The Comforter's Great Work

Christ promised us that He will pray that the Father give us "another Comforter," Who is the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth. Christ promises He will not leave us comfortless, and we will know the Comforter because He will dwell in us.

So the comfort we have in the Holy Ghost is, first, that He dwells in us, giving us life, and sustaining that life on account of the sacrifice of Christ for our sins.

But Christ provides to us additional reasons why we are comforted by the Holy Ghost. He compares His personal face to face teachings with the work of the Comforter, because He will teach us all things, and bring to remembrance the things that Christ said.

It is so easy for us to forget what we have been told and have seen, especially after our friends have gone away.

But Jesus is guaranteeing that His disciples and His people will not forget what He has said and done for us!

This is particularly important to the writing of the Scriptures. It is the Comforter that called to the Apostles' minds what Jesus had said and done, so that they could record it accurately in God's Word!

It was the Comforter that made sure that the men God called to record His words, did so accurately! Thus, the Comforter comforts us in knowing that God's Word is pure and true, because He made it so.

But Christ also indicated that the Comforter would teach things to the Apostles that God wanted them to know. Paul the Apostle had the gospel revealed to Him by the Spirit of Christ in more richness than the other disciples might have known previously. There is much teaching in Scripture that the Comforter conveyed to the writers for the first time.