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WHEN HE IS COME
by
Joshua Stauffer
Chapter 22
THE HOLY SPIRIT AS A TEACHER
When Christ was on earth, He was the world's greatest Teacher. He taught His disciples many
things. Before He left He said, "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them
now." The reason the disciples could not bear those things was because the time had not yet come
and because they were incapacitated to receive them. However, the disciples became capacitated
when the Holy Spirit came on them on the day of Pentecost. Even so it is today, all who are not
baptized with the Spirit are greatly incapacitated to receive all that the Lord would like to give to
them. The Holy Spirit is just as qualified to teach us as was Christ when He was on earth.
I. He Reveals the Future
"And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen
the Lord's Christ" (Luke 2:26).
The Holy Spirit revealed to Simeon that he would see Christ before his death. By the intuition of
the Holy Spirit, Simeon was led to the temple the very day Christ was brought to the priest to be
presented to the Lord. In being led by the Spirit, he arrived there at the right moment. He had
received Christ into his heart, then as he received Him into his arms, he was greatly blessed and he
blessed God and Mary, but he did not bless Christ (though He was an infant only forty days old in
the flesh), because the lesser is blessed by the greater. Simeon could not bless Christ, for Christ was
infinitely greater than he, but Christ did bless Simeon and his heart was consoled.
Agabus was a prophet who was led by the Spirit. He took Paul's girdle and bound himself with
the same and said, "Thus saith the Holy Ghost, so shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that
owneth this girdle and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles" (Acts 21:11), and so it came
to pass. Sometimes the Holy Spirit gives premonitions and warnings of things to come which enable
the Christian to be on his guard and prepared for the coming emergency.
II. He Guides Into All the Truth
"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not
speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to
come" (John 16:13).
The Holy Spirit not only reveals things to us, points them out, or tells them to us, but He Himself
goes along as we go and guides us into the truth. He not only shows us the way, but He becomes the
way, leading us into His way.