Brothers in the Christian :
The Holy Spirit and Jesus
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6A. The Holy Spirit Indwells Us 
The Holy Spirit Dwells in Us. A mother was sitting on a couch and her three year old came over and put her ear to her mothers chest. "What are you doing?" asked mother. "I'm listening for Jesus in your heart," replied the little girl. The mother let the little girl listen for a few moments and then asked, "Well, what do you hear?" "He's there," replied the little girl, "and it sounds to me like he's making coffee!" We become a home for the Holy Spirit. "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God." (1)
Holy, Beautiful and Joyous
"There is nothing good, nothing holy, nothing beautiful, nothing joyous which he is not to his servants. No one need be downcast, for Jesus is the joy of heaven, and it is His joy to enter into sorrowful hearts." (2) Through faith in Christ, the promise is fulfilled in us and we receive the Spirit. "That we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." (3) "Holiness is essential to true happiness; happiness is essential to true holiness. If you would have joy, the fullness of joy, an abiding joy which nothing can take away, be holy as God is holy. Holiness is blessedness.." (4) God warns us not to prevent the Holy Spirit working in our lives. "Do not quench the Spirit." (5) The Holy Spirit sanctifies the believer. "To be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit." (6)
Share the Work Load
The French painter Emile Ranouf depicted on one of his canvasses an old fisherman in a boat with a little girl seated beside him. Both the elderly gentleman and the child have their hands on a huge oar, and he is looking down fondly and admiringly at her. Apparently he has told her that she may help him row the boat, so the child feels she is doing a great share of the work. It's obvious, however, that his strong, muscular arms are the moving force that propels the boat through the waves. (7) Others will desire the Holy Spirit when they see him in us. "He yearns jealously over the Spirit which he has made to dwell in us." (8) William Barclay writes, "The great men we know about; Jesus we know. The others we remember: Jesus we experience."
The Holy Spirit Teaches Disciples What to Say.
The disciples are told by Jesus not to be anxious about what they say when questioned by the Temple and Synagogue leaders for the Holy Spirit will teach them what to say when necessary. "For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say." (9). Jesus reminds the disciples, who had heard his words during his lifetime, that they would remember them under the Holy Spirit's influence. "But the counsellor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you." (10). Later, disciples are reminded of Christ's words through the scriptures written under the Holy Spirit's influence.
Notes
(1) 1 Corinthians 6.9 (2) Tozer of Frederick Faber who wrote, "Faith of our Fathers." (3) Galatians 3.14 (4) Murray (5) 1 Thessalonians 5.19 (6) 2 Thessalonians 2.13 (7) Painting called "A Helping Hand" (8) James 4.5 (9)Luke 12.12 (10) John 14.26
"The Relationship of the Holy Spirit and Jesus."
