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OPERATIONS AND GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT 165
me from when I began . . . . It is for your benefit I
am going away . For if I do not go away, the helper
will by no means come to you ; but if I do go
my way, I will send him to you . . . . However,
when that one arrives, the spirit of the truth, he
will guide you into all the truth, for he will not
speak of his own impulse, but what things he
hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the
things coming. That one will glorify me, because
he will receive from what is mine and will declare
it to you ."-John 14 :16,17, 25, 26 and 15 :26, 27
and 16 :7-14, NW.
3 After his resurrection from the dead Jesus appeared
and told them to remain in Jerusalem until
they became "clothed with power from on
high". "Because John, indeed, baptized with water,
but you will be baptized in holy spirit not
many days after this ." Luke 24 :49 and Acts
1 :4,5, NW Such language by Jesus gives us to
understand that the spirit is a power, and not a
person . It is God's holy active force of which he
is the inexhaustible source . He gives it to Jesus
and it is subject to Jesus' use and control . True
to his promise, Jesus sent this helping force to
his faithful disciples in Jerusalem on the feast day
of Pentecost and they were baptized in it, just as
a niece of steel can be immersed in a field of
magnetism. Its coming upon them was accompanied
by a rushing stiff breeze and by tongues as
if of fire distributed to each of the company, about
120 in number. They were all filled with spirit,
3. What is that "helper", and how was it given at
Pentecost?