the Father all we have to offer. This is the
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  Speaker 1: true and full meaning of Christ's work as advocate, of
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  Speaker 1: which his intercession is only one aspect, And when He
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  Speaker 1: gives us the peraclet as the other advocate, it is
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  Speaker 1: that his work should take in in all its breadth
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  Speaker 1: Christ's own work, to make it life and reality within us.
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  Speaker 1: Just as Christ as advocate mediates with the Father, so
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit mediates with Christ, revealing in our hearts as
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  Speaker 1: a present and continuous experience in the power of the
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  Speaker 1: endless life, all that Christ's advocacy secures to us. The
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is the other advocate, the alter ego in
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  Speaker 1: our hearts of Christ in heaven. It would be difficult
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  Speaker 1: to discard the use of the word comforter in English.
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  Speaker 1: It will not be needed if we remember that the
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  Speaker 1: sorrow of the disciples to be removed was at the
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  Speaker 1: loss of jesus presence, that the comfort to be given
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  Speaker 1: was the restoration in greater power of the presence of Him,
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  Speaker 1: their divine advocate. It is because the Spirit is the
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  Speaker 1: indwelling representative of Jesus as the advocate in heaven, making
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  Speaker 1: him always present in the heart, that he is the
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  Speaker 1: other advocate or comforter. End of note G