The Helper - The Spirit of Truth (notes)

The Helper - The Spirit of Truth

1 Corinthians 2:9-16

• No eye has seen, no ear has heard no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him but God has revealed it to us by His Spirit.
• The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. God has deep things, mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven that the Holy Spirit can reveal to us.

1 Corinthians 2

• For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
• The Holy Spirit knows our thoughts, communicated to our spirit man.
• The Holy Spirit knows the thoughts of God and can reveal them to the church.

We Have Not…

• Received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. (1 Cor. 2:12)
• Remember that the spirit of the world is an anti-Christ spirit so we have not received that spirit but the Holy Spirit.

This Is What We Speak:

Not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. (1 Cor. 2:13)

When we speak, we speak words taught to us by the Holy Spirit, communicating spiritual truths with spiritual words. Not religious words but spiritual words.

The Man Without The Spirit

• Does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Cor. 2:14)
• Does not accept the things that come from the Holy Spirit. The man without the Spirit does not get revelation--it is foolishness to him.

The Spiritual Man

• Makes judgment about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment’.
• The Holy Spirit can be known only by spirit. When a man is spiritual he can judge all matters but he is not subject to man’s judgment.

For Who Has Known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. What is the mind of Christ?

1. It is the ability to think like Jesus.
2. It is not thinking according to what we experience in this world.
3. It is not being controlled by our emotions or carnal thoughts but by the Holy Spirit.

What Is Truth?

• The quality or state of being true, that which is true in accordance with fact or reality.
• God is truth, His Word is truth.
• Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

The Kingdom of Heaven is our reality not this world. Everything else must come under His authority and that authority is based on the veracity of the Word of God.

There are various levels of authority:

1. Imperial or supreme.
2. Veracious or truth.
3. Conscience or human conscience.

Veracity

• Is the conformity of facts; accuracy.
• Habitual truthfulness.
• There is no greater accuracy than what God says in His Word.

The Secrets of The Kingdom of Heaven

God is.

When Moses saw the burning bush and God spoke to Him.

Moses asked, when they ask me what is His name God tells Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”

The Spirit of truth is the Spirit of Jesus.