The Holy Spirit (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
With His crucifixion looming, Jesus comforted His disciples and prepared them for His departure by promising to send a Helper—the Holy Spirit. Some envision a ghostly entity sent to do God’s bidding. Join Alistair Begg on Truth For Life to investigate the Bible’s description.
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| 0:00.0 | When |
| 0:03.0 | when When his crucifixion was looming, |
| 0:27.4 | Jesus was concerned to comfort his disciples and prepare them for his departure. |
| 0:33.5 | He promised them that in his absence he would send a helper, the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:39.1 | Some people envision a ghostly entity sent to do God's bidding, |
| 0:43.4 | but today on Truth for Life, |
| 0:45.0 | Alistair Begg investigates what the Bible teaches about the promised helper. |
| 1:01.6 | I invite you to turn in your Bibles to John, the Gospel of John, and to chapter 16. |
| 1:10.2 | And I want to read from the fifth verse, John chapter 16 and verse 5. |
| 1:15.0 | Jesus is in the upper room with his disciples. |
| 1:18.3 | It's the final evening that he spends with the 12. |
| 1:23.0 | And in the course of what we refer to as the upper room discourse, |
| 1:26.9 | he says this to his disciples. |
| 1:34.1 | Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, where are you going? |
| 1:39.1 | Because I've said these things, you're filled with grief, but I tell you the truth. |
| 1:41.8 | It is for your good that I'm going away. |
| 1:47.6 | Unless I go away, the counselor or the helper will not come to you. |
| 1:55.0 | But if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment. In regard to sin because men do not believe in me, in regard to righteousness, |
| 2:04.5 | because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer, and in regard to judgment, |
| 2:10.9 | because the prince of this world now stands condemned. I have much more to say to you more than you can now bear. But when he, |
| 2:20.0 | the spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own. He will |
| 2:26.8 | speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me |
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