What’s His is mine
Mar 3
John 16: 13″But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
14″He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you.
15″All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.
The Holy Spirit is referred to here by Jesus as the Spirit of truth. Jesus also said I am the Truth. So again, Jesus says that the Spirit also says nothing on his own, but only what He hears the father say. This is a great picture of the trinity, because again Jesus says that all the things the father has are mine.
And we are now part of this family. We have been “born again” lime Jesus told Nicodemus he needed to do. All things have become new. All things means all things. And the spirit will lead us into all truth.
The pattern explained above is as follows: The Father speaks, the Spirit hears, and the Spirit relays this to you and me. This is why Jesus in this same chapter tells his disciples that it is better for him to leave because he can then send the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can be with us all at the same time, whereas when Jesus was on earth in human form (physical body) he could only listen to the people who were with him at that moment of time. Now the holy spirit will lead us into all truth.
However in the same way that we get to know stuff, it is through hearing or reading. That is how knowledge comes. You hear, see, watch, listen, speak to etc and so you learn. If we are to hear what the Spirit says to us we need to be listening.
13″But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
14″He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you.
15″All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.J