05/19/13 Pentecost Sunday Spiritual Exercises: The Holy Spirit = Paraclete John 14:12-17, 14:25-26, 15:25-27, 16:7-8, 16:12-15.

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1 05/19/13 Pentecost Sunday Spiritual Exercises: The Holy Spirit = Paraclete John 14:12-17, 14:25-26, 15:25-27, 16:7-8, 16:12-15.

2 Quiet time: Choose God Empty bowl: Be still. Biblical Input Written Output: Spiritual Inventory. Mat 18:20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Doing it together koinonia turbocharges any spiritual discipline.

3 Quiet time: Choose God Empty bowl: Be still. Biblical Input Written Output: Spiritual Inventory. Inviting the Holy Spirit to be present in our spiritual disciplines would be even more powerful. Doing it with God paraclete turbocharges any spiritual discipline.

4 Wrigley Field to Quincy, IL Distance: 320 miles Time: 5:17 hours 1989? Around 4 am...

5 There's a flash of this just before the lights go out...

6 4 am What do I do now? Who will help me? (the flashers work)

7 Paraclete: one who comes alongside providing exactly the help that was needed.

8 One Word: paraclete Comforter, Counselor, Advocate, Advisor, Helper, Partner one who comes alongside Typically, into the difference (gap) between what I can do and what needs to be done. παράκλητος

9 John 14:15 "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you. 1 of 6

10 John 14:25 "These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you. 26 But the Counselor, 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. What did Jesus say about this? 2 The paraclete comes alongside to

11 John 15:25 It is to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause. 26 But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me; 27 and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning. 3

12 John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will convince the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 4 The paraclete comes alongside to

13 John 16:12 "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 5 The paraclete comes alongside to

14 John 16:14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you. Notice that? Isn't Jesus wonderful? 6 The paraclete comes alongside to

15 John 14:12 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father. The paraclete comes alongside to do God's will.

16 John 14:13 Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; 14 if you ask anything in my name, I will do it. 15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor... The paraclete comes alongside to

17 The great opportunity for us in the church today does not lie in anything WE can do, but for us to receive and release the Holy Spirit among us. Welcome to Pentecost. One Minute for God